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{ Monthly Archives }
September 2009
Edwin Oshiro/Ryuichi Ogino
Beau Basse from LeBasse Projects shot me a note to let you know about their upcoming show on September 12th, that’s next Saturday (don’t worry, I had to check a calendar, too). And there’s no way I’m going to be responsible for even one of you in the LA area missing this show due to my negligence. I care about you too much to see you sitting at home on a Saturday night when you could be in Culver City drinking some free wine and cramming your eyes full of glory. This show, or shows actually, is definitely a must see as it features new works from Edwin Ushiro (work pictured above) and Ryuichi Ogino. Ushiro’s work is gorgeous and lush and layered, and Ogino’s is beautiful in its graphic simplicity and playfulness. Both these dudes are better than you in so many ways that it’s kind of embarrassing. If you don’t die from smoke inhalation in the next week or so, make sure you’re in Culver City from 7-10pm for this opening. If you have some kind of medical emergency that night, which is the only acceptable excuse, the show will be up until October 3rd; plenty of time for you to get over there once your burns heal. My public service for the day is now completed.
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Ryan Browning
So, let’s say that in the next thousand years or so mankind manages to finish itself off, through war or disease or meteor strike or whatever. What would happen to the planet then? Would the houses and office building become decaying monuments to our lost species, like fossils written large? What new species would arise in a few million years to replace us, to live inside the bones of our empty structures? When I look at the works of Ryan Browning I see a new race of simple, geometric creatures populating the Earth in our wake. Something about the way he paints the figures makes them seem less like shapes and more like living beings, like they’re interacting with the environment around them. It’s hard to verbalize, but, whatever it is, I like it a lot. It feels like I’m looking at portraits instead of semi-abstract works.