Tull It Like It Is!

Los Angeles artist Dani Tull talks about the role of spirituality in his paintings, sculptures, and improvised drone music, in advance of the exhibition "practice, Practice, practice: Abstract Spirituality in Contemporary L.A. Painting, Sculpture, and Performance"
Curated by Doug Harvey

Dina Abdulkarim, Ryan Callis, Linda Day, June Edmonds, David McDonald, Rebecca Niederlander, Khang Bao Nguyen, Kenneth Ober, Mary Anna Pomonis, Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia, & Dani Tull.

March 13 - April 17
Gallery Hours: Weds 12- 8 pm, Thurs - Sun 12 -5 pm

Opening reception: Sunday March 13, 3 - 5 PM

Nan Rae Gallery at Woodbury University
7500 N Glenoaks Blvd, Burbank, California 91510

Gilt Rip

Viewers who encounter my piece Stranger Fruit (for Nazario Conchuza Gonzalez) AKA Gilded Disc®otu m’, (1997/2016, Enamel on mirror tile fabric, polyester fiber fill stuffing, defunct bumble balls) at Nick Brown's "Werewolf" show at Charlie James Gallery are unlikely to remember it from my 1997 solo debut at POST, where it was one component of an "experimental narrative circuit" entitled "St Sebastian Tom Sawyer Cathy Mishima Expo 67," so here's a link to my admittedly skimpy documentation.

Later, in an essay for JOAAP's "Failure" book I described the work thusly:

Descending in tandem from the rafters was the gender-corrected biorchid soft kinetic sculpture Disc®otu m’, a sack of mirror-encrusted fabric containing two motorized vibrating wads of material. I’ve always been puzzled by Duchamp scholars insistence that the title of his last painting Tu m' was an abbreviation of the French expression “Tu m'emmerdes” or “you’re shitting on (bugging) me.” As far as I can tell, it’s just a guess – it could be completed with any French verb starting with a vowel. Why not “Tu m’blank” as in “You blank me,” which, rather than sealing the tomb on painting because of some specific affect (irritation, beshitment, boredom), emphasizes (and probably expresses doubt in the validity of) the very hierarchical subject/object binary model of communication (and by extension reality itself) by which it achieves its agency. Disc®otu m’ in addition to presenting a disembodied teabag of Damocles that visually mimics the geometry-bound domes, was intended to expand Duchamp’s contraction, doubling it with mirrors and subjecting it to seizure. Lazarus, Come forth!

New Semi-Site Specific Relational Pre-Rotted Painting

"Painting to be Viewed in the Bathroom Mirror in the Morning" 2016, collage and acrylic on found canvas.

I took a break from gilding my precious memories to produce a new painting. MA wasn't very amused. She's not a morning person.

Gilded Dream House Details

But Beautiful

Tiny Elephant Interviewing Portfolio

Coming Soon to Tiny Elephant Party!

No Roof Over Our Heads

Public Storage Lizard

All Access Points Secured

Portfolio Apres le Deluge

Portfolio Xmas Peek

New MA Peers Space Dog in Progress

Christ Have Moicy!

Tim Hawkinson's Thumb Astronaut Ornament on the Legendary Pink Xmas Tree

MA Peers Canine Olfaction Performance

Thanks to everyone who made it out Sunday for the K9 Nosework Happening in conjunction with M.A.'s show, and thanks to Jimmy Chertkow for taking these awesome pix. There's some talk about restaging the event, due to its popularity, so if you're interested let the Gallery know. But if you want to see the show, this is the last week, and Rosamund's closed New Year's Day, so that leaves Thursday and Saturday.


M. A. PEERS
November 21 - January 2, 2016
Tuesday - Saturday 10am-5pm
ROSAMUND FELSEN GALLERY
1923 S Santa Fe Ave #100
Los Angeles, CA 90021
http://rosamundfelsen.com/

Images: protecting Taken; pawprint under one of the Georgioni-based abstractions; Grant Mudford and Bobby are introduced to Container searches; M.A. and Chloe work the Interior search

Recovered from the Void

The demolition team that was doing a partial cleanup while the roofers were replacing the roof on our current home accidentally threw out a few things that weren't supposed to get thrown out, including my 2010 pre-rotted painting-thing Dream House, which I'd actually promised to Constance Mallinson, who actually liked it. Luckily, the crew seems to have disappeared and left their gigantic chockfull construction dumpster on the street in front of the house, and I managed to excavate the work (and a couple of other items) -- now bearing considerable more evidence of the collaborative input from the forces of entropy. To ensure that it will forthwith be recognized as the precious object that it is, I immediately made it into the latest installment in my "Gildings" series. Behold!

I Have a (Google) Dream!

Mark Bradford's "A Truly Rich Man is One Whose Children Run into His Arms Even When His Hands Are Empty" (2008) inceptionized multiple times with Deep Dream software for Brian Tucker's UCLA seminar on Disreputable Theory.

Nigel Pictures Part 1