From Cavasphere.com:
Pretty Things in Ugly Places, a curatorial project, arose from a conversation with painter Willy Bo Richardson. Here, I am exploring the concept of Benjamin’s ‘aura’. In order to eradicate the supposed need for a white box, I chose to place Richardson’s paintings in run-down, abandoned houses throughout Northern New Mexico. I reasoned that, if paintings indeed possess ‘aura’ that the surrounding conditions of the art would be unimportant. In fact, that the paintings should uplift the tattered walls and create consequence for the space. I wanted to see if a brilliant painting would be brilliant in even the ugliest of contexts. The format was five to thirty minute exhibitions, from which the take-away is a series of photographs, as the one presented above.
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Willy Bo Richardson received an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute in 2000. Richardson exhibits his work nationally and internationally. In April/May 2011 his work was included in the exhibition at Jason McCoy Gallery in New York titled, “70 Years of Abstract Painting – Excerpts”. The show assembled works by a selection of modern and contemporary painters, including Josef Albers, Hans Hofmann and Jackson Pollock.
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Photography by Rowan Ogden.
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
I am preparing myself for something very dull—an exhibition Staring at the Wall: The Art of Boredom at the Lawndale Art Center in Houston. But, I wasn’t bored. In other words, I didn’t feel a sense of rote dis-ease, which boredom often engenders, or a sense of entrapment (except for Clayton Porter’s “work, try, hard” lyric looping in the background as audio to his video, which I’ll discuss below). I approximate boredom to: F–k. I’m stuck in study hall and I’m completely turned-off, nothing I can do here will arouse me.
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Almost alien, skinny, young white women hardly clothed with a look of wanting in their faces and perfectly messy hair—these are the muses of fashion photography. We’ve seen spread after glossy spread of them. Pretty Much Everything, on loan from the Gagosian to Dallas Contemporary, reveals all in a hundreds-plus exhibition of photographs by notorious fashion photographers Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin.
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Thursday, September 6, 2012
Mathew Tom is winner of this year’s Jerwood Drawing Prize. Exhibitions presenting winners held at JVA at Jerwood Space in London. Here is Mathew Tom’s website. I am loving this artist.
Recently, I contributed to Willy Bo Richardson’s latest catalogue, “Music to Drive to” with an essay of the same title.
Expert: “Colors present themselves in continuous flux,” writes Josef Albers, Interaction of Color, 1963, “constantly related to changing neighbors and conditions.” Opposing blues and oranges vibrate rapidly when placed next to one another—causing excitement. Vibrating boundaries heighten interactions between two colors. Like Albers, color serves as Willy Bo Richardson’s primary subject.
For more information, visit Willy Bo Richardson’s website.
The Dallas Art Fair boasts growing numbers over the past three years, and in its fourth year seems to have elevated to a new level of maturity with over 70 galleries in attendance. Housed in the Fashion Industry Gallery (F.I.G.) near the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas Museum of Art and Crow Collection—with new Rem Koolhaas, the Winspear, and Santiago Calatrava in close proximity—Dallas certainly has the architecture to support such a fine event.
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As of 4:30 pm on April 19th, the University of Texas amassed its latest piece for Landmarks public art collection—Ben Rubin’s tribute to Walter Cronkite, who attended the University in the 1930s. Titled And That’s The Way It Is projects massively sized text onto the side of a building in the Walter Cronkite Plaza.
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Photos by Rowan Ogden
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Nick Schager of Slant Magazine wrote of Dragonslayer in his review, “…it’s a film that makes a strong, if unintentional, case for the pathetic emptiness of the punk-rock life.” If Schager had seen past the main character (Skreech, pictured above), perhaps it would have been easier for him to see that “making a strong case for the pathetic emptiness of punk-rock life” was the intention of the film.
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Irish artist Tom Molloy makes work that addresses current global affairs, collecting together and subtly altering political imagery. “Shake” stretches around a central wall in the gallery, featuring 59 black and white photographs of various world leaders — Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush included — shaking hands. Each photograph includes a handshake or embrace; usually the men are smiling, the pictures mounted in ordinary, household frames.
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