SANDRA LEE - VARNISH - ROOT DIVISION
GUERRERO - 63 BLUXOME STREET
01.14.12, Part I
(with assistance from Kathryn Arnold
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Sandra Lee Gallery : Reshaped Traditions - New Korean Painting. Jeung Kang - Hanbok; Monk Jungsan Senim - Manicure Paintings.
Review by Kathryn Arnold: Impressive exhibition focusing on two Korean painters. Kang's Hanbok paintings are often ephemeral portrayals of the human figure... female figures who are either torn from or tied to familial and cultural traditions. Beautiful palette of summery and fall hues. The women are stoic, facing the unseen.
Korean Monk Jungsan Senim's large installation works are created with nail polish on hundreds of glistening white-coated matchboxes. Brilliantly hued from an oblique angle, the works are solid white from the front-- perhaps portraying that moment of "white light" or emptiness. Calligraphy and images fill the surfaces of these containers-- microcosm/macrocosm in their sensibilities.
Art by Jungsan Senim at Sandra Lee Gallery.
Monk Jungsan Senim and his art at Sandra Lee Gallery.
Art by Jungsan Senim closer (image c/o Kathryn Arnold).
Art by Jeung Kang at Sandra Lee Gallery.
Jeung Kang art above closer (image c/o Kathryn Arnold).
Art by Jeung Kang at Sandra Lee Gallery.
Turnout - Jeung Kang & Jungsan Senim art (image c/o Kathryn Arnold).
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Varnish Fine Art : Mind Spring - Chuck Sperry, Chris Shaw, and Ron Donovan.
Comment by AB: Superlative screen prints by Chuck Sperry and Ron Donovan (as always), and some fine paintings by Chris Shaw as well. Sperry's work focuses on the Occupy Movement and Arab Spring, Donovan's trends urban psychedelic, and Shaw's editorializes on money, war, religion, power, inequities and more. That pretty well covers everything, don't you think?
Nudes by Chuck Sperry (Ron Donovan and Ron Turner chat it up, left).
More art by Chuck Sperry at Varnish Fine Art.
Chuck Sperry (center) at Varnish Fine Art.
Art by Chris Shaw at Varnish Fine Art.
Conviviality in the alley at Varnish Fine Art.
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Guerrero Gallery : An American Language.
Artists: Mike Meyer, Derek McDonald, Dusty Madsen, Gary Martin, Josh Luke, Gary Green, Greg Jones, Sean Starr, Paul Scofield, Kenji Nakayama, Bob Dewhurst, Mats!?, Mark Oatis.
Comment by AB: Sign painting as art? That proposition is fully actualized here. Good stuff; stop on by.
Sign art by Paul Scofield (left) - Derek McDonald (right).
Wacky sign art by Mats!? at Guerrero Gallery.
More signage art by Mats!? at Guerrero Gallery.
3D pulp fiction art by Mark Oatis at Guerrero Gallery (nice!).
Mark Oatis art in above image from the side.
Sign art by Mark Oatis at Guerrero Gallery.
Best of Show - signage art by Mark Oatis at Guerrero Gallery.
Dusty Madsen sign painting art at Guerrero Gallery.
Sign art by Bob Dewhurst at Guerrero Gallery.
Nice work here - signage art by Gary Martin.
Long view - sign painting as art at Guerrero Gallery.
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Root Division : Are We Not Men?
Comment by AB: This one's about humans vs computers and who's smarter. A little thin in the plot line, but salvaged by Lee Cody's fine 36 by 36 inch acrylic paintings on canvas of specific webpage source codes. Only $750 each! I'd snap one up. They're outstanding.
Source code art by Lee Cody at Root Division (like it).
Lee Cody art closer - yes, it's an acrylic on canvas (like it).
Video art at Root Division.
Art from group show at Root Division.
What it is. Humans vs computers at Root Division.
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Addendum:
Art by Matt136 at 63 Bluxome Street Gallery
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Art by Doubleparlour at 63 Bluxome Street Gallery.
Doubleparlour art closer at 63 Bluxome Street Gallery.
Art by Ken Davis at 63 Bluxome Street Gallery.
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