Magdalena Suarez Frimkess

PLEASE RECALL TO ME EVERYTHING YOU HAVE THOUGHT OF—a group show of women artists at Morán Morán, curated by Eve Fowler—is on view for one more week.

This highly recommended exhibition includes the work of Etel Adnan, Frances Barth, Donna Dennis, Florence Derive, Simone Fattal, Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, Barbara Hammer, Harmony Hammond, Maren Hassinger, Suzanne Jackson, Virginia Jaramillo, Harriet Korman, Joyce Kozloff, Magali Lara, Mary Lum, Mónica Mayer, Dona Nelson, Senga Nengudi, Howardena Pindell, and Joan Semmel.

“The title of the show is from a Gertrude Stein text that Fowler selected for its ambiguous poetry that she felt honored the artists.”

I’m not asking the artists to tell me anything, but they allowed me in their studios—a private place where artists often feel vulnerable. — Eve Fowler*

PLEASE RECALL TO ME EVERYTHING YOU HAVE THOUGHT OF*

Through August 24.

Morán Morán

937 North La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles.

Please Recall to Me Everything You Have Thought Of, curated by Eve Fowler, Morán Morán, 2019, from top: Howardena Pindell, Untitled #51, 2010, mixed media on board, courtesy Garth Greenan Gallery; Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, Untitled, 1972, glazed stoneware; Senga Nengudi, Rapunzel, 1981, silver gelatin print; Suzanne Jackson, finding joy in the mirror, 2016, acrylic, wood veneer, Bogus paper, loquat seeds, courtesy of O-Town House; Donna Dennis installation view; Florence Derive, Blue Manuscript, 2017, oil on raw linen; Maren Hassinger, Whole Cloth, 2017, photograph on fabric; Barbara Hammer, South Fork Yuba River, California, 1973, 2017, silver gelatin print, courtesy of Company Gallery; Barbara Hammer, Dyketactics, 1974, 16mm film transferred to video with sound; Harmony Hammond, Aperture #6, 2013, monotype on paper, courtesy of Alexander Gray Associates; Simone Fattal, Woman as Tree (1), 2010, porcelain, courtesy of Kaufmann Repetto; Frances Barth, A Tiny Pinch, 2017, acrylic on gessoed wood panel; Joan Semmel, Untitled, 2016, oil crayon on paper, courtesy of Alexander Gray Associates; Dona Nelson, Luka, 2015, acrylic and mixed media on canvas, courtesy of Michael Benevento; Etel Adnan, Mount Tamalpais, 2013, ink on handmade paper (2), courtesy of Callicoon Fine Arts; Mary Lum, Informations Practiques, 2019, acrylic on paper; Virginia Jaramillo, Visual Theorems 15, 1979, linen fiber with hand-ground earth pigments, courtesy of Hales Gallery; Harriet Korman, Untitled, 2016–18, oil on canvas. Images courtesy and © the artists and Morán Morán.

opening night “Made in L.A.” at the Hammer Museum

I was really impressed with the work at Made in L.A., the Hammer Museum’s biannual group exhibition of artists who live and work in Los Angeles. The exhibition opened this past Saturday and the museum was packed. I took some pictures of my personal favorites and highlights from the opening night…

KChung TV Live Taping

KChung TV Live Taping

KChung TV will be filming in the lobby of the Hammer on select Saturdays and Sundays throughout the exhibition. On opening night they featured a series of programs, mostly interviews with artists.

Juan Capistran, …put very little trust in tomorrow, 2014, bricks and paint

Juan Capistran’s piece in the courtyard of the Hammer.

Gabriel Kuri, donation fountain, 2014, powder-coated steel, bird spikes, and coins

Harry Dodge

Harry Dodge’s sculptures, drawings, and paintings are very much influenced by Los Angeles artists John Baldessari, Paul McCarthy, and Raymond Pettibone.

Magdalena Suarez Frimkess and Michael Frimkess

I was really excited to finally see the Frimkess’s ceramics in person! Magdalena Suarez Frimkess is 84 years old, and she has been collaborating with her husband for years. Motifs from cartoons, American history, Egyptian and Latin American art, etc. grace their plates and vessels. The work of Magdalena Suarez Frimkess was recently featured in an exhibition at White Columns, in New York City, which I was sad to miss. They were also recently featured on the podcast Pussyfoot.

Max Maslansky, Painting (fragment), 2012, acrylic on bedsheet

A room of paintings by Max Maslansky, who paints haunting yet comedic images from pornography is not to be missed. Above, a woman brushes rouge onto a man’s penis while he takes a photograph.

Ricky Swallow

Sarah Rara

Channing Hansen

There was quite a bit of fiber art in the exhibition, including Channing Hansen’s delicate knit works stretched on canvas.

Infected Faggot Perspectives, edited by W. Wayne Karr and Cory Roberts-Auli, Issues 1-14, August 1991-Summer 1993

The zine Infected Faggot Perspectives was featured in the mini-exhibition “Tony Greene: Amid Voluptuous Calm.” Tony Greene died from complications with AIDS in 1990, and the exhibition features work by Greene along with some of his peers. I believe this is the only historical work in the exhibition.

Devin Kenny, Aahs, sad feels, 2014, Chocolate fondue with magnets and homemade ferrofluid

Devin Kenny’s artworks are like science experiments for kids. They really stood out. I’m excited to go back and take a deeper look.

Emily Mast, ENDE (Like a New Beginning), 2014

Emily Mast has installations and props throughout the museum, along with a performance where four individuals, some dressed in bright yellow struck poses, while another person placed yellow bird feathers on them. It was really beautiful.

Piero Golia, The Comedy of Craft (Act I: Carving George Washington’s Nose), 2014

I am very excited about Piero Golia’s piece, which will be realized throughout the exhibition, and after the exhibition. The Comedy of Craft (Act I: Carving George Washington’s Nose), features large blocks of white styrofoam which will be carved into the shape of George Washington’s nose from Mt. Rushmore.

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