TRYHARDER: summer book club

Kant after Duchamp
Studio and Cube: On The Relationship Between Where Art is Made and Where Art is Displayed
The Archive (Documents of Contemporary Art)
A Short Life of Trouble: Forty Years in the New York Art World

TRYHARDER has been on the hunt for some interesting, non-snooze-inducing summer art reading. Generally, the big corporate chains haven't been having much of an art criticism selection in stock so I popped into the bookstore over at the Space15Twenty. Very substantial assortment and on par with the Hammer bookstore. I was also in Malibu yesterday and stopped into some random bookstore where you know, the celebs go to get all their books - as I was hoping TMZ would finally snap TRYHARDER, but they had a book about the first woman curator of The Whitney Museum, Marcia Tucker. The cover caught my attention - biker, chic, NY and oh yeah...trouble!

Children of the Revolution @ Federal Art Project

Lena, Sculpture Ballet

Tim Sullivan, Interpretative Dances in the Dark


Tim Sullivan , untitled and The Headshot


Brian Wasson, Coke


Linze Luna, untitled and Jee Kim, untitled


James Bradley, Quote the Raven, "Remember, remember the 11th of September"


Jee Kim, untitled (above/below)

Luke Butler, Leader of Men 38: Reflection


Lena Daly, Illegal Rave (Always Happening)


Eric Gibbons, I Feel Heavy


Kelly Eginton, Green Ray and Lady Juice


Erin Allen, How to Break Up (oil on canvas)


Patrick Rock, Faye

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Children of the Revolution
curator: Keith Boadwee
artists: Patrick Rock, Elisheva Biernoff, Luke Butler, Joshua Pieper, Linze Luna, Ryan Verzaal, Isaac Gray, Kelly Eginton, Lena Daly, James Bradley, Erin Allen, Calvin Trezise, Brice Bischoff, Jee Kim, Chris Hood , Tim Sullivan, and Brian Wasson.

“With Children of The Revolution I started thinking about this idea of education and teaching and “passing the torch.” I went to UCLA and studied with Chris Burden, Paul McCarthy, Charlie Ray and Roger Herman. I feel that they’ve all been very influential on my practice. I always think about that “brotherhood” and the responsibility of sharing the information. Like the SKULL AND BONES Society at Yale, that secret brotherhood that a lot of big time politicians have been a members of, I sort of think about this brotherhood as being akin to that. A secret society where we share and pass on information that manifests itself in our works but that the general public is not really privy too.”

Federal Art Project

double bunhead: double the art pleasure

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dear contemporary art...

dear contemporary art,
are you feeling me yet?
xoxo
tryharder

bunhead is back baby!

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CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION curated by Keith Boadwee up next!
Federal Art Project

boy, you gotta love yale!

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SCULPTURE THESIS EXHIBITION 2
Ian Campbell

dear contemporary art,
please follow the drama on twitter.
don't forget to bring the tissues.
love forever,
tryharder

Chef's Theory @ FIVE THIRTY THREE

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The Chef's Theory
June 6, 2009 - June 28, 2009
Curated by: Maha Saab

FIVE THIRTY THREE

TRYHARDER camera-drive

This brings me to a good time to mention that my camera is dying. TRYHARDER prides itself on nice, big, juicy pics of LA art openings but my digital camera—whose working life has spanned documenting the detroit art scene, europe, the middle east, berlin's art scene and now onto LA—is on its last legs. It has seen a lot of action during these 4 1/2 years of dedicated art blogging!

So, I've decided to up your viewing pleasure, and to continue the best LA art coverage, I am adding a donate button to raise funds to help with the cost of a new camera. The goal is ~ $500, which is only 17 people donating 30 bucks each! Every donation at that level ($30) or more will receive a limited edition TRYHARDER T-shirt.

I'll continue on with the current camera until this fundraiser is successful. But once the funds are raised, get ready for vastly improved pics! If you can help out, thank you!

**if you live abroad, 40 bucks or more gets you the T-shirt...did i mention they are all artist-made, think conceptual-wearable-art...sounds like fun to me!

(button to the right)

Judith Bernstein @ The Box

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Judith Bernstein
(better pics, cat included, over at FrenchybutChic)
May 9th to June 13th, 2009
THE BOX (images on website)

forgot about this opening to post...but was also late in attending...so why not be late in posting...and it was a reading opening so never mind

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Five Points Reading Series Presents: “Not my Job”

John Chase
Jessica Hundley
Sarah Kessler
Tibby Rothman
Catherine Taft

workspace (better pics HERE)