Art Ensemble of Chicago, Wadada Leo Smith, Anthony Braxton, Milford Graves, Ornette Coleman, Vinny Golia, Empty Cage Quartet, Jason Mears, Kris Tiner, Ivan Johnson, Paul Kikuchi, Richard Long, Bob Marley, Bela Bartok, Duke Ellington, Jim Jarmusch, Nels Cline, Albert Ayler, Laura Owens, Bob Dylan, Zanzibara, Jonas Mekas, Allen D Glass II, Dottie Grossman, Nick Drake, Misato Nagare, Charles Ives, Martin Kippenberger, Billie Holiday, Leonard Cohen, Andrew Shoultz, Miles Davis, Erik Friedlander, Topaz, Jo Jackson, Taarab music, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Haino Keiji, Tanaka Min, cappuccino, Iannis Xenakis, Tim Hawkinson, Neil Young, Hijikata Tatsumi, Thelonious Monk, Chris Ofili, Toru Takemitsu, Mitchell Brown, Charles Mingus, Devendra Banhart, Harry Partch, Soga Shouhaku, Eric Dolphy, Gregory Bateson, Erik Satie, Marc-Andre Dalbavie, Lettrism, Haruki Murakami, Otomo Yoshihide, Ruins, Joseph Beuys, Steve Lacy, Jeremy Drake, Gabriel Orozco, Ozu Yasujiro, Raymond Pettibone, Cory Wright, Lothar Schmitz, Harris Eisenstadt, Georgeanne Deen, Gary Panter, Ed Ruscha, Billy Higgins, Jockum Nordstrum, Sara Schoenbeck, Ellen Burr, Jeffrey Holmes, Evan Parker, Keegan McHargue, Wolfgang Tillmans, Mika Soma, Tanizaki Junichiro, Kokontei Shinshou, Kawanabe Kyousai, Ken Garduno, Alex Schaefer, Future of the Left, Mclusky, Kaz Oshiro, Wilson Hsu, Yugo Fujita, Tadanori Yokoo, Koizumi Yakumo, Ishikawa Kyuuyou, Ifukube Akira, Alfred Jensen, Herman Hesse...
"Instantaneous uncluttered awareness"...Zen Buddhist description of Art, cited in Carolyn Brown's "Chance and Circumstance," A. Knopf, pub. 2007
I think I understand why they choose to exhibit as a group: each one's work inevitably (yet unpredictably) refers to the others' in one of those happy accidents for which we should all be grateful. I applaud their obvious confidence about what they're doing (we're not talking ego here; we're talking maturity!), and their acknowledgement of change as an artistic imperative. These three are presenting work that "speaks" to our need for mystery and brilliance. Tempting as it is to succumb to "art blather," I will leave it for the experts to address issues of composition, color, and vision (except to say that everybody gets an A+ on the test!).
Recently, I told this to Allen Glass II, but it is equally true for Kio Griffith and Misato Nagare: "You have this knack for making me see things as if for the first time. If that's not Art, I don't know what is."
~Dorothea Grossman, Los Angeles 2007
COMING UP
CAFE BALCONY, 12431 Rochester Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90025 Lick The Beaters 4.5: Anything Sir, Except Your Secret. Coffee, Tea or LTB Group show Opening April 20, 2008@6PM-12AM and will run until June 6.
Guys friday's show was one of the dopest shows ever!! It was so intimate and full of super chill nice people. I had a fabulous time! Kio- I didn't mean to insult you either, when I said you would make a great con artist I meant it as a compliment.
I'm on your top friends list??! OMG, I'm SO HONORED :-) hey, nice seeing you guys tonight. the cake was AWESOME. too bad we didn't get to "lick the beaters."
