Dennis Hollingsworth

Gallery Hop

Jean Milant (Cirrus) and I drove across town to see a few shows.

Here are a few pics and a-kind-of-report for you:

Nice show: Guston and De Chirico at the Santa Monica Museum.
It's worth seeing again. It has a difficult (read: slightly lame) title: "Enigma Variations". But the paintings are great to see up close... besides, I should read through the curatorial essay more fully next time.

Moving on...

Whoops... forgot to flag the Mandrake bar in between LAX Art and Blum and Poe.
Delicious finger food and expresso are available in the afternoon.

Ruben Ochoa delivered a nice surprise at LAX Art. Mentored by Daniel Martinez, the time will soon come for him to kill the father (meaning: find the difference between his voice and DJM). Let's see if he can do it.

It makes me think of the fashion in architecture several years ago for the formless blobatecture generated by those theoreticians who fell in love with computer drawing programs. Ochoa seemed to breathe a puff of imagination onto their undulating forms (Form Z drawing programs and all that).

Interesting too, that the street is chosen as a subject for both artists. Ruben seems to be able to give it a face.

Then, as we stepped down the block, the LA river made an appearance. I thought of Mike Kelly when I felt the urge to spelunk into the giant drains. I was happy to see this after an afternoon of gallery art.

Spelunk.

What a great word.

Movikng on...

Returning home, Joel and I dropped into Sister Gallery to see the set for "Faustus's Children" (do they need to add the s? Doesn't the apostrophe after an s eliminate the need for an additional s? Oh well.) and maybe to score early on Tom Peter's catered food at the reception.

There's a nice picture of Bettina in the second gallery.

(Both maps are from Art Scene.)