The BBC posted these videos on the effects of the economic problems the world is facing. I haven’t watched all of them yet, but what I’ve seen is pretty good. Some of the videos relate to thinks I’ve been thinking about and trying to figure out how to present in my paintings.
The image above is a quick grab from the Beijing video.
LACMA posted its online open to the public Urban Light exhibition. It consists of photographs from the public and posted to flickr of Chris Burden’s sculpture Urban Light that stands at the main entrance of the museum. Included is an image I had taken soon after the opening of the BCAM for this blog. The picture above was taken more recently on one of my increasingly frequent trips to the museum with my cell phone. I hope to be walking around the museum at some point today.
trends age badly. (and would disappear too quickly on twitter)
Recent painting and drawing of a stack of Moleskine notebooks. Both are 9 by 16 inches.
Well, that is not entirely true. I went to MOCA yesterday to see the Dan Graham exhibition. I liked it, but I have a hard time watching the videos. The looped films were very nice and the installation of the two rooms, sound proof (resistant) glass dividing them and mirror on one wall was probably my favorite. I wish I had gone into both rooms.
On the work front, I am entering the final stages of completing the work for my first solo exhibition in Berlin with Susanne Vielmetter. They are all still life paintings save one nude. I have about 3 weeks left, and I’ll need every day to finish them. I also need to collect my videos together on a DVD to present as well. It will be the first time I will exhibit video. I am hoping to shoot a few more videos in time for the show. A couple paintings are already done. I’ll post some images soon.
If one is interested, I have been keeping up with posting an image to Flickr everyday.
Cutie from Robert Olsen on Vimeo.
A few things i found interesting in the recent article ‘Tough Times Call for Shrewd Artists’ by Dorothy Spears from February 13, 2009 in the New York Times are…
1. MOMA’s first acquisition was Edward Hopper’s “House By the Railroad” of 1925 (pictured above).
2. was that MOMA had a free admission policy, but by the third show, there was a small fee charged two days a week to control crowds due to its popularity. Today the entry fee is $20.
paintings in the middle of it.
In response to whether or not last night was a good night of painting, the text below is a pretty accurate statement of how I spend the majority of my time.
i think i did, but when one is in the middle of painting the results are less obvious. [when] starting and finishing a painting the progress is apparent, but painting another layer to get to the next layer is a game of just getting it done, making it better, not ruining it and keeping on track.
image from Homes for America 1966-7.
Hello Los Angeles,
Dan Graham’s exhibition Beyond opens at MOCA this weekend (today). According to the MOCA press release, this is his first retrospective in North America. Being one of my favorite Grahams—Paul and Rodney being the other two—I am looking forward to seeing it. The member’s preview is Saturday (14th), and it opens to the public on Sunday (15th).
cleaned up.
As some of you may know, I am a big fan of Zurbarán. The Frick created a page about his 1633 painting Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose and its recent cleaning on the occasion of its upcoming exhibition there—it’s on loan there from the Norton Simon as part of an exchange program between the two museums as well as the National Gallery. The restoration reveals so much that laid buried under layers of dirt and previous repairs. To see the page click on through.
P.S. February 16th is the last day to see the National Gallery’s A Lady Writing by Vermeer at the Norton Simon.