As I left Adrian Piper’s “Concepts and Intuitions” at the Hammer museum, I noticed a series of wooden structures resembling voting booths positioned outside of the exhibit’s entrance. I walked into one of the private booths steadying myself as I prepared to write in the binder that was resting on a shelf in front of … Continue reading Unsynthesized Intuitions: Confronting Discomfort with Adrian Piper
Last month Daily Serving featured my shotgun review of Kevin Beasley’s current installation at the Hammer Museum. Check it out! The installation will be on view at the Hammer through April 23, 2017. Daily Serving: Hammer Projects: Kevin Beasley at the Hammer Museum For more on Kevin Beasley click here. Continue reading Kevin Beasley at the Hammer
I’m currently writing a separate piece on Kevin Beasley’s current installation at the Hammer Museum, but I thought I would highlight him in my artist a day challenge as well. Artists that incorporate sound into their work interest me these days because they activate their environments in an entirely new way. Some of Beasley’s ghost like … Continue reading Artist of the Day Challenge (25):Kevin Beasley
Last week my latest review of Simone Leigh’s exhibit was featured on Arts.Black.com. The piece takes a close look at two of the strong influences found in Leigh’s work, the Herero and the Cupboard. While reading though sources for this piece I came across the fascinating, tragic history of the Herero. This gave me a much … Continue reading “And Now, the Rest of the Story”: Simone Leigh at the Hammer Museum
Happy Friday everyone! Today my review of Simone Leigh’s new show at the Hammer Museum is currently featured on Daily Serving. Be sure to check it out! ********* Colony Little explores Simone Leigh’s first West Coast solo exhibition at the Hammer in Los Angeles. Source: Hammer Projects: Simone Leigh Continue reading Hammer Projects: Simone Leigh
“Not Bad Meaning Bad, but Bad Meaning Good.”-Peter Piper, Run DMC In 1978 the New Museum opened “Bad” Painting, an exhibition featuring artists that eschewed conventional artistic practices to create work that challenged precepts of high culture and countered Minimalist/Conceptualist art. “It is figurative work that defies, either deliberately or by virtue of disinterest, the classic … Continue reading Art + Practice Re-Visits “Bad” Painting
Ruth Asawa’s art celebrates diversity of style and technique. Drawing from illustration, painting, dance, basket weaving, music and pottery, her multi-disciplined approach to art was nurtured as a student at Black Mountain College in the late 40’s. Her introduction to art however, came to Asawa under less than auspicious circumstances. During WW II Asawa’s entire … Continue reading The Veiled Genius of Ruth Asawa
Moody Mondays beg for a beautifully moody piece. Brenna Youngblood’s work combines expressionist and textural techniques with her formal background in photography. She takes found pieces of everyday objects like discarded paper bags, tree shaped car fresheners and photographs and applies them to canvas. Her paintings embody that point of collision between color field painting and abstraction. Youngblood’s 2015 Project 50 Series explored … Continue reading Artist a Day Challenge 2016-8: Brenna Youngblood
“Ask the ‘Why’, it’s not enough to say ‘it’s beautiful.’ “~Njideka Akunyili Crosby “Beautiful” is exactly how I described Crosby’s show at the Hammer in November. There are so many layers to her work it’s hard to focus on one aspect of it. I now realize that in many ways that is the point. On the surface … Continue reading Artist a Day Challenge 2016-3: Njideka Akunyili Crosby
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