My American colleague Professor David Carrier wrote to me that I might find time in my summer vacation to have a look at his friend Peter Wayne Lewis’s one-person show underway in Beijing. He hoped that I could write something about the exhibition. However, Lewis is a totally unknown name to me and, as I […]

The paintings of Kendrick Mar convey childhood emotions and an off-balance sense of nostalgia. His sparse compositions are occupied by lonely doll-like figures rendered on colorful and thickly textured surfaces. Images are pared down and reduced to their most essential components, imparting them with iconographic immediacy. The roughly formed figures register as vaguely familiar cartoon […]

Music, the purest of all the artistic mediums, was at the forefront of avant-garde experimentation throughout the 20th century. The collaborations between Beat poets and jazz musicians in the 50s gave rise to the 60s counterculture movement that was propelled by avant-garde experiments with music arising from chance encounters in everyday life and the popularity […]

My relationship with music…and its relationship with me. As I write there is a running sequence and respelling of chords going on in my head—a function that never seems to stop unless I am asleep, listening to music or performing music. Some might say I was crazy or neurotic; I would simply say that I […]

For as long as I can remember, I have always been creatively driven in life. I remember trying to emulate skateboard graphics as a child and, later in high school, being greatly influenced by grafitti art. While in class, I spent more time glued to my sketchbook in deep concentration than following the prescribed curriculum. […]

I paint to see what I think. Sweeping strokes are passing thoughts in paint and time. No painting is ever preconceived; instead, each work explores unexpected moments in space and time. I paint with my body’s mind rather than my literal, analytical mind. I think that my paintings are better understood if they are experienced […]

The main motive behind my work is humor and using humor as a tool to get to bigger underlying issues. I’m originally from Montana and I grew up on the Crow Indian reservation in south central Montana. I’m half Crow Indian and half Irish. I grew up immersed in Crow culture but had a dual […]

SuperSonic 2006 was the third annual MFA show representing graduating MFAs from the nine SoCCAS schools—Art Center College of Art and Design, California Institute for the Arts, Claremont Graduate School, Otis School of Art and Design, University of Southern California, University of California-Irvine, University of California-Los Angeles, University of California-San Diego, and University of California-Santa […]

My Mac G5 is jealous of Matt Leines. Regardless of how large the screen or how sophisticated the software, it seems unlikely that any computer could produce the hyper-graphic results of Leines’ ink and watercolor drawings with as much confidence. The machine knows that the precision of Leines’ meticulously consistent hand and unpredictable creativity is […]

In the ubiquity of the summer group exhibition, the viewer may find curatorial intentions to the tune of “there is something for everyone” rather than grouping artists unified by theme or materials. Summer is less formal and most galleries use this time as an opportunity to show young or emerging artists. At Mark Moore Gallery, […]