Monsters Mongers (and retailers of other strange satellites) @ LAXART (part I of II)

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Monsters Mongers (and retailers of other strange satellites)
Works by University of California, Irvine, 2009 MFA graduates in Studio Arts

artists:

Arielle Bivas
Marcus Civin
Laurel Frank
kate hers
Dong Hoon Jun
Jared Nielsen
Jen Smith
Sean Sullivan
Grant Vetter
Maya Weimer
Morgan Wells

June 27 - July 9, 2009
LAXART

Sarah Cain @ Five Thirty Three coming...

MIDNIGHT MISSION: SARAH CAIN
A 2008 CALIFORNIA BIENNIAL OFF-SITE PROJECT

Blogger Blues

SF MOMA's Director of Visitor Relations Has Vistor/Blogger Physically Ejected -

"Simon Blint, Director of Visitor Relations at the SFMOMA is a first rate asshole..."

What a start to the story!
story HERE


I swear it wasn't me!


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let's all go to Yale /// MFA 2010

(credit pictures from art.yale.edu/Gallery)

YALE MFA 2010

I love staying updated at the Yale gallery site. They do a great job of documenting the students' works and the talent is always the best of what's coming out of grad programs these days. They share a certain aesthetic of propped-up/leaned-up/deconstructed styling with miz' stockholder on staff. I think a good comparison school and the underdog, in terms of exposure, in the west (compared to calarts) is USC's mfa program.

2008 California Biennial

Patrick "Pato" Hebert (signs) Text Messaging: 1,000 Points of Might /// Felipe Dulzaides (billboard) Now Hope

Raymond Pettibon, Selected drawings on paper and wall drawings /// Edgar Arceneaux, (above right/below) LIVE as in ALIVE

Edgar Arceneaux (above/below)





Amanda Ross-Ho, (above/below) Frauds for an Inside Job


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Jordan Kantor (above/below)





Anna Sew Hoy, (above) Irma Vep's Room


Marc Hagen, (above/below) Form and Function within a Framework of Analysis and Rationality ((Zebra)), Dear Psychic Underworld..., Untitled (volcanic glass on linen)



Jebediah Caesar, (above/below) Untitled (selection of watercolors on xerograph), Helium Brick


a man strangling his wife


Sarah Cain, (above/below) As You Continue to Walk Forward



Mary Weatherford, (above, below) green cave, white cave




museum guards ;)


Jordon Kantor, (above) Untitled (oil on canvas)


Justin Beal, (entire room) There Is Work to Be Done



Edgar Arceneaux, (above) An Arrangement without Tormentors


Rodney McMillian, (above/below)





Erika Vogt, (above) Action Unrestricted


Jebediah Caesar, (above) bright hot day long dark night



Kara Tanaka, (above/below) Crushed by the Hammer of the Sun



Morgan Fisher, (above) Self-Portrait (January 2002; height 6'41/2, weight 188 pounds = body surface area 3,355.75 square inches)

Evan Holloway, (above)

Marco Rios, (above) Vanishing Intent

William Leavitt, (above) Gothic Curtain

Andrea Bowers, (above) An Act of Radical Hospitality /// Julio Cesar Morales, (above) Interrupted Passage

Andrea Bowers, (above) El Numero de las Casa Blanca, Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Drawing

Andrea Bowers, (above) Sanctuary /// Tony Labat (above)

Daniel Joseph Martinez, Call Me Ishmael; or, The Fully Enlightened Earth Radiates Disaster Triumphant (this live robotic sculpture has his protest-like tantrum on the hour - the piece is worth the drive to the museum completely! eyeballs and everything move in the most creepy way and viewers are invited to come right up on the stage to see and feel the tremors)

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