Only The Shame
By Sarah Lehat
April 15, 2013
Julie has triggered what only a good artist can ... I've looked into the looking glass and through it and thought - Who are we? What are we born as? How do we define confine ourselves and as Julie says to me before I go on my way, are we really still us when we go so so far afield of who we think we are and what we think we wouldn't do?
Its the essence of soul that Julie and the Foxes tried to but couldn't draw - and it's comforting to discover that your spark, your soul, is you, and no one can draw it shape it form it, steal it - neither with graphite nor an embrace - no one can take it away once it yours - not even God.
Huffington Post
Erik Parker
By Austin McManus
April 2013
Austin McManus: In reading past writings about your work the phrase "distortions of everyday reality" appeared more than once and it has resonated with me. Can you tell me a little about this?
Erik Parker: I make pictures for other people to look at. While I'm totally into what you would call "painterly abstraction," I also want to make sure that translates to everyone, not just other artists. Not everyone understands an expressive brush mark, but most can get down with flowers.
Juxtapoz
Psychosexual explores the constructed, yet unconscious meaning of the physical gesture in contemporary art making, and its intimacy and eroticism. The gesture, across mediums, is first and foremost taken as a representation of the artist's underlying self, as it is envisioned, fabricated, and then executed. As such, it holds in its execution a projection of the artist's desires and assertions. Its consequent evocation, in the mind of the viewer of the work, is a representation of the artist's self; a projective identification by the viewer that is considered, taken in and incubated as memory, and which is then explored, challenged, or discharged.
Andrew Rafacz Gallery
April 6 - May 25, 2013
835 W. Washington Blvd
Chicago, IL 60607
Amnesiacs is LA-based painter Annie Lapin's debut exhibition in London.
At first glance, Annie Lapin's pictures seem to be content resting in the natural order of abstracted landscape painting. However it soon becomes clear that her impulse targets the historical understanding of painting – our perceptions of it, and what relevance such forms and associations have today.
Josh Lilley Gallery
April 12 - May 16, 2013
44 - 46 Riding House Street
London W1W 7EX
EMA, Bouquet, DK, and Roses will be performing at Human Resources LA on Thursday, April 11 from 7 -10 pm.
DK aka Dawn Kasper is inspired by social sculpture. Under the new persona DK, Kasper will enact the second in this new series making visual music sculptures inspired by the environment, people, and making mistakes.
Human Resources LA
410 Cottage Home St
Los Angeles, CA 90012
The office will be closed on Saturday, March 30. The galleries will reopen to the public on Tuesday, April 2nd with Move In Again: a week of performances curated by Brian Getnick and Laura Watts.
Review: Mario Ybarra Jr. deftly mixes reality and fiction
By Holly Myers
In Double Feature, his first exhibition with Honor Fraser, Mario Ybarra Jr. explores the probably universal impulse toward cinematic identification, playing with the ways in which we project ourselves into the roles we encounter on the silver screen — or the flickering pixels of late-night television, as the case may be.
LA Times
Close Look: 9 Highlights from the Armory Show
by Andrew M. Goldstein
The most electrifying piece at the Armory Show may be this one, a ten-panel work by the 31-year-old Botswana-born artist Meleko Mokgosi, who is currently teaching at New York University.
ARTSPACE
February 15, 2013
