tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56316332011-04-21T17:40:01.562-07:00my humble opinions on art related activities...soon to be on caryncoleman.comCaryn Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10609871041069072853noreply@blogger.comBlogger321100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5631633.post-1077820612982335062004-02-26T10:34:00.000-08:002004-02-26T10:38:55.873-08:00

So as I'm sure you've all noticed, I haven't posted here in a super long time because I've been pretty busy with art.blogging.la. Soon I'll get my own blog up-and-running but abLA is the place right now.

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When I went to the Stray Show last year I met another young dealer, Oliver Kamm whose gallery 5BE is in New York, during a panel discussion about emerging galleries. What we were saying in this panel led me to believe that this guy was either going to really hate me or we'd hit it off...fortunately, it was not the later. Oliver is showing one our artists, Seonna Hong, this October in her first

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Want even more on the San Francisco Art Fair? Well, Rachael Lorenz-Polsky (who also had a booth there...hmmmm) writes this article for artnet magazine. See, I told you George Lucas was there!

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SAN FRANCISCO 01.04 I have been meaning to check out the San Francisco Art International Art Exposition ever since I moved to Los Angeles but, for some reason or another, I never quite made it. However, this year I was bound and determined. Having waited until the last minute I decided the most economical way to get up there was to drive. So I rented myself a little car and drove the six hours,

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We are currently working on getting caryncoleman.com up and running in addition to adding a Los Angeles-based art blog to blogging.la. Lots of exciting things happening. Before all that though, I will be posting about my recent trip to the San Francisco Art Fair. Don't worry, I'll leave the horror of food poisoning out...you're welcome.

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As I have been excited for the 2004 to arrive and with it the opportunity to learn from 2003, I'm a little troubled that it's not starting off easy...I mean at all. Learning how to balance the stress of running the gallery and all that comes along with it is one thing (one very tough thing) but one thing I want to be different this year is the gossip. Why is it that people within the art world (

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I'm not even going to go into how busy things have been the last month with the shows that we've gotten up (Drawing Show and Emmeric James Konrad), getting 6PR ready, and writing for the new blogging.la. It's been quite the crazy month but, then again, they are all becoming crazy months. So, I'm looking forward to 2004...quite frankly, I've been looking forward to 2004 since last January. More

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I'm not even going to go into how busy things have been the last month with the shows that we've gotten up (Drawing Show and Emmeric James Konrad), getting 6PR ready, and writing for the new blogging.la. It's been quite the crazy month but, then again, they are all becoming crazy months. So, I'm looking forward to 2004...quite frankly, I've been looking forward to 2004 since last January. More

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Please check out a new blog website that I am writing for...www.blogging.la. It's an amazing site that, though it's just beginning, will eventually be the staple for all things happening in Los Angeles. We have Travis from Buddyhead, Wil Wheaton, Xeni Jarden and of course all the useless crap Sean talks about. I will be posting about the LA art scene, much like I do here but it's concentrated on

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http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/finch2/finch11-20-03.asp Here is a really interesting take on Murakami from artnet.com - it's especially interesting considering my recent post (see below). Although I must admit I am a sucker for the Louis Vuitton bags, which is more of a Marc Jacobs obsession than Murakami, this article is interesting for two reasons... 1) It lightly explores the

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I haven't written here in a little while (installing a show takes up my time), what I feel like writing is way too personal and I don't know if I want to broadcast how tired I am all over the net. But, let's just say, as the weather is becoming very fall-like (how very un-LA), I realize that it's time for me to take a little break. But, there is no rest for the wicked when it comes to art shows

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Only two more hours left for Shepard's show. The gallery has been busy today which is wonderful. In the few moments I have to space out, I keep looking at the Chad Robertson painting we have already and the more I look at it, the more I fall in love with it. It's truly beautiful. I hope that people will be as taken with his paintings as I am. Anyway, I'm sure I'll have more to write next week. I

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Sean’s new Wired arrived the other day. Amazingly I was able to pry it out of his hands long enough to read an article about Takashi Murakami by Jeff Howe. I have been reading some articles on him lately and cannot believe the level of fame he has received in the past few years so I’m always interested to see what people have to say, especially in a non-art magazine. Needless to say, I was quite

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Friendly etiquette tips for when you visit a gallery... -When the sign on the door says "We are open...please knock" kindly do not pull back and forth on the door when it won't open. Also, do not knock when you see me coming towards the door...I know that you are there. -Do not talk loudly on a cell phone while you are at a gallery. Just as your business is important, so is ours and we'd like

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Los Angeles Times dollar update... L. Heffley (from the Theater Calendar) writes: sixspace- Returning your dollar - cute promotional gimmick for the installation, but not the kind of thing we encourage and I suspect you sent the publicity about it to me in error - I'm at the theater desk, not art. Best, Lynne Heffley, Time Staff Writer OK, the weird thing is, I didn't send her anything...not

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Phew... So last week our contractor for the gallery building comes in and let's us know that we can use the 1800 square foot space next to us until they rent it. This is, obviously, a very exciting thing to have happen as we can be more creative and put on really interesting projects. We've wanted to do something like this for a long time and already had a name prepared (6PR for sixspace project

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There is an incredible article on Ace gallery owner Douglas Christmas in the new LA Weekly. In fact, there's a caricature of Xmas on the cover. I've heard some not so nice things about this guy but it's really nothing new in terms of what people in the art world know about certain art dealers...not paying artists, screwing over collectors, being ego-maniacs...but damn is it an interesting read.

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I don't like these humongous group art shows that are so popular these days. I mean, when you have anymore than 15 artists in a show (which is a lot anyway) people are just aesthecially overloaded and individual pieces get lost. Just a current thought.

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I know that it is pretty much a waste of energy to discuss the media and how awful it is. I often say to myself "live by the sword, die by the sword" when it comes to the press and to not worry about it too much such as when all the inaccurate press about the West Memphis exhibition and case was published. But, I have been having an ongoing issue with the Los Angeles Times since we opened the

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Wow, September has been the fastest month ever. Right now it's almost midnight and we're still at the gallery as Shepard finished up this AMAZING installation he's doing for his show here. Actually, it's the third night that we haven't gotten home before 2am (I should say Sean because the last two night I went home early and to the dog park). But this is so worth it. It always makes me feel

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Went to a couple of art openings last Saturday night...the two we went on purpose to see were great but the others we stumbled into along the way were pretty poopy. Either way, I got to meet one of my favorite artists Raymond Pettibon and he said my gallery was beautiful. Note to self: could end my art career now happy! Pettibon's show was pretty fantastic and I know that he did some of the

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Well it's been awhile since I've posted something on here. It's not that I haven't had much to comment on but rather it's been insanely busy here getting ready for the West Memphis Three exhibition we opened on Saturday. I won't reiterate all the details here (you can go to the gallery website to see all that stuff) but I will tell you that I'm in the middle of moving from blogger onto my very

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Two major figures in the art world have passed... John Coplans (1920-2003) was the founder of Artforum in 1962 and Dialogue in 1978. Kirk Varnedoe (1946 - 2003) was the Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at MOMA for many years.

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Vacation time is definitely over...the press interest in the West Memphis 3 benefit show is astounding. It's amazing what the power of celebrity can do, especially in this town. Although I am surprised at how the press is now drawn to this I guess I'm not really surprised at all...it's just an interesting thing to watch unfold. Of course the facts are totally wrong like the title and the fact

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Not much to speak about since I'm on an art-hiatus but if you get a chance check out the Andy Howell show at Kantor Gallery on Melrose...really good stuff...liked it more than I thought I would. Peace...

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Not really much to talk about except that I am about three hours away from my self-imposed four day mini-vacation. I'm very excited to get a chance to relax, take the dog to the dog park, and watch movies! I do have to go to the dentist on Monday though at 8am (ouch) to take care of this TMJ thing I have so wish me luck. If I can only get through these Sales and Use Tax forms, I'll be a-ok.

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The Digital Breakthrough We hosted an exhibition at the beginning of the summer that featured two artists, one of which is a commerical illustrator from New York. Her work has been featured in major magazines, commericials, board games, etc. and while she had never really had an art show in the States, we felt the work that she was doing was significant, not to mention amazing, and it was

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Somewhere in the middle... I am smack-dab in the middle. My views on art have displaced me: I am not in the underground or lowbrow (I hate that term so much) and yet I am not quite accepted in the higher fine art world realm. The backlash has begun with those who think we believe we're above them and, yet, those who are in the "real" art world are just starting to take notice. I have people

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Time to micro-manage... Despite what Artforum may lead you to believe or what other galleries in the Midwest and East Coast are doing (lucky bastards who are open "by appointment only"), August is apparently not a slow month for art exhibitions in Los Angeles. Although I have a bad case of summeritis, I will definitely be checking out the massive onslaught of shows opening here in the next

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New day, new post. This time with a positive spin (I'm not really mean, promise!)... Only a couple of weeks before she had her show here, Fafi was doing all of the illustrations for a magazine called "Le Colette". Colette is a French boutique/gallery that puts out a magazine twice a year. I finally got a copy this week and it is AMAZING...instead of using photographs for their fashion layout or

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DISCLAIMER: this entire post is extremely sarcastic...I would never send this letter nor did I ever intend to. It was something that I wrote because I was at a road block writing a response letter because I needed to mask the honest truth. I don't want to just say "we don't have time in our schedule" or "your work doesn't fit" when, in fact, these people sent me their artwork for revue. Granted,

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Hi folks- Apparently being a tech nerd is contagious because I have now started my own blog page. Basically I started this page to get a lot of things off of my chest that I seem to think about all the time...mainly about art-related stuff. There will be good things as well as bad things, things I wish I could change, things I'm trying to change, things I see that are damaging, the whole

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