Ed at I call it oranges saw a whole lot more into Soo Kim’s solo show at Sandroni Rey than I did:

I thought of the [Bob] Irwin piece when visiting Soo Kim’s new show at Sandroni Rey in Culver City — to be honest, I first thought about the Irwin at Kim’s show last year. In that show, Kim painted the walls in subtle shades of white, greys, soft browns in attempt to mimic, negotiate, and change the shadows and light that naturally play in the gallery through its two skylights. I thought at the time that the installation was quite beautiful and intuitive like that Irwin piece must have been, but at the time, I had the sense that Kim, unlike Irwin, works in a quasi-representational mode, that her variations on light and on “inside” and “outside” must be tied to symbol and metaphor, to pictures and the imagination, instead of a scientific experimentation with how one sees.

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Collection exhibition fever spreads to Arizona with NOW: Selections from the Ovitz Family Collection opens June 7th at the Arizona State University Art Museum curated by Andrea Feller. In addition to the Ovitz’s obviously being based in L.A., you’ll find a lot of L.A. artists featured in the show.

NOW: Selections from the Ovitz Family Collection presents works by international contemporary artists. Dating from 2006 to 2008, the works illustrate recent trends in contemporary art that are fresh from the artists’ studios. These works are also recent acquisitions to the Ovitz Family Collection that highlights both established and emerging artists. Michael and Judy Ovitz began collecting art in the 1970s, and are listed among the world’s top collectors by publications such as ARTNews and Art & Antiquities.

Exhibition Artists
Artists featured in NOW include Mark Bradford, Rachel Harrison, Richard Hughes, Jamie Isenstein, Katy Moran, Anselm Reyle, Stephen G. Rhodes, Sterling Ruby, Andro Wekua, and Thomas Zipp.

The Ovitz Family Collection is no stranger to having their collection featured in highlighted exhibitions. See what PORT said about New Trajectories I: Relocations at Cooley Art Gallery, Reed College here and here (in 2006) as well as Past, Present, Future Perfect at the Kansas City Art Institute (in 2007).

Image: Anselm Reyle, Untitled, 2007. Mixed media on canvas with stainless steel frame, 89 ½ x 130 ¾ inches. Courtesy of the Ovitz Family Collection, Los Angeles. Photo Credit: Matthias Kolb