BLUM & POE

is pleased to announce   

FLORIAN MAIER-AICHEN 

April 9 - May 14, 2011

Opening reception: Saturday, April 9, 6 - 8 pm  

    

Blum & Poe is very pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Cologne and Los Angeles-based artist Florian Maier-Aichen. This is the artist's fourth solo-presentation with Blum & Poe and his first in the gallery's new space at 2727 S. La Cienega. 

Maier-Aichen's defiant new works take aim at the characters of abstraction while expanding the photography of landscape. Their poetic nature and monumental status represent layers of media and processes, rendered in both the field and the studio. Above all, the artist's practice of image making is a subversive one, fully cognizant that only in the commingling of genres can an original view emerge. 

The images originate from sources as varied as documentary or textbook photos to escapist landscape paintings. From there, the artist's visual vocabulary and broad technical repertoire take over. For Untitled, 2011, the photographic resonance is geographical: a heavily frequented postcard spot overlooking the Geiranger Fjord in Norway. The tricolor exposure serves as both an abstract counterpoint to the high realism of large format photography and an evolution of impressionist principles or offset printing. The artist's familiar framing of a maritime adventure is as much a self-aware reenactment of early pioneering as the amateur photographer's ascension to the famous outlook. 

Painting II: limited palette paintings from former students

Hi panting II students I know that the limited palette we are working with can be very challenging so I wanted to show you some examples of student work that I think was very successful in yielding some nice results from the this palette. Let me know what you guys think.

Welcome to ART 160-163!

Hope you enjoyed our first class. We will be discussing different contemporary artists through out the semester and this blog will be a good resource for you to gain more information about them and their work.
Always let me know if there is something that you would like to share with the class and I will be happy to add it. Thanks and looking forward to the semester.

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