Spotlight On Alexandra Grants's Bodies On View At Honor Fraser, Los Angeles

WHO: Alexandra Grant

WHAT: 'Bodies'

WHEN: September 18 - October 23, 2010; Opening Reception September 23, 2010

WHERE: Honor Fraser
2622 La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90034

WHY:

With Bodies Grant presents a new series of paintings using a cycle of poetry by her long-term collaborator Michael Joyce. The poems that Joyce specifically wrote for this series of paintings are in the form of what is called 'haiga'. These texts serve as a starting point for each composition as Grant maps out the experience of the physical and intellectual body in oil on canvas and linen. Capturing the themes of Joyce's original texts: romantic love and longing, creation myths, the loss of self in relation to the other, and interrogating the idea of how the feminine body is represented, Grant pushes her conceptual language of text, often in multiple languages. Bodies reveals both maps of the experience of the feminine body - a woman painter painting the physical body - but also of the exchange and relationship of an artist with her muses (poetic language, and in this case, the male writer).

The paintings in the body series are based on a haiku cycle written by Michael Joyce:

Lost Hills Hokku

this
smoke
and
the hills
at dusk
the
symmetry
of
thigh
ivory
moon

(From: Honor Fraser Gallery)

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Alexandra Grant body (1), second iteration, after Michael Joyce's 'this' Oil on linen 80 x 70 inches 2010 Courtesy of Honor Fraser Gallery this [body 1] spring is more than this whose body sits by the gate beyond this stillness Just above Las Virgenes the chapparel commences, black sage, bush monkey, lemonade berry, toyon and silk-tassel bush blending to a single scent sometimes described as earthy, txapar the Basque word for the center, where dances the lover before you, before all this was what this has become

Alexandra Grant
body (1), second iteration, after Michael Joyce's 'this'
Oil on linen
80 x 70 inches
2010
Courtesy of Honor Fraser Gallery

this [body 1]

spring is more than this

whose body sits by the gate

beyond this stillness

Just above Las Virgenes the chapparel commences, black sage, bush monkey, lemonade berry, toyon and silk-tassel bush blending to a single scent sometimes described as earthy, txapar the Basque word for the center, where dances the lover before you, before all this was what this has become

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[Alli No]

11:11 AM on 10/06/2010

It is no longer simply a conversation about high and low art. The division now is between those who have a natural gift of creating artifact and those who want to be defined as an "artists", doing the bare minimal to have something to tack on a wall. That said, I am bewildered that THIS work is being shown at all, much less being highlighted on HP. It is really awful, looking uncommonly like a eighth grader's project, demonstrating a complete lack of creativity and intuition.
Further, it in no way resonates with the delicacy of language and sensuality the writer Michael Joyce is known for.

[artist-53]

04:35 PM on 10/03/2010

Like I said before regarding a different set of works the other day displayed on hp.

As an Artist, I am doomed.

Meaning, if this is what gets front page news, then I would have to say, this section is the fox news of art peddling.

Canned Art.

I understand that we have different views of what art is, I have no problem with that or what other people view as great. However, I think the entire art world in the United States has been reduced, and dumbed down to such a degree, that it speaks more of who we are and how far we have tried to make art in the States devoid of a lot of things, while attempting to recreate it with something utterly devoid of a lot of things. Talent, being one of them.

Art in the US lags so far behind the rest of the world.

So, based on what I've seen touted as wonderful works, I'll close with what I began with .......

As an Artist, I'm doomed. ( an American Artist )

For the record, most of my site hits come from all around the globe, not my own Country.

Oh well, in the States we have canned music, so why not push canned art as well. It all looks and sounds the same. Typical.

[Eiswolf]

06:33 AM on 10/03/2010

my three year old self could come up with this.

[roblabrousse]

10:14 AM on 10/02/2010

You're joking No?