Wendy White

Wendy White at Leo Koenig... TWO shows ago, that's how far behind I am with things I want to post.


L.A. Noir... they have a polluted rosy glow.

Like bruised Ruscha... future signposts, mystery totems, grimy negaglyphs.


Hollywoodland. Church Aurora.

Wendy is included in two current NYC shows -

Shape Language at Nicole Klagsbrun... with Joe Bradley, Blinky Palermo, and others.
I'll Let You Be In My Dreams If I Can Be In Yours, at Fredericks & Freiser... with artists including Lamar Peterson.


insets

Charlie Finch wrote that they look like they were painted with a dirty sponge that would give even Dumas pause... good one.

Julia Dault

Julia Dault, in Substance Abuse, at Leo Koenig's next-door project gallery.


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Julia Dault, at Blackston, 3/2010.

Nicole Eisenman!

Nicole Eisenman at Leo Koenig through THIS WEDNEsDay 12/23!! Do not miss.


biergarten




where's picasso?




spaghetti and meatballs school of vuillard.




self-portrait

all the detail shots are from the two paintings posted...

Out with Marty

Barnaby Whitfield, Kelli Williams, Eric Sall, Kai Vierstra.

***Art-Stars attend Wendy White's opening at Leo Koenig***


Wendy White with Joyce Kim.


Dana Carlson, Jennifer Coates, Barnaby Whitfield... yes, somehow Barnaby is in almost every picture.


Maureen Cavanaugh, Brent Burket.


Tom Sanford.


Justin Faunce talking to Byrd. Rosanna Bruno talking to Brent. Oscar Alazate with Jonathan Allen.


Jon Lutz.


Rachel Hayes, Barnaby, Maureen Cavanaugh.


Inna Babaeva with Michael, his mom, and baby Avery.

Wish I'd been a little more focused on taking photos, but I got caught up in meeting people (Krixfort!).

Click here to SEE the installation shots of the show.

Leo Koenig Gang

Tom Sanford, Tom and Alex in Bed, 2008, oil and acrylic on paper, at Leo Koenig - this was so unexpected, and sweet.


Alexis Rockman, Thistle, 2006, at Leo Koenig. He has the current show at the gallery... and the most interesting piece by far in Molecules That Matter.


Kelli Williams, Wet Bar, 2007, at Leo Koenig - it's real small, so much stuff happening, you need to click on the picture to see it bigger... here's a detail of the snake.


Awww, he's ADORABLE!

THE photo of the first week of April, 2007... PLUS: a brief report on some Chelsea yucks, snoozes, and so-whats

Saw this Mitch Epstein photo like 4 different times in one week... first I saw it on Tyler's blog, then I saw it on Paddy's blog, then I saw it in the exhibition at Sikkema Jenkins (briefly, because the show was a snooze).... THEN, I saw this HUGE one at night in a big window.

This big one was the best, because the photo already had such a stageset feel... seeing it in those footlights at real backdrop size seems right. Plus - the daytime photo, spotlit, at NIGHT... something about all that... I like the two opposing light sources, the sun vs. the spotlights... makes the picture more eerie.

Constable and Pisarro are both tooo much of a stretch for me, sorry. Maybe X-Files, okay.

Some Chelsea YUCK!s, SNOOZEs and So-Whats -

YUCK!s:

Julie Evans at Julie Saul - they were GUSHING over these paintings on Winkleman's blog... they make me feel ill.

Christopher Tanner at Pavel Zoubok - i vomited. which sucks, because i like zoubok's john evans and lanigan-schmidt, so i was hoping this would be a good one.

Susanne Kuhn at Goff + Rosenthal - i can't decide if this is a yuck, a snooze, or a so-what.

So-Whats:

Borf video at eyebeam - oooo, look at me push over a port-a-potty. i'm a bad boy. look at me. hey, you're not looking at me! please pet me.

(this one is a snooze/so-what)

SNOOZES:

Amy Cutler at Leslie Tonkonow

group show at CRG - i tried to get into them, but failed. Tomory Dodge is definitely better than last time... in 7/2005 i liked Dufresne's small pieces at Monya Rowe better than the big ones at Lehmann Maupin; the pieces here are all big. maybe she was my favorite in the show (?).

all four of them are okay, but they all remind of someone else (in a negative way), and all of them seem to be missing something... a spark or something.

Torben Giehler at Leo Koenig - BUMMer when you go to a gallery prepared to really like whatever they are showing... and it is a snooze. my bad timing.

um... some are okay from far away?

group show at Alona Kagan - (can't find it on-line)
Saeko Takagi at ATM - maybe with a second visit i would like it more?

Elliot Hundley at Andrea Rosen - i'm almost there... but again, that spark.

PLUS... the UNDECIDED:


Lamar Peterson at Freericks & Frieser - some weird stuff happening.

UPDATE: i've decided i really like it.


Josh Smith at Luhring Augustine- some are seriously unbelievably horrible yuck/so-whats, but a few are interesting(?).