Esoteric Survey

The Doyle Lane Summit happened this past Saturday at The Landing / Reform Gallery. It featured a panel discussion and book release for the exhibition,Doyle Lane: Clay Paintings  The star of the show, the Mutual Savings and Loan mural, accompanied by felt chairs by Tanya Aguiniga and Eames in the audience.
It was a packed house.  A lot of hands raised when it was asked who owned a piece by Lane. 
Seated, left to right: Jill Moniz- Former curator at California African American Museum, Gerard O'Brien- Owner of Reform, Rudy Estrada- Close friend of Doyle's; and Ben Sarar- another close friend and the photographer whose images captured a rare look at Doyle in his element, creating art.The curator, the dealer, the friend/patron and the friend/photographer each shared their perspectives on Lane. The topics ranged from art, friendship, race, religion, sexuality and even toxic Superfund sites. Here, Rudy is recounting how Doyle would give him and the other neighborhood kids weeds pots when…

Doyle Lane Summit featuring a panel discussion and a book release and signing  for the catalogue Doyle Lane: Clay Paintings  Saturday, June 28th 2 PM at Reform Gallery
More on the exhibition, here.

Doyle Lane's Midcentury ceramics the star of Reform Gallery show Read it in the LA Times

Doyle Lane : Clay Paintings The Landing at Reform

Lent by the California African American Museum



The star of the exhibition is an 18 ft. long clay mural that was commissioned for an office in 1963. 


Installation in 1963. It lived on that wall until it was moved to Reform.

Gerard O'Brien and artist Takashi Murakami
Artist Tanya Aguiniga, her husband Todd, and baby Io.
The smallest clay painting in the show.


Doyle Lane display of small clay paintings at Reform in 2005.
Doyle Lane (1925-2002) You do not want to miss this exhibition.

Doyle Lane : Clay Paintings The Landing at Reform Opening Reception: Thursday, May 1st, 7 pm
Photo: Ben Serar

Reform has unearthed some work by Doyle which has never been on public display. You do not want to miss this!

Doyle Lane : Clay Paintings The Landing at Reform Opening Reception: Thursday, May 1st, 7 pm "Why not take paintings out of doors where one may sit and watch the changing play of sunshine on the glazes, and thus have changes of mood during the day?" - Doyle Lane via Objects USA 
This is going to be major.

ELIZABETH MCCORD: SOFT COLOR
The Landing at Reform
OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6TH TH, 7-9:30 PM 
ON DISPLAY: FEBRUARY 6TH-APRIL 5TH Elizabeth McCord (1914-2008) was a California Modernist painter best known for her 1940s, 50s and 60s canvases. Her work Big Pink was the only painting chosen to appear in LACMA's sweeping 2011 survey of mid-century California design, Living in a Modern Way.If you're in LA tonight, you should definitely get out of the house and go to this opening at Reform and the Grapevine book signing. Go get your Grapevine book signed at 6pm and then head over to Reform. They're less than 5 miles apart. Elizabeth McCord painting hanging in June Wayne's house, which was deigned by Alvin Lustig. FYI- Contrary to what this dealeris saying, these lamps were not deigned by Lustig. Update: The dealer is now saying the lamps are byHarry Lawenda. I wonder if they have any documentation on that? 
Source: Julius Shulman photo via Modernism Rediscovered

Calder and Abstraction, at LACMA No photos allowed, and there were plenty of guards making sure of it.  Trust me, you need to go see this exhibit.
James Turrell: A Retrospective, also at LACMA 
 James Turrell, "Breathing Light" is an 8 minute walk-in environment with a constantly changing spectrum of lights.
Art that you have to take your shoes off for is the best.
Turrell and Eames
Along with the light pieces are several exhibits that deal with larger scale works, like the Roden Crater Project and other site-specific works.  There's a lot of ephemera too. I wish I was on the ball and was able get a spot to see Perceptual Cell and Dark Matters before they sold out. 
If you haven't already been, don't forget to go to TANYA AGUIÑIGA: FIBER ELEMENTS at Reform She'll be at LACMA soon too. Wanna bet?

TANYA AGUIÑIGA: FIBER ELEMENTS
The Landing at Reform
OPENING RECEPTION:THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5 TH, 7-9:30 PM ON DISPLAY: DECEMBER 5TH -FEBRUARY 1ST
 "If Beatrice Wood was the Mama of Dada, then Tanya Aguiñiga surely  qualifies as the patron saint of theLos Angeles modern craft movement."
LA Times Tanya has a long list of accolades to back this statement up. She's been on the cover ofAmerica Craft magazine. The prestigious Crafit in Americafilmed a segment on her. CAFAM (Craft and Folk Art Museum) had an exhibition of her work in 2011. It really goes on and on. The people who know craft and design -- like the aforementioned list, Gerard O'Brien from Reform (a longtime supporter), institutions, major collectors and me (way lower on the totem pole of anyone listed) -- know Tanya is amazing. I even sleep with one of her sculptures hanging over my bed (one of the few things I own that was made after the 60's).  Anyway, this show is going to be great and I'm sure the opening…

Chris Mottalini: After You Left/They Took It Apart (Demolished Paul Rudolph Homes)
Chris Mottalini photographs of now-demolished historically significant homes by  architect and former Yale School of Architecture dean Paul Rudolph.
The Landing at Reform On Display: October 3rd - November 30th, 2013



Ralph Twitchell Residence
Ralph Twitchell Residence, 1947 Photo: Architectural Forum, via Triangular Modern Houses (There's a ton of great information on Rudolph here).
 Another great exhibition at The Landing.