Huffington Post July 1, 2016 . Review of Marc Fichou’s multi -media installation at Chimento Contemporary, Los Angeles. Fichou’s curiosity about parallels in philsophy, physics, nature and art makes his artwork life-like rather than art-like. Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lita-barrie/marc-fichous-playful-inst_b_10765356.html...
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About: Lita Barrie
Recent Posts by Lita Barrie
Traveling Museum Retrospective of Venezuelan Modernist Oswaldo Vigas
Painter’s Table - via Huffington Post June 22, 2016 . Review of the traveling museum exhibition viewed at MAC ( Museu de Arte Contemporanea da Universidade de Sao Paulo) in Brazil. Vigas lived in Paris for twelve years in the 1950s – in the heady mix with Picasso, Leger, Ernst Matta and Lam. He then returned to...
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George Condo’s Jazz Inspired Paintings at Spruth Magers, Los Angeles
HuffPost , Painter’s Table – via Huffington Post June 8, 2016. Review of George Condo’s music inspired paintings at Spruth Magers, Los Angeles. Condo arranges fragments of faces and geometrical forms in the same vein as great jazz musicians deconstruct well known meolodies by “turning them inside out.” We see iconic images referncing Picasso, Goya and Monet in...
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Hauser Wirth and Schimmel Inaugural Exhibition: All Women Sculpture
Huffington Post, March 30, 2016. Review of the new Hauser Wirth & Schimmel inaugural exibition Revolution in the Making Exhibition - comprised of 100 outstanding works by 34 women artists – over a 70 year period. This is the first exhibition to celebrate legendary women sculptors who changed the history of sculpture and women’s art, by using hands on techniques and soft materials. This ground breaking exhibition is co-curated by Paul Schimmel and feminist art historian Jenni Sorkin
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lita-barrie/hauser-wirth-schimmel-ina_b_9570292.html?
Lita Albuquerque: The Aesthetics of Expansive Deep Space
Huffington Post, February 23, 2016. An essay on Albuquerque’s simultaneous exhibitions at Kohn Gallery and USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles. The expansiveness of Albuquerque’s perspective of deep space, skill set, grand scale and inter- generational collaborations is discussed in relation to Susan Sontag’s idea of redrawing “old maps of consciousness”, with what Albuquerque...
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Ruth Weisberg: Imaginary Space for Memories
Huffington Post, October 5, 2015. Review of Weisberg’s retrospective at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles. An analysis of the way the formidable grand dame of figurative and feminist art created an imaginary space for memorues. Includes a video by Eric Minh Swenson Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lita-barrie/ruth-weisberg-imaginary-space-for-memories_b_8218102.html...
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David Hockney Interview: Paintings and Photography at L.A Louver, Venice, California
HuffPost and Painters Table – via Huffington Post, July 23, 2015. A rare interview with David Hockney, the most celebrated living artist, in his Hollywood Hills studio. Combined with a review of Hockney’s new paintings and digital photography drawings at L.A Louver, Venice CA. This conversation with Hockney deals with his radical use of multiple perspective as an...
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Beyond the Looking Glass: Your Truths are Illusions (republication of Barbara Kruger catalog essay)
Re-publication of a exhibtion catalog essay on Barbara Kruger, published by the National Art Gallery, New Zealand in 1988.This essay was re published in Now, See Here, a collection of essays on art and language ( eds. Ian Wedde, Gregory Burke, 1989) Link: Essay: Beyond the Looking Glass: Your Truths are Illusions ...
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Studio Visit with Helen Pashgian: The Leading Lady of Light
Huffington Post, April 10, 2015. Studio visit with legendary pioneer of California Light and Space, Helen Pashgain. Light is a lifelong exploration for the most brilliant minds. This article explores the parallel explorations of light by artists and physicists. Pashgain, the grand dame of light, is still on the cutting edge after her monumental installation at...
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Roland Reiss Monograph. Essay text
Monograph essay in Roland Reiss Painting and Sculpture (published by Grand Central Press and Cal State Fullerton 2014). Re-published in Painter’s Table via Artweek.LA , Jan 5, 2015 The essay explores the philosophic implications of the concept of spatial depth in Roland Reiss’ floral paintings. It contextualizes Reiss work within the important debate over space composition –...
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