Left:
Harland Miller, "Too Cool To Lose,"
2012, silkscreen print,
edition of 50,
25 x 17 15/16".
The theme of language and how it is used uniquely by each of the artists included is the common denominator in TOO COOL TO LOSE. The title, which references one of Harland Miller’s works exemplifies the deadpan humor and sardonic nature of many of the works in the show. Both Miller and Pettibon are writers as well as artists and explore the book as subject/object. Ed Ruscha‘s enigmatic combination of text and image plays with spatial relationships as well as the meaning.
Mel Bochner’s paintings use a staccato sequence of words rendered in impasto relief on an unlikely ground, black velvet and also have a irreverent and humorous twist. Jenny Holzer’s use of text is much “cooler” and more didactic in the counterpoint her bench inscribed with text provides. Works by R. Crumb, William Anastasi and Richard Prince round out the show with jokes, comic book/film noir references and self deprecating references to Pop Art.
Emmy Rossum at INCOGNITO, 2012,
Courtesy of the Santa Monica Museum
of Art, Photo by Monica Orozco
PRECOGNITO
Gala and Preview
Thursday, May 9, 7 – 10 pm
Second annual PRECOGNITO Gala and Preview—a spirited gala dinner and preview of the more than 700 original artworks that will be available for purchase at the INCOGNITO exhibition and benefit art sale two nights later. Pioneering gallery owner Margo Leavin and iconic opera and theater director Peter Sellars are the honorees.
INCOGNITO
Exhibition and Benefit Art Sale
Saturday, May 11, 7 – 10 pm
All artworks are the same 8” x 10” size and available for only $350 plus tax. Each piece is signed on the back, as the artists’ identities are revealed only after purchase.
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue G1
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Phone: (310) 586-6488 Fax: (310) 586-6487 Email:info@smmoa.org Website:www.smmoa.org Hours: Tues. - Sat., 11am-6pm
Robert Townsend, "Swimming Pool,"
2013, oil on panel, 50 x 47".
Please visit us at
artMRKT San Francisco
Booth 215
Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center
San Francisco May 16 - 19, 2013
Continuing at the gallery:
Lori Larusso "Kitty Cake and
Other New Paintings" Through May 25, 2013
Herb Alpert, "Gratitude,"
2009, bronze, 17'2"
Photo: Philipp Scholz Rittermann
Herb Alpert in•ter•course
May 4 - June 8, 2013 Opening reception:
May 4, 2013 from 6-9pm
In addition to his musical accomplishments, Herb Alpert has spent more than half his life as a respected abstract expressionist painter and sculptor, whose work has been exhibited all over the world, from New York to Berlin. Alpert's sculptures, particularly his towering Black Totems series, continue to draw interest with their freedom of form and massive size, with some pieces reaching 18 feet in height. The totems were inspired by indigenous sculptural forms from the Pacific Northwest. What begin as hand-sized forms are scaled up and cast as ten to 18 foot high monoliths.
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