One additional quick post – last week while I was down in Venice checking out the Jeremy Blake show, I stopped in to another gallery on Abbot Kinney that seems to call itself Raid FC and might be affiliated with the Raid Projects at the Brewery (sorry for the sketchy information).
The work presented, a group show, seemed to follow the theme of geography and mapping. Like all group shows, it was a bit of a mixed bag but there were a few works that really stood out. The first is Dimitiri Kozyrv. His painting, Europe, a multiplane painting dissects the traditional landscape and presents multiple lines of vision of different soil and different sky combining them into a strangely cohesive work. Less cubist, more Zaha Hadid, the painting works both from a distance drawing us closer and when viewed from an immediate distance gives us enough details to keep us there.
Porch by Kerry Skarbakka is the other standout work within the show. Skarbakka large C-print provides us with the moment right after the “decisive moment” that moment in which a future is inevitable but still full of tension. The image of a man falling/jumping from a balcony area, presumably to the hard ground below, insinuates a filmic narrative of what is outside of the frame and its multiple possibilities while still discussing the topics of form and weight more associated with sculpture.
Both works are sole pieces by the artist in a group show that left me strongly wanting to see greater collections by these two artists and hopefully more shows by the mysterious Raid FC.
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