BACK and forth

I've been bouncing between coasts a lot lately, but I think I am finally getting settled.  

New About Me:

I've recently been brought on as a regular contributor to Art Voices Magazine (see links on side menu) and White Hot Magazine. I'll be linking to articles here of course.

I also have an article on J.J. McCracken's work coming out in Ceramics: Art and Perception later this year.

Last week...

...I was on the east coast for the CMJ Marathon and for a few other shows on the Gangi/Rainbow Arabia Large Hadron Collider Tour.  If I look tired and sick here, well...

Spin.com wrote a nice review of their quite successful Cakeshop show - here.

Exceptor put on one of the most disturbing shows I've ever seen at Le Poisson Rouge.

Chairlift at the Fader Party was wonderful, as expected.

Bridget Waldach, Lines, gouache and pigment pen on paper, 55" x 57", 2008 

The week before, I saw the Haim Steinbach show at Overduin and Kite in Hollywood, where Haim Steinbach draws from the personal collections of Michael Kelly.  Very interesting...

I also saw the Bridget Waldach show (now down) at Benjamin Trigano, a new gallery in Beverly Hills. Waldach studied under Georg Baselitz in the 90's and her work's tenor of futility and frustration definitely reflects this.

Both shows will be reviewed in upcoming issues of Art Voices. 

Tonight I'll be attending the original play, NEW, at the Son of Semele Theatre in Silver Lake. NEW was written by Rachel Kolar and choreographed by Lauren Brown. These two lovely ladies also star in the production. 

From the PR:

In a post-apocalyptic setting, two young and flamboyant socialites, Rachel Kolar & Lauren Brown, are depressed by the bleak state of the aftermath of war. No longer is there room for extravagance, no longer are there parties and delusions of grandeur. In attempts to glorify the need for excessive materialism they devise a movement of neon colors, empty consumerism, absurd rules of engagement and foppish costumes. When their movement takes a turn too dark for the pretty pair of dipsomaniacal flamingos, chaos ensues. What is left for our sad debutantes? The only thing left after destruction, to build a bomb to blow up the world.

And for Halloween, I'll be at the Hammer Museum for their Halloween in Hades party where Hecuba and We Are The World, two of my favorite musical acts right now, will be be performing. 

Right now, I'm off to get some sleep before I get up and check out a few shows including LA25 Half-Life at LACE where I'm doing some special investigating...

Gooood night.

Garbage by Chairlift: