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Art and technology in Kensington

Much of the work around the Kensington area this month questions the divide between technology and artist. First up is the Brad Troemel Pre-career Retrospective at Extra Extra Gallery. The gallery directors curated the show entirely from Troemel’s website selecting images of work, installations, and videos and installing the show without consulting the artist in the process. On the Extra Extra website they explain: “This gesture of presenting work without the consent of the creator is emblematic of immaterial art’s free movement into any receptive home.”

Loners go social in George Shinn’s paintings

George Shinn, Portrait of Babs, Nails and Scary-Mary, acrylic on canvas, 43 x 53 inches Geoge Shinn’s large paintings at Muse Gallery this month suggest portraits–mostly of two or three people–with narrative titles that have to be the best titles of paintings anywhere ever. He has a one-man show at Muse Gallery right now, and the work looks better than ever and younger than ever. But George is no youngster. He’s painting cartoon-faced people in edgy proximity in ambiguous relationships–the antithesis of Philip Guston’s loners in social situations. The stories seem pretty open. I don’t know what Scary-Mary and Babs ... More » »