Bad Art, good art, and a movie

Liz McGrath at Patrick Painter garnishes an award for worst show viewed this week.
If you have to go and decide for yourself, go ahead, just don't blame me for your disappointment.
Really great show is up at Sam Freeman Gallery at Bergamot Station. Dustin Yellen is back with a bunch of new paintings that have to be experienced to understand and appreciate. Also worth seeing is a show at Richard Heller Gallery, Ernesto Caivano draws incongruously, but deftly. He draws you in to his tight little drawings until you are immersed in his little melancholic world. If you are still slumming around Bergamot, and you have a stomache for this sort of thing, go to the Robert Berman Gallery, showing paintings, drawings, and photographs of nudes from a wide variety of well known artists. Be ready to blush.
I saw the Banksy movie last night, and it was good, entertaining, and funny. I think a more accurate title would be "Banksy outs Mr. Brainwash as a poseur". Totally worth seeing as a catalyst to discussing the art market, and what it is, was, and has become.

Quiet and powerful

This week I have had the opportunity to consult on one of the foremost contemporary art collections, in the world. The 30,000 square foot home was completely filled with original works by Picasso (3 paintings!) John Chamberlain, Bob Raushenburg, Franz Kline, Ad Rhinehardt, Sol Lewitt, Robert Irwin, Ellsworth Kelly, Julian Schnabel, Sterling Ruby, Diane Arbus and the list goes on and on. It is a mindwarp to comprehend that each and every artwork being handled has the financial power within it to build a rocket, shelter a family, build a race car, etc. I feel this intrinsic value undeniablly, inextricably attached to the art, becames an additional energy to the artr, further propelling it through the market, almost stripping the work of it's original intended statement, and becoming a marker of sorts, to the collector; a gold ring, if you will.
Well I'm off to hand deliver an original Ed Ruscha painting to a collector in Newport Beach, and collect $100,000 in cash on the deal. Remember rule #1, no names.
Have fun today, stay out of trouble, and think good thoughts.

New Ritz-Carlton, art installed by

My company just installed the reception area, and lobby and public areas of this new addition to Los Angeles's fine hotel choices:
http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/index.php/ritz-carlton-los-ang-6707/
Over this past year we were lucky to have installed the poolside decorative frames along the poolside of the SLS hotel in Beverly Hills:
http://www.starwoodhotels.com/luxury/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=3171
and we are still putting the finishing touches on the W hotel and condominium development in Hollywood:
http://www.whollywoodresidence.com/
Please remember that I can bring my team of professional art installers to your home or business, and provide you with the same level of service demanded by these fine establishments! Thank you for your referrals, too!