Chris Johanson, Totalities, at Deitch Projects. Photograph AFC
Chris Johanson’s Totalities at Deitch Projects did not produce the giant crowd orgy I’ve come to expect from that gallery’s openings, probably because everyone was in Chelsea doing the like. I’ll have more on that later in the day, but in the mean time, I’ve put together a photo essay from Johanson’s exhibition. It’s certainly worth going to see, though I’ll have in depth thoughts on the subject in the near future.
Enter here.
This giant sculpture with mirrors slowly rotates while music played overhead.
This is the overhead I mentioned. Notice even the ceiling is considered.
These paintings are placed in a circular formation around the rotating diamond-like sculpture in the center.
Built up painted surfaces.
A shitty picture, but included because of it’s Dana Schutz-esque blobbiness
The paint points in the direction you’re supposed to follow.
Fine art hippy. I suspect this is either the kind of thing you like or don’t.
A transition area from one room to the next.
In a different room upstairs are the works on paper. The use of the frame is almost an allusion because they don’t exist without the larger support structure of the armature.
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More evidence of a decline theory or grad student work achieves gallery status. Sorry.
More evidence of a decline theory or grad student work achieves gallery status. Sorry.
Did you see the show? What do you think of his previous work? Why do you think this looks like student work?
Did you see the show? What do you think of his previous work? Why do you think this looks like student work?
Because it postures that way, as more evidence. It’s light, fat free – in the middle of the epoch the cats meow.
Because it postures that way, as more evidence. It’s light, fat free – in the middle of the epoch the cats meow.
What is the middle of the epoch the cat’s meow?
What is the middle of the epoch the cat’s meow?
What is the middle of the epoch the cat’s meow?
This is Gene Davis on a great acid trip. I really like this guy’s work. These paintings in particular I like more than the last I’ve seen because it looks as though he’s really letting go of the figurative the way he used to see it, and trying even harder to impress us with color.
This is Gene Davis on a great acid trip. I really like this guy’s work. These paintings in particular I like more than the last I’ve seen because it looks as though he’s really letting go of the figurative the way he used to see it, and trying even harder to impress us with color.
Isn’t it possible to comment on artworld/regular world without a grad degree? And is it even acceptable to produce a body of work that is difficult to absorb without actually being there? Do we remember the feeling of having to SEE it?
And is student work BAD? Necessarily? I mean, I’m a dick too, a hater, but I’m curious what people mean when they say what they say…especially when they say, like, ddeeerrrrrrrrrrr….Klimt’s slides=THE MALL, but to SEE it, is like, boom. Do we HAVE to comment by proxy to be, like, INVOLVED IN THE DIALOGUE?
Isn’t it possible to comment on artworld/regular world without a grad degree? And is it even acceptable to produce a body of work that is difficult to absorb without actually being there? Do we remember the feeling of having to SEE it?
And is student work BAD? Necessarily? I mean, I’m a dick too, a hater, but I’m curious what people mean when they say what they say…especially when they say, like, ddeeerrrrrrrrrrr….Klimt’s slides=THE MALL, but to SEE it, is like, boom. Do we HAVE to comment by proxy to be, like, INVOLVED IN THE DIALOGUE?
Isn’t it possible to comment on artworld/regular world without a grad degree? And is it even acceptable to produce a body of work that is difficult to absorb without actually being there? Do we remember the feeling of having to SEE it?
And is student work BAD? Necessarily? I mean, I’m a dick too, a hater, but I’m curious what people mean when they say what they say…especially when they say, like, ddeeerrrrrrrrrrr….Klimt’s slides=THE MALL, but to SEE it, is like, boom. Do we HAVE to comment by proxy to be, like, INVOLVED IN THE DIALOGUE?
Isn’t it possible to comment on artworld/regular world without a grad degree? And is it even acceptable to produce a body of work that is difficult to absorb without actually being there? Do we remember the feeling of having to SEE it?
And is student work BAD? Necessarily? I mean, I’m a dick too, a hater, but I’m curious what people mean when they say what they say…especially when they say, like, ddeeerrrrrrrrrrr….Klimt’s slides=THE MALL, but to SEE it, is like, boom. Do we HAVE to comment by proxy to be, like, INVOLVED IN THE DIALOGUE?
U got me here; I was meeting a friend there and as usual in nyc there were too many things to do, so I was late and couldn’t stay long. Drugs and alcohol were definitely involved.
Thought it had too much faux campy stuff I’ve seen b4, gallery art about gallery art. I mean it’s a B, nothing in terms of class, gender race that knocks me out. So what did u find interesting? As Gayatari Spivak use to say, ‘It has to be on the threshold of something.’
U got me here; I was meeting a friend there and as usual in nyc there were too many things to do, so I was late and couldn’t stay long. Drugs and alcohol were definitely involved.
Thought it had too much faux campy stuff I’ve seen b4, gallery art about gallery art. I mean it’s a B, nothing in terms of class, gender race that knocks me out. So what did u find interesting? As Gayatari Spivak use to say, ‘It has to be on the threshold of something.’
U got me here; I was meeting a friend there and as usual in nyc there were too many things to do, so I was late and couldn’t stay long. Drugs and alcohol were definitely involved.
Thought it had too much faux campy stuff I’ve seen b4, gallery art about gallery art. I mean it’s a B, nothing in terms of class, gender race that knocks me out. So what did u find interesting? As Gayatari Spivak use to say, ‘It has to be on the threshold of something.’
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