Luis De Jesus

NEWS & EVENTS

January 27, 2012

Hugo Crosthwaite featured in Chicago Tribune: "Chicago Cultural Center builds a morbid, intriguing cabinet of curiosities"

You're going to die.

We're all going to die. Death is our common fate.

As novelist Chuck Palahniuk put it in "Fight Club," "On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero."

This universality of death — through centuries, through different cultures — is explored in "Morbid Curiosity," a wonderful exhibit that opens Saturday at the Chicago Cultural Center. It runs through July 8. [ READ ON ]

January 23, 2012

mara de luca featured in Holly Myers article: "Pacific Standard Time: Young artists talk about the sweeping exhibit"

We've heard a great deal in recent months from members of the Pacific Standard Time generation: artists whose work between 1945 and 1980 heralded "the birth of the Los Angeles art scene," in the words of the Getty's PR campaign. more

Less visible have been the heirs to all this innovation — the artists who've swelled the ranks in the last two decades, standing on the shoulders of PST's giants to capture the attention of curators everywhere.

Which gets one to wondering: What have they seen? What are their responses? What does the post-PST generation make of the ubiquitous PST enterprise, now at its approximate midpoint? [ READ ON ]

January 10, 2012

zackary drucker and amos mac @ luis de jesus los angeles

I wish more artists had deeper sense of self like Zackary Drucker - who collaborated with photographer Amos Mac to create their exhibit Distance is where the heart is, home is where you hang your heart at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles. I met Zackary, who's the one pictured in the images, and she kindly took me around from piece to piece answering all my questions. And I what I learnt was that most of the images were actually captured by Amos during short performance art pieces that Zackary would put on late at night... [ READ ON ]

January 05, 2012

Miyoshi Barosh / The Loop Show: Our Material Problem in the Hands of Artists

China Adams, known as a smart, conceptual artist who also happens to possess a highly evolved skill set, has curated her first exhibition titled The Loop Show. This is a not-to-be-missed group exhibition that spans two floors of the Beacon Arts Building in Inglewood, California and involves eighteen artists, including the artist/curator herself. [ READ ON ]

January 03, 2012

MIYOSHI BAROSH FEATURED IN "LOOP SHOW" AT BEACON ARTS BUILDING

Broken furniture, empty cigarette packages, auto parts, old magazines, used aluminum foil, plastic cups, tattered clothing -- cast-off materials have been a staple for artists ever since industrial manufacturing, mass production and planned obsolescence began to leave growing piles of refuse along society's myriad thoroughfares. Along the way, artistic uses as diverse as metaphoric death, surrogacy for social marginalization, incisive formal analysis of creative singularity and even a simple do-gooder impulse for recycling have come into play. more

Conceptual art in the 1960s partly proposed that enough objects already exist in the world, eliminating the need for artists to make more. Trash to the rescue. At the Beacon Arts Building, a wide-ranging exhibition titled "The Loop Show" seems to propose -- at least indirectly -- that the Conceptual dictum is now second nature to artists working with throwaways. [ READ ON ]