FOULADI - RATIO 3 - PERFORMANCE ART INSTITUTE

ALTER SPACE - EVER GOLD - BOOK & JOB

11.09.12

(with assistance from RWM)



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Fouladi Projects: Fortune Teller - Russell Tyler.

Review by RWM: Brazen colors and abstractions. Someone spilled the bright yellow mustard and a bunch of other colors on the canvases. Bold and confrontational, but in a fun and funny sort of way.

Comment by AB: This wild colorific textural shindig kinda reminds me of pie in the face, but administered by a thrower who's a qualified sharpshooter.

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Ratio 3 Gallery: Miriam Böhm - Before in Front.

Comment by AB: By means of rigorously repetitive photography, Miriam Böhm formulates new ways of looking at space. Another cherry endeavor here at Ratio 3 and definitely worth a visit.

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The Performance Art Institute: The Future Imagined - What's Next?

Artists: Kirk Amyx, Michael Bartalos, Chris Bell, JD Beltran (in collaboration with Nigel Poor), Philip Alden Benn (in collaboration with Peter Belkin), Guillermo Bert, Antonio Cortez, Nicholas de Monchaux, Ala Ebtekar, Michal Gavish (in collaboration with Yigal Blum), Roey Shaviv, Ruth Stark and Etty Yaniv, Daniel Joshua Goldstein, Laura Greig, Farley Gwazda, Robin Hill (in collaboration with Janco Gravner), Theodora Varnay Jones (in collaboration with Penny Olson and Rosa Anna de Filippis), Pantea Karimi (in collaboration with Daniel Konhauser), Carrie Katz (in collaboration with Sesh Mudumbai), Indira Martina Morre, Penny Nii (in collaboration with Mohammed Alabababidi and Enrique Gavidia), Luke Ogrydziak (in collaboration with Zoe Prillinger), Renee Rhodes, Tim Roseborough, Paolo Salvagione, DC Spensley (in collaboration with Peter Spangler), Scott Summit, Yumika Tanaka, Tiffany Trenda, Corinne Whitaker, Kenneth Wilkes.

Comment by AB: This latest Hanna Regev spectacular extrapolates the creative muse out into the future, imbues it with technology, and out pops this. Serious time will be required to wend your way through.

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Alter Space: While You Were Gone...

Artists: Adam Joseph Brochstein, Caleb Jagger, Greg Stimac.

Comment by RWM: The West, but not the wild wild west. Interesting with a modern yet down-home sensibility.

Comment by AB: A bit of a perplexer, this. Small town documentary photography, a color-manipulated erupting geyser in video, characters in Old West get-ups, and ghostly depictions of the Transcontinental Railroad's famed Golden Spike. They say it's about memory, which is fine, but how it all comes together is anybody's guess.

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Ever Gold Gallery: Adam Parker Smith - Forever 21.

Comment by AB: Adam Parker Smith fetes us with bawdy looking foam and rope sculptures on formica & bungee cord pedestals, oversized eye shades sculpted from window blinds, a prodigious fabric wristband tapestry, a peep hole watermelon, a rusted toy Volkswagen cheated into a bottle, and more. Simultaneously smart, adept, observational, comical and provocative. It's all good here; check it out.

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Book & Job Gallery: Found in Darkness - John Felix Arnold III & Christopher Burch.

Comment by AB: Paintings, drawings & installation by Christopher Burch, and assemblage & installation by John Felix Arnold III address various aspects of urban life, destruction, decay, the dark side, and tall tale fantasy.

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