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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 .

The preview for the LAMA October 7th auction is now open. Here are some of the fine art lots. Sheila Hicks fiber art, Tahoe Wall, 1970 Hicks detail The tanks from Keith Haring's Honda. I was told they were found in a junk yard. Nice grouping of work by Ed Ruscha, Karl Benjamin, Frederick Hammersley and June Harwood One of the best Karl Benjamin paintings I've ever seen. Untitled, 1958. Bernard Rosenthal bronze, Peter Voulkos sculpture, Claude Conover bottle and another Voulkos. The mother and child on the floor isn't my cup of tea. The rest of these are pretty sick examples. Huge Peter Voulkos plate... and a little Voulkos cup. I love those round bits that look they were thrown at the wet clay. I can just see that madman doing that in the studio. Richard Pettibone. It seems like if you buy one, you should buy the...

Karl Benjamin, the last of the Four Abstract Classicists, Dies at 86 Read more here “Small Planes: White, Blue and Pink” 1957 Image: NY Times Four Abstract Classicists Karl Benjamin (1925-2012) John McLaughlin (1898-1976) Frederick Hammersley (1919-2009) Lorser Feitelson ( 1898-1978 ) Photo: Gety "#12" 1970