Search Results for: Lita Barrie
Surreal/Unreal @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
Lita Barrie: Huffington Post Arts
Lita Barrie reviews Surreal/Unreal at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, on view through February 18, 2017. The show features works by Rene Magritte, Max Ernst, Georgio de Chirico, Joan Miro, Dorothea Tanning, Hans Bellmer, Jacques Herold, Oskar Fischinger, Frederick Kann, Rufino Tamayo, Roberto Matta, Jose Luis Cuevas, Wilfredo Lam, Oswaldo Vigas, Alexander Calder, Hans […]
Oswaldo Vigas: Venezuelan Modernist
Lita Barrie reviews Oswaldo Vigas: Antologica 1943-2013 at the Museu de Arte Contemporanea da Universidade de Sao Paulo, on view through July 3, 2016. Barrie observes: "[Vigas'] characteristic mix of figuration and abstraction shows the clear influence of cubism, expressionism and constructivism, yet he always retained a distinctive flair for using fragments almost like fractals […]
George Condo @ Spruth Magers
Lita Barrie reviews the recent exhibition George Condo: Entrance to the Void at Spruth Magers, Los Angeles. Barrie writes: "Condo explains that all these paintings are 'driven by musical influence.' We see iconic images referencing Picasso, Goya and Monet in these Condo paintings, deconstructed in much the same way the late Coltrane plays Rogers and […]
David Hockney: Interview
Lita Barrie reviews David Hockney: Painting and Photography at LA Louver (on view through September 19, 2015) and talks to David Hockney and Peter Goulds about the painting, photography, and digital media. Barrie writes: "Hockney's new work is a playful critique of the limitations of photography, that captures fascinating things a fixed perspective can never […]
Roland Reiss: Exploring Spatial Depth
An essay by Lita Barrie on the Floral paintings of Roland Reiss from the forthcoming monograph Roland Reiss: Painting & Sculpture (2014, Grand Central Press/CSU Fullerton). Barrie writes: "In the Floral Paintings, Reiss uses the flowers as a scaffold to create in-between spaces where surprising things can happen. The flowers float in the center of these […]
Roland Reiss: Studio Visit
Lita Barrie visits the studio of artist Roland Reiss whose work will be on view at Begovich Gallery, California State University, Fullerton (November 8 – December 11, 2014) and Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles (December 2014). Barrie writes: "In the Floral Paintings, Reiss uses the flowers as a scaffold to create in-between spaces where surprising […]
Joel-Peter Witkin & Jerome Witkin: Interview
Lita Barrie interviews artists Joel-Peter Witkin and Jerome Witkin on the occasion of their exhibition Twin Visions at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, on view through May 3, 2014. Joel Witkin: "I think the essence of any great work of art in any history, east or west, is about good and bad. Not the […]
Dennis Hollingsworth: In Conversation
Lita Barrie talks to painter Dennis Hollingsworth. Hollingsworth comments: "My efforts toward the fullest dimension of intellectuality in art is to read widely and try to learn as much as I can about different things. But I don’t want to express ideas in a linear way in my work. What I try to do is […]
Dennis Hollingsworth: Painting with a Punch
In part one of a two-part essay, Lita Barrie writes about the paintings of Dennis Hollingsworth. Hollingsworth's work is on view in Drifter, a group exhibition at Hionas Gallery, New York through January 11, 2014. Barrie writes: "Dennis Hollingsworth’s paintings raise playful questions about the paradoxical position of abstract painting today – caught in the […]
Lisa Adams: Aesthetic Dimension of Melancholy
Lita Barrie writes about the paintings of Lisa Adams whose works are on view at Miami Project, CB1 Gallery, booth #215, December 3-8, 2013. Barrie notes that "Adams’ recent melancholic paintings, do not represent melancholy in obvious themes and iconography they exhale it through enigmas – created by combining different emotions and different painting styles […]
Lisa Corinne Davis on Niccolo di Pietro
Lisa Corinne Davis considers Niccolo di Pietro's Saint Ursula and Her Maidens (c. 1410) in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Davis writes: "Unfolding within the painting’s rectangle is a figure that acknowledges the plane while suggesting but never becoming a volume. Ursula is unable to move forward or back, in or out. […]
Time & Timelessness
In a post entitled "Functional Splendor" Sarah Osborne Bender blogs about a visit to see August Vincent Tack's (1870 – 1949) last abstract painting – a mural. She writes: "In 1944, as a commissioned project facilitated by Duncan Phillips, Tack created a beautiful mural, called Time and Timelessness (Spirit of Creation), to be used as […]