ALBERT OEHLEN • New Paintings

Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
June 6th - July 18th, 2014

 

 

These are landscapes and visual diaries - written with line, painted with aqueous color fields and collaged with printed pop art media.

 

They traffic in the space they’re created and their lines and flat fields make use of the room they’re exhibited in.

 

The art they most remind me of is:

The pop art essays of James Rosenquist and the ethnic visual diaries of Jean-Michel Basquiat.

 

However, you might want to take a look at them for yourself and decide. I think people used to dealing with Commercial Art will have a hard time with them because they will ask you to look beyond the obvious, to how the color is applied, to where the lines are going and most importantly to how the art extends off the wall, into the room and into your life.

 

 

 

 

Albert Oehlen • New Paintings were on display at the Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, California
from June 6th through July 18th, 2014.

 

© Albert Oehlen

Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery

 

 

Review is © Ron Barbagallo 2014

ALBERT OEHLEN • NEW PAINTINGS

© 2014 Ron Barbagallo

© Albert Oehlen

All images are:
© Albert Oehlen. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

 

The author would like to thank Alexandra Magnuson, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, California for her help in assembling this work.

 

This review is owned by © Ron Barbagallo.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. You may not quote or copy from this article without written permission.

 

 

YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE IMPLIES YOU HAVE READ AND AGREE TO THE "COPYRIGHT AND RESTRICTIONS/TERMS AND CONDITIONS" OF THIS WEBSITE DETAILED IN THE LINK BELOW:

 

LEGAL COPYRIGHTS AND RESTRICTIONS / TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE

 

INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO QUOTE FROM THE WRITING ON THIS WEBSITE CAN BE FOUND AT THIS LINK.

 

PLEASE DO NOT COPY THE JPEGS IN ANY FORM OR COPY ANY LINKS TO MY HOST PROVIDER. ANY THEFTS OF ART DETECTED VIA MY HOST PROVIDER WILL BE REPORTED TO THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY, WARNER BROS. OR OTHER LICENSING DEPARTMENTS.

 

 

 

ARTICLES ON AESTHETICS IN ANIMATION

BY RON BARBAGALLO:

 

The Art of Making Pixar's Ratatouille is revealed by way of an introductory article followed by interviews with production designer Harley Jessup, director of photography/lighting Sharon Calahan and the film's writer/director Brad Bird.

 

Design with a Purpose, an interview with Ralph Eggleston uses production art from Wall-E to illustrate the production design of Pixar's cautionary tale of a robot on a futuristic Earth.

 

Shedding Light on the Little Matchgirl traces the path director Roger Allers and the Disney Studio took in adapting the Hans Christian Andersen story to animation.

 

The Destiny of Dalí's Destino, in 1946, Walt Disney invited Salvador Dalí to create an animated short based upon his surrealist art. This writing illustrates how this short got started and tells the story of the film's aesthetic.

 

A Blade Of Grass is a tour through the aesthetics of 2D background painting at the Disney Studio from 1928 through 1942.

 

Lorenzo, director / production designer Mike Gabriel created a visual tour de force in this Academy Award® nominated Disney short. This article chronicles how the short was made and includes an interview with Mike Gabriel.

 

Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, an interview with Graham G. Maiden's narrates the process involved with taking Tim Burton's concept art and translating Tim's sketches and paintings into fully articulated stop motion puppets.

 

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit, in an interview exclusive to this web site, Nick Park speaks about his influences, on how he uses drawing to tell a story and tells us what it was like to bring Wallace and Gromit to the big screen.

 

 

For a complete list of PUBLISHED WORK AND WRITINGS by Ron Barbagallo,

click on the link above and scroll down.