I finally made it to the new Nelson Gallery on the Davis campus to see the "regional portraiture" show that OMF has been raving about. It's still open until March 13th, if you want to try to catch it. It's only open on M-Th, and admission is free. Here's Victoria Dalkey's review. She mentions the work below, Chris Johansen's "Ankle Level Drum Circle". It's pretty funny. Just different people, some hippies, some nude dudes, doing an endless loop of a drum circle on TV screens. Hmm...looking up Chris Johansen I see he is part of the Mission School of artists with the look that is...not my favorite. Unfortunately, some big wigs were meeting in the room with the Roy De Forest so I did not get to see the whole show yet.
My very favorite work was by conceptual artist Paul Kos. A mysterious and haunting glass bell formed by silkscreening concentric circles onto stacked sheets of glass. It creeped me out. It's like a window into another dimension. One thing it's not, however, is a portrait. The title of this show is not apt, as Dalkey also points out.
speaking of works of art, this baby is finally mine! and for only ten bucks on ebay. 
speaking of other works of art, shh....don't wake the sausages. they are sleeping in their warm, tomatoey bed of lentils.
speaking of other works of art, don't forget the All That Jazz screening at The Verge tomorrow. I am digging up a lot of dirt and good quotes on Fosse.
15 comments:
Should I wear a bowler?
-Natalie.
so bummed you dissed Chris Johansen. He's a rad dude. His interview in Beautiful Losers is one of my favorites.
:(
Well, I said I liked the drum circle installation. I don't like that style of art! I can't help that. It's my taste, it's unique to me. Look at all the tacky shit I love-such as giant posters of Mark Spitz.
Not liking something isn't a dis anyway. It's just not liking it.
-miller
I don't know; she said, "he is part of the Mission School of artists with the look that is...not my favorite." Not your favorite? How much more disrespectful could you get?
ok, you win. it is my favorite! my new favorite.
Your grasp of disrespectful is not real strong. Pointing something out, saying its not your thing but offereing it up for others to judge forthemselves?
Not disrespectful. I actually like some of his stuff and it didn't even strike me that way.
-Natalie
I think maybe that comment above mine was a joke. Right?
Apparently not the best one, if it has to be explained. I blame the internet - never before in history were there disrespectful people.
I'm tempted to say that the sausage dish is not my favorite picture of food.
Dis!
internet or no people are weird.
Sigh, can all jokes me in comic sans? How can I know. Here I made an internet dick of myself. Isn't anonymous just one dude.
Oh well.
I would make a joke about that spitz poster not being my favorite, but that would be a lie.
That drum circle piece is really out of Johanson's usual oeuvre. I'm the opposite- i like his other stuff in general, but drum circle seemed way too 'i'm in art school' for me.
-omf
mark spitz's sac
-chapstick
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