Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Marlboro Man No. 1, 2016 #amitallman #newwork


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Ride Easy (for mud) Ami Tallman #newwork


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Tuesday, August 04, 2015

#amitallman #newwork


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Saturday, August 01, 2015

#Newwork #amitallman


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Sunday, July 26, 2015

#Newwork (I guess when )


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Saturday, July 25, 2015

#Newwork


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Wednesday, July 08, 2015

#Newwork #amitallman


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Sunday, July 05, 2015

#Newwork


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Thursday, November 18, 2010

2 in a series tentatively titled "relations with the man"


"bring it on"


"fatherly patience, firmness, moral generosity #1"



from an ongoing catalog of expressions, the parameters of which will be articulated at another time


"pouts 3 & 4"

(one of a set of panels in process, the rolling stones at the chateau recording beggar's banquet.)

Monday, October 26, 2009


Published on 07-10-2009 at Saatchi Online Magazine

Ami Tallman
Circus Gallery
Through October 17
www.circus-gallery.com

Ami Tallman's most recent exhibition of figurative paintings revolves around the idea of charisma through an intimate depiction of actors, musicians, historical figures, and political activists. Developing her signature brand of portraiture, Tallman's most recent works on paper are looser and more layered with a sharp attention to color as seen in the fiery red-haired Ziggy Stardust, the saturated coat of a young JFK Jr., and Iggy Pop's snarling pink lips for example. Tallman's Technicolor compositions seem as imaginary as they are drawn from life.

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/blogon/art_news/catherine_tafts_round-up_of_the_best_shows_in_los_angeles/5932

Wednesday, September 09, 2009


(Jackie O on Jason Yates)
Fey Fists and Pretty Things: Ami Tallman at Circus Gallery
Opening reception Friday, September 11, 7 - 9PM
Sept. 11 - Oct. 17, 2009

Circus Gallery
7065 Lexington Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90038
(Cross street is LaBrea)

Wednesday, September 02, 2009

ULLI AND LUCRECIA'S LUSTIGE GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNG MIT PARTY,
LOS ANGELES 2009
SEPTEMBER 18, 2009 - OCTOBER 11, 2009
OPENING DANCE PARTY: FRIDAY NIGHT, SEPTEMBER 18TH, 8PM - 12AM

CURATED BY:
LUCRECIA ROA AND ULRICH WULFF

PRESS RELEASE:
Five Thirty Three is pleased to announce Ulli and Lucrecia’s Lustige Gruppenausstellung mit Party, Los Angeles 2009. In the tradition of creating group shows on their various journeys, André Butzer, Thomas Winkler, and Ulrich Wulff enjoy bringing people together to share ideas and experiences. This September, Ulrich is visiting Los Angeles sans Butzer and Winkler, but has decided that, with Lucrecia Roa, this visit was a good enough reason to organize another group exhibition. This show is envisioned to create its own purpose, leaving the environment to operate organically by the work displayed and the people who engage with the space. Friends from Los Angeles, Berlin, Paris and Japan have been asked to participate. The show will consist of drawings, in conjunction with performance, and of course, followed and completed by an opening party. The works will be limited to pencil on paper, not only for transportation reasons but also to share the unique experience of getting back to quintessential tools that most of us used when discovering how to express ourselves. As in the previous shows, “Niveaularm” (Austria), “Die Prof. Winkler Kunst und Literaturtage Los Angeles 2005” or “Kommando Giotto Di Bondone” (Milan), the opening of this show will also be an event. A book will be published following the closing of the show with contributions from various writers and artists along with documentation of the show by the small publishing company, Heckler and Koch, run by Butzer, Winkler, and Wulff.

ARTISTS:
JULIA ABSTADT, ANNE-KATHRIN AHRENS, MECCA ANDREWS, DANIELA BELLM, SEBASTIAN DACEY, LINA DALY, HANK SCHMIDT IN DER BEEK, TJORG DOUGLAS BEER, SARAH BOHN, HEATHER BROWN,ANDRE BUTZER, SARAH CROMARTY, EDUARDO CONSUEGRA, HEATHER COOK, SUMMER COOPER, MARIO CORREA, CHRISTIAN CUMMINGS, GREG DALTON, GERALD DAVIS, DOMINIC, SIBYLLA DUMKE, FABIAN FOBBE, THOMAS GROETZ, DOUG HARVEY, JUSTIN HANSCH, LISA HERFELDT, HAZEL HILL, LEIKO IKEMURA, CHARLES IRVIN, BARRY MACGREGOR JOHNSTON, NORA JOUNG, VISHAL JUGDEO, WINSTON AND SAM KAHN, PETER KLARE, HEIKE KELTER, FELIX EDLER VON KREPL, PAUL J. EDLER VON KREPL, BETTINA KRIEG, JEFF KOPP, PETER KLARE, HEIKE KELTER, FELIX EDLER VON KREPL, PAUL J. EDLER VON KREPL, BETTINA KRIEG, JEFF KOPP, JOCHEN LENGENFELDER, JOACHIM LENZ, DENNIS LOESCH, LIA LOWENTHAL, RENE LUCKARD, BRETT LUND, LEE LYNCH, SAMANTHA MAGOWAN, MAX MASLANSKY, ZOE CLAIRE MILLER, ADAM MILLER, JESSICA MINCKLEY, SHINJI MINEGISHI, LESLEY MOON, JOSHUA NATHANSON, PAT NGOHO, JONAH OLSON, NORA JEAN PETERSEN, YOANN PISTERMAN, CECILE QUILTU, HEATHER RASMUSSEN, LUCRECIA ROA, JEREMY ROCINE, OLGA SAGAY, JEFF SCHOEN, MEIK SCHLITZ, ROUVEN SCHMITT, FABIAN SCHUBERT, ALLISON SCHULNIK, PHILIP SCHWALB, TIF SIGFRIDS, NATASCHA SNELLMAN, CAMERON SOREN, ADAM STAMP, MARLENE STARK, VALERIE STAHL VON STROMBERG, AMI TALLMAN, MATEO TANNATT, SAMANTHA THOMAS, BRENDAN THREADGILL, LIA TRINKA-BROWNER, HENRY VINCENT, RAUL WALCH, TIM WANDELT, LANDON WIGGS, THOMAS WINKLER, DOMINIC WOOD, BOBBI WOODS, PETER AND SAMANTHA WU, ULRICH WULFF,
ERIC YAHNKER, COCO YATES, JASON YATES

PERFORMANCE: MECCA ANDREWS, SARAH CROMARTY AND CHARLES IRVIN, FIREWORKS, TIF SIGFRIDS, ULRICH WULFF

533 South Los Angeles Street
Second Floor
Los Angeles, California 90013

HOURS BY APPOINTMENT:
info@fivethirtythree.org

Tuesday, September 01, 2009

http://www.whitecolumns.org/view.html?type=exhibitions&status=current&id=465

Other People's Projects 2nd Cannons Publications

September 10-October 24, 2009

In our Project space – as part of our ongoing ‘Other Peoples Projects’ series - we are proud to present recent books and editions published by 2nd Cannons Publications, the innovative Los Angeles-based press founded in 2005 by the artist Brian Kennon. The display consists of all books and editions published to date (2005-2009), including two earlier publications by Kennon that precede his inauguration of 2nd Cannons Publications. For more information visit: www.2ndcannons.com

Books by: Brian Kennon, Natascha Sofia Snellman, Bruce Hainley, Ami Tallman, Meg Cranston, Julie Lequin, William E. Jones, Darren Bader, Jan Tumlir and Brian Kennon, Flora Wiegmann and Drew Heitzler, Darren Bader, Brian Kennon and Chris Lipomi, Brendan Fowler, and David Horovitz.

Editions by: Doug Skinner and Michael Smith, Brendan Fowler, Sayre Gomez, Jim Skuldt, Brian Kennon, Darren Bader, David Horvitz, Lisa Williamson, Matthew Chambers, Bobbi Woods, and Michael Smith.

To coincide with this presentation Brian Kennon has made a new issue of White Columns’ ‘zine ‘The W.C.’ entitled ‘2nd Cannons Publications: Complete Books 2005 – 2009’, which is available from the gallery priced $2.00. Books and Editions from 2nd Cannons Publications can be purchased from White Columns, Printed Matter, or directly from the 2nd Cannons Publications website.


320 West 13th Street
(Enter on Horatio Street, between Hudson
and 8th Avenue)
New York, NY 10014
212 924 4212
212 645 4764 Fax

Gallery Hours
Tue - Sat, 12–6 PM

info@whitecolumns.org

Tuesday, April 21, 2009



The Green Gallery East presents:
Lovable Like Orphan Kitties and Bastard Children
curated by Kristin Calabrese and Joshua Aster
Opening Reception: May 9th 2009 4-10 PM
On May 9th, 2009 Milwaukee will be given the opportunity to survey a sampling of the LA contemporary art scene. Seventy-eight paintings, 11 x 11 inches and under, by seventy-eight different artists, will be brought from Los Angeles via bag check and carry-on by LA based artists Kristin Calabrese and Joshua Aster. The artists differ in their aesthetics, their styles, as well as, their stages of development and exposure but they will all be converging from May 9th until June 6th in Milwaukee's Green Gallery East.

The Green Gallery East
1500 N Farwell Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53202
phone: 414.226.1978
www.thegreengallery.biz

Thursday, March 26, 2009


details from some brand new acolyte drawings

these first three are colored pencil and enamel on polypropylene

this last one is enamel, housepaint, ink, oil, acrylic, and watercolor on gessoed handkerchief.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

pictures of some of the work from my Circus show, "Ecstatic Crush"

installation shot

installation shot

detail


terrible shot, so sorry.

detail


installation shot by julie lequin

Friday, February 20, 2009


"Ecstatic Crush" will be on view at Circus Gallery,
Upstairs from Sky Burchard's solo show,
"All Year Round Falling in Love"
February 28 - April 4
Reception: Saturday, February 28, 7 - 9pm

Circus Gallery
7065 Lexington Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90038
(Cross street is LaBrea)

Tuesday - Thursday, 11 am - 5pm
Friday - Saturday, 11 am - 6 pm

(323) 962-8506
info@circus-gallery.com

Thursday, January 15, 2009






Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Cocktail Hour with Skip Arnold and Friends...
Curated by Matt Wardell
at Bonelli Contemporary

943 North Hill Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Chinatown

Opening Saturday, December 6th, from 6 - 9?

‘Cocktail Hour with Skip Arnold and Friends’ merges the sensibilities of the Dean Martin Variety Show or a Bob Hope Christmas Special (circa 1970) with Tom Marioni’s participatory work ‘The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends’ (which has been orchestrated since 1970). Video and performance artist Skip Arnold serves as host and protagonist to a barrage of international talent. While sipping vodka (pronounced ‘vodker’) in a cozy second floor loft with guests, work from across all disciplines cover the floors and walls. Not quite a one-night mash-up, not quite a ‘holiday show’, but a week and a half of Skip’s friends, associates, and in the fashion of a network variety show, a slew of characters that Skip knows nothing of.

The general premise of the show is rooted in Skip Arnold’s self-determined oeuvre of being “Skip” and its related ‘doings, “actions,” and “choices.” ‘Cocktail Hour with Skip Arnold and Friends’ aims to present a regular occurrence in the life of Skip Arnold.

Artists include Meagan Boyd, Young Chung, Janine Cortez, Michael Decker, Michael Dee, Kim Dorland, Spencer Douglass, Martin Durazo, Katie Herzog, Bettina Hubby, Aragna Ker, John Knuth, Kristi Lippire, Karen Lofgren, Amy Maloof, Adam Miller, Devon Oder, Archie M. Purvis, Michael Rabbit, Michael Rey, Rick Robinson, Michael Salerno, Greta Svalberg, Ami Tallman, Goody B.Wiseman, Matt Wardell, and Eve Wood.


December 2nd - December 13th
Tuesday - Saturday 12-6pm

Friday, November 28, 2008

From Frieze Magazine, Nov 2008


Against the Grain

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions

‘Against the Grain’, an exhibition organized by the artist Christopher Russell for Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), has been marketed as a sequel to the ‘seminal’ LACE exhibition ‘Against Nature: A Group Show of Work by Homosexual Men’ (1988). Organized by Dennis Cooper and Richard Hawkins, the original exhibition was mounted in the midst of the AIDS crisis, on the one hand as a rebuttal to the socio-political rhetoric of the right, and on the other to emphasize the transgressive potential of personal expression and unfettered sensual indulgence at a time when the most visible leftist art tended towards disembodied polemical sloganeering, group activism and the imperative of social responsibility (‘Knowledge = Power’).

The titles of the two exhibitions reflect slightly different translations of the title of J.-K. Huysmans’ decadent feast, A rebours (1884), but the most significant and obvious distinction is Russell’s decision not to employ a clarifying subtitle for the recent show. While the oppositional social ambition of Cooper and Hawkins’ 1988 exhibition is obviously determined and delimited by its subtitle, what Russell’s show works ‘against’ is, by contrast, left undefined. For artists included in ‘Against Nature’ the conventions of the straight world was the quarry, and consequently much of the work embodied forms of decadent (some would claim irresponsible) social resistance enacted on a highly personal micro-scale.

Russell’s exhibition, by contrast, seems to take aim at complacency, particularly within the art world. Drawing on themes of violence, morbidity, decadence, abjection, deformation and the uncanny, this challenging show suggests that a small subset of artists today are expressing their distaste for the safe, commercial proclivities of the art world establishment by broadening the address of 1980s’ essentialist radicalism and turning those strategies against the logic of the market and the work it encourages.

It should come as no surprise, then, that one is unlikely to see much of the work in ‘Against the Grain’ in profitable commercial spaces. There are some obvious exceptions – Julian Hoeber, Anna Sew Hoy and Ryan Taber among them – but on the whole the work is messy, openly combative and often quite abject. Indeed, four photographs by Hoeber of a bronze portrait bust riddled with what might be bullet-holes or open sores, nestled in a sea of sequins, are both ravishingly beautiful and viscerally repellent, powerfully embodying an attraction to debasement and the unsafe that permeates this show.

Among the most unsettling works in the exhibition is an unevenly hung suite of quietly grotesque paintings by Ami Tallman, rendered in oil and watercolour. These modestly scaled works are like painting-by-numbers exercises dreamt up by a designer with a keen but subtle eye for the morbid and uncanny. The most arresting of these is a portrait of a man with dead eyes and a pale, lacerated face lying inert in a pastoral landscape, while in a nearby work a pack of crudely rendered orange wolves stare menacingly at the viewer.

The sense of a world in decline implied in Tallman’s work is made more disquieting and explicit in Robert Fontenot’s wall-bound sculpture Captains of Industry (2008). Fontenot’s work is a chaotic storyboard of deformed figures rendered in bread and wire that details various acts of cannibalism and dismemberment. Particularly troubling is the implication that this dark fairy tale describes the descent of a nuclear family into Lord of the Flies-like depravity. Brian Bress’ haunting Disaster Family (2007) depicts a family swaddled like post-apocalyptic outlaws in makeshift protective garb, their grey felt-like shrouds identified by the wall label as ‘disaster blankets’. Symmetrically arrayed for the viewer’s consumption like a cautionary natural history panorama, Bress’ sculpture speaks of a civilization’s improvised attempts to survive in the face of an unspecified threat. More oblique in its address, but no less sinister in affect, is Amy Sarkisian’s Godzilla (2008), a sculptural work composed of bat houses, vicious-looking spikes and lustrous black paint; fortress-like and menacing, it is as though this confrontational structure began life as a utilitarian object only to morph into the functionless decadence of Gothic ornament.

No other work embodies the ethics and aesthetics of menace and counter-commercial antagonism quite as plainly as John Knuth’s oddly scaled cardboard model of a decaying city Building (1983–2008), whose narrow streets lead the viewer to the exhibition’s most abject moment: Knuth’s installation Assault (2008), composed of just two elements, salt and a dead rat. As this unnerving work makes clear, the object of ‘Against the Grain’ is not to advance a particular social, political or personal agenda but rather to agitate the field of art production generally and, in the process, to reclaim the space of the gallery as an outlaw context where it is safe, and even encouraged, to be unsafe.

Christopher Bedford

http://www.frieze.com/issue/print_back/against_the_grain/

Thursday, August 07, 2008

AROUND THE GALLERIES
By Leah Ollman, Special to The Times August 8, 2008

A show's artists in a state of unrest

"Against the Grain," part of LACE's 30th-anniversary celebration, reflects back on another LACE show organized during the art center's 10th year. In the 1988 exhibition "Against Nature: A Group Show of Work by Homosexual Men," 30 artists negotiated the intersecting forces of illness, loss, decadence, artificiality, AIDS, gay male sexuality and the production of art.The earlier show's mix of irreverence and anxiety (to borrow the curators' terms) informs the current show, as well, for which artist Christopher Russell selected 14 L.A. artists (male and female), who adopt, in one way or another, a socially critical stance. Russell suggests the contemporary Gothic as a curatorial frame, for its thematic stew of "destruction, violence, anger, macabre."

Some of the work comes across as gentler than that: Anna Sew Hoy's hanging web of tie-dyed T-shirts is a benignly charming exercise in resourcefulness; Kelly Sears' short video docu-collage is more wry than radical. But unrest does prevail, with or without a declared object.

Brian Bress' "Disaster Family" is a work of breathtaking sobriety. A group of four figures fashioned from the thick felt of disaster blankets, the family doubles as angels of death and their victims. John Knuth's desiccated, affecting take on a city going down is countered by the pseudo-levity of Amy Sarkisian's Ensor-like laughing/grimacing heads and the exuberant strangeness of Wendell Gladstone's slickly painted visions. Ami Tallman's watercolors and drawings of animal corpses range from slight to disarmingly gorgeous. Robert Fontenot spells out the basics of the eternal power struggle in a comic storyboard of bread-dough figures: Big folk oppress the little folk; little folk rise up and take the big folk down.

Works by all of the artists in the show (the others are Tom Allen, Matt Greene, Julian Hoeber, Brian Kennon, Ryan Taber and Cheyenne Weaver) incorporate decay or its stagier twin, decadence, but many lack the self-sufficiency to thrive in such a heady context. In the end, the show wears its premise like an oversized flak jacket, heavier and denser than what it encloses.

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 6522 Hollywood Blvd., (323) 957-1777, through Sept. 21. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays. www.welcometolace.org

Copyright 2008 Los Angeles Times