Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art Since 1968 is one of the best shows I’ve seen all year: it was so refreshing to see Marilyn Levine’s trompe l’oeil ceramic sculptures included, as well as John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres’s figurative homages to the South Bronx that are hard to see on the West Coast. While the show has all the male photorealist greats: Richard Estes, Robert Bechtle, Chuck Close, it leans hard into inclusion and opens up a space for artists of color (Ben Sacaguchi, Jesse Treviño, Barkley Hendricks) who never got included alongside their white male peers, feminist artists like Lenore Chinn, Joan Semmel, Judie Bamber, and the late great Audrey Flack, whom I’m sorry didn’t live to see this show. And then a great contemporary generation like Jennifer Lee and Takako Yamaguchi, making beautiful realist images of domestic interiors and feminine clothing. If you haven’t yet, go see this show! Congratulations, Anna Katz! @annackatz
My first visit to Korea 🇰🇷 Seoul and Gwangju 🇰🇷 The trifecta of contemporary art, bargain shopping, and a resplendent abundance of iced beverages was achieved 🇰🇷
Bookmaking is truly utter misery until the moment you get the advance copy 📖📚📖 We did it, Joe! to Jessica Fleischmann and Still Room Studio, Paula Kroll, Cynthia Daignault, Dhyandra Lawson, Karin Oen, Gaby Rodriguez-Gomez, Nahui Garcia, JaBrea Patterson-West, Frances Lazare, Mary DelMonico, and many many artists 📚📖📚
🌟MOCA Focus: Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio 🌟 on view at the Geffen until June 16 🆓 Admission Is Free 🆓 Thank you and congratulations to @eddierodolfoaparicio for making a deeply unphotographable show, I expect nothing less and wish for nothing more 🫠
