Do you need a brake from the canyons downtown, the monotony of glass and concrete, the clogged arteries of the traffic bloodstream?
The nature of human life makes it difficult to satisfy every call within us – we are just way to complex – but maybe it is already enough to admit that it is there. Art is a wonderful way to listen to this call. Get some nature in your home, get one of those fantastic paintings by Bryan Ricci or take yourself out and make a trip to Wilshire to the Lawrence Asher Gallery until May 23. Enjoy nature captured in two different ways at once – with the lens of a camera and through the hand of the artist. In super beautiful pictures of remote landscapes he implants animals as if they have been there to begin with. He offers in his art what a lot of people yearn for when they go for trips into the wilderness. Do you remember the last time when you spotted a majestic deer or have been surprised by raccoon?
At the same time Jennifer Beedon Snow is also showing daily-life symphonies in blue and green – when you look at her scenes it feels as if you were driving home to the place you grew up – very soothing.
Lawrence Asher Gallery
5820 Wilshire Boulevard, Ste. 100
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Spooky:Lynch and the Absence of Light
That’s why we love him, right? We adore his movies because they are dark and puzzling. They have a surprising end or for the most parts, no end at all. He doesn’t give solutions just impressions and leaves it to the audience to spin a story in their minds into whatever preferred direction. He prepares the canvas and you draw on it – your personal thriller or romance or comedy – choose, you are the artist. In this way, he serves us in the most noble sense – not giving us an explanation or an ending – nothing ever ends. The beauty and the freedom of uncertainty – this is as close as he can get to the reality of human condition.
Something fascinated him about Oskar Kokoschka . He planned to study with this Austrian expressionist but left Vienna after 15 days again.
I don’t know what made him return so fast but I remember getting the feeling of a medieval Disney Land at times while living there. Some Austrian artists had a major impact on me none the less.
Danger Mouse decided to release a 100 page booklet of photographs by Lynch along with a blank CD-R, due to an ongoing dispute with EMI about the release of the new “Dark Side of the Soul” project. There is no music on the CD and it is not a book with a blank CD but a blank CD with a huge booklet - burn your own soundtrack on it.
David Lynch’s Photographs are narratives, inspired by each songs of the album – fifty-seven creepy shots with a favorism for day and night contrast and super-exposure – you know what I mean, they could be extracts of his motion pictures.
Check it out: “The Dark Night of the Soul” until July 11, 2009
Michael Kohn Gallery
8071 Beverly Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90048 USA
see all photographs of this exhibition on artnet.com
Edit 1: Did I forget to mention that the line for the show opening on Saturday had the length of a street block? Delirious LA.
Edit 2: This is an excellent post about Lynch and the crucial balance between meaning and meaninglessness in art by Colin Marshall and The War on Mediocrity.