Recent Posts Tagged With 'biennial'

• Nine Lives at the Hammer: Whiteness and Nostalgia

  Posted on Saturday September 26th, 2009 at 14:00 in reviews, hammer museum, biennial, nine lives, white theory

  Yesterday: Charlie WhiteVideo Still from White's American MinorIn the darkened but incongruously white room showing White’s video American Minor (2008), I began to suspect a “white” subtext in Nine Lives. In one scene, semen-white drops of milk...

• Nine Lives: Charlie White at the Hammer

  Posted on Friday September 25th, 2009 at 13:00 in reviews, hammer museum, biennial, nine lives, charlie white

  Yesterday: Jeffrey VallanceCharlie White's Teen and Transgender Comparative Study #1Less compelling in Nine Lives were work by artists who chose to represent subcultures outside their own, but perhaps there are no Sámi painters of reindeer viscera o...

• Nine Lives: Jeffrey Vallance at the Hammer

  Posted on Thursday September 24th, 2009 at 12:00 in reviews, hammer museum, biennial, nine lives, jeffrey vallance

  Yesterday: Kaari UpsonJeffrey Vallance's Brown Wall at HomeAs with Foulkes, Jeffrey Vallance’s best work emerges when his personal life bumps up against the social and political, as it does when faux naïve correspondence and elaborate plans bring ...

• Nine Lives: Kaari Upson at the Hammer

  Posted on Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 at 11:00 in reviews, hammer museum, biennial, nine lives, kaari upson

  Yesterday's Post: Llyn FoulkesVideo Still from Kaari Upson's GrottoWhile Foulkes rails against the projections of one corporate empire, Kaari Upson offers a parody of another. More so than many other media conglomerates, Playboy projects a very speci...

• Nine Lives: Llyn Foulkes at the Hammer

  Posted on Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 at 10:00 in hammer museum, biennial, nine lives, llyn foulkes

  Yesterday: Part 1 of 6: Past Hammer BiennialsLlyn Foulkes’s The Lost FrontierLlyn Foulkes’s The Lost Frontier (1997-2005) is the first work encountered in Nine Lives. The bas-relief diorama presents what could be both an antediluvian and post-apo...

• Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from L.A. at the Hammer

  Posted on Monday September 21st, 2009 at 09:00 in hammer museum, biennial, nine lives, x-tra, ali subotnick

  This past spring I worked on a long article (much longer than what I'd normally post here) about the last Hammer Invitational. In the end, X-TRA magazine chose not to publish the piece. I thought the article brought up some issues that weren't covere...

• Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from L.A.

  Posted on Friday April 3rd, 2009 at 02:03 in hammer museum, biennial, college galleries

  Llyn Foulkes' The Lost Frontier, 1997-2005 Mixed Media 87x96x8Has anyone noticed the dearth of reviews of this show? A quick search turns up re-posts of the press release and a few college newspapers. Do I hear a screen door slamming in the breeze? A...