By snoadmin
Sirje and Michael Gold’s “Goldmine” art collection of over 100 works debuted at the University Art Museum on Saturday.
The explosive pieces are fragments that make up modern-day Los Angeles. Such fragments include plunging horizontal lines, soda pop oranges and live-wire minimalism that scatter across the canvases and display columns from both renowned and lesser-known local artists.
The Louise Carlson Gallery exhibits pure gestaltism with human anatomy composed of body parts like breasts, nose and lips. Men, women and children are exposed in the most intimate of settings. The late Ana Mendieta’s “Glass on Body” (1972) focuses on the female body pressed against glass. Bruce Nauman’s vertical diptych “Cockey Lips and Neck Pull” (2010) features a man stretching his skin and facial hair. Amy Adler’s “Once in Love With Amy” (1997) is an eye-boggling triptych with a cartoon-like foreground on a realistic background. Kim Dingle’s “Falling Baby” (1993) doodles a Baconian gravitational pull with oil on linen.
The Robert Gumbiner Gallery has an assortment of plastic taxidermy mounted to the walls by artists like Andrew Mansfield and Carlee Fernandez. Japanese pop artist Yoshitomi Nara’s designer toy “Little Pilgrim” (1999) stands out with kawaii cuteness. Sculptor Tanya Batura’s pearly bust is melted like ice cream on a sidewalk pavement with Roman and Dali influences. Enrique Marty’s set of 16 photos mixes watercolor with surrealism to depict ghastly yet banal scenes of an old woman with a halo around her head.
Sandeep Mukherjee’s “Untitled” is simple and ebullient with crystal blue and gray waves. Bart Exposito’s “Standoff” brings neo-abstractionism and industrial design in a primitive kaleidoscope.
The center gallery has larger canvases and sculptures. Kevin Appel’s semi-abstract “A Living Room with Oranges” (1996) has clean-cut vertical lines. Don Suggs’ polymorphic “Feast” towers the rest of the pieces with its plastic items like baby bottles and a Yoda head. Jim Drain’s beady hookah replica looks like a Tibetian and psychedelic concoction.
The Gold’s contemporary art pieces are spectacles on their own, but a cocktail party as a whole. Those who enjoy visiting places like the Museum of Contemporary Art or the Hammer Museum may enjoy a glimpse of this collection.
“Goldmine” will run through April 10 at the UAM. The museum is open Tuesdays through Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. and Thursdays until 8 p.m.
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