Clark Goolsby at POVevolving Gallery
March 20, 2009 - By Bobby Solomon - Category: Art & Los Angeles
Last Saturday I headed Downtown to Chinatown for the Clark Goolsby show, called Tomorrow’s Nothing, at the POVevolving Gallery. The show was filled with really huge mixed media paintings, mostly featuring skulls and some collage pieces. I especially loved the big skull painting above because parts of the face were made of magazine clippings that had solid, bright colors. I also really love the houndstooth in the back, it compliments it well.
Also, if you’re in L.A. I suggest checking out the art scene on Chung King Road in Chinatown. There’s a ton of stuff going on down there and it was a lot of fun.
Bobby
Comments
If you've got something to say, keep it positive.Did Gabriel Orozco make this skull ? It looks pretty much as this one :
http://santaannavisual.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/gabriel_orozco01.jpg
I urge you to meet Gabriel Orozco’s work, he has done great things.
Mario.
How innovative, another skull motif…Damien Hirst and Ed Hardy are also incredibly interesting. The skull as motif, in art, design, clothing, branding, has not been exhausted in the least bit…not at all.
@Jan M. – Wow, a sarcastic remark critiquing someone’s hard work for using a motif that’s been around for thousands of years.
Please send me a link to your work, I’d be happy to post a critique of it.
But a “critique” would be something far more involved than my (indeed, it was too easy) sarcastic comment. A critique would ask thoughtful questions…
How might this artist be contributing to discussions regarding such a complex and centuries old signifier? How does appropriating such a loaded signifier to promote an infantilizing or *extremely* popularized design aesthetic, contribute to such a discussion?
…I live in Milan, but in the States this is a very tired discussion also, no?
It’s not enough that someone’s work be fun, interesting and beautiful? Apparently they have to answer to Jan the theory nazi as well. Please, continue to explain how Damien Hirst’s work isn’t interesting.