I will be starting my trips to museums and galleries tomorrow. The day before the museum (or, perhaps, that morning) I will announce what exhibit I am going to see. Later that day (or, perhaps, the next day) I will review what I’ve seen. I hope to do this at least twice a month.
Antidote for a Worry Some World, 2006 Acrylic on canvas 10 x 8 inches, Image linked to from the SJMA website. Credit Todd Schorr.
Tomorrow, Tuesday, I am heading out to the San Jose Museum of art with two of my artist colleagues to see the Todd Schorr: American Surreal exhibit. I think it will be interesting. Here is what the SJMA says about the exhibit:
“Todd Schorr: American Surreal is the first mid-career retrospective of the Los Angeles-based artist. Schorr is a leading figure in Southern California’s cartoon-based movement, dubbed “Pop Surrealism,” which embraces low-brow culture and a ribald graphic style indebted to pop sources such as Mad magazine. Schorr’s astonishing, highly polished realism, (inspired by Bosch, Brueghel and Dali), sets him apart from his best-known peers such as Camille Rose Garcia, Gary Baseman, and Mark Ryden. The exhibition, curated by SJMA’s Senior Scholar and Curator of Collections Susan Landauer, is accompanied by a book published by Last Gasp, San Francisco.”
It runs from June 20, 2009 to September 16, 2009.
