Kevin Van Aelst

Kevin's Site

Brock Davis

His Link

Laurie Scavo, Mock Stars, and Maria Bamford

Went to Skylight Books in Los Feliz last night for a reading of Mock Stars: Indie Comedy & the Dangerously Funny by John Wenzel, a columnist at the Denver Post. Had a great time there, and after the reading was three short sets by comics including Maria Bamford.
There was a girl there taking photos, who I saw hand a card to another woman...a bit of research (googling the phrase I lifted from her card) found out that she's Laurie Scavo, an excellent photographer of events, music, and her own subjects.
Laurie's Website Link

Michelle Caplan @ Henry Road

Opening October 2nd
6 to 9
at Henry Road


Her Site

Opening at Geffen Contemporary MoCA

INDEX: CONCEPTUALISM IN CALIFORNIA FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION

LINK
Opening Sunday August 24th, 11AM-6PM, $5
08.24.08 - 12.15.08



Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection draws upon MOCA’s substantial holdings of works by artists who have lived and worked in California and have contributed to the international lexicon of conceptual art. Curated by MOCA Curator Philipp Kaiser and Curatorial Assistant and Project Coordinator Corrina Peipon, the exhibition surveys the evolution of conceptual and post-studio practices by highlighting significant individual works alongside multiple works by artists in the collection. Acknowledging California artists’ particular contributions to defining and expanding art historical notions of conceptual art, the scope of this exhibition reaches from the proto-conceptual disciplines of artists Wallace Berman and Bruce Conner to the groundbreaking work produced during the mid-1960s, ‘70s, and into the ‘80s by artists John Baldessari, Chris Burden, Guy de Cointet, David Ireland, David Lamelas, and Alexis Smith, among others.




In recognition of the undeniable legacy of this period in California art, this exhibition also presents post-conceptual explorations by artists that were influenced by the preceding generations. Building upon the dialogue initiated by their mentors, artists Cindy Bernard, Andrea Fraser, Mike Kelley, Mathias Poledna, Stephen Prina, Pae White, and Christopher Williams continually redefine the boundaries of their various mediums and subjects through rigorous scrutiny and serious, though often humorous, analysis.

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

Update!

News: About to leave for LA, on Tuesday uhh tomorrow I'll be creating a new separate blog with my writing work. And I want to invite submissions, like reviews published or not to provide a place for further discussions. So if you have reviews with pictures, send them on to me, if you don't have pictures of the show then provide a weblink that we can check out. I was thinking also that this new blog will give artists a chance to have their shows reviewed and published there, so hopefully the reviewer has seen the show or can go see it, I guess a way of linking up with writers in your area and getting critical feedback from several people. Email me or leave a comment on this post and we'll talk further about it!
Unused Art Review

Sean Fader

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

Ranbir Kaleka

NEWS!!!!
Multi-media installation commissioned by Spertus Museum, Chicago. Tentative title, ‘Thus time passed and we got used to many things’.

Spertus Museum has commissioned Indian artist Ranbir Kaleka to produce a powerful, open-ended reflection on the Holocaust. With the aim of finding a universal language to express the horror of the Holocaust while not losing the particular, Jewish nature of the genocide, and with the expressed intention to find a contemporary approach to memorialize the atrocities of the Holocaust, Spertus Museum senior Judaica curator, Dr. Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek sought to commission a work that reminds us of the humanity that was taken away from people – even beyond death.
Consider, a title inspired by the poem of the same name by Primo Levi, and arrived at in consultation with Heimann-Jelinek, is a unique commission for Spertus Museum. An installation consisting of two projections, a painting and an audio narrative of oral testimony from Auschwitz, this work poignantly juxtaposes accounts of utter dehumanization alongside civilization’s investment in the gift of life.

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The installation will consist of two projections: one on a painting, another on a transparent screen.

Apart from the oral testimony the work will retain its specificity only in the aspect of the ‘human’. The installation, viewed from afar, will occupy a discrete space instead of in-your-face foregrounding of it.

Through the transparent screen we will see the sky and Lake Michigan. A girl who is having her hair braided in the painting will, time and again, leave her painted body to visit her memories etc. in the ethereal space of the transparent screen.

Note: Installation involves curatorial inputs by Dr. Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek and Rhoda Rosen, the director of the museum, has been very supportive of the concept and the commission.

Krueck & Sexton Architects, who realised Jaume Plensa's concept at Millennium Park (The Crown Fountain) are the architects for Spertus.

Warm wishes,

Ranbir


Spertus is located at 610 S. Michigan Avenue, directly across the street from Chicago's Grant Park.

Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
610 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605

all photos courtesy of the artist, Venice Bienalle, and Walsh Gallery of Chicago

Brad Farwell at Hyde Park Art Center

"An African Mask Looks at Sites of American Blackness"
from left, New Orleans Superdome, Cabrini Green projects in Chicago, Rodney King Beating, OJ Simpson chase
all 2006

Jo Hormuth at 40,000 Gallery

Ken Fandell