Gallery News
November 12, 2008
Dawn Kasper @ LACMA and UAM CSULB October 25, 2008
Kiersten Puusemp on the otherside of the world and at Box Gallery. October 4, 2008
HUBBY's CoTour October 2, 2008
Bankhead in Otis 90th aniversery show. September 24, 2008
Mirror Mirror, Circus Gallery Project space September 23, 2008
Jame Krone, Reviewed in Art US September 19, 2008
Rachel Mason's "Kissing President Bush" on display at the Park September 11, 2008
Sarah Cromarty reviewed in LA Weekly September 11, 2008
Dawn Kasper @ Co-Lab, Copenhagen September 10, 2008
Artillery Joins Circus for Art Debate Series
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September 11, 2008
Painting over photographs — both appropriated and produced by the artist herself — of biker chicks, cowboys, lovers paddling a canoe, sports cars, beach babes in miniskirts, and oh-so-many palm trees, all of it mounted on corrugated cardboard and laced together with webs of string art, glitter rainbows and beaded diamonds, Cromarty offers a view of America borrowed from Richard Prince but given a whole different spin of both indulgence and dread. Like her installation including a 3-D self-portrait as a dead raver — an update of Paul Thek’s 1967 work The Tomb — Death of a Hippie — her collaged works suggest an almost complete fusion of outsider, fringe, avant-garde and mainstream culture into a single Americana, the consumption of which titillates, and also sickens you only slightly less than your inability to deny the extent to which you’ve already internalized it.
-Christopher Miles
http://www.laweekly.com/2008-09-11/art-books/opening-week-at-l-a-galleries/
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