Go East My Friends
Posted by michelle on 12 Sep 2007 at 12:40 pm | Tagged as: responses/reviews
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston offers an eccentric look into the Chaney Family Collection in Red Hot Asian Art Today. Two of Do Ho Suh’s monumental sculptures, Paratrooper and Karma, fill the gallery space with surgical precision and scale-skewed significance. The humorous works of the Luo Brothers brighten up the voluminous space while several animation and video works from Wu Junyong and Takeshi Murata add strange soundtracks to this fantastic exhibition.
Also if you are in U-town, stop by The Station for an interesting juxtaposition of Rice University sculpture professor George Smith’s weighty, stoic steel sculptures, Aime Mpane multi-media installation and James Little’s vibrant, Stella-esque oil and wax canvas paintings. Though they are billed as solo exhibitions in this space, Smith and Little fit together in a harmonious tesseract pattern of elongated triangles. The Station show ends this week and you can still catch the Red Hot Asian Art show through mid-October.
Waddup Zane Lewis? That Red Hot Asian show is a hit, but waddup Zane Lewis?
Warhol’s Mao ain’t on the wall, but Texan Zane’s Kim Jong Il is up on there! Some have posited that Zane is hot, I don’t know how red he is, but I know he ain’t the other thing. Only whitey representin’ in the show, actually.
I about fell over backwards a couple weeks ago when I turned a corner at the Whitney’s Summer Psychedelic social studies exhibition–by which I mean it was a textbook survey of the 60s– and saw a wide mat of swirled latex on the floor! Big colorful patch of paint–maybe 25 square feet of it.
Waddup Zane Lewis?!
(It was a Lynda Bengalis piece, which was actually about as shocking…)
Lynda Bengalis had sex with a guy dressed up in a gigantic Dalmation costume with a huge plastic dick. in a sideshow. there’s video documentation of this. What do you expect? Her ceramics are prime examples of CRAP, as in GRADE A.
Zane Lewis is hot as in good looking. I am one of the few locals that loves him. So…You’re right though, whaddup Zane? Aren’t you in like Bologna painting popes or something? What gives with the Hot Asian connection? Maybe in the Chaney collection it’s a matter of context not pretext. or ethnicity.
America, fuck yeah!
“If Manes can live without Diogenes, why not Diogenes without Manes?”-Diogenes
Warhol’s Mao? You can find at least one of those in Olmos Park. And just perfect for a hypothetical show called “Warmed-over Asian Art of Yesterday.”
I can’t confirm that Lewis is indeed the only “whitey” in the survey, but addition to the “chinkys,” “Red Hot Asian Art Today” includes “responses from America and Europe.”
But upon receiving confirmation that artists were in fact swirling latex paint on floors before said whitey was conceived, I feel as if the concrete has pulled out from under me.