Esoteric Survey

David Zwirner Gallery in Los Angeles has two really good exhibitions up at the moment. Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, organized by Shio Kusaka and Josef Albers, Duets.  Albers at Bauhaus Study for Tenayuca, c. 1942-1943 Luminous Day, 1947-1952 That's a lot of squares. Study for a Homage to the Square, c. 1970-1973 Three color studies for Homage to the Square Study for a Homage to the Square, 1964 One of the associates took me and a friend on a tour of the offices and viewing rooms upstairs. Magdalena rode her bike a lot around Venice. Magdalena on a classic Michael form. Josef and Magdalena at LACMA in 2024. This had to be the inspiration, right? More on that exhibition, here . Zwirner represents the John McCracken estate. They have another one on their back patio.

A Robert Irwin groupie poses with the artist after his talk last night at the Parma Payne Goodall Alumni Center at SDSU. She's really an art professor at SDSU, but there was a line of fans waiting to get their pictures taken with Irwin.   Poster for Ferus Gallery's The Studs exhibition, Los Angeles, 1964. The photo on the right is  Billy Al Bengston,  Allen Lynch, Robert Irwin, Craig Kauffman, John Altoon, Ed Kienholz, and Ed Moses, Los Angeles, 1958 Some things never change. At 85, Robert Irwin is still a stud (see photo above). Image: East of Borneo Untitled,  1961 Irwin's talk focused on his artistic journey of reduction, beginning with his abstract expressionist phase.  The end product would be to get to the point of "pure energy". Image: Christie's  Untitled,  1964 The reduction progresses. Image: Christie's  Untitled,  1966. O il, dots on canvas with bowed wood frame Now...

Opening for Richard Allen Morris "Quick Draw" Drawings at RB Stevenson Gallery There are 240 drawings in the exhibition. Some older paintings by Richard in the back.  The exhibition runs through October 19th. The Union Tribune reviewed the exhibition. The article can be found here .  Richard said he wasn't very happy about having his picture in the paper.  He complained that it should have been the drawings, but that's Richard for you.  Photo:  Eduardo Contreras / U-T San Diego Read more  here .