Portraiture exhibit at LACMA

Alex Katz, Eric Fischl, and the Beach SceneArt of the Americas Building, Level 3
July 24, 2010–November 28, 2010


The figure and portraiture are central to the art of American realist painters Alex Katz (b. 1927) and Eric Fischl (b. 1948). Both artists are renowned for often monumental canvases that depict family members and well-to-do friends, including prominent artists, intellectuals, and actors in fashionable locations. Many of their modern-day conversation pieces, including Katz's Round Hill and Fischl's St. Barts Ralph's 70thare beach scenes. In celebration of summer and the inaugural presentation of these paintings at LACMA, this installation includes a selection of relevant works from the permanent collection and highlights the endlessly suggestive setting of the beach.

Curated by Austen Bailly, Associate Curator, American Art.

Saint Barts Ralph's 70th, 2009, Oil on Linen, 96 x108 inches, © Eric Fischl 2009

OMCA's: California Biennial

Oct 24, 2010 - Mar 13, 2011 The Orange County Museum of Art is pleased to present the 2010 California Biennial. The Biennial exhibitions are highly anticipated by art enthusiasts and the art world. In addition to approximately 150 works of art and installations on display, the museum will also serve as the site for approximately 30 programs and performances that will appeal to diverse interests and continue OCMA’s history of presenting new developments in contemporary art.

Darren Hostetter at Sam Lee in Chinatown

Melissa Manfull: Artist Talk on Nov. 2

Melissa Manfull will be coming to give an artist talk next Tuesday, Nov. 2nd from 6:30 - 7:30 pm in our classroom. Take a look at her website and the statement at the Taylor de Cordoba Gallery, and finally this interview with her to prepared for her visit. Please formulate three questions from this material.

Something Fun: Speed Drawing on the Subway in NY City

Take a look at these sketches done on the iPhone y Eric Molinsky on the subway in New York. I thought they were very appropriate since we just did speed paintings and you know how hard it can be to capture and synthesize a subject. Here is his blog and a video piece they did on him in the New York Times. 

One last show in Culver City

I love these drawings by Melissa Manful at Taylor de Cordoba Gallery in Culver City.  I like how she is mixing a more painterly language with architectural forms and line. Take a look at the press release here and let me know what you think of this work.

Intriguing tape paintings @ Blum & Poe

Take a look at the work of German painter Dirk Skreber and the Blum & Poe Gallery website for the press release about his latest body of work. These portraits are made by burning and removing foam tape to build and reveal  the faces of the mostly women in the paintings. Here are a couple of details a took while at the gallery. Take a look: Blum & Poe

Alexandra Grant @ Honor Fraser update

I went o Culver City last Friday and took a look at the Alexandra Grant show. Since I saw a few of you were intrigued by the show I took a few details of the work. Look how built up the surfaces are. The smaller pieces look almost like tapestries because of the amount of paint build up. (These are iphone pics so the quality is not the best but I thought you would want to see them anyway) Let me know what you think!

Alexandra Grant @ Honor Fraser in Culver City

If you have a chance to go down to Culver City take a look at this group of new paintings by Alexandra Grant. She uses text and poetic language written by her long time collaborator Michael Joyce to talk about a range of subjects. In this new exhibition entitled "Bodies" she "reveals both maps of the experience of the feminine body - a woman painter painting the physical body - but also of the exchange and relationship of an artist with her muses (poetic language, and in this case, the male writer)"
"The divided symmetry of these forms reference the physical body itself; words become eyes, ears and other physical features as variations of arches communicate notions of female physicality"
Let me know what you think!


Honor Fraser Gallery,
Tuesday — Saturday
10AM — 6PM,
2622 S. LA CIENEGA BLVD.

Glendale College Art Gallery Opening

Welcome to Art 160-163!

I will be posting through out the semester about relevant topics, artist, and exhibits that I think will help and interest you. It will be your responsibility to take a look each week and respond to something that you find interesting, respond to another student's comment or ask a relevant question.
I look forward to having you in my class this semester!

Painting III - Painting Series

The advanced painting students worked on creating a series of paintings that would communicate a specific concept or theme that they had agreed upon at the beginning of the semester. For their final they had to present their paintings to the rest of the class during the critique, write a statement and have four paintings supporting their theme. Here is all of their hard work!

Eda G.

Grecia B.

Painting III - Painting Series, cont...

Fernando M.

Gayane V.

Morgan M.

Painting I - Self Portrait Final Paintings