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GALLERY 16 - AMPERSAND - TRIPLE BASE PLAYSPACE AT CCA - ROOT DIVISION SHOOTING GALLERY - WHITE WALLS 01.12-13.07 Gallery 16: Prince Andrew Romanoff - New Drawings and Paintings. Comment: Prince Andrew Romanoff shows paintings and drawings, naive in style, direct and well composed, often captioned or titled. He covers lots of topics, from humorous to thoughtful, but much of the art here relates to his childhood in Russia, about being born into the royal family and in line to become Tsar, but then came the Russian Revolution, exile, and a new life. These heartfelt autobiographical reflections, created on a medium called Shrinky Dinks (you bake it after you paint or draw on it and it shrinks), have also been compiled into a book called "The Boy Who Would Be Tsar," available for purchase at the gallery. Art. Art. Prince Andrew Romanoff - book - art. Art. Art. Art. *** Ampersand International Arts: Lauren Davies - Dominion; Jennifer Starkweather - There and Back Again. Comment: Lauren Davies mocks up a hypothetical natural history exhibition of sorts which includes digital images of tattered old maps to set the site, odd assemblaged artifacts, unique creature breeds, faux snow capped rocks, and a glass showcase containing what look like bones or maybe tusks, but on detailed inspection, you see they're really carved joined bars of Ivory soap, with vestiges of the word "Ivory" purposely retained on several bars in order to amusify the ruse. Jennifer Starkweather's wrinkly abstract grids and plottings with cartographic overtones progressively captivate the closer in you get (using magnification is recommended to fully appreciate their intricacies). Art (Jennifer Starkweather). Art (Lauren Davies). Lauren Davies - art. Art (Jennifer Starkweather). Art (Lauren Davies). Ivory soap tusk art (Lauren Davies - like it). Art (Jennifer Starkweather). Art (Jennifer Starkweather). Art (Lauren Davies). *** Triple Base Gallery: Bring Your Own Art (Show). Comment: Open call to anyone who wants to bring whatever they consider to be art, and participate in a unique and entirely unpredictable evening of creative anarchy. The upshot enhances our understanding of why we have art dealers and what purposes they serve. The setting. Art. Live art. Prescription art. Forms to fill out. Vintage tunes. Contemporary tunes. *** PLAySPACE Gallery at California College of the Arts: Twenty-three Years of Hernia Milk and Ergot Dreams - A Retrospective of Caroliner. Comment: DayGlo meets blacklight bigtime. Art. Art. Art. *** Root Division: The Greek Play. Artists: Not sure. Comment: "Experimental art, theatre party, and gallery show." Sorry, didn't stay for the performance, but the preamble looked interesting. Art. Art (kinda like it). Waiting for the performance. *** The Shooting Gallery: Joshua Parker - Neon Black. Comment: Portraits of women ranging from elegant to messy, graceful to crazed. I'm partial to the large ones. Priced nice, most $500-$750, top out at $3000, selling well. Art. Art. Art. Art. Art. Art. *** White Walls Gallery: Chris Yormick - Sea a Man About a Dog. Comment: Smooth easy appealing and technically proficient display of painting, collage, assemblage, and mixed media works. Chris Yormick tells me his art is a personal journal of sorts, representing ruminations on his existence, both concrete and cerebral. Nicely done. Priced $500-$6000. Art (like it). Art. Chris Yormick - art. Art. Art. Art (like it). What it is. *** |
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