Robert Brady, Bluff, wood, mixed media, 60 x 47 x 11 inches
Right when you think you’ve got Bob Brady pegged, he stops you in your tracks with unexpected inventions. His are not the sort some artists toss out to appease a fickle market or to convince themselves they’re still capable of reinvention. Brady’s incremental extrapolations spring from ideas that he has been working with for over 35 years. Read More
Turkey Stremmel installing Robert Brady's bird sculptures
Turkey Stremmel loves to tell the story about how nationally recognized sculptor Robert Brady found his career path.
Born and raised in Reno, he was diagnosed at 16 with rheumatic fever and spent six months in the hospital.
In order to graduate with his buddies and be part of Wooster High School’s first graduating class, Brady had a lot of catching up to do, and algebra was his nemesis. Read More
Zhang Daqian, Lotus and Mandarin Ducks, 1947, sold for $24.5 million at Sotheby’s Hong Kong last year
Art-market analysts have been aflutter since news hit that two Chinese artists, Zhang Daqian and Qi Bashi, took over the top auction-earner spots last year — beating out former titleholders Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol. Zhang works brought in $506.7 million and Qi did $445.1 million, while Warhol earned $324.8 million and Picasso $311.6 million. In fifth place is another Chinese artist, Xu Beihong, who generated $212.9 million. Read More
The art market defied the economic gloom to return 11 per cent to investors in 2011, outpacing stock market returns for a second consecutive year. Read More
If you were told to make a picture involving a fish, a boat prop, and a beach ball, how many ways could you fit them together? What if we threw in a happy face, Mickey Mouse, and the Virgin of Guadalupe? Add to that a porcupine, a few skulls, some cats, no-legged birds, and a devil girl tattoo, and you’ll find yourself in the iconographic realm of Verdi-based artist, Michael Sarich. Read More
In conjunction with Pacific Standard Time, Rosamund Felsen Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of historic works from the 1970’s by Charles Arnoldi. For the first time in decades, these important early works by Arnoldi will be viewable in a single exhibition. Read More
Peter Alexander ‘ Velvets 1974 – 1982 & Resins 2009’ by Diane Calder
The unprecedented Southern California initiative known as ‘Pacific Standard Time (PST)’ was officially inaugurated on the evening of October 2 at the Getty Center.
Bryan Christiansen remembers killing his first deer. It was in South Dakota, where he grew up, and he was 13 or 14 years old. “It was a traumatic experience,” he says. “Traumatic but triumphant … I don’t hunt anymore. It just doesn’t feel right.” Read More
Los Angeles, CA: Pyo Gallery LA announces LA5: Sculpture That Shaped The City, a group exhibition of contemporary Los Angeles sculpture curated by Molly Barnes. The exhibition will include the work of five, well known Los Angeles based artists that have worked in the region since 1965 ;
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