Monday, April 24, 2006
April 27, 2006 Openings
Slim pickings this week. Well, pickings have been slim lately. Maybe I'll be surprised this Thursday.
Over at Stux we have none other than the spectacularly named Thordis Adalsteinsdottir -- there's an appellation made for Google! -- with her latest paintings. I'm not sure I'll actually like them but I'm curious to see what they look like in person. And she's got a blog, so she can't be all bad. If I don't like her paintings, maybe I can just try to get her to repeat Max von Sydow quotes from Flash Gordon.
![[Joseph Marioni]](/blog/images/20060427/joseph_marioni.jpg)
Meanwhile Joseph Marioni will be inaugurating the new space of Peter Blum Gallery. Joe is a later Abstract Expressionist apparently somehow still making a living by putting down approximately one color per canvas. Again, I'm not sure I'll like the paintings but I want to give them a try. You never really know until you meet a painting, after all.
More Op Art on display at Lyons Wier, this time from Miki Lee. I want to say hello to Michael Lyons Wier so I'll drop by. Op Art can be fun, too.
Next door Julie Allen is showing at McKenzie Fine Art. I want to see Valerie McKenzie, so I'll stop in. I have no image for Julie because I have no idea what this show will be like. Her work on the Web is pretty odd -- balloons tied up with string, stuff like that. We'll see.
If you've seen Emily Eveleth's work, you probably would say, "Oh, the doughnut painter!" Most of her work on the Web is paintings of oozy jelly doughnuts. To which I can only say, "Huh?" But it seems she does other things, too. I'll let you know. At Danese. God, I hope it's not more jelly doughnuts.
And finally, two more image-free openings: Christine Mottau at Ceres Gallery, which I will attend because I'm intrigued by an artist about whom I can find nothing whatsoever; and the School of Visual Arts Open Studios, which I may go to (if I feel like walking that far across town) so I can make fun of all the incompetent products of our higher education system.
Hmm.
I leave it up to you Chris, to go to the opening and ask questions.
And, as a personal favor, see if you can get into the back room and get some pix and feeling for Mark Newport's work. I've never seen his pieces in person. Lame or Cool?
I was actually in the Lyons Wier back room looking for something -- I even told Michael Lyons Wier. "Someone told me to look for some artist's work back here." He named a couple, but nothing rang a bell. I had actually entirely forgotten about Mark Newport and his work.
I was using hyperbole when I said Mark's work was blasphemous, but I still think it's oddly disrespectful. I like comics and appreciate the craft involved in making them, and the idea of remaking them into... knitted products... it just seems wrong.
I mean, not seriously wrong, the way nuclear war is wrong, or the way Marvel treated Jack Kirby is wrong. Just kind of wrong. Weird. I just can't understand why anyone would bother. It's a completely wacky juxtaposition, like a pizza topped with lightbulbs and underwear. I suppose there's a certain twisted genius in coming up with the idea, but it's still sort of, well, what's the point?
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