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Art and Cake review of Obliterate
Andre Yi “Obliterate”Open Mind Art SpaceThrough October 26, 2018 by Jody Zellen Before turning to sculpture, Andre Yi created delicate paintings and drawings. His early works were detailed renderings of natural and architectural elements centered in large expanses of soft color, often juxtaposed with swirling ribbon shaped white lines that suggested flowing rivers. In later…
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Union Station Is Hosting a Peep Show—for Art
Observe miniature worlds through tiny holes at the train station’s latest installation August 5, 2016 | Will Peischel When you think of art institutions in downtown L.A., you likely think of The Broad, MoCA, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel—but probably not Union Station. And yet, the train hub continues to roll out unusual and interesting exhibitions…
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Paper and Drawing Elevated – Review of The Drawing Show
October 6, 2015 By Karen Schifman Last Saturday evening (Sept. 26) I went to two extremely well attended openings: one at the Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) and one at Loft at Liz’s on La Brea. Both exhibitions were filled with art and viewers. Both exhibitions offer work by local artists. These exhibitions complement…
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Earth-Like Planet Review in OC Weekly
‘Earth-Like Planet’ Says Extinction, Shmextinction The Irvine Fine Arts exhibit avoids icky humans and focuses on the greener future By STACY DAVIES A lot of Earth-themed art shows seem to be popping up around Orange, LA and Riverside counties lately. There was “Spaceship Earth” and “The Weight and the Magnitude” up in the Pomona Arts…
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Review for The Nature of LA
Four southerners ponder the human condition. By DeWitt Cheng May 7, 2008 We Bay Area chauvinists occasionally feel the need to compare the Best Place on Earth to NYC or LA, nice places to visit, certainly, but somehow (sniff) unsuitable. There’s finicky regional essentialism in our art world, too, painting LA as the Other: our…
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LA WEEKLY Review of Plainer Show
LA WEEKLYMarch 2006 Given its fabulous and multifarious terrains and climates, California has inspired more than its share of landscape-oriented art. Back a century, British-born William Lees Judson cranked out a virtual pictorial record of our meadows, mountains and deserts in a sensitive, agreeable quasi-impressionist manner. Not especially flashy or virtuosic, Judson, founder of USC’s…
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Berlin Show Review in Die Welt
André Yi – Zwei Wochen malt AndréYi an kleineren Bildern, bis zueinem Monat an größeren. Entsprechendakkurat wirken die Gemälde,bis ins winzigste Detail.Meditative Ansichten, die Ruheausstrahlen und die Gedanken desBetrachters nicht zuschütten mitFarbe, Form und Inhalt, erwartenden Besucher. In ihrer Unaufdringlichkeit sympathischauch deshalb, weil der inTexas aufgewachsene Koreaner(Jahrgang 1972) einerseits Traditionender asiatischen Malerei aufnimmt(Kalligraphie, japanischeHolzschnitte), andererseits…
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LA Confidential by Alex Worman
Down the block at the new Carl Berg Gallery (6018 Wilshire Blvd.), Berg is showing work from Los Angeles artist Andre Yi, an MFA graduate from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. The exhibition, entitled “Floating City,” features eight works, all acrylic, ink and colored pencil on paper, depicting the sort of lower middle-class homes and…