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Doug Harvey

TEL-ART-PHONE artist Doug Harvey at Jancar Gallery, October 2010

TEL-ART-PHONE Andy Moses at William Turner Gallery, October 2010

(This originally appeared in a slightly different format on www.huffingtonpost.com)

By Mat Gleason

The Norton Simon Museum has the best collection of art in Southern California. This is the last museum that should ever have to acquire modern and contemporary work to play catch-up to the art world. This is an institution that can hold back and wait for the world of art to create works great enough for its walls. “Surface Truths: Abstract Painting in the Sixties” is the title of an exhibition that has just opened there. It features sixteen oversized formalist paintings that are nothing if not classical examples of second-generation abstract painting.

Because of the complicated manner in which the Norton Simon museum as it presently exists came to be, its holdings include some big abstract paintings from the 1960s despite Mr. Simon’s distaste for nonobjective art. Sixteen of them comprise “Surface Truths”. A few of the works in the show are by artists who are household names in households that discuss big abstract paintings (Agnes Martin, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Stella, Robert Irwin). Some works are by obscure abstract painters. One painting is by an artist (Joseph Vaughn) who the museum admits (on the wall placard) to having no idea of his whereabouts or work after the late 1960s. Some of these works have been on long-term loan to other local museums and have now returned home.

Curator Gloria Williams discusses “SURFACE TRUTHS” flanked by Ellsworth Kelly and Helen Frankenthaler paintings.

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Last Sunday was the artist walkthru for the TEL-ART-PHONE show and it went great! But afterward I was lamenting that I wasn’t allowed to go on and on about my painting and art history and the art of painting bla bla painting nerd!

Well on “the Alex Schaefer Hour” we GET to go on and on! Aahahahah! So this week its the Venetians vs. The Florentines, Titian vs. Michelangelo in a no-holds-barred technical breakdown showdown! If you are a painter, at any level, you will learn something!

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Estevan Oriol at Rivera + Rivera Gallery

Exterior crowd at LAB Art Gallery

Also featured in this week’s bender:  Roni Feldman, Patrick Hoelck, Richard Bruland, Piero Golia, Annie Vought, Juan Solis, Sookyung Bae, Patrick Martinez, Carrie Seid, Ariel Vargassal, Jesse Hinostroza Jr., Andre Goeritz, Dont Rhine, Keira Kotler, Michael Gregg Michaud, Augustus Thompson, Angel Villanueva, Manuel A Acevedo, Robert Standish, David O’ Brien, Mike Gong, Raul Pizarro, Lalo Ugalde, Hector Silva, Magda Audifred

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Doug Harvey

TEL-ART-PHONE artist Doug Harvey at Jancar Gallery, October 2010

Renee Fox

Beacon Arts Building Director Renee Fox at Loft at Liz’s, June 2010

Ray Beldner

TEL-ART-PHONE artist Ray Beldner at Studio Orange, January 2011