<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">all colors will eventually fade into winter.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">vs</span><br />"Look for comfort now, within these walls<br />For all these different days yeah, <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">these autumn ways</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Will slowly disappear</span><span style="font-style: italic;">: Will slowly fall apart</span>.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);">Drifting slowly, drifting clear</span>"<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7175/6432024563_0246b3af83_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7175/6432024563_0246b3af83_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 708px; height: 974px;" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7160/6432019243_9ed5532604_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7160/6432019243_9ed5532604_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 701px; height: 519px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Shades of color/texture for a declared interior.</span><br /><br />Seek light and transparency in the California fall.<br /><br />(above lyrics by neil halstead, first image from world of interiors magazine, 2nd image from cabin fever._<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">--------------</span><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span>

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<a href="http://www.lempertz.eu/440.html"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Lempertz </span></span></a>:Contemporary Art <br />Saturday, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">3 December 2011</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">upcoming auction</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7158/6431703741_858d5e7197_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7158/6431703741_858d5e7197_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 702px; height: 695px;" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6043/6431704029_2f6cc79f7e_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6043/6431704029_2f6cc79f7e_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 699px; height: 702px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.lempertz.eu/440.html"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Lempertz </span></span></a>:Contemporary Art <br />Saturday, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">3 December 2011</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">upcoming auction</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">photographs by Candida Hofer </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">"Lempertz is one of the leading auction houses in Europe and the eldest in family posession. The history of the company reaches back to the beginning of the 19th century. In 1802, Johann Matthias Heberle established the „Antiquargeschäft mit Auktionsanstalt (Antiquarian Book Shop including Auctions)" that held important auctions of rare books and art works. After the death of the founder in 1840, his employee Heinrich Lempertz, at that time 24 years old, took over the company that was than renamed „J. M. Heberle (H. Lempertz)“ </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">---------------</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span>

Lempertz :Contemporary Art Saturday, 3 December 2011 upcoming auction Lempertz :Contemporary Art Saturday, 3 December 2011 upcoming auction ...

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<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">the rectangle vs the square</span>, <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><br />fucking trivial details man.</span><br /><br />"There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. </span> <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Lustrous black and dull black, </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">black in sunlight and black in shadow</span>."<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"Here and now I would be, I should be But how? I could have been <span style="font-weight: bold;">One of these things first </span>I could have been <span style="font-weight: bold;">One of these things first</span>."</span> <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">(nick drake)</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7023/6425967079_7f42330d6a_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7023/6425967079_7f42330d6a_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 695px; height: 695px;" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7172/6425966911_11a4446e48_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7172/6425966911_11a4446e48_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 696px; height: 698px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">the rectangle vs the square</span>, <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><br />applaud the details man.</span></span><br /><br />1. <em>Rectangular dining table with frame in jacaranda and inset black underpainted glass top. Designed by Joaquim Tenreiro, Brazil, 1949.</em><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> via R20th</span><br /><br />2. "In the last ten years of his life, <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Reinhardt focused solely on square, black paintings</span></span>. In his unpublished writings, the artist indicates that these pictures relate aesthetically to monotonal Chinese paintings rather than Western painting's concepts of light and dark. These canvases are intentionally enigmatic, painted to resist interpretation and to represent the beginning of a new way of seeing and thinking about art. In 1961, Reinhardt described them thus: <p>A square (<i>neutral, shapeless</i>) canvas, five feet wide, five feet high, as high as a man, as wide as a man's outstretched arms (<i>not large, not small, sizeless</i>), trisected (<i>no composition</i>), one horizontal form negating one vertical form (<i>formless, no top, no bottom, directionless</i>), three (<i>more or less</i>) dark (lightless) no–contrasting (<i>colorless</i>) colors, brushwork brushed out to remove brushwork, a matte, flat, free–hand, painted surface (<i>glossless, textureless, non–linear, no hard-edge, no soft edge</i>) which does not reflect its surroundings—a pure, abstract, non–objective, timeless, spaceless, changeless, relationless, disinterested painting—<span style="font-size:100%;">an object that is self–conscious <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(no unconsciousness)</span> ideal, transcendent, aware of no thing but art (absolutely no anti–art)."<a href="http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A4856&page_number=18&template_id=1&sort_order=1"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> (text image taken from here)</span></a><br /></span></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">................</span>

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<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><a href="http://www.lamodern.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">LAMA</span> : Los Angeles Modern Auctions</span></a><br /><br />"The </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">December 11, 2011</span> </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Important Modern Art & Design Auction features over 500 lots of exceptional material from a prominent West Coast collection and includes rare examples of modern art and design by iconic 20</span><sup style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">th</sup><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> century artists."</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7006/6423907115_9f42964aac_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7006/6423907115_9f42964aac_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 711px; height: 474px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">California desig</span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>n</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> is not a superimposed style, but </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >an answer to present conditions</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">…</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"> </span>It has developed out of our own preferences for living in a modern way."</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ><br /> - 1951 Greta Grossman</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Greta Grossman</span> : <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Step table</span><br />Lot 341: est. <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">$2,000 - $3,000</span> designed <span style="font-weight: bold;">c. 1952</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"Walnut frame and lower shelf with Thermoset Plastic upper shelves </span><span style="font-style: italic;">and black iron legs with round walnut tips."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">go see the Auction Preview: </span><br />December 1 – 10, 2011 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-----------------</span>

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<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Design Masters</span> @<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> <a href="http://phillipsdepury.com/auctions.aspx?sn=NY050311">Phillips de Pury & Compan</a></span><a href="http://phillipsdepury.com/auctions.aspx?sn=NY050311"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">y</span></a><br />December 13, 2011, New York<br />&<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br />"the fun of the century" </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">piano magic</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7034/6419718215_199fe01923_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7034/6419718215_199fe01923_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 451px;" /></a><br /><br /><br />Could it be that you drove me into your fleet of hand-melt candy<br />Could it be that you sent me falling off the roof backwards, gently<br />Do not let my words depress you -<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">I'm here to uplift you now</span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />(I'm here to uplift you now)</span><a href="http://facebook.withme.com/play/cGlhbm9tYWdpYw%3D%3D-bG93YmlydGh3ZWlnaHQ%3D-dGhlZnVub2Z0aGVjZW50dXJ5"><span style="font-style: italic;"> (here)</span></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7017/6419711789_cbc10c95da_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7017/6419711789_cbc10c95da_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 701px; height: 446px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />1. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);">Property of an East Coast Gentleman</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;"> Pierre Chareau </span><br />Important desk, <span style="font-weight: bold;">model no. MB 405,</span> and stool, model no. SN 3, ca. 1927 Rosewood-veneered walnut, painted iron. 36 1/4 × 64 × 40 3/8 in. (92.1 × 162.6 × 102.6 cm.) ESTIMATE <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">$475,000-525,000 </span><br /><br />2. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Scott Burton</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);">Rare pair of chairs</span>, ca. 1988 Stainless steel. From the edition of five (2). Each: 31 1/2 × 21 2/3 × 32 in. (80 × 55 × 81.3 cm.) ESTIMATE <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">$225,000-275,000</span> PROVENANCE Max Protetch Gallery, New York, 1988; Private collection, New York<br /><br />3. <a href="http://www.piano-magic.co.uk/images/pm-live-02-12-11.jpg"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Piano Magic</span></a><span style="font-style: italic;"> return to Antenna Studios, Crystal Palace, London on Dec 2nd to play their final show of the year. Again, this will be<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"> a special "quiet" set </span>with support from the wonderful Directorsound. This is a no-alcohol, all ages affair that runs strictly from 7.00 - 9.30pm.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-----------------</span>

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<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">chasing light into "the nothing<span style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192);">ness.</span>"</span></span><br /><br />Uta Barth</span>: <span style="font-style: italic;">"a mantra that allows us to tune into the subtlest, most ephemeral information that I am trying to chase down." </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">vs</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"<span style="font-weight: bold;">Quincy Jones-designed house</span> in Beverly Hills' Trousdale Estates "</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7018/6413097771_59e85a715c_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7018/6413097771_59e85a715c_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 699px; height: 473px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7027/6413098559_ef6881d205_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7027/6413098559_ef6881d205_b.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 700px; height: 875px;" /></a><br /><br /><br />1. <span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51); font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Uta Barth</span></span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">27 Oct 2011 - 22 Dec 2011 </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><a href="http://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/index.php">Tanya Bonakdar Gallery </a></span></span>is pleased to present a remarkable group of new works by Uta Barth. As the artist's ninth solo exhibition with the gallery, this show will bring together two of Barth's latest series of color photographs within the main floor exhibition spaces. This series is installed in the main gallery space as a sequence of diptych and triptych paneled photographs that trace a growing ribbon of light against the curtains of the artist's home. <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Created over the course of a single afternoon</span></span>, this project follows a distinct chronology that diverges from the circular nature of her earlier series.<br /><br />Here, Barth captures glimpses of the ephemeral as it exists between two fixed points in time, beginning with the very first sliver of light that snakes across her textured curtains and culminating in large ribbons that fill the final frame. Despite this sequential ordering, however, these photographs do not invite a linear narrative. Rather, they coalesce<span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">to transform observations as simple as a ray of afternoon sunlight into a lyrical description of the passage of time, heightening our awareness of such subtleties and, in turn, the process of looking itself."</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.wesellwestsidehomes.com/peek-inside-courteney-coxs-a-quincy-jones-hou-3700">(here)</a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></span></span></span>2. "The<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Cox-Arquettes</span> put some work into the place--architect <a href="http://www.corybuckner.com/index.php"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cory Buckner</span></span></a>, who's known for her work on the Jones/Whitney Smith-designed Crestwood Hills tract in Brentwood, did a "Complete house remodel," according to her website. That included: "bedrooms reconfigured with new hall, new kitchen, all new finish materials and outdoor Fireorb fireplace." The house sits on nine-tenths of an acre and has that totally killer swimming pool featured in Architectural Digest back in 1974."

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a conversation with IKO IKO, Kristin Dickson

<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />"I think you keep making things in search of <span style="font-weight: bold;">beauty</span><br />and what you want beauty to mean within your work.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> It's infinite</span>.</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;">"<br /></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;">-Kristin Dickson, of <a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" href="http://ikoikospace.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">IKO IKO</span></a></span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6106/6341455014_1ef0d36978_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6106/6341455014_1ef0d36978_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 701px; height: 468px;" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6049/6340703563_a652f9c3e1_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6049/6340703563_a652f9c3e1_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 702px; height: 468px;" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6036/6341451266_e827fd3b2c_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6036/6341451266_e827fd3b2c_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 698px; height: 465px;" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">photos by <a href="http://www.marcoannunziata.com/">Marco Annunziata</a></span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />It was not surprising when Kristin Dickson of IKO IKO told me that they don't think about IKO IKO as a job they go to.</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> She said <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:130%;" >"It's more like who we are and what makes us completely happy."</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"> Over the years, I've had the pleasure of slowly getting to know Kristin and Shin of IKO IKO.<br /><br /><a href="http://ikoikospace.com/"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">IKO IKO </span></span></a>is the perfect place to pick up the latest <a href="http://www.apartamentomagazine.com/current.php"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Apartamento magazine</span></a>, check out one of their curated shows, or purchase a gift for someone, or yourself. The store carries <a href="http://www.merkelhess.net/works/2011/merkelware.php"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">MerkelWare </span></a>a line of everyday ceramics by Matt Merkel-Hess, Hannah Keefe's exquisite jewelry, as well as Shin's line of furniture & objects under the name</span><a style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);" href="http://lookatwakawaka.tumblr.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> WAKA WAKA. </span></a><span style="font-style: italic;"> IKO IKO also hosts Zachary Leener's ongoing ceramic sculptures, which now have been shown at </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.salon94.com/exhibition/salon-94-bowery--june-23-2011--august-12-2011">Salon 94</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> and in the pages of </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.pinupmagazine.org/">PIN-UP</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> Magazine. </span><a style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" href="http://youhavebeenheresometime.blogspot.com/search/label/zachary%20leener%20interview"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">Read an interview here with Zachary...</span></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />They recently moved to a new location on <span style="font-weight: bold;">931 North Fairfax Avenue</span>, in the heart of Los Angeles. If you have not been to their new store, now is the perfect time! For those not here in LA, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://store.ikoikospace.com/">shop online</a> with IKO IKO....<br /><br />Thank you to Kristin and Shin.....</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6214/6341449300_9ed4f4aa70_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6214/6341449300_9ed4f4aa70_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 696px; height: 464px;" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /><br />your own, personal, zig zag..</span>. <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">by waka waka</span></span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">How do you view the "space" of the store? </span></span><br /><br />As for the offerings of IKO IKO I want it to feel like an experience. So there's a balance in "space enhancing" sculpture, utilitarian work and then work that points to various traditions. I think the artists we show and the work Shin and I produce reveal a particular personality--<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">a fascination with process, texture, pattern, humor and the unexpected.</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></span><br /><br />The idea of limited editions and one-offs is also motivating in who we work with and gives a nice platform to what an artist or designer might want to make outside of their everyday practice. We try to make this a very personal space where ideas are moving around and the work is rotating. The arrangement of the space is determined by how<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> these objects can articulate our story</span></span> but also give a sense of being in a live space where you are interacting with these pieces.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">How do you think about space, in your home, or in your store?</span></span><br /><br />I think they both center around personal expression but more like private versus public expression. I think we view our home as a place with things that inspire us--a big library, our own travel finds and personal effects, but arrangements are created with the idea of living with our collection of things and objects. The store is where we want to inspire an audience, so the artists and makers we show at the store excite us and speak a language we feel is important to share with others. <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">The store is our statement of what we find beautiful, intelligent, unusual and curious.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" >Tell us about the name of the store & how your store has evolved over the last few years. </span><br /><br />It's credited as an old creole song with an original 1953 version (entitled Jock-A-Mo) by James "Sugar Boy" Crawford. A few other musicians had a try at it..the Dixie Cups, Cyndi Lauper, the Grateful Dead. In Gambian it means "attention!" or "listen up!" and in Japanese, "lets go!" I like the possibility it insinuates.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">You recently moved your store from Echo Park to Fairfax in Hollywood. How is it?</span></span><br /><br />Our Echo Park space felt more like you were window view into our tiny IKO IKO clubhouse (workshop included). Our new location feels like we've evolved to a more open architecture where there are white walls, big windows and a larger landscape for arranging pieces. It feels a bit more public and like were getting the chance to present our ideas to more people.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);">The space issue is a huge plus because it provides more opportunity to develop and show new pieces to a larger audience.</span> We are lucky to have built relationships with some amazing artists who we continue to collaborate with on pieces specific to the store and to our concept of IKO IKO. What we are trying to do is build outside of the repetition and overlap that retail can be and create strong work and creative connections with the artists and designers we work with.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6218/6340724075_326c2c4259_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6218/6340724075_326c2c4259_b.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 1024px; height: 683px;" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6115/6341473458_d03b5007fa_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6115/6341473458_d03b5007fa_b.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 1024px; height: 683px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Anything you fear?</span></span><br /><br />I try not to.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">3 things I would never guess about you?</span></span><br /><br />Tater tots<br />I would love to live in Spain and study lacemaking.<br />Art Laboe request line... <a href="http://artlaboe.com/Home.html">here...</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6118/6341471720_a85a8115b0_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6118/6341471720_a85a8115b0_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 699px; height: 466px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.rowenasartin.com/"><br /><br /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.rowenasartin.com/"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">ROWENA SARTIN</span></a>, Kristin Dickson's clothing line is sold exclusively at IKO IKO.</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">What is your definition of beauty in regards to your clothing line?</span></span><br /><br />I think you keep making things in search of beauty and what you want beauty to mean within your work. It's infinite. I find that working outside of the idea of a fall or spring collection is easiest for me, so it's more of a long stream of an idea with each clothing piece. I think also when I design it's less about accentuating the female form and more about the conversation the clothing can have on your body--how interesting is the shape, the construction, the finishing details. Those elements make a piece a beautiful idea when the balance is right.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Is there a specific time or place in "history" that occupies your mind?</span></span><br /><br />Not completely, but I do think that the 80s were really visually liberating. It was exaggerated, ridiculous, and so obvious and open to interpretation in fashion. I like <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">the geometry of clothing </span>then, with all the over-sized proportions and how that translated to messages about power, movement, gender.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">What colors, shapes, and materials are you attracted to these days?</span></span><br /><br />I'm always attracted to texture and how to work variations of it together and how to drape it in a way that might feel unusual. I also like when fabric recalls certain textural effects like crumbled paper or a plastic bag. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);">I think I also relate comfort to texture as well with the silks and washed rayons.</span> I would have 20 colors all at once if possible, but I typically work with navy, black, white, natural and a few other color favorites--salmon, lavender and grey. I also try to have polka dots somewhere in there, too.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Shins furniture line is called <a href="http://lookatwakawaka.tumblr.com/">WAKA WAKA</a>. Are your names connected?</span></span><br /><br />We wanted them to sound like family members or at least have a sing-along effect.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">How does Shins work influence yours? </span></span><br /><br />He has an incredible identity to his work. Everything he makes maintains a certain character and consistency in design which I think shows his individuality as well as a clear confidence in the process start to finish. I try to be conscious of the distinctions in my designs in the way he effortlessly does.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Is it fair to say your artistic relationship is becoming harder to distinguish? </span></span><br /><br />We feel lucky to work with each other and also share so many similar reference points, inspirations, and creative goals. Its so rewarding to be able to have a creative partnership with your life partner but still have individual perspectives. <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">There's a harmony but also a healthy discord which makes the final pieces work well. </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6047/6340704181_777b49f186_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6047/6340704181_777b49f186_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 634px; height: 951px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">What have you learned from your last few trips to traveling to Japan?</span></span> <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Historically or socially? Have these trips altered your ideas of beauty & design?</span></span><br /><br />The idea of respect is so profound from human interactions, to architecture and how people interact with space, honoring seasons, and how art is incorporated in life there--from ceramics to textiles, to plantlife to food.<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Leaving your comfort zone is much more enlightening when the idea of normal becomes indefinable and where customs and repetitive gestures show you a really everyday beauty. </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">How does life compare in Japan to Los Angeles?</span></span><br /><br />I think in Los Angeles I'm more aware of the force in how people speak, drive, and interact in general. In Japan there's a marked consideration to certain details and how dutiful people are to those details--trash and recycling (at least 4 different recycling categories), the ceramics you use during each season (even applying it to chopstick rests), interior and exterior architecture (always removing your shoes when entering a home) and the intense presence of nature (flower arrangements both formal and casual in business and homes). Again, its a different application of respect in Japan that I think is really thoughtful.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;">Thank you to Kristin, for taking the time. </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Looking forward to more conversations......</span><br /><br /><a href="http://ikoikospace.com/"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">IKO IKO</span></span></a> <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">931 N. FAIRFAX AVE. LOS ANGELES, CA 90046 </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">323.719.1079 : HOURS : TUES-SAT 12-7 // SUN 12-5</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">photos by <a href="http://www.marcoannunziata.com/">Marco Annunziata</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">--------------------</span><br /></span>

a conversation with IKO IKO, Kristin Dickson

... "I think you keep making things in search of beauty and what you want beauty to mean within your work. It's infinite . ...

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<span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">YHBHS store visit</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" > with</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-style: italic;" href="http://galleryl7.com/index.htm">Gallery L7</a><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >"authentic 20th Century European lighting, furniture & objects."</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6046/6345504157_db10359014_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6046/6345504157_db10359014_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 918px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Sven Neumann, owner of <span style="font-size:180%;"><a href="http://galleryl7.com/index.htm">Gallery L7 </a></span></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">5619 melrose ave,</span> <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">los angeles, ca 90038</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" >What does your store specialize in?</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /><br />We specialize in collecting important and/or exciting authentic<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">20th Century European lighting, furniture & objects.</span></span> All items are handpicked, most of them are found during our frequent trips back to the German homeland, others we acquire through several European dealers that we work with. </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Any specific items at the moment you are in love with?</span><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Obsessed with <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:130%;" >Kaiser Idell lamps</span> as well as kandem lights (both are German Bauhaus-aera lighting manufacturers) love <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:130%;" >Gaetano Sciolari</span> </span>cubic chandeliers for their exquisite composition. The “grasshopper” lounge chair by<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Preben Fabricius & Jørgen Kastholm</span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6226/6345510819_7f73afc574_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6226/6345510819_7f73afc574_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 704px; height: 874px;" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6052/6346254152_0d31c8c686_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6052/6346254152_0d31c8c686_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 685px; height: 510px;" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br />photography courtesy of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Marco Annunziata</span></span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" >Favorite architects / lighting designers?</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /><br />Alvar Aalto, Charlotte Perriand, and Serge Mouille</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">What did you do before L7?</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /><br />For the past 7 years I worked for <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Frank Gehry</span> as a 3D Coordinator & Job Captain on medium to large scale projects. Before that I had engagements with Greg Lynn, Graft Lab & Imaginary Forces as a project architect.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6032/6346254922_baf3c01c97_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6032/6346254922_baf3c01c97_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 694px; height: 1041px;" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6212/6345504941_14714273d8_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6212/6345504941_14714273d8_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 703px; height: 467px;" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6220/6345504817_2aa00a17fc_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6220/6345504817_2aa00a17fc_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 699px; height: 466px;" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">2 new works by<a href="http://www.apparatusstudio.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> APPARATUS</span></a>, <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >a lighting studio in New York.</span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br />Visit<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="font-size:130%;">Gallery L7</span></span> on<a href="http://galleryl7.1stdibs.com/store/furniture_search.php?FRID=lmqWZJdqkpjI&dibs=1"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> 1st dibs here....</span></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">all images courtesy of<a href="http://www.marcoannunziata.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Marco Annunziata</span></a></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-----------</span>

YHBHS store visit with Gallery L7 "authentic 20th Century European lighting, furniture & objects." Sven Neumann, owner of G...

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<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">when paintings become a building.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">when a building becomes a painting's memory.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6235/6372077789_8ea7369940_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6235/6372077789_8ea7369940_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 699px; height: 355px;" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6239/6372097263_b960050083_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6239/6372097263_b960050083_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 250px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.matthewmarks.com/"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:180%;" ><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Matthew Marks Gallery</span></span></a>,<br />1062 North Orange Grove, Los Angeles, opening January 19, 2012<br /><br />"This 3000 square foot gallery for Chelsea gallery owner<span style="font-style: italic;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="font-size:130%;">Matthew Marks</span></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;">,</span> with a facade embellished with an <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ellsworth Kelly sculpture</span></span>, will open in January of 2012."<br /><br />"<a href="http://zellnerplus.com/"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">ZELLNERPLUS</span></span></a> is an award winning architectural design firm located in Culver City, California. ZELLNERPLUS has designed public and private art galleries, residences, institutional facilities and corporate work spaces in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. ZELLNERPLUS has been recognized in publications such as Art and Auction, Architectural Record, Domus, IDChina, The Architects Newspaper, Harper's Bazaar, The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times for its ability to deliver uniquely tailored spaces for art, living and working. ZELLNERPLUS was named by Domus Russia and the organizational committee of the ARCHIP International architectural committee as the laureate and winner of the ARCHIP-2009 Innovations award."<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-----------------</span>

when paintings become a building. when a building becomes a painting's memory. Matthew Marks Gallery , 1062 North Orange Grove, Los Ange...

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<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">new works b</span>y <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ricky Swallow</span></span><br />@ <a href="http://www.marcfoxx.com/home"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Marc Foxx</span></a>, <span style="font-style: italic;">opens tonight</span><br /><br />"The narratives that these new works create ask for<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> quiet reflection on what might be considered the small pleasures of life</span></span>, as they are made in proximity to our daily rituals in the moments where object-hood is more than just function or form, but rather an intimate relationship and exchange with ourselves."<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6236/6364174945_a738d325ce_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6236/6364174945_a738d325ce_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 699px; height: 474px;" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br />Binder With Magnifying Glass 2011 Patinated Bronze.</span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" ><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ricky Swallow</span></span>ʼs practice has always addressed<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" > <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">materiality and transformation</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">,</span></span> as seen with his previous woodcarvings and their processes of reduction. This new area of Swallowʼs practice involves addition, improvisation and construction. The subtle evidence of the cardboard and tape used to construct the original model is quietly at play on the tactile surfaces of the works. The artistʼs careful and<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">specific use of color in the patinas references utilitarianism, modernism and the rudimentary design palettes of Native American Art.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);"> </span></span></span>The color of the patinas seem effortless, but are, in fact, a very intricate process, which is in contrast to a classical, more traditional approach to treating bronze. <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">References can also be seen in this collection from Mid-Century modernist art, design, architecture and ceramics.</span></span><br /><br />Variations on the form of the French curve appear throughout the show as an adaptive and playful motif, which echoes the nature of the cardboard tubing material from which each work was created. The use of the top hat, in “Blowing Hats”, 2011 and “Hat Clock/Open Study”, 2011 has been adapted to signify both playful dynamism as well as formal contemplation.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6238/6365683379_3e0a77dd31_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6238/6365683379_3e0a77dd31_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 699px; height: 540px;" /></a><a href="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6055/6364203639_ccce7b3b8c_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6055/6364203639_ccce7b3b8c_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 709px; height: 547px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ricky Swallow</span>, at Marc Foxx<br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">November 19 - December 22, 2011</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />all text courtesy of Marc Foxx</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6218/6365715437_83e0722c23_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6218/6365715437_83e0722c23_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 681px; height: 1021px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">----------------------</span>

new works b y Ricky Swallow @ Marc Foxx , opens tonight "The narratives that these new works create ask for quiet reflection on what m...

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<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);">Old Plank Road</span></span> <span style="font-style: italic;">: Chicago</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"The fuel to feed this fire is most often found in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">English Midlands</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> Italian Countryside</span> or the charming <span style="font-weight: bold;">South of France</span>. Dozens of European trips have yielded thousands of treasures brought back to America in shipping containers and suitcases (when necessary)."</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6216/6359409033_d0339d91e4_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6216/6359409033_d0339d91e4_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 934px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"</span><span style="font-style: italic;">Unique<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> margarine store counter </span></span>from England with a stone top and marble surround. Ideal as a kitchen accent piece or utilized as a small island or desk, this is fantastic... </span><span style="font-style: italic;">"</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.oldplank.com/"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Old Plank Road</span></span></a> has been importing and restoring European antiques and vintage furniture since 1992. In January 2011 they moved to their new location in a beautiful restored vintage building in Chicago with <span style="font-weight: bold;">31,000 square feet of space </span>- a fitting backdrop for our spectacular inventory. <a href="http://www.oldplank.com/"><span style="font-style: italic;">(more here)</span></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-------------</span>

Old Plank Road : Chicago "The fuel to feed this fire is most often found in the English Midlands , Italian Countryside or the charm...

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<span style="font-style: italic;">"I like to think of my work as a threshold between</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> in and out, object and space, heavy and light."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">- Peter Shelton</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6036/6355730903_22a40fb337_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6036/6355730903_22a40fb337_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 701px; height: 307px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Peter Shelton</span>: <span style="font-style: italic;">eyehand </span><br />Selected sculpture from <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">1975 - 2011</span></span> at<a href="http://www.lalouver.com/index.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> L.A. Louver</span></a>, Los Angeles<br />19 November - 30 December 2011<br /><br /><br />"A lot of my early work started off nominally geometric and constructed, but I would sneak in a reference to the body without depicting the body, which was a way of creating a kind of subversive connection.<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Desire, memory, humor, even wistfulness are powerful psychic qualities that I do not avoid. </span></span>I wanted to enter the work directly and have its narrative understood as much in the body as the mind."<br /><br />"<span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">I like to think of my work as a threshold between in and out, object and space, heavy and light. </span></span>You can see a preoccupation with the piercing of a membrane as a theme in flattop, 1975, with its overhead plane extended endlessly by mobility of it wheels. holecan, 1980 is an anthropometric planetarium of perforations. And recently blackslot, 2008-10 pushes its elusive objectified inner out to its edges where its containing skin defuses into an indefinite surface bleeding off into space.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">-- Peter Shelton</span><br /><br /><br />Born in 1951,<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Peter Shelton</span></span> was a pre-medical student at Pomona College, studying sociology, anthropology and theatre, before he switched to major in fine art. Shelton went on to earn a trade certificate in welding from the Hobart School of Welding Technology in his hometown of Troy, Ohio, in 1974, and a MFA from the University of California Los Angeles in 1979.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.lalouver.com/html/gallery-history-images/press-releases/Peter-Shelton-press-release-2011.pdf"><span style="font-style: italic;">more here....</span></a>

"I like to think of my work as a threshold between in and out, object and space, heavy and light." - Peter Shelton Peter Shelton ...

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<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">new works by</span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Abel Auer</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"They are </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">dream worlds, <span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">parallel world</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">s</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, </span></span> <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br />contrary to the artist’s own urban living environment."</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6047/6346134583_e94849ba49_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6047/6346134583_e94849ba49_b.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 800px; height: 638px;" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"></span><br /><br /><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Abel Auer</span>: <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">In the future</span></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">till 10 December 2010</span> at<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.sieshoeke.com/exhibitions/abel-auer-2011">Sies + Hoke</a><br /><br />"The American philosopher David K. Lewis says<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">that everything we can think of inherently contains the possibility of existence</span></span>. Abel Auer goes one step further. He constitutes a possible world not only on the intellectual level, he shows it to the viewer in his paintings. The question of whether this world is parallel, alternative or contrary to ours remains unanswered. The unshakable duration of this reality is based on his use of unreal colors, bizarre shapes and distorted perspectives, culminating in the borders of arabesque crochets.

..<br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sentimentalism and nostalgia are manifest in his paintings, the longing and the substitute for a lost nature</span></span>. At once they are personal and reaching to an universal level of human understanding. The figures creeping through fantastic landscapes are reminiscent of heroic characters in the works of Poe, Kafka, Baudelaire or Ensor’s paintings. The strange other-worldliness and unity of the self-contained, hermetic world is drawing the viewer into the narrative, testing his or her sensitivity. 
Abel Auer’s images are an exploration of 19th Century landscape painting... <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">They are dream worlds, parallel worlds, contrary to the artist’s own urban living environment."</span></span><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.sieshoeke.com/exhibitions/abel-auer-2011">all text taken from here..</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">--------------------</span>

new works by Abel Auer "They are dream worlds, parallel world s , contrary to the artist’s own urban living environment." Abel A...

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<span style="font-style: italic;">"from where you just arrived"</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">vs</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">a square</span></span> with returns eventually returns to a corner."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6041/6341526296_45d69dbdb5_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6041/6341526296_45d69dbdb5_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 697px; height: 787px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />"When we are honest – that’s my saying – <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves</span></span>. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others. You see that is the nonsense of the last 15, 20 years, the two decades, of the great famous American decades of Abstract Expressionism.<br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What is wrong there is that everyone wants to be different from the already different ones.</span></span> And then they ended up all alike. And we are tired of that. And the youngsters feel that now. And they don’t continue, you see. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>They see this will not last</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">- Josef Albers.... 1968, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6057/6341520030_d436848f5e_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6057/6341520030_d436848f5e_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 699px; height: 830px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6118/6340770507_f9429067a1_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6118/6340770507_f9429067a1_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 706px; height: 459px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"from where you just arrived"</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">vs</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">a square</span></span> with returns eventually returns to a corner."</span><br /><br /><br />1. <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Andree Putman</span></span>, from the book "Complete Works." Paris 1992. "The bathroom, containing a bathtub, square sink composed as a single block, and recessed soap holder is covered entirely in gray ceramic 5 x 5 tiles. Along the walls runs a rhythmic frieze of glass squares gilded with white gold. Hidden in niches behnd a beveld mirror are storage spaces. An illuminated groove is recessed in the false ceiling, under a pane of sandblasted glass. The pendant lamps are covered in shades made of parchment, similar to Chinese lanterns....<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Andree-Putman-Complete-Donald-Albrecht/dp/0847832465"> (here)</a><br /><br />2. <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Manuel Canovas</span></span>, Paris, textiles...<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> </span><a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" href="http://www.manuelcanovas.com/en/collections/2010/">see the entire collection here...</a> perfect for sofa upholstery, faded squares of light.<br /><br />3. <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Laura Owens</span></span>. at<a style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);" href="http://www.pepinmoore.com/Pepin_Moore/Main.html"> <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Pepin Moore</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span></a>.. <span style="font-style: italic;">"From Where You Just Arrived"</span>.... <span style="font-style: italic;">A brilliant show of paintings in Chinatown. This smaller work by Laura Owens captivated me with its pink and blue grids, and has stuck in my mind throughout the weekend. Other works by Jonas Wood and Ruby Neri, and lots of impressive smaller works at Pepin Moore.... </span><br /><br />"Organized by Ryan Schneider in New York and Jonas Wood in Los Angeles. Schneider and Wood draw comparisons between the painting scenes in their respective cities by including the work of artists in their immediate circles of friends and contemporaries. The exhibition, inclusive of works by nine artists from each city, exposes the dialog between these two centers of contemporary American painting. "<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />----------------------

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Apartamento #08

<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">....</span><br />"<span style="font-style: italic;">there are always a few days during a Los Angeles winter,<br />when the sky seems to open up, and all the water falls out."</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6045/6332291632_cf92fa44d0_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6045/6332291632_cf92fa44d0_b.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 706px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"The afternoon I handed the keys to the new homeowners, there was a certain sadness I felt as I stood on the back porch, gazing off into the dense foliage, as the rain began to fall. In California, I’ve always welcomed the rain,<span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> as the sun is often in abundance.</span></span> But there are always a few days during a Los Angeles winter, when the sky seems to open up, and all the water falls out."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">- "<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Backyard</span></span>"</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">by David John, in APARTAMENTO</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> #08</span><br /><br /><br /><br />Thank you <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Apartamento</span></span> for asking me to be part of the latest edition. From the looks of the cover, this is going to be another mind-melting edition. <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 102);"> Faye Toogood</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Rafael Cardenas</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael Stipe</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">Marcelo Krasilcic</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);">Nathalie Du Pasquier</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Patrick Parrish</span>, and tons more....

Apartamento #08

.... " there are always a few days during a Los Angeles winter, when the sky seems to open up, and all the water falls out." ...

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<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">"Time is transparent. </span> <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br />We move through it unwittingly, </span> <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br />conditioned by its constancy."</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6111/6328669307_0c41f5eedb_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6111/6328669307_0c41f5eedb_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 652px; height: 996px;" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br />Sam Falls, Untitled (West Hollywood, CA. Green)<br /></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">2011 hand-dyed green cotton and metal grommets </span> </div><br /><br /><p style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><a href="http://www.mbart.com/exhibitions/_83/"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">M+B</span></a></span> is now showing works curated by Sam Falls & Matt Moravec. <span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">TIME AND MATERIAL</span></span> will be on view from November 4 to December 22. Participating artists include <b>Sam Falls</b>, <b>Jacob Kassay</b>, <b>N. Dash</b>, <b>Kyle Thurman</b> and <b>Joe Zorrilla</b>.<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Time is transparent</span></span>. <span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">We move through it unwittingly, conditioned by its constancy.<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">It's passage is recorded on everything: obtaining, detaining, reflecting and detecting the subtle morbid dance of existence and material."</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6043/6328669247_19b3840707_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6043/6328669247_19b3840707_b.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 642px; height: 1000px;" /></a></p><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br />Jacob Kassay, Untitled 2011 sand, jute </span><br /></div><br /><br /><br />The work in this exhibition embraces the inevitable. The wrists acknowledge the object's empirical place in linear time. <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">A place which is at no moment more complete</span></span>, and at the end of which, awaits an unavoidable fate: that of its devolvement. Despite this material dissolution, the concept persists through time's weathering wash.<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);">The life of the object is to exist as we do</span></span></span>, between two bookends, gathered up and let out."<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">---------------------</span>

"Time is transparent. We move through it unwittingly, conditioned by its constancy." Sam Falls, Untitled (West Hollywood, CA. G...

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<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6111/6326520216_b681de4d62_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6111/6326520216_b681de4d62_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 704px; height: 468px;" /></a><br /><br />Tonight's event is full! Hope you reserved a spot for <a style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);" href="http://www.designeastoflabrea.org/"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">de Lab</span></span></a>'s latest design excursion! Tonight, <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Daniel Ostroff </span></span>curator & editor is giving us a guided tour. Directly after, we will be getting boozed up across the street, at street, feverishly getting drunk on cocktails. Not a bad way to spend a Tuesday night! Cheers.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">"<span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >de LaB (</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><i style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">dee</i></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >-lab)</span> </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">unites Los Angeles creatives in efforts to improve and engage the city with events that are <span style="font-weight: bold;">one part education, one part inspiration, and one part libation.</span>"</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">"Our next de LaB ducks into the showroom of legendary furniture dealer<a href="http://www.jfchen.com/store/furniture_search.php?FRID=ZGnEaWZmxJnH"> </a></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.jfchen.com/store/furniture_search.php?FRID=ZGnEaWZmxJnH">JF Chen</a> </span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">for their latest show, <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Collecting Eames</span></span>. The show features 425 products designed by Charles and Ray Eames, making it the largest and most diverse gathering of Eames objects in the U.S. In addition to the pieces of furniture for which the duo was best known, the show also includes rare posters, toys, and graphics, and extremely unique pieces like an Eames-designed tube radio.<br />Our tour will be guided by curator and editor of </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">EamesDesigns</span></span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> Daniel Ostroff, who will point out some of the gems in this fascinating collection, and talk about the book which is being published about the show.</span>"<br /><a href="http://www.designeastoflabrea.org/"><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">read more here..</span></a><br />941 North Highland Avenue<br />Los Angeles, CA 90038 USA

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a conversation with Christopher Farr

<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">....</span><br />"<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >A slow and deliberate process</span> that allowed for an honest and inimitable collection that speaks entirely of their integrity throughout the stages of selection, translation and manufacturing."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"The question as ever is </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">one of excellence and quality as opposed to medocrity and plagiarism</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"> these forces battle it out and occasionally you see something breathtaking.</span>"<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6238/6311626162_14a3470da4_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6238/6311626162_14a3470da4_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 701px; height: 913px;" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">748 N. La Cienega Boulevard Los Angeles</span><span style="font-style: italic;">...<br /><br />Last week, I spent the afternoon absorbed in the works of </span><a href="http://christopherfarr.com/"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Christopher Farr's Omega Group Collection.</span></span></a><span style="font-style: italic;"> Tucked away down a small walkway is Christopher Farr's showroom, two floors of color, historical stories, fabrics samples, and inspiration in every room. Christopher Farr's work inspires so many designers for obvious reasons: pure beauty and a commitment to historical and contemporary artistic discoveries.<br /><br />He has collaborated with design icons such as Ilse Crawford, John Pawson, Allegra Hicks, Gunta Stolz, and Gary Hume, to name only a few. I'm honored to have had this conversation with him, and hope that the future will lead to more conversations with him about his various styles of workings, and mediums.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Thank you Christopher, Christina, and Joe.....</span> <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">- David John</span><br /><br /></div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6211/6319381422_89160d0969_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6211/6319381422_89160d0969_b.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 768px; height: 1024px;" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br /><br />a detail shot of one of the rugs....</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://christopherfarr.com/"><br /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://christopherfarr.com/"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Christopher Farr</span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:180%;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;">selects a series of existing designs by<span style="font-size:130%;"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51); font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">the Omega Group</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;">,</span> and brings them back to life in <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">a series of 5 exceptional rug creations</span></span>, based on the designs of Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and other key members of the Omega Workshop and Bloomsbury collective from 1912-1919.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Christopher Farr has chosen to work with some of the most beautiful and challenging of the Omega designs. This is testimony to the Omega artists’ design abilities in that they were able to create works of art that also function perfectly as rugs."</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br />"The Omega Workshop were</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="font-style: italic;">a laboratory of design ideas</span></span></span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, creating a range of objects for the home, from rugs and linens to ceramics, furniture and clothing ­ all boldly coloured with dynamic abstract patterns."<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6055/6311075751_1a3395cd89_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6055/6311075751_1a3395cd89_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 702px; height: 418px;" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /><br />upstairs at the showroom..<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">.</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> until Nov 19, 2011</span><br /></div><br /><br /></div></div><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Who are the OMEGA Workshop, and why is their work relevant today?</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Christopher Farr:</span> The Omega Workshop was an experiment conducted by the founder Roger Fry. An important aspect was practical in that it enabled the well educated but cash poor artists to earn a living with as little compromise and as much enjoyment as possible. Omega is relevant today in terms of it's spirit and spontaneity as opposed to the contrived cleverness of so much of the output of today's art and design practitioners.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" > <span style="font-weight: bold;">Did you grow up in London? Do you feel that British Design is different from American Design? </span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span></span>Farr: Yes I'm a Londoner by birth and have lived there most of my life. I relate to European design more as I know it better.The difference for me is that product design is celebrated much more in Europe, in the US it seems that interior designers are lauded and to a lesser extent architects. If you go back to the fifties and sixties I would say American designers and architects were easily as influential and perhaps more famous than their European counter parts.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">How you are able to translate images to rugs? What are the obstacles and difficulties that arise? </span> </span><br /><br />Farr: The success of making historic designs is dependent on our understanding of the essence of the art you're working with. The process is basically a series of questions and sampling till it feels close to the spirit of the artist. I try to imagine myself in dialogue with the artist. It's a slow and painstaking business but deeply satisfying.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">You have an ability to control, energize, and define color. Would you call yourself a colorist? Any artists who use color you look to as inspiration?</span></span><br /><br />I find any self definition limiting so no<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> I'm not a colorist as such</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:180%;" >.</span> I try to stay as open as possible when I'm drawing as if I'm a kid playing with a cardboard box. As for artists well the usual suspects...<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 102);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Joseph Albers, Mark Rothko, Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse Sonia Delaunay .....</span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6234/6311593596_dd021e7001_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6234/6311593596_dd021e7001_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 452px;" /></a><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /><br />the studio wall of color! colors fading & communicating.....<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">You've had a history of incredible collaborations. What does collaborating mean to you? Any specific one that you are especially proud?<br /><br /></span></span>Collaborating means to surrender ones slavery to ego in order to listen and understand another artists process. I'm proud of all the collaborations, and if I had to pick standouts it would be Kate Blee of the living artists and <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gunta Stolzl</span></span> of the dead ones.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />In your art studio, what do you find yourself creating? What mediums seduce you?</span></span><br /><br />Black ink drawings by the hundred and painting both acrylic and oil. I also play with tape.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">How has the rug business changed in time from when you began? </span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span></span>The contemporary rug business has moved from almost zero when I started in 1984 to a status of dominance - you only have to look at the editorial and advertising then and now to see how dramatic it has been. The question as ever is one of excellence and quality as opposed to medocrity and plagiarism these forces battle it out and occasionally you see something breathtaking.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6054/6311643902_112aeea76b_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6054/6311643902_112aeea76b_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 693px; height: 924px;" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">samples of Christopher Farr cloth....</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><a href="http://christopherfarr.com/"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Christopher Farr</span></span></a><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> has been at the spearhead of contemporary rug design for over twenty years. Together with his business partner Matthew Bourne, they were the catalyst that revolutionised contemporary rug design. Starting with a small shop in a leafy area of north London, a stone's throw from Primrose Hill, this one time painter, trained at the Slade School, wrought a vision that combined the art of the times with a different form. From cool minimalism to bold neo-expressionism influenced by the artists Ryman, Albers and Martin, his medium was no longer oil on canvas, but wool and dye, spun and woven by hand into objects that were more than mere floor coverings. They were themselves works of art.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">---</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-----------------------------</span><br /></span></div></div><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6234/6311593596_dd021e7001_b.jpg"><br /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">--------------------</span>

a conversation with Christopher Farr

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<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span> "The pitchfork needs earth or it isn't really a pitchfork. It only,<span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> it needs something else in order to be activated</span></span>, and my, the light-bulb needs electricity, it needs a socket to go into, you know. "<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;">Michael Craig-Martin</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-style: italic;">vs</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;">Old Plank Road</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6109/6312754290_ee66039d6f_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6109/6312754290_ee66039d6f_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 651px; height: 1019px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;">Michael Craig Martin</span>, <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">1960's</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-style: italic;">vs</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;">Old Plank Road</span><br /><br /><br /><br />"Well I've, I've always considered that the, all of the image, the images that I use have to do with some play between<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> presence and absence</span></span>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">I mean all of the objects, because each object is seen individually, it always needs another object in order to be completed.</span> The pitchfork needs earth or it isn't really a pitchfork. It only, it needs something else in order to be activated, and my, the light-bulb needs electricity, it needs a socket to go into, you know. All the different things need something, and the other thing that's, that's present and also absent in all of them is human presence, they are all the most human of objects.<br /><br />No one looks at these things without thinking of their own life, without thinking of these things mean something to absolutely everybody."<br /><br />- <span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael Craig-Martin</span>,<a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/johntusainterview/craig_transcript.shtml"> interview here...</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.oldplank.com/"><br />second image via here...</a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Antiques on Old Plank Road, Inc. </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> 1750 N. Springfield Avenue </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">--------------------------</span>

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<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">"</span><span class="lineheight"><span style="font-style: italic;">I'm shape-shifting</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">from place to place</span>,<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">bending time, curving space" </span></span></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztmxcJQUgc0"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">(here)</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jean Michael Frank</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">vs</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jochen Weber</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6222/6309045041_88fed2a843_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6222/6309045041_88fed2a843_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 699px; height: 699px;" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6120/6309564576_8e5b794396_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6120/6309564576_8e5b794396_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 696px; height: 517px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6117/6308480188_ac59e57a2f_b.jpg"><br /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Have you ever wanted to believe something so much,<br />that you actually<span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" > believed it</span>?</span><br /><br />"A cousin of Anna Frank, author of the celebrated “diary”, <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jean-Michael Frank</span></span> was born into a well-to-do Parisian family. Before working as an interior designer, he travelled at length around the world, an experience which profoundly influenced his work.<span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Frank practiced his trade as an interior designer with enormous success.</span></span> A relatively new concept for the time, interior design distinguished itself from both architecture and industrial design. Among Frank's patrons were some of the most renowned personages of his age, from poet René Crevel to artists such as Giacometti, Dalì, Bérard, Paul Eluard, Louis Aragon and Nelson Rockefeller.<br /><br />In 1939 he was forced to leave Paris to avoid Nazi persecution, taking refuge first in Argentina and then in the USA, where he died tragically, committing suicide as his brother had already done in Paris. <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">His style – defined as “poor luxurious” or simply “Frank style” – was highly successful during the 1930s and ’40s, and still today remains a benchmark for contemporary interior design. </span></span>His furniture are elegant and rigorous, sophisticated in its use of materials yet simple in its classic, refined lines." <a href="http://www.royarden.com/">(here)</a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;">sculpture by Jochen Weber, <a href="%22I%27m%20shape-shifting%20from%20place%20to%20place,%20bending%20time,%20curving%20space%22%20%28here%29%20%20Jean%20Michael%20Frank%20vs%20Jochen%20Weber">via here.....</a></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">2 lamps by</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jean Michael Frank</span>,<a href="http://www.gallerybac.com/home.php"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> BAC Gallery.</span></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">------------------</span>

" I'm shape-shifting from place to place , bending time, curving space" (here) Jean Michael Frank vs Jochen Weber Have you ...

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<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">new work:</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael Rey</span></span> @ <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Young Art gallery</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">till Nov 20, 2011</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6054/6303176751_dde9fb995f_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6054/6303176751_dde9fb995f_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 702px; height: 482px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />big gay heart</span>, 2011</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">primer, wood, steel 53 x 12.25 x 120 inches</span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://youngartgallery.com/"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Young Art Gallery</span></span></a>,<span style="font-style: italic;"> one of LA's defining galleries at the moment, continues to show some of the most interesting sculptures in a tiny gallery space tucked away on a small street in Chinatown. Michael Rey's latest works should be fully encountered.</span> <br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael Rey</span></span>’s shaped wall works and sculptures issue from an encounter between<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> high modernism and traces of ’80s goth culture</span></span>—a collision of nostalgias that mutually undermine each other. Rather than hold up modernism as a patriarchal presence against which to mount a heavy handed Oedipal attack, Rey treats it as a source of some of the diverse free-floating signifiers from his childhood, made meaningful associatively rather than through art historical reference. Eschewing any heroic anti-heroism, the artist opts for a playful reinvention of lost objects he knows to be culturally phantasmic. Although Rey’s objects can be (partially) read as exercises in de-sublimation, they are best understood as libidinal configurations<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> always in the process of metamorphosis</span></span> and which refuse any singular fixed meaning. </p> <p>The <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">8 monochromatic wall works</span></span> are panels entirely surfaced in oil-based plasticine clay. The peculiarity of this material is that it remains forever malleable even after its oil paint finish has dried. The resulting surfaces are epidermal in their fragility and suggestive of these works’ metaphoric permeability to their surroundings and to the viewer’s gaze, a permeability enhanced by the orifices that pierce their surface planes. The plastic quality of the clay, with its infinite capacity to accept impressions, hints at corporeal vulnerability while simultaneously evoking fetishistic display.</p><p><br /></p><p style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://youngartgallery.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Young Art</span></a>: 418 Bamboo Lane, Unit B<br />Los Angeles CA 90012</p><p style="font-style: italic;"><br /></p><p style="font-style: italic;"><br /></p><p style="font-style: italic;"><br /></p><p style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-----------------</span><br /></p>

new work: Michael Rey @ Young Art gallery till Nov 20, 2011 big gay heart , 2011 primer, wood, steel 53 x 12.25 x 120 inches Young Art Gall...

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