Thomas Solomon Gallery

Paul's Art World
Krysten Cunningham: 3 to 4 @ Ritter Zamet, Unit 8, 80A Ashfield St - Whitechapel
To 15 May: www.ritterzamet.com

Look carefully to track down a first floor industrial unit just south of Whitechapel tube station, and you'll also find more of the recent trend towards sculpture with a video context. Krysten Cunningham has worked as a technician in a physics lab at the University of California over the past decade. In ‘Hypercube’ she re-narrated one of the lab’s educational films - of computer-generated cubes...   read more

Time Out/London
By Sally O'Reilly

Posted: Thu Apr 8 2010

Attempting to visualise four dimensions is a bit like trying to eat beer: it is impracticable for those of us entrenched in the usual way of doing things. Perhaps this is what makes it such a chestnut for the artist who wishes to capsize or re-chart our assumptions.

Krysten Cunningham's video '3 to 4' is not so directly didactic though. Her choreography of non-professional dancers wearing bold red, green and blue outfits in the...   read more

Works in Progress

Miljohn Ruperto: The Isabel Rosario Cooper Project

By Aram Moshayedi

Bidoun, Bazaar/Issue 20, Spring 2010
ISBN 1551-4048

Dennis Oppenheim

THOMAS SOLOMON GALLERY
427 Bernard Street
March 20–May 1

In the summer of 1969, Dennis Oppenheim debuted new work at Yvon Lambert Gallery in Milan; included in this exhibition was a sound track of his footsteps made while walking through the city. This piece inspired Oppenheim to shift focus from Land art to the more intimate site of his own body. What followed, including the seminal Reading Position for Second-Degree Burn, 1970, in which Oppenheim’s skin was “painted” red by absorbing rays of sunlight, was a...   read more

Pagel, David.  “Say hello to the Everyman,” Los Angeles Times, March 26, 2010: D21.

At Thomas Solomon Gallery, "Dennis Oppenheim: Early Works" takes visitors to the early 1970s, when art was, on one hand, an open-ended experiment capable of just about anything, and on the other, nothing special – just another part of life's unpredictable thrills and pitfalls, not to mention its inescapable freedom.

A sense of Everyman accessibility and see-for-yourself inquisitiveness is palpable in...   read more

MOSTLY SCULPTURE SHOW
March 13-28, 2010

Opening reception March 13, 7-10 PM

This is a show of work that centers on material exploration.  The six artists' works are unified by their emphasis on process and innovation.  Each artist engages in a pas-de-deux with specific materials in a poetry of making.  In the tradition of Schwitters, Tuttle, Franz West, Kippenberger, and Genzken, this work is strongly formal and has to do with the specific methods of making.  From draped fabric to dyed carrara marble to sheetrock to art...   read more

In 2010, the Art Park, the converted car park underneath the galleries at Madinat Jumeirah, includes the Bidoun Lounge, home to informal talks and performances, and a screening room and video bar, showing film programmes curated by Bidoun and guest curators.

Daily screenings hosted by the curators and artists take place in the Bidoun Lounge, while the programmes are looped continually in the screening room. The Video Bar lends itself to individual viewing and research.

A dynamic programme of talks and performances includes sessions looking...   read more

L.A. MAKES A SHOWING AT ARCO

Susan Emerling

Art in America, Vol. 98, No. 2, February:  30.

For the first time in its 29-year history, the international contemporary art fair ARCOmadrid has invited a city--Los Angeles--rather than a country as its "honored guest."  (The United States received the distinction in 1994.)  The switch, says the fair's director, Lourdes Fernandez, reflects the fact that "contemporary meaning is not in countries, but in cities."  Once organizers decided to...   read more

FlashArtonline.com

"STILL BUOYANT ORBIT"
Gae Savannah

Satellite Miami Closes the Decade

Without doubt, this year, NADA won the Fabulous Venue award.  From double arch panache of front entrance to capacious tiered lobby, the retro glam of the grande dame Deauville Beach Resort gave tingly anticipation to what would appear through the doors.  Unfortunately, some of the NADA fare lacked the luster of the hotel.  However, at Thomas Solomon Gallery, Bart Exposito, proved an exception.

Exposito’s...   read more

By Michael Duncan

Published: February 1, 2010
Modern Painters/artinfo.com

"Cross Sections" at Thomas Solomon Gallery

Los Angeles

Oct. 17 – Nov. 14, 2009

Los Angeles is not really known for abstraction, but younger artists here can’t seem to stay away from it. Brad Eberhard is one of the best of the new practitioners, steering clear of murk and mess in fresh works open to the colors and shapes of the real world. Coming on the heels of his first solo painting show at...   read more

"Whimsical and diabolical debut"

Chistopher Knight

Los Angeles Times
January 22, 2010

A sparse but maddeningly enticing solo debut by Josh Mannis is anchored by "Variation," a digitally manipulated video that turns Pop whimsy into something bordering on diabolical. The repetitions start off playful, but as the unending loop continues you begin to understand why the man doing a calisthenics-dance on the TV...   read more

Haute

Curated by Roman  Stollenwerk

Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art
Chaffey College

January 25 – March 6, 2010; Artists reception January 26, 6-8pm

Haute (High):High-class, high-toned, elevated, upper; Luxury, fancy, designer.
Fashion, design, cuisine and other “lifestyle” products have distinct tiers of value.  The distinction between mass-produced jeans and runway fashion is immediately apparent; however, these divides aren’t as obvious in fine art.  Art is inherently...   read more