11/9/07: Watching the stunning graphics display on my friend Kevin's Apple TV, I realized that I had essentially lifted the design of this site from his website. I thought about taking this whole site down, but seeing as it provides such an important service to the community, I will leave it live while I rethink it.
10/22/07: I have just agreed to write the arts column for santabarbarasblog.com. I think you can subscribe to get an e-newsletter from them. Further bulletins on this front as events warrant.
10/19/07: I am very proud of my role in putting together the gallery's new 1957 show. Our art historian, Danielle Peltakian, was also very helpful in finding material for inclusion. She will be one of the greats some day. You can also see installation shots of the exhibition on our blog. I will have a fancy new book on the exhibition coming out shortly, thanks to these guys.
10/2/07: We just took on the Estate of Sidney Gordin. From the works I have examined, it seems that he started out interested in the balance between pure abstraction and representation. He then experimented with Abstract Expressionism through the 1940s in New York. In the late 1940s, he started sculpting in a Constructivist manner and got rather famous. After coming out to San Francisco to teach at UC Berkeley in 1958, he seems to have adopted the shapes of biomorphic abstraction. (Was this related to the Abstract Surrealism of Charles Howard and Clay Spohn? Or, was he trying to synthesize the geometric and the lyrical?) He painted and sculpted with new squiggly lines for twenty years before returning to pure geometry in the 1980s. It is fascinating trying to place his work in the continuum.
9/30/07: I curated my first show outside the collection. It was called "The Urban Myth." It was written up in the Independent (a Santa Barbara weekly), CASA (another Santa Barbara weekly), the Santa Barbara News Press, and Art Ltd. The owner of the gallery, Frank Goss, was very gracious to give me so much space, money, and support to do the show. Check it out.
9/11/07: The Long Green Line will be created by the community of Santa Barbara tomorrow.
7/29/07: Starting ... now.