lemberg opening
Mike Richison painted the billboard outside Paul Kotula/Lemberg. Check him out!
Tom Phardel and Brad Brown @ Lemberg Gallery. Another visually pleasing show...pretty...nice...collages...ceramics...yep...that's lemberg. It looks like they sold stuff too so that's rad. Shows like this I keep telling myself, be positive but it is hard to review when it isn't a bad show but it doesn't knock my socks off. I am not looking for cheap thrills but a little more excitement at lemberg might be nice.
Collages: Brad Brown
Ceramics: Tom Phardel
Collages: Brad Brown
Ceramics: Tom Phardel
posted by art blogs are fun at 11:26 PM
16 Comments:
It's unfortunate that not everybody can push the envelope as forcefully as you do, Ann, but let's look at the bright side. If it weren't for all these predictable Lemberg kinds of shows, you wouldn't stand out as the edgy genious that you are.
i hope that was sarcasm
Boredom is not an end product, it is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack
Unexcitable Ann meets Tom Phardel. Come on girl! Slits, orifices, elongations and the bosom...what are you waiting for, a proposal? Mr. Phardel has consistently, for over a decade, condensed the primal stuff of humanity to elegant recitations within the modernist canon. He could take your socks off anytime dear, but you don’t have the visual experience to let him. Take heart though, you’ve still got grad school.
A quick flash that doesn't last, or a slow burn that teases, questions, experiments...I'll take the slow burn over the quick flash anyday. I don't wear socks. They only get in the way.
this show was boring. detroit is too easily excited. stop ripping on ann just because most of you are far too easily entertained.
i haven't seen the show yet. was over at meadow brook's sculpture extravaganza that night.
but the red piece by tom looks exquisite. and there's nothing wrong with that.
Hey Archie,
There wasn't a tv monitor in the place! Believe it or not, the show wasn't about entertainment at all. Only damn good real stuff!
if this work was in a decorative art retailer's booth at an interior design trade show (and let me tell you, work just like this is all over those places - I've seen it first hand) all of you would be slamming it for the boring, by-the-numbers "pretty" work that it is.
goodness sakes...yes, they are visually stunning works. I am not discrediting the works...I am just saying that I would like to see something a little different at lemberg sometimes.
the james stephens show at lemberg a few months ago was stunning and edgy.
Hell, Lemberg shows pretty much everything--sculpture, painting, photography, artist's books, ceramics, prints, installation work, functional art--artists from Detroit, NY, Chi, LA--and runs the billboard--what more do you want?
This is just way too much fun...can you even imagine the BLOG response after the opening at MOCAD...I'm counting the hours.
ok, I will give you james stephens...I do love his work.
Susiebell's comments are very good. Certainly the judgment of art must be deliberate, but here are some questions: By what criteria do we judge? Are our judgements true only for ourselves? Are there standards for judging art? If not, then can art have any real social or cultural significance? My thought is that beauty is not in the eye of the beholder.
Ann *did* look before she evaluated. As the pictures prove, SHE ACTUALLY WENT TO THE SHOW - unlike most of you.
Hey jim,
Could you stop stroking Ann for a minute and listen?
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