Thomas Solomon Gallery

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Bart Esposito
at Thomas Solomon Gallery, Chinatown, Los Angeles 

Recommendation by Michael Shaw

Continuing through June 12, 2010

With "Bends" Bart Exposito continues to develop his work in a more nuanced direction, with the inclusion of pastels and softer, gradated backgrounds, evolving from the more aggressively flat, imposingly graphic work of earlier in the decade. It's a refinement that's still not without an abundance of hard edges, and the cascades of...   read more

May 20, 2010

Orange County Museum of Art announces artists in the 2010 California Biennial

May 20, 2010 |  2:20 pm

Los Angeles Times | Culture Monster 

The Orange County Museum of Art has selected more than 40 artists and collaborative groups to participate in the 2010 California Biennial.

The exhibition, which will run Oct. 24 to March 13, is designed to showcase new developments in contemporary art with an emphasis on emerging artists from around the...   read more

Culture Monster
ALL THE ARTS, ALL THE TIME

Art review: Bart Exposito at Thomas Solomon Gallery

May 14, 2010

For most of the past decade, Bart Exposito has been making sleek abstract paintings that bridge seemingly unbridgeable gaps -- between high-style fashion and low product-design, machine fabrication and hand craft, bemused spontaneity and earnest control. The populism of commercial taste collides with the elitism of informed aesthetics.

In the process Exposito has developed an irresistible body of post-Pop, Neo-Hard-Edge...   read more

Brad Eberhard: abstract art and abstract thoughts

The artist will muse about color and form and mix in thoughts on Plato and human consciousness.

By Holly Myers, Special to the Los Angeles Times

May 9, 2010

Brad Eberhard's studio, in the garage of the Lincoln Heights house he shares with two friends, sits at the top of a narrow, perilously steep street, with a spacious view across what is, with all the winter rain, a vividly green hillside. A spare and comfortably tidy space, with a worktable, several shelves of books, a pair of vintage...   read more

IN THE EYES OF LIONS


MAY 8, 2010 - MAY 29, 2010

OPENING RECEPTION:
MAY 8, 2010 7PM - 12AM

CURATED BY:
ADAM MILLER

ARTISTS:
BRIAN BRESS
SARAH CONAWAY
ERIK FRYDENBORG
BRETT LUND
SAMANTHA MAGOWAN
ADAM MILLER
BOBBI WOODS


PRESS RELEASE:
Skin houses the body and it is figured as the ultimate boundary, the material that divides and defines the inside from the outside. Visibility is the index of skin; it is a physical border but a symbolic membrane where the interior...   read more

The Indistinct Seeing
Artists from Berlin and Los Angeles:

Moritz Stumm
Ariel Reichman
Betty Böhm
Alexandra Hopf
Rick Buckley
Sonja Gerdes
Patrick Fabian Panetta
Hajnal Nemeth
Hannu Prinz
Johannes Weiß
Thomas Chapman
Nik Novak
Lisa Williamson
Sayre Gomez
Bobbi Woods
Cayetano Ferrer
Samara Golden
Josh Mannis

opening: 30.4.2010, 6pm-10pm

INFERNOESQUE
Projektraum
Heidestrasse 46-52
Aufgang 2 EGread more

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