American poet, critic, and curator Frank O’Hara completed a set of 12 poems and called it “Oranges.”  Oranges had no initial relationship to “Why I am not a Painter.” The “conversations on abstract painting” is not the one mediated by curator Gary Garels with artists Mary Heilmann, Mark Gortjahn, Wayde Guyton, Charline Von Heyl, Christopher [...]

Christophe Leroux’s froissées or sculptures are industrial sheets of aluminum painstakingly designed with layers of oil paint, sometimes acid, and stencils of letters, arrows and numbers.  The interaction of letters in a single word- the severe angles and implicit roundness- is every bit important to Leroux as the meaning of the word itself. One instance [...]

Expedition artist Danielle Eubank’s show “Oil on Water” currently exhibiting at the Found Gallery, is a meditation of her voyage on an 8th Century AD Phoenician vessel called the Borobudur, a ship that traveled for 10 months and 10,000 miles.  The show features work from her travels to Indonesia, the Mediterranean, the North American West [...]

Monolithic sculptures modeled after cacti of the natural world have invaded the Ace Gallery.  In a new series of Architectural Cactus sculptures, “Garden of Evidence: Cactus Grove” land, body, performance, and video artist Dennis Oppenheim manufactures galvanized steel bases to support water jet cut aluminum frames, structural acrylic, translucent fiberglass, sidewalk grating, galvanized steel, and [...]

A. Moret interviews Jane Glassman, curator of “In Bed Together” currently at Royal/T in Culver City, CA on November 21, 2009.   Mrs. Glassman is the founder of ARTeam LA, an artist, collector, journalist, advisor, dealer, and gallerist.  This interview took place at Royal/T, the day after the opening. A. Moret:  When I was thinking of [...]

The Bonfire of the Vanities A Retrospective of Vanity Fair Photographs 1913-2008 Vanity Fair celebrates its 95th anniversary this year.  An international exhibition honors the publication’s most prized portraits and celebrates trés chic glam snapshots paired with high profile reportage, risky enough to satisfy sophisticates yet intimate enough to nourish strangely curious sycophants of the [...]

Reflections of the Sea California Native Danielle Eubank enters her garage-turned-studio wearing a distressed apron, flips on a portable heater placed next to her paint cart and begins to meticulously apply oil to a small area of large piece of linen that has been stretched over wood bracings.  The linen is drenched in cool blues, [...]

In Search of Paradise Lost The Santa Fe Art Colony lies buried beneath a layer of concrete.  Just like Pompeii lived in the shadow of Mt. Vesuvius, the colony is eclipsed by a cement factory that force-feeds soot into the air.  The quarry yard of the factor is out of sight and out of mind [...]