Leap Before You Look: The Poetry of Pottery at Black Mountain Collage

Leap Before You Look: The Poetry of Pottery at Black Mountain Collage

The Hammer Museum near UCLA in Los Angeles has an eye-opening show, entitled “Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957”. Black Mountain Collage was  an experimental school founded in 1933 in Black Mountain, North Carolina near Asheville.

Apparently a a magical place where art and creative endeavors played center stage, Black Mountain was influenced by the educational principles of functional psychologist .John Dewey. Many of the school’s students and faculty were or  or went on to become prominent and even famous in their respective fields, such as visual artist Robert Rauschenberg, composer John Cage and dancer/choreographer Merce Cunningham. many of them worked together and influenced each other during or after their tenure at the School. which closed in 1957 after only 24 years.

Below are some highlights from the pottery shown in “Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957”.

ENJOY!

 

Meeting LA MOCA

Meeting  LA MOCA

A first-time visit to LAMOCA Grand Avenue yields treasure, magic, and happy surprises.  Who knew downtown could be so fun?

Nancy Rubins, American sculptor and installation artist, is handily represented outside.

A meditative room offering communion with Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.

One of my faves, a Louise Nevelson sculpture silhouetted before a Jackson Pollack painting.

My fave man in black, silhouetted in front of meditative  Mark Rothkos.

Currently shown: Urs Fischer…welcome to his/our (?) world.

A show spread across the two downtown MOCA locations, and several galleries of MOCA Grand Avenue.

Culture disintegrates in a fascinating and visceral way…and its skeletons are revealed.

Beyond patina.

He has caught something…we have all felt like that,

and this.

Let’s hope this isn’t the sum total of the current  zeitgeist.

Here’s looking at you, kid.  Outside…playing with our perception of perception, perhaps.

Time for some lemonade, at Lemonade MOCA.

Check it out!!!

You just…never know.

Something might speak to You…and you… might speak back.