Featured at MoCA last Wednesday, Los Angeles art critic, David Pagel goes one on one with figurative painter Salomón Huerta, a Los Angeles artist who has exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, the Gagosian Gallery, and LACMA. Huerta, who is known for his back of the head portraits and luchador masked wrestler paintings, reveals a posture of reflecting identity, while presenting a perspective of a confined persona. As his paintings evolve, his methods and processes has taken on a similar nature, having its own obscurity in identifying himself to his work. Their conversation discusses Huerta’s methods of sanding down his images three to four times over before it’s completion, he need for finding peace in his paintings rather than pleasure. As some artist have the fear of creating or completing works, Huerta’s release and detachment from his work is through the destruction of the image in order to maintain the objective of always creating something new. (more…)
Artist Salomón Huerta has an ironic style of creation that involves destruction. Huerta will be joining Zócalo at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) on Wednesday, July 14 to discuss his artwork at the event Ego, Destruction, and Facebook.
Huerta is known for his paintings of the backs of people’s heads, commonly styled homes and masked wrestlers. But the secret lies in his untraditional methods. Most of his work is destroyed after creation and “it’s only like ten percent that survives,” Huerta says. He sands a painting off of the canvas and then reuses the surface for a new idea. His methods relate to his artistic views. (more…)
Los Angeles based artist, Mark Bradford and Getty Museum introduce the new online art eduction program offered to art educators called Open Studio. The program functions as a dual effort to bring contemporary artists into building new foundations for teaching art, and bring new art programs to schools and institutions. Open Studio is formed in multitudes of mediums and theories, from photographic stories to exploring color through ones environment. Each lesson provides a free downloadable PDF that includes an artmaking prompt, an artist biography, and images of the artist and works of art by the artist. (more…)
Please join us Thursday, June 10th for the Opening Reception of Unlocked: A selection from The Art of Elysium Private Art Collection at the Century City Westfield space 26. The Art of Elysium is a Los Angeles based arts organization working with actors, artists, musicians and designers to provide workshops for children who are battling serious medical conditions. The Unlocked exhibition is a silent auction that will be held through out the month of June, featuring artists Russell Young & Mick Rock, Nina Munoz, Patrick Hoelck, Lisa Solberg, Keira Kotler, The Ultra Velvet Collection, Chris Jordan, Lisa Solberg, Matt Mahurin, Archie Budd, Arthur Grace, Stephens Wilkes, Robert Bengston, Wouter Deryutter, Michael Muller, Allen Ginsberg, Madoka Takagi, Scott Caan, Anderson & Low, Noah Webb, Jonathan Gitelson, Tofer Chin, Henry Diltz, Alex Prager, Gisela Getty, Sid Kaplan, Brian Finke, Susan Burnstine, Firooz Zahedi, Jenny Lynn, and Christopher Cuseo. The gallery will be open Tues-Sat 10am to 6pm. For more information about The Art of Elysium please visit www.theartofelysium.org
Louise Bourgeois, one of the world’s most influential contemporary artists died Monday, May 31, 2010 in Manhattan where she lived and worked. She was 98. Wendy Williams, managing director of the Louise Bourgeois Studio, told the New York Times that Louise died of a heart attack. (more…)
The Art Reserve is proud to present James Georgopoulos’ visual adaptation of hand guns and automatic weaponry. Georgopoulos’ work will be featured at a Pop-Up Gun Store located inside The Distillery during the Venice Art Walk, Sunday May 23, 2010. (more…)
The Art Reserve is currently seeking new artists and artwork for a range of opportunities such as curatorial, public-works, and interior design projects, as well as, private, corporate, and museum acquisitions. We are reviewing all mediums of art work and genres.
To submit your portfolio, please e-mail images, your website address, and Artist Curriculum to Nicole@theartreserve.com
Ivonne Thein’s “Thirty-Two Kilos” (or 70 Pounds) are photographs of terrifyingly thin, bandage-wrapped models in fashion editorial poses. Thein highlights the relationship between high fashion and anorexia. The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum curator Al Miner noted Thein’s decision to obscure the models’ faces forces the viewer to focus on their bodies, particularly the exaggerated limbs.
Thein, a 30-year-old German photographer, decided to create the series of fourteen photographs after reading about the internet movement “pro-ana” (or pro-anorexia). Pro-ana followers argue that anorexia is a lifestyle choice and provide support and encouragement for one another’s starvation and weight-loss. Thein’s work is a commentary on the pathological striving of young men and women to be extremely thin. (more…)
Opening: Friday April 23, 2010
Exhibition Runs: April 23 – May 23, 2010
Location: 320 North Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills CA 90210
Lazarides Gallery will be opening NOTHING TO DECLARE this Friday April 23, 2010. This is Choe’s first return to LA after a six-year hiatus from exhibiting. The notoriously mischievous artist and extremely prolific Choe has been creating new paintings, drawings, and sculptures for the 8,000 sq ft space in Beverly Hills. (more…)
For all you twitter followers and fiends, a great collection of drawings by LA/NY artist, Odessa Begay, has presented a literal translation of celebrity tweets into a visual showcase. In just a 140 characters, Twitter has become a viral news sources to many media degrees, all the while, Odessa’s drawings have become the new political and social cartoon commentary that parodies the allusion of celebrity news and gossip. The inspirational celebrity tweets, that are both submitted and followed, fuels Odessa’s illustrations to take content out of context. (more…)
Since 1975, BMW has featured sixteen Art Cars designed by international artists, and has recently revealed the drawing of the 17th Art Car by Jeff Koons that will be completed in June. The BMW Art Car collection has been an established tradition within the motor car racing sport. As for the art world, a great handful of renowned artists have participated such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, David Hockney and Olafur Eliasson. The Art Car collection has represented a strong versatility of pop artists, and provides a unique view of the artist process and creativity.
The Art Car was was introduced by Hervé Poulain, an auctioneer and race car driver who commissioned the first art car to be designed by Alexander Calder for Poulain to drive at the Le Mans race in 1975. The initial Art Car established the brand of BMW in North America back in the 70’s. Koons has the opportunity to join the ranks and legacy of developing a M3 GT2 race car that will also compete in the 24-hour endurance race at Le Mans, France. (more…)
This week Jeffrey Deitch interviewed by Carlo McCormick!!! Recorded before a live studio audience at the BAS apexart show “Don’t Piss on Me and Tell Me it is Raining.”
Carlo McCormick is a leading New York art writer and a champion of “the downtown scene”. For almost decades Jeffrey Deitch has been perhaps the most important taste maker and facilitator of emerging contemporary art in New York City and the world. On the eve of Deitch’s departure from New York, Carlo will talk to Jeffrey about his time and legacy as one of the most visible, dynamic and controversial players in the the New York art world.
To listen or to download the BAS interview of Jeffrey Dietch click www.badatsports.com
Episode #100! With his video History of the Main Complaint (1996) serving as a backdrop, William Kentridge discusses how artists draw upon tragedy as subject matter for their work and how drawing itself can be a compassionate act. (more…)
The Lucie Foundation presents the 2nd annual celebration of MOPLA, and in honor of a 160 years since the incorporation of Los Angeles, back in April 4, 1850 MOPLA will be showcasing 160 photographers through out the city. MOPLA was started back in April 2009 by Hossain Farmani and Cat Jimenez, in hopes to unite the Photography Community within Los Angeles. With a string of gallery participants this month, the official opening reception will be at Pro’jekt LA on Saturday, April 3rd at Bergamot Station. (more…)
Zhang Huan: Neither Coming Nor Going” was on display recently at PaceWildenstein
The formidable powerhouse gallery PaceWildenstein decide to break up their merger after seventeen years of business. Pace and Wildenstein & Company, formed a joint company in 1993 in order to share clients and create a one-stop shop, have announced that they are ending their partnership on amicable terms. (more…)
The Fahey/Klein Gallery is pleased to present Legends of Jazz Photography, featuring the works of Herman Leonard, William Gottlieb, and William Claxton, along with “Trust,” a series of new photographs by renowned Rock and Roll photographer Jim Marshall. The Legends of Jazz Photography exhibition is a photographic journey through the golden years of the Jazz, Blues and Bebop eras that document the larger-than-life legends that comprise the visual album of America’s music. Focusing on the life and times of famed artists such as Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk among countless others, this exhibition features a selection from their extensive photographic history.
For the first time, Marshall shares images from his archive of color photographs – many which have never been seen. Published in his recent book of the same title (Trust, Omnibus 2009), the title refers to Marshall’s notion that having the artist’s trust is what led him to be able to take such revealing photographs: “I feel that in my photographs there is a trust given by the artists. When I point the camera at somebody, there’s a covenant, and I will not violate that trust.”
Finding Paradise 12×36
Brooklyn, artist Ray Sell presents a solid perspective of Americana collage and design. Focusing on masculine perceptions (every boy’s wet dream), Sell’s paintings provide a platform of nudes juxtaposed with imagery of male tradition and leisure. Sell’s collages tell a tale of Americana legacy stylized as vintage advertisements in vibrant tones. His art work demonstrates a satirical and political commentary on our history of media as a culture. (more…)
One of the greatest living artist in contemporary art history, Lucien Freud, age 88, presents his first retrospective exhibition in France since 1987. The theme of the exhibition is the artist studio, an opportunity to see the development of Lucien Freud and his mastery and theory of painting. (more…)
The Art Reserve is proud to present James Georgopoulos’ visual adaptation of hand guns and automatic weaponry. Georgopoulos’ work will be featured at a Pop-Up Gun Store located inside The Distillery during the Venice Art Walk, Sunday May 23, 2010.
Ivonne Thein’s “Thirty-Two Kilos” (or 70 Pounds) are photographs of terrifyingly thin, bandage-wrapped models in fashion editorial poses. Thein highlights the relationship between high fashion and anorexia. The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum curator Al Miner noted Thein’s decision to obscure the models’ faces forces the viewer to focus on their bodies, particularly the exaggerated limbs. 
Opening: Friday April 23, 2010
