Los Angeles's Kohn Gallery is doubling its footprint and moving to a new location in Hollywood, an area that proprietor Michael Kohn says is quickly developing.
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Mark Ryden - Arrested Motion
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Fans of Mark Ryden on the West Coast have been anxiously awaiting the postponed solo that they have been anticipating since the Los Angeles-based artist’s showing in New York in 2010 (covered).
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Mark Ryden - Hi Fructose
Influential Pop Surrealist pioneer Mark Ryden has a solo show coming up on May 3 at Michael Kohn Gallery in LA. “The Gay 90s: West” is a continuation of Ryden’s Gay 90s series (the works on paper from which were recently featured in Hi-Fructose Vol. 28).
Read MoreLita Albuquerque - caa.reviews
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One could argue that no contemporary topic has more urgency and complexity than that of the interaction between humans and the natural environment. Whether considering contemporary political policy or theories of geologic time, the question of how this moment in human history will come to terms with its existence in the larger world, literally and figuratively, is prominent across academic disciplines and various media discourses. Time, Space & Matter: Five Installations Exploring Natural Phenomena, curated by Betty Ann Brown at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, enters into this discussion, according to the introductory text for the exhibition, by “re-situating [sic] commenting on, and giving new form to environmental processes and the various histories of human interaction with them.”
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PR - Kohn Gallery Hollywood
The Michael Kohn Gallery is pleased to announce its plans for a move to Highland Avenue in Hollywood and a new 10,000 square foot gallery, opening spring, 2014. The new building will provide an immense exhibition space with 22 foot ceilings, that will allow for impressive shows on a monumental scale.
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Bruce Conner - MOCAtv
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One of two short films Bruce Conner made for Brian Eno and David Byrne's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts—itself a defining work of assemblage—MEA CULPA (1981) comes near the end of Conner's active filmmaking career.
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Photography by Michael Friberg
Mark Ryden - Wall Street Journal
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WERE YOU TO RUN into Mark Parker, Nike's NKE +0.09% CEO, on the company's pristine Beaverton, Oregon, campus, you might mistake him for one of the 21 PhDs who work in the athletic powerhouse's top-secret research lab.
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Joe Goode - Document
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Joe Goode’s five-decade-strong oeuvre started in the ’60s with his now iconic milk bottle paintings securing him a place in the pantheon of pop art. Over the years, Goode has melded traditional and nontraditional media with a diversity of references that includes everything from his Midwestern roots to life in L.A., Atget, and classic English still lives. Reached over the phone in his L.A. studio following a photo shoot with Hedi Slimane, the youthful septuagenarian freely muses about gambling, the benefits of acrylic versus oil, and how long it took him to see through his own art.
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Simmons & Burke - Los Angeles Times
Simmons and Burke have mashed and montaged digital data for a half-dozen years, working like naturalists to comb the web for denatured specimens of media and pop culture. The prosaic glut of data at their (and our) disposal is both their subject and their raw material. They are maximalists, collecting, cataloguing and combining culled imagery in prints of dazzling slickness.
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Mark Ryden - Wall Street Journal
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Leonardo DiCaprio has become something of an auction fixture lately, attending major sales dressed in jeans and a baseball cap. Now, the star of "The Great Gatsby" has asked Christie's to help him pull off an auction of his own—to raise money for the environment.
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Into the Mystic - Los Angeles Times
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Mysticism isn’t new to art, having prompted (among other things) the emergence of pure abstraction into the Modernist lexicon more than a century ago. At Michael Kohn Gallery, a group exhibition of about 30 paintings, sculptures, video, prints and mixed media works from the past 50 years by 14 artists shows that it’s alive and well today — albeit with a suitably altered consciousness.
Read MoreSimmons & Burke - Wall Street Journal
The annual Armory Show in New York City is part museum, part gallery. With traditional and unconventional art on display from all over the world, it is a magnet for art lovers and art collectors. WSJ's Kelsey Hubbard was given a tour of the many unique works on site, from audio collages to video projections.
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Joe Goode - Art in America
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For "Pacific Standard Time," the Getty-organized, season-long initiative, museums throughout Southern California largely staged thematic overviews. Meanwhile, dozens of galleries have fleshed out the storyline with shows focusing on individual artists seminal to the period, often highlighting lesser-known aspects of their work. This show of Joe Goode's "Nighttime" (or "Black") series from 1977–78 was among the stellar examples. The charcoal powder drawings and oil paintings on both paper and canvas embody the most vigorous characteristics of Goode's 50-year oeuvre, and they hadn't been shown in two decades.
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Mark Ryden - Juxtapoz Magazine
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For Mark Ryden, nostalgia is more than a panacea, a gentle salve that soothes the raw edges of modern existence — it is the very lifeblood of art. When he sits down to paint, he is surrounded by a jumble of wonderful old toys, books and peculiar artifacts that whisper to him in their myriad voices, sparking distant memories and forging strange connections.
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Bryan Ferry - Juxtapoz
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Originally taught by the legendary British pop artist Richard Hamilton, Ferry has, throughout his career, maintained his founding interest in art and visual culture. As one of the few musicians to be interviewed at length by the leading international journal of contemporary art, 'Frieze', Ferry has spoken of the very close relationship between his passion for fine art and his artistic ambitions as a singer, composer and performer.
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Bryan Ferry - Huffington Post
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Beginning Thursday, October 20th, singer Bryan Ferry - yes, the dapper, suave and oh-so-elegant frontman of the British rock band Roxy Music - will showcase his photographic works at The Michael Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles.
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Wallace Berman at Armory Center for the Arts
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This landmark exhibition brings two seminal yet under-studied Los Angeles artists into close conversation for the very first time. Berman and Heinecken bridged modernist and emerging post-modernist trends by ushering in the use of photography as a key element of contemporary avant-garde art. Their works are explored within the unique cultural context of 1960s and 1970s Southern California, as it fueled and amplified their highly original creative approaches.
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Joe Goode - Huffington Post
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Friday night, The Michael Kohn Gallery -- in collaboration with the Southern California collaborative retrospective Pacific Standard Time -- welcomes guests to the opening of Nighttime, 1977-78 by Conceptual artist Joe Goode. Often thought of as dark, post-modern and deeply meditative, this body of work has not been seen in over twenty years. Gallery owner Michael Kohn calls it, "extraordinarily hypnotic."
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Mark Ryden - Huffington Post
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Amidst the crowded opening for MOCA's sprawling The Artist's Museum, of all the gossipy conversations and encounters with social network "friends" that took place, the one that got me most excited was the one that Jim and I had about a new work of art that had yet to be released.
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Mark Ryden - The New York Times (T Magazine)
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Attention amateur butchers, meat lovers and hungry aesthetes: At the Paul Kasmin Gallery, the artist Mark Ryden is doing wonders with off cuts at his new show, “The Gay ’90s: Olde Tyme Art Show.” The paintings of a Gibson girl riding a bicycle built for two with Jesus and a brooding beauty in period finery are spooky and lovely, but it’s his meatier images that steal the show — a wispy girl in a gown of hams, hindquarters and sausages, or Abraham Lincoln grinding fresh chuck for a tea-drinking demoiselle. Surreally delicious.
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