Tag Archives: hans hoffman

party time

Posted on April 14, 2012 by Dave

One part not to miss: The Cocktail Party by Marisol Escobar. Composed of fifteen life-sized figures, wearing variations- in plaster or plastic- of Marisol’s own face, the work, the exhibit coolly demonstrates the wooden sameness of such affairs, varied only … Continue reading →

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duchamp’s children: spectacle of the private parts

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Dave

…. Is there still the spiritual in art, the kind of transcending of the sacred/profane dynamic that Kandinsky spoke of? The grip of anti-art within the art world is predominant and intransigent. The argument has been made that post-modern art … Continue reading →

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coloring outside lines lived

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Dave

An ambivalence about life. A detachment, clean and without guilt that defies the romantic notion concerning childhood innocence. It is a profane illumination of sorts, to live without sentimental condescension or routine exercises in nostalgia yet without the myriad and … Continue reading →

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drawing on pre-human sources

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Dave

Its an old idea. The typical John Doe sees an abstract expressionist painting, and explains to himself that there is no justice in this world. Why should the likes of Willam de Kooning, Jackson Pollock et al. be so immortalized … Continue reading →

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