Dennis Matthews Painting: Avant Garde

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Monday, September 22, 2008

Trudy Benson

Trudy's at Pratt Institute, getting her MFA. We makin' a "little" school into a bigger name, go VCU. Our BFAs go to the top MFA schools, I could give a long list...Forgive me Ms. Benson, having some internet trouble here but send me more images.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Frances Alys @ LACMA

Francis Alÿs: Fabiola

September 7, 2008–January 4, 2009 | Ahmanson Building

Commissioned by Dia Art Foundation and curated by Lynne Cooke, Francis Alÿs: Fabiola was first installed at the Hispanic Society of America in northern Manhattan from September 2007 to April 2008. Francis Alÿs, a Belgian artist who relocated to Mexico City in the early 1990s, has assembled a significant collection of nearly identical paintings and other depictions of fourth-century Saint Fabiola over the last two decades. All of these are based on a renowned, but lost, portrait by nineteenth-century French academic painter Jean-Jacques Henner. This much-venerated image has been so assiduously copied by amateurs and professionals alike that it has become a popular icon, a phenomenon that, as the artist stated, "indicates a different criterion of what a masterwork could be." Gathered from flea markets, antique shops, and private collections throughout Europe and the Americas, Alÿs's collection offers a window onto aesthetic, sociological, and theological values over the past century and more. This exhibition will display Alÿs's group of more than three hundred Fabiola portraits, all of them copies of a lost original: most are paintings, and there are several versions in needlepoint, wood relief, and other materials as well.

All text courtesy of my contacts at LACMA, thanks friends!

Friday, August 15, 2008

Nancy Popp

Website
Phantom Galleries
LA Art Girls

Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Victor Vaughn & Ben Kehoe @ Transmission

TRANSMISSION
presents new work by

VICTOR VAUGHN (Richmond, Va)
and
BEN KEHOE (Pittsburgh, Pa)
Opening Friday, August 1, 7-9pm
Show runs August 1-30
321 Brook Rd. Richmond, VA 23220
transmissionrva@gmail.com
Gallery summer hours: Fri, Sat, 12-5
or call for apppointment (804.200.9985)

This show is the premier for both artists in Richmond.

Victor Vaughn lives in Richmond, and goes to school at VCU.
He has received multiple honors in the Painting and Printmaking
department there. Victor will be exhibiting an installation which
incorporates photographs and prints.

Ben Kehoe is an artist living in Pittsburgh, PA. He graduated from
Temple University in 2001. Nature, pattern-based medieval artwork,
comical violence, and uncomfortable situations are his influences.
Ben will be exhibiting a new series of acrylic and gouache paintings.
His website is www.benkehoe.net
Transmission

Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Let's Paint TV

Saturday, August 02, 2008

Peter Saul @ Orange County Museum of Art

Peter Saul
Newport Beach

jun 22, 2008 - sep 21, 2008

The Orange County Museum of Art presents the first major American survey of works by Peter Saul. Organized by the Museum with guest curator Dan Cameron, the exhibition features paintings and drawings from the early 1960s to the present, including large-scale “historical epics,” satires of art history, and several of his most recent paintings addressing World War II and the war in Iraq. After its premiere at OCMA, the exhibition travels to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Arts in Philadelphia.

Peter Saul (American, b. 1934) is among the handful of American painters and collage artists
whose groundbreaking proto-Pop achievements in the late 1950s and early 1960s were demoted once the champions of that movement were anointed a few years later. Saul has always forged his own path, creating often difficult, funny, and trenchant works—“sick jokes” according to Robert Storr, distinguished curator and dean of the Yale School of Art. His art embraces personal foibles and important events in American history, such as the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement. His twisted comic-book forms, artificially hot colors, controversial subject matter, and unquenchable ambition to provoke strong feelings through his paintings have kept him on the edges of the art world while also preserving, for over forty years, the freshness of his work.

"Peter Saul is some kind of national treasure."–Christopher Knight, art critic, LA Times

Major sponsorship for this exhibition provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

This exhibition is organized by the Orange County Museum of Art with guest curator Dan Cameron.

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Jeff Koons at MCA

The most fun you'll have this summer!

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Jenn Wilson

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

MFA Exhibition

April 26 - May 16, 2008

(Gallery 2 & Project Space, 847 W. Jackson Blvd., 2nd & 3rd Floors)

Exhibition hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11:00 am - 6:00 pm

Extended viewing hours: April 30 and May 16, 11:00 am - 9:00 pm