<u><b><i> </i><i>The Answer is Yes</i> </b></u><br /><br /><i>"With a fantastical design sensibility that resulted in a long and storied career as Disneyland’s Senior Art Director, Graham is expert in creating otherworldly environments, which he demonstrates at the Craft & Folk Art Museum</i> "<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG2DZ7O-iyOSB-hn0isp9yTE7mGHZD6-ULKMtf0K8c-POG1Cexw6uZUSzdnBTkJimNJSfUK5cKZYCVq5nOuMTehb3hSEBOe6AXJ7vPPSUhZieuzgGma3TdQmdQ2UWq-oiQJYo4U5_FBUHB/s1600/clare+graham+craft+musem+LA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG2DZ7O-iyOSB-hn0isp9yTE7mGHZD6-ULKMtf0K8c-POG1Cexw6uZUSzdnBTkJimNJSfUK5cKZYCVq5nOuMTehb3hSEBOe6AXJ7vPPSUhZieuzgGma3TdQmdQ2UWq-oiQJYo4U5_FBUHB/s1600/clare+graham+craft+musem+LA.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i> a cabinet of curiosities filled with large balls of string expertly arranged, as if floating...</i></div><br /><br /><b><i>Clare Graham & MorYork: The Answer is Yes</i></b> <br />September 13, 2014 - January 4, 2015 <i> </i><br /><br /><i>"The first solo exhibition of Los Angeles artist Clare Graham highlights the richness and complexity of nearly 40 years of his collecting and artmaking from found materials. The exhibition simulates the density of objects found in Graham's 7000 square foot Highland Park studio MorYork, a human-scaled diorama populated by his own work and a collection of curiosities that would rival the most historic wunderkammer. Staggering quantities of dominoes, soda-cans and their pop-tops, Scrabble tiles and puzzle-pieces, and other disposable items have been transformed by Graham’s refined touch into large sculptural objects that evoke forms like totems, flora, fauna, architectural fragments and furniture. <b>Their power lies in the straightforward presentation of a formal singularity, constructed of one, two or three materials at once in repetition and in their remarkable scale</b>. </i><br /><br /><i>Curated by Brooks Hudson Thomas."</i><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-o8Tg17DI86nLa95bqz6jUch7B_gJzgsB8u00j9yMcy4lIyVap69Ar17QgH0hhDNeP9fpqlnhPN60cdDRL9VJpWhS0SiUBapYAzoQ6UkpKtrkOc3FMuGCb2Lh0UshV3wK3ej0dk-OXAtb/s1600/clare+garaham.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-o8Tg17DI86nLa95bqz6jUch7B_gJzgsB8u00j9yMcy4lIyVap69Ar17QgH0hhDNeP9fpqlnhPN60cdDRL9VJpWhS0SiUBapYAzoQ6UkpKtrkOc3FMuGCb2Lh0UshV3wK3ej0dk-OXAtb/s1600/clare+garaham.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i>a wall of mirrors created from teddy-bear eyes...</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"Graham’s refined touch has transformed staggering quantities of dominoes into cabinet doors, soda-cans and their pop-tops into furniture, scrabble tiles and puzzle-pieces into architectural forms, and buttons into organic sea-form chandeliers. </i><i>"</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i> <a href="http://www.cafam.org/exhibitions/"><b>more info here..</b></a><b> </b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Craft and Folk Art Museum </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>5814 Wilshire Boulevard </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Los Angeles, CA 90036</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i> </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i> </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i> </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>-------------- </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> The Answer is Yes "With a fantastical design sensibility that resulted in a long and storied career as Disneyland’s Senior Art Dire... Read more » 8:12 AM
<i>“In painting, everyone </i><br /><i>positions their pawns”</i> –<b> Claude Rutault </b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1heg8W8RMnD4BrPB6solBlayS_fY8JQc836w3ku-znAtAe_oUhnv0bax_FAOqb3hb7ISO7aLBZlCWt-jnFr3VCXAP5AqFxWl7MyuQzgxm6J5UG9Ki78k_fJErO-kb1q0ZyFJ36XqOLBVW/s1600/xy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="607" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1heg8W8RMnD4BrPB6solBlayS_fY8JQc836w3ku-znAtAe_oUhnv0bax_FAOqb3hb7ISO7aLBZlCWt-jnFr3VCXAP5AqFxWl7MyuQzgxm6J5UG9Ki78k_fJErO-kb1q0ZyFJ36XqOLBVW/s1600/xy.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><i><br /></i><br /><b><i>Claude Rutault</i></b><br /><b><i>20 November, 2014 – 3 January, 2015</i></b><br /><a href="https://www.perrotin.com/"><b><i>Galerie Perrotin, New York </i></b></a><br /><i><br /></i><i>“In painting, everyone positions their pawns” – Claude Rutault </i><br /><i><br /></i><i>Galerie Perrotin, New York is pleased to present a collection of works by Claude Rutault, the artist’s first solo exhibition in America following four-decades of prominent and influential practice in France. Rutault’s work, beginning with a 1974 show staged at the office of a Parisian psychoanalyst, has consistently approached painting as a social practice embedded in the living relationships between artwork, artist, gallery, collector, museum and auction house. The present exhibition features eighteen de-finition/methods, including early works such as “positive/negative 2” 1975 and “formats at the limit 2” 1974 (shown at the artist’s studio during a residency at PS1, New York in 1979), as well as four new pieces: “charity begins with others”, “painting against the wall, front and back”, “the exhibition” and “suicide-painting 11” (all 2014). <span style="font-size: small;"><b>Claude Rutault describes himself as a painter; and indeed, viewing any one of his pieces is uncontroversially an encounter with paint on canvas. Rutault, however, does not paint his pieces himself; and neither is he in the business of overseeing their production on the model of a producer, designer, or director running a factory, studio, or workshop.</b></span> Instead, the mainspring of Rutault’s practice is the writing and issuing of a set of rules, caveats, instructions and procedures called “de-finition/methods,” according to which a gallery, collector, or institution—known as the “charge-taker”—agrees to “actualize” a given work.</i><br /><br /><br /><i>photograph Antoine Cadet </i><br /><i><a href="https://www.perrotin.com/">more info here..</a> </i><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">-----------</div> “In painting, everyone positions their pawns” – Claude Rutault Claude Rutault 20 November, 2014 – 3 January, 2015 Galerie Perrotin, New ... Read more » 8:01 AM
<i>"I've never seen a diamond in the flesh </i><br /><i>I cut my teeth on wedding rings in the movies </i><br /><i>And I'm not proud of my address, </i><br /><i>In a torn-up town, no postcode envy" </i><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaThEVAQ91z28IKYtBHgHdfiNVQUOFQJeqchfoaz5qTw2hcZ-JSzpqVaolVtHNlXr0CZXlCYIxr6m52ox6X5X-OUYccXqq3gayyx7k_Ihh1EZmx4elHgHkgo_hyphenhyphenkDUBRurdXv_jxpTTppq/s1600/kachadourian_zigzag6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaThEVAQ91z28IKYtBHgHdfiNVQUOFQJeqchfoaz5qTw2hcZ-JSzpqVaolVtHNlXr0CZXlCYIxr6m52ox6X5X-OUYccXqq3gayyx7k_Ihh1EZmx4elHgHkgo_hyphenhyphenkDUBRurdXv_jxpTTppq/s1600/kachadourian_zigzag6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxHx4nFY6xj6OojNPBGBbhzjP91J1JXbg9zfUMkZtdruDe9EX1mk8k4741hwcWs59OwtCu8VIf54R7-sRpAhAdosS77YG3aYxGvWOoEp2zg9kSds98dwMJHPGlKF8C-S7TvSHvUdcP3M8N/s1600/kachadourian_zigzag1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxHx4nFY6xj6OojNPBGBbhzjP91J1JXbg9zfUMkZtdruDe9EX1mk8k4741hwcWs59OwtCu8VIf54R7-sRpAhAdosS77YG3aYxGvWOoEp2zg9kSds98dwMJHPGlKF8C-S7TvSHvUdcP3M8N/s1600/kachadourian_zigzag1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><i>Jason Kachadourian grew up in Baltimore and now lives in Brooklyn. He is cofounder of an art space called The Bakery. He makes art and furniture. <b>jasonkachadourian@gmail.com</b></i><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">---------------</div> "I've never seen a diamond in the flesh I cut my teeth on wedding rings in the movies And I'm not proud of my address, In a ... Read more » 7:54 AM
