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ALEX DA CORTE, FOREVER AND EVER. Part 2

This is Part two. Part one is here. If you prefer to listen, download the podcast at oneculture.mypodcast.com. IN WHICH THE INTERVIEWER GETS BENT OUT OF SHAPE OVER THE WHY OF A PRETTY PICTURE Annette: All your stuff is hand-made by yourself? Alex: Yeah. Annette: Would you ever change that? Alex: No. I think, well, some people say that someday I’ll get an assistant to make the work for me. . . but the time spent with the work is important to me. Annette: Today it could go beyond that, you could get the work made in another country. Artists ... More » »

ALEX DA CORTE, FOREVER AND EVER.

Alex DaCorte Alex Da Corte has an exhibition opening, Love Explosion, on Friday (with Jack Sloss) at Fleisher/Ollman Gallery. It’s not the sort of thing you should miss out on. The text below is the transcripted version of a talk with Alex DaCorte over the hum of traffic outside The Last Drop. If you would like to actually hear that hum, please visit: oneculture.mypodcast.com and download the podcast. For a quick primer on Alex visit his work on the web, or read this review I wrote not long ago. IN WHICH THE INTERVIEWER CALLS THE INTERVIEWEE A HUSTLER AND THEY ... More » »

Artblog pieces together a trend

Amze Emmons, in his show World Headquarters, at the Painted Bride The new camouflage tenting material is made of recycled fabric. Such is the new camping these days, and it’s showing up in art work all around town. Last night we spotted it in several pieces by Amze Emmons, at his World Headquarters exhibit curated by InLiquid in the Painted Bride‘s cafe. Tents and buildings with patchwork fabric walls appear here and there in his unsettled cityscapes. Katie Abercrombie’s landscape includes some ad hoc furnishings for the nomadic life. Last week, we spotted a bit of the trend in work ... More » »

American Dream noir at Vox

James Johnson, Some Rooms-Part I (Yours), installation detail Darkness is my pillow at Vox Populi this month. Almost everything is noir, and the American Dream has turned into something lost, exploded, longed for and gone. At least that’s what I got over almost everything I saw there. The most ambitious work on the subject is James Johnson‘s photo installation, Some Rooms-Part I (Yours). Corey Antis‘ smallish formalist paintings also refer to spaces and memory and feelings; and the video by Deborah Stratman at Screening Gallery, just inside Vox, also refers to these ideas. (Sarah Zwerling‘s Window, in the video lounge, ... More » »

Fleisher-Ollman’s Street Button

Jennifer Levonian, Smells Like English Boxwood, 2006-8stop motion animation using watercolor and collage Post Christmas is a slow time for gallery sales–which explains why some galleries go to emerging artists shows at this time of year, testing the waters to see who’s got the right stuff. Since the New Acropolis show in Jan. 2004, we have been looking forward to the annual melange of new and surprising art at Fleisher-Ollman to brighten up our post-holiday-season blues. This year,the exhibit is named Street Button. Jennifer Levonian, You, Starbucks, 2006stop-motion animation using watercolor and collage I especially enjoyed the videos by Jennifer ... More » »

Words from Anthony Campuzano, Anissa Mack at Fleisher/Ollman

Anthony Campuzano, After Note from Mothercolored pencil and graphine on illustration board, 200720 x 15 inches The words embedded in Anthony Campuzano’s drawings continue to amaze me, with their witty excerpts from magazine and news sources; they reveal the pulp fiction behind pulp culture, asking–and answering–just what the heck is really going on here. Some people have conspiracy theories and space invaders as their answer; Campuzano has the embedded meanings behind the words that parade before us, and he gives them a pulsating visual vibe with supernatural intensity. Campuzano has been part with the Fleisher/Ollman Gallery–and a presence on the ... More » »

Weekly Update – Summer dreaming at Fleisher-Ollman

This week’s Weekly includes my review of Rip, Rig and Panic at Fleisher-Ollman Gallery. Below is the copy with a few more pictures. And here’s the link to the art page. For more, read Libby’s post on the show.Let It “Rip”Fleisher/Ollman’s summer show straddles realism and fairy tale. Logs speak, pictures whisper and bookshelves cast long shadows in the exploded fairy tale of “Rip, Rig & Panic” at Fleisher/Ollman Gallery. Anda Dubinskis, Isaac Resnikoff and Mark Khaisman provide work that’s not too hot and not too cool, but just right for summer dreaming. Dubinskis diptych showing the female woodcutter. As ... More » »