The two and a half acres of galleries at Hauser, Wirth & Schimmel, spread over a full downtown city block and among several buildings, feel measureless to man. The spaces themselves seem to be on display. Skylights and clerestories ascend from roofs several stories up and away. The showy front gallery, with its smooth, ascending […]
Category: Bermudez Projects
An Astronaut of the Universe
Kellan Shanahan tells us that “Nature itself is the greatest teacher.” He is an astronaut of the universe within us. His ink-on-paper renderings – both in color and black and white – suggest correspondences between the smallest of organisms, patterns and perceptions and the infinite, extra-galactic cosmos. The virtuosic San Diego 25-year-old’s work will be […]
A Bon Voyeur Party for a Voyage to Utopia
Johnny Taylor’s paintings reiterate a lifetime of travel and study, meditation and movement. There is a Japanese aesthetic, a classical Chinese modality, and an overlay of pure nature, such as suffuses both Japan and his home base in Vancouver, British Columbia. His latest body of work also shows a graphic quality, born of Taylor’s recent […]