<i><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Richard Artschwager!  @ Hammer   </span></span></b></i><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>"Part of his cachet was that no one quite knew what to do with him, this artist who made furniture like sculptures covered with wood-grain Formica and paintings that appeared to be done with smudged soot. People called him an enigma so often that the word stuck to him like a middle name.  </i></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/arts/design/richard-artschwager-at-whitney-museum.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0">(here)</a></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b></b></i></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKKw_5yrLsVKfGxuG9ypNfxE3_JlYvTiRYEWs3l_8Mc_4ST1NpVVV7F5oRU2t1cPNGpCLPMCRTpudNM_f9HsghyAmPK4pyJ1pUzwFatSo1q0PuceJNEFYR2OIiJQrAU6i1A4hAnyiqfZXL/s1600/24.+Description+of+Table+1964.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKKw_5yrLsVKfGxuG9ypNfxE3_JlYvTiRYEWs3l_8Mc_4ST1NpVVV7F5oRU2t1cPNGpCLPMCRTpudNM_f9HsghyAmPK4pyJ1pUzwFatSo1q0PuceJNEFYR2OIiJQrAU6i1A4hAnyiqfZXL/s1600/24.+Description+of+Table+1964.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;">//// </span></span></b></i></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Richard Artschwager! </b></i></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://hammer.ucla.edu/"><i>On view June 15 – September 2, 2013 @ Hammer Museum </i></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span style="font-size: small;"><i>When I was 39, it became clear to me that I wasn’t going to live forever. As a teenager, you can opt for absolute silence; you can have a radio and play it loud so that it drowns out any thoughts about what you did wrong yesterday. And then in your twenties you can accept that last year was a wasted year. But suddenly in your thirties you can’t afford to do that any more. My thirties meant working with a lot of people, seven days a week, trying to make a damn living, which I was always bad at. And what did I get out of it? I sharpened up my Spanish. Nevertheless, these were valuable times. These were the people I lived with: I got to know them and their families - you could say that we ‘broke bread’ together. The impact that this had on my art was that I began to look at everything with greater awareness. The net got cast wider: <span style="font-size: large;"><b>suddenly everything mattered.</b></span> It might seem banal now but for me it was a life-and-death situation - a B+ epiphany at least!  <a href="http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/how_things_get_done/">(Taken from interview here)</a></i></span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/detail/exhibition_id/224"><i><b>"Los Angeles—Richard Artschwager!, the most comprehensive retrospective to date of the artist’s work, opens at the Hammer Museum Saturday, June 15, 2013</b></i></a>. The exhibition is organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art in association with the Yale University Art Gallery, and curated by Jennifer Gross, Seymour H. Knox, Jr. Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, Yale University Art Gallery. The Hammer’s presentation is organized by senior curator Anne Ellegood. Following the presentation of Richard Artschwager! at the Hammer Museum, the exhibition will travel to the Haus der Kunst, Munich and the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco.  Richard Artschwager! features over 145 works spanning six decades, including sculptures, paintings, drawings, photographs, and prints. Often associated with Pop, Minimalism, and Conceptual art, his work never fit neatly into any of these categories. His artistic practice consistently explored questions regarding his own visual and physical engagement with the world; his objects straddle the line between illusion and reality. The exhibition reveals the artist’s prescience in his career-long commitment to exploring the profound effect photography and technology have had in transforming our engagement with the world. His work has responded to and challenged how these media—and our experience of things as images rather than as things in themselves—have shifted human experience from being rooted in primary physical experience to a knowledge mediated by secondary sources such as newspapers, television, and the Internet."<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">------------------ </div><br />

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<i>"A tout à l'heure: </i><i><i>chasing the light in reverse</i>"</i><br /><i><span style="color: #666666;">vs</span> </i><br /><i>"a voided sense of home: the large-scale sculptures render negative space into solid form, and the prosaic into something fantastically disquieting."</i><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDBMQTQUi9XdErhQthdEFx60sWGJZguO5kfPd-blxe9lVF3pTtzS1Q88sVDCmdVntFAG7kuGZShWiQrpA8NOEyBPytO9JSzisY2TKLDTZLeXkn_HVGjtRuaj41d2sBAFn-L8w9XegfDP9v/s1600/46554.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDBMQTQUi9XdErhQthdEFx60sWGJZguO5kfPd-blxe9lVF3pTtzS1Q88sVDCmdVntFAG7kuGZShWiQrpA8NOEyBPytO9JSzisY2TKLDTZLeXkn_HVGjtRuaj41d2sBAFn-L8w9XegfDP9v/s640/46554.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHWHJesZVXtZ88JuP79ythl7fllMdpR426f-rDFfcJknwoi5I6vBHIwiUCeOqwxoh3-PGyqgIbGdTbUBEA8hJSQ1FEBp3ftPQU1kEXDA1RxC5tV5FpX-l6TWBJqSd3fkT7Dq8YDaU-UDUY/s1600/73c5ae5241ddf8003d9f8d081ef864c7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHWHJesZVXtZ88JuP79ythl7fllMdpR426f-rDFfcJknwoi5I6vBHIwiUCeOqwxoh3-PGyqgIbGdTbUBEA8hJSQ1FEBp3ftPQU1kEXDA1RxC5tV5FpX-l6TWBJqSd3fkT7Dq8YDaU-UDUY/s640/73c5ae5241ddf8003d9f8d081ef864c7.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><i>"Counting threes, counting fives </i><br /><i>See the beaucoup view and the merry go rounding </i><br /><i>Spin your arms, spin your eyes </i><br /><i>êtes vous ma fleuri, ever carefully breezing"  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XofNbkTkuP8">(bibio) </a></i><br /><br /><br /><i>1.  There are moments that crystallize before you if you are still long enough. Forms and shapes begin to shift in front of your eyes; if you only take the time to reach into space, into a void, and create, to touch emptiness, you'll see.  In a few weeks, I'll be off to New York for work to style the interiors for the winter catalogs for a company, (we'll be shooting in the home above.)  It's a project that I've worked on for the past year, and it has informed my interiors work in countless ways, allowing me to see space, and rooms in a very different way.  If you are in New York, reach out! Hopefully I'll be jumping on the train to visit new friends in upstate New York including <a href="http://www.fernnyc.com/">Fern's new store, and others. Drop me a line.</a>  In addition, our company, <a href="http://discinteriors.com/DISC/HOME.html">DISC Interiors</a>, has projects that are soon to be photographed, including a project we are working on for this year's Dwell on Design that will be open to the public June 21-23 at the LA Convention Center, and a wine tasting room up in Northern California, near Russian River. More to come. - David John </i><br /><br />2. "Rachel Whiteread’s sculpture is predicated on casting procedures, and the traces left on the sacrificial objects and spaces from which the final inverse form is derived. She casts from everyday objects as well as from the space beneath or around furniture and architecture, using single materials such as rubber, dental plaster, and resin to record every nuance.  <i>Detached 1</i>, <i>Detached 2</i>, and <i>Detached 3</i> (2012) render the empty interior of a garden shed in concrete and steel. Cast from generic wooden sheds, the large-scale sculptures render negative space into solid form, and the prosaic into something fantastically disquieting.  The sheds recall the monolithic architectural and site-specific works for which Whiteread first became renowned, such as <i>Ghost </i>(1990) and <i>House </i>(1993) and, most recently, the imposing concrete sculpture <i>Boathouse </i>(2010), installed on the water’s edge in the remote Nordic landscape of Røykenviken." <a href="http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/rachel-whiteread--april-11-2013">via Gagosian</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/rachel-whiteread--april-11-2013"><i>via Gagosian </i></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i>---------------- </i></div>

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<i><b> Speed or Armor, </b>2013 <a href="http://paddle8.com/work/jason-koharik/16632-speed-or-armor">(Jason Koharik)</a></i><br /><br /><i>"Look around, look inside, look under the stones in the river </i><br /><i> See a life turned clean, Skim a stone, throw a bone, watch it float downstream </i><br /><i>and dissolving. Dye the water green" <a href="http://mrbibio.tumblr.com/post/50438691485/dye-the-water-green">(new Bibio)</a></i><br /><br /><i> </i> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwYXTrc05AvkfZ7A0c-Bn6JyNG737C1O1Nh7m9us9N6aJ5zjYEFlXZkp9Qx_fUGKrAXtKSEeEBlXvovjYZ8nIL6fqILcHI8V_TRNurUwl4DACRx2shpp46a2gx6es84bb3kVE4JloUD_zV/s1600/DSC_0007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwYXTrc05AvkfZ7A0c-Bn6JyNG737C1O1Nh7m9us9N6aJ5zjYEFlXZkp9Qx_fUGKrAXtKSEeEBlXvovjYZ8nIL6fqILcHI8V_TRNurUwl4DACRx2shpp46a2gx6es84bb3kVE4JloUD_zV/s640/DSC_0007.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbKVxL7ODcSdkalplla3HXygG5go4pQngf3wopbxW-aahGuJRfIxVKipOZwpMBjFtKQdr2bgEK0i9kXiKWchCOT_xt0peB5ENE_kyLW21-gIdMjfY5yJM1yBouYb2O9t7A4ARldja9pR_p/s1600/DSC_0010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="617" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbKVxL7ODcSdkalplla3HXygG5go4pQngf3wopbxW-aahGuJRfIxVKipOZwpMBjFtKQdr2bgEK0i9kXiKWchCOT_xt0peB5ENE_kyLW21-gIdMjfY5yJM1yBouYb2O9t7A4ARldja9pR_p/s640/DSC_0010.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><i><b>May 21, 2013 7-10 pm. </b></i><br /><a href="http://www.welcometolace.org/events/view/happening-2013-lace-benefit-art-auction/"><i><b>LACE Benefit Auction </b></i></a><br /><br /><i>Jason Koharik of Collectedby has<a href="http://paddle8.com/work/jason-koharik/16632-speed-or-armor"> a new work</a> that is part of the upcoming Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition's annual fundraising auction. So many amazing artists to bid on for this year's auction at LACE. </i><br /><br /><br />"I am, I suppose, self taught on much of what I do, (metal working, weaving, leather work, sewing, electrical, wood working), mostly out of necessity. I don't know how else to get it done. So I mess up 5 times or so before I get it right! I learn so much this way. You just have to keep trying, which is really hard sometimes.  I have found mentors along the way. I met a master wood worker, an artist really. I evolve every time I visit his shop or we work on a design together. An upholsterer I can only describe as an angel. Not only because of the quality of his work, but mostly for his appreciation of life. Creating and learning new ways to create is something I am very passionate for." -<i> Jason Koharik</i><br /><i><br /></i><br /><a href="http://youhavebeenheresometime.blogspot.com/2012/02/conversation-with-jason-koharik.html"><i>Read a past conversation with Jason Koharik here. </i></a><br /><br /><br /><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibtions</b></span></i><br /><br /><i>"LACE with HAPPENING 2013 Host Committee chair and LACE Board Member Kathie Foley-Meyer and Master of Ceremonies Mario Ybarra, Jr. are pleased to announce HAPPENING 2013: The LACE Benefit Art Auction, our most festive celebration of the year. Taking place Tuesday, 21 May 2013 at LACE in Hollywood, this signature event will honor the groundbreaking artists who put LACE on the cultural map of Los Angeles and continue to command our attention in the contemporary art world.  Get ready to raise your paddle to bid on 100+ works by established and emerging artists including Laylah Ali, Tad Beck, Barnaby Furnas, Liz Glynn, Piero Golia, Mike Kelley, Sharon Lockhart, Meleko Mokgosi, Raymond Pettibon, Sterling Ruby, Frances Stark, Henry Taylor, Liat Yossifor, Lisa Williamson and many more. Board President William Moreno comments, "With the enthusiastic and generous support of each of our donors and members, LACE remains the dynamic platform artists and curators require to create daring, leading-edge work for the public. Their contributions are truly appreciated and valued." </i><br /><br /><i><a href="http://www.welcometolace.org/events/view/happening-2013-lace-benefit-art-auction/">more about LACE here. </a> </i><br /><i><br /></i><i><br /></i><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;">=====</span></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

 Speed or Armor, 2013 (Jason Koharik) "Look around, look inside, look under the stones in the river   See a life turned clean, Skim a...

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