The L.A. Times blog Culture Monster has just given 20x200 artist William Crump a dazzling review for his exhibition "Lonesome Ghosts" at the LittleBird Gallery in Los Angeles. Art critic Leah Ollman notes that Crump's work "manages [...] fantastic incongruity[...], mixing pale graphite renderings with bold veins of opaque gouache. The push-pull that results is not just formal (the pencil lines faint and receding, the vibrant colors coming forward) but temporal, as if a collision of past and present visual idioms." She also indicates a kind of 'vague anachronism,' "like the so-called antiquarian avant-garde photographers who favor obsolete techniques but whose images often contain contemporary references." Mainly, however, Crump's Los Angeles debut "reads as a thoughtful meditation on the discrepancies between external and internal journeys, the real and the ideal."
The piece shown above, "The Mountain of Tomorrow's Sunrise," was featured in the gallery's show X Marks the Art back in December and there are still prints available for purchase on 20x200. If you're in or around L.A., stop by the LittleBird Gallery to see Crump's show on view until April 8, 2009.
(LittleBird Gallery, 3195 Glendale Blvd., L.A., (323) 662-1092. Closed Sundays and Mondays.)
The President of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, has said he believes China will invest in Europe only if there are incentives for it to do so.
"I don't think that China will just come in as a white knight to try to provide money just to bail out Europeans," he told the BBC.sa
Posted by: film izle | October 28, 2011 at 08:17 AM