WOLFE CONTEMPORARY - MISSION COMICS AND ART

TRIPLE BASE - PARK LIFE - LEBASSE PROJECTS

04.02.10

(with assistance from Liesa Lietzke and RWM)

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Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art: Living Shrouds - Davide Coltro.

Comment by AB: Milan, Italy artist Davide Coltro shows a line of rather somber and heavily muted black and white portraits, 100 in all, combined with a video monitor that morphs one portrait into the next. The show is called "Living Shrouds," I feel like I'm in a mortuary, and that, as they say, is that.

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Mission Comics and Art: Escape From Dullesville - Andy Ristaino.

Review by RWM: Amazing fantastical landscapes depicted imaginatively with style and detail. One cannot help but be intrigued by the odd locals, and can escape here to a different realm. Beware of the horrific, but there is also magic and beauty.

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Triple Base Gallery: J.B. Blunk Residency Group Show.

Artists: Lynne Riding, Alicia Escott, Julia Goodman, Max Lamb, Gemma Holt.

Comment by AB: So the deal is that there's this place way out in the wilds of Inverness, somewhere near the middle of the Bishop Pine Nature Preserve-- a serene sustainable independent off-the-grid-style environment-- where artists can go to live, work, create and perhaps figure out how to make things just an itsy bitsy bit better for the rest of us.

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Park Life: Ian Johnson - Of The Living Sky.

Comment by AB: No one venerates Jazz Greats like Ian Johnson.

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LeBasse Projects at 1746 Post Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94115: Showcase SF.

Artists: Seonna Hong, Herakut, Yoskay Yamamoto, Edwin Ushiro, Alexandros Vasmoulakis, Andrew Hem, Melissa Haslam, Nate Frizzell.

Comment by AB: Culver City's LeBasse Projects ambles on up from The Southland to showcase a selection of their brassiest talent.

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