Since the rise of the new school, Pun has always been the main content of contemporary art.
Forty years ago, Dada brought Marcel Duchamp back to fashion.
Contains multiple or even contradictory meanings in a word or image, and they are perfect for an uncertain era (
Not to mention ecological protection).
After Lakers mania, Kori Newkirk created two of his most powerful works on basketball themes at the Rosamund Felsen Gallery.
One is a mural mixed with creamy, slightly scented hair oil and salt, painted in white on the wallon-
The white silhouette of the Nets.
The other is high.
Charming nickel style on
The gold-plated hoop, whose net is woven by the extension of the woven hair.
The braids extend all the way to the floor, where they pester together and attach the rings together. Get it?
They are hair nets.
Basketball merged with hairdressing. Newkirk's work-with-a-
Smirk collides activities in mass awareness that are closely related to gender-specific identities ---
Shorter quickly-circuited.
Strict prevention ](the hair-Extended basketball)
Means a condition of secrecy. "Halo" (
Drawing of this oil Wall)
An act of moral integrity.
In both, the buzz of homosexuality is simultaneously submerged and self-contained
Clearly, the code is clear.
The show also includes five smart paper works in which groups of basketball photos can be associated with a clear picture.
There is a problem of instability in the genetic roots of motor ability and gender identity (
These clusters suggest molecular models in scientific laboratories);
Myth of hero culture (
They also look like constellations. -Orion, Leo--
In the night sky);
Also, social manipulation (mutant stick-
Think of puppet Pictures).
Titled "hypothesis", each work is swinging between simply stating the common cultural assumptions and sending that are common todayup of sports-
Gift with ideas
The Newkirk approach is based on a variety of good
Known precedents including works by David Harmon and Felix Gonzalez
Fernando Torres, Ronnie Horne and Jeff.
Sometimes, like in the clock.
Just like cutting 12 basketball balls into pieces and putting them on the floor, on the floor they seem to swing like they are in the water, and the debt is not canceled because of the meager artistic reward.
But in spicy works like "tight protection", "aura" and "hypothesis", the unstable sound is Newkirk's own.
* Rosamond Felson Gallery, Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Avenue.
Santa Monica ,(310)828-
8488. until July 7.
Rest on Sunday and Monday.
Hollywood was a sweet stage.
Three now.
A picture deal with a series of guarantees.
Leon Fuller draws with crayons, No.
2 pencils, marker pens and watercolor for celebrities and entertainment as colorbook norms.
In the second solo show at the Richard Heller Gallery, after Fuller's
Warhol's work is considered a sweet, crazy imitation of the studio venue.
Whimsical, full of childlike interest, about 100 of the drawings are casual and easy to approach, and the smaller drawings that are glued together with tape when necessary, everything is just a simple push --
Nailed to the wall.
Most of these fascinating drawings suggest that non-existent movies and TV shows are hand-made, and that these movies and TV shows are created entirely by the collision of names --names-
We are flooded with names common in celebrity culture. (
There are also some book covers and story boards. )
The only number that appears in Fuller's list of producers, directors, writers, creators and stars is women ---
Always young, always tall, always blonde, always capricious.
Jerry Seinfeld, deer Hall, Jessica Hahn, Bunny, Derby derriberry--
You watched the show, you know the stars, they came again!
Fuller mixes known and unknown, familiar and invented, and ultimately makes you wonder if all celebrities are more than just a crazy combination of fictional tools and swap replicas produced by mold companies.
The inevitable housewives of Warhol extend to several unusual shoe drawings ---
Although these were also cut into slices, cut and reconfigured by celebrity bartenders. Dr.
Heather lockclear
Scholl's Sashay sports sandals seem to be a very reasonable product, especially for any aspiring person who really takes 1 feet seriously.
* Richard Heller Gallery, Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Avenue.
Santa Monica ,(310)453-
9191. until July 3.
Rest on Sunday and Monday.
An isolated experience: In her new short film, pulse, Shirin Neshat creates an expanded plot drama scene that loosely rebuilds the gallery environment in which the film is shown.
New York-based Iranian filmmaker Neshat has been more successful in the art world than in the film world, where he paints a picture of humanity's desire to connect through art.
At Patrick's. , the 7 1/2-minute, black-and-
The white film shows a basement with few pieces of furniture.
It's as bright as caravacho's paintings. -
Dim darkness, interrupted by tilted light.
A barefoot woman, sitting on the floor, seems to be an old man
The old-fashioned radio, which communicates with non-deciphered sounds, is partly a song and partly a voice.
The beating sound on the audio track is intertwined with her calm wailing.
The woman, isolated in her own room, seems to be a prisoner holding tightly to the sound fragments of a distant world. (
The theme of frustration communication across obstacles is also implied in five photos of the gallery's back room. )
The camera floated towards her in the dark space, hovering at close range --
She seemed to touch the radio in a mix of desire and despair, and then retreat at will.
The light filtered through the high windows and the curtains hung on both sides.
There is also a curtain hanging at the entrance to the gallery, and the oblique light in the dark gallery comes from the overhead DVD projector.
The parallel relationship between the images depicted and the gallery experience by Neshat is obvious, while the feeling of isolation and longing is easy.
But over-exaggerated melodrama weakens this slight opera work and inadvertently makes visitors to the gallery interesting.
The "pulse" has steam, which is usually not a condition for art.
* Patrick Painter company
2525 Michigan Avenue Bergamot Station
Santa Monica ,(310)264-
5988. until July 14.
Rest on Sunday and Monday.
One thing: The summer painting exhibition for the Regen project includes several gems.
27 works by 20 artists, mostly from the United States and Germany, are on display.
This is exactly what you want from this outing.
The sculptor Jennifer Paster used a fitness ball to show the outline of two women in a bodice.
The intense flesh is stretched into a thin, almost spider-like ink line that is likely to disappear.
A sketch of charcoal and chalk by John Collin-
"Fat Angel" and "Witch of Calistoga"-Take advantage of the oldMaster-on-
Has become the acid way of New York
Based on the painter's trademark.
These twisted, strange attenuation drawings have the appearance of academic art without any claustrophobic heightmindedness. Neat trick.
Paul Sietsema hand-copied a boring and lengthy text about modernist art.
However, he used ink and pencils, and he transformed the formulaic lines of the print type into an organic topographic map whose soil undulation was presided over by a photo of a hardworking, pollinated bee.
Lawrence Weiner's chart perfectly explains how to slide down Mt.
Refrigerator in a paper box or snowboard with paper towels.
The instructions are actually not helpful, just as the loopy event may be canceledfun.
The most exquisite and resonating work in this play is Andrea zitel's-
Z suburban island I ", made of 20 images arranged in a grid.
One is water powder, and 19 are color ink-jet replicas of water powder.
In general, the work looks like a dazzling kaleidoscope with its rich colors and intricate patterns made up of bird view pictures in the suburbs of cookies
Cutter Street, green belts and homes.
Knowing that part of the grid is gouache, the gouache that copies the copy lets you double check the ensemble with the intention of finding out which of the 20 is the original and which is the replica.
Can't say it at last--
There is some comfort at this point.
* Regen project, 629 Almonte Avenue, West Hollywood ,(310)276-
5424. until July 21.
Rest on Sunday and Monday.