Esoteric Survey

J.B. Blunk: painting, drawing, sculpture at The Landing The Landing's inaugural exhibition at its new gallery space features paintings, drawings, and sculpture by J.B. Blunk. It includes sculptural works with a selection of paintings and drawings that are being exhibited for the first time. I began making wood sculpture in 1962. I knew how to use a chainsaw and it was one of those things. One day you just start. - J.B. Blunk

Hawk Arch

Mr. Peanut
Mage
This was taken before the room really filled up.   The gallery was designed and executed by architect Gregory Pilon, and it's incredible. In 2004, Pilon designed Reform's former location on La Cienega Blvd. If you read this LA Times article, you'll see that Gerard is still championing the same designers--as evident in The Landing's office below. The Landing began as a space within Reform Gallery. Now, Reform is represented in the Landing office with Maurice Martine, Olga Lee and Paul Tuttle. This is as good as it gets.  Mauric…

The Bill Curry exhibition by Reform Gallery at the Parachute Market in downtown Los Angeles
The Curry family and a couple of collectors worked with Reform, so the collection was quite impressive. The mold to the Stemlite globe is on top of the far pedestal. The Stemlite factory mold
Cattail Screen

Painting by Bill Curry
Sweet ephemera

NFS had a nice spread, including this Cees Braakman table. 
..also this Architectural Fiberglass trashcan. So stealth.
There was also a lot of really good contemporary art and design at the market. I'm a vintage guy so I failed to capture most of it. I did get a photo of the Ricky Clifton installation from the Window.

June 6th and 7th, Reform Gallery will be showing the works of designer William "Bill" Curry at the Parachute Market sale  in downtown Los Angeles.
In 1962, Bill Curry and his wife Jackie founded the El Segundo-based company Design Line Incorporated, for which Bill created innovative lamps and furnishings. Design Line's first lamp, the Stemlite, was wildly popular at the time of its introduction; it was the first lamp to eliminate the base-plus-shade concept and therefore exist as a single piece. Curry's subsequent items for Design Line include the Cattail Lamp, the smaller Lolite Lamp, and the multifunctional Honeycomb Module, which can be used as seating, as a display surface, or as a coffee table. Curry-designed items will include a Cattail Lamp, Honeycomb Modules, Stemlite lamps and original paintings by Curry himself courtesy of his son, Eric, and his estate.
Parachute Market: AD HOC June 6th and 7th, 11 AM-7 PM Preview party on Friday, June 5th at 7 PM 300 S. San…

Objects USA booth at the 2015 Palm Springs Modernism show.
Sol-Air canvas and iron lounge and side table by Pipsan Saarinen Swanson for Ficks Reed, 1950. Sol-Air was selected for the first “Good Design” exhibition in 1950.  The lounge was also used in Case Study House 1950 by Rafael Soriano. So was the Bill Lam lamp in the corner. I'm not sure anyone else cared, but I was excited to put that group together.  Ficks Reed promotional photo by Herbert Matter Source: Via an excellent post on Pipsan Saarinen at Cranbrook

Reform Gallery showed up with some major California work, as usual. That's a big Hassel Smith on the back wall.

Luther Conover and a lot of Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman at Reform.

Red Modern
Allen Ditson screen at Red
Sputnik Modern had all the power stuff
Frank Lloyd Wright
Nakashima


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