Squared Logic

The thing that annoys me the most about art openings, is the food. I think it is very crass to serve beer out of a bucket of ice. At least have a some snacks that do not look like they came from a kmart deli. I can reclaim better hors d'oeuvres and no one would even know. They are inexpensive, easy to create and should be a staple of the scene.
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I went to see three show yesterday. One of the shows was by Shoshona Brombacher, an amazing Jew artist. The second was Sonia Almeida, there has been a bit of buzz about her work, and Eugenio Espinoza (I had no idea who he was but the press release sounded interesting).

Shoshana's work I am very familiar with. I met Shoshana over a year ago, and I have watched her ideas and compositions become organized and well-presented. Her exhibit was a part of a social event, and I unfortunately missed the actual event, but I was able to view some of the art.

Jew Art tells a story. The brush strokes are bold and impressionistic. The colors have a tendency to be pale and blend together in a way that can be lost if done improperly. There is also a tendency to depict too many elements of a tale onto the canvas, making the story become a muddle of ideas and images. Shoshana can tell a story and the viewer can see words on the canvas where none exist; because she is that vocal with her style.

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Sonia Almeida will be great in about five years. She understands composition, every piece she created was interesting and balanced. Even though the layout was less than ideal, it did not take away from the overall effectiveness of the exhibit.

The concepts are well designed, but the color schemes and execution are a bit sloppy. An additional concern is the cleanliness and completeness of the work presented. Ideally, Sonia needs to work on finishing and developing her brush technique. Her paint layers did not look planned, and brought down the quality of the imaging. When painting on plywood, it is ideal to cover the product with a layer of varnish to seal the painting, and give it finalized appearance. A layer of varnish forgives a lot of mistakes and raises the value of the piece.

I am going to start following her work if I can, because I am very interested in what she is able to come up in the future.

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Eugenio Espinoza...apparently has been making art for years. I went to see his show called "Going Blind Faith".

 The press release was amazing, but after I saw the actual exhibit, I feel like it was insulting him. For example, "...painted oil on aluminum works lean against the gallery's walls-balancing at a single point or against the length of one wall. The six gray metal cubes in the center of the gallery are spare testimonies to a focus on repetition and space in the artist's practice." The translation: "...it was not worth the time to figure out how to hang these sheets of aluminum, so we just stacked all three of these sheets of aluminum against the wall. The six gray metal cubes in the center of the gallery that appear to be benches are a testimonial to the lack of ideas that led to the creation of this project, and the lack of ideas that led to the creation of everything else in the space.


 ...he started marking art  in the 60's

...the exhibit  is monochromatic sheets of metal that are structurally unsound, and the only interesting piece is hidden in a corner of a room where the object of attention is a black and white canvas that has nothing to do with the concepts in the other pieces.....



Maybe it is time to do something different.

...or maybe it is the start of something different.

...in which case the arrangement of all the variables environment should have had the objective of "leading" the viewer "blindly". The  pièce de résistance being the black and white canvas against a side wall of the second room.

If that is not the case, then Eugenio should make furniture. I think he would be an excellent furniture designer. His aesthetic for simple monochromatic design is conducive to contemporary environments.