If the Orange County art world recalls 2006—at all; that was a lot of pinot grigio—this'll maybe be remembered as the year that Juxtapozbroke. In many, many ways, but chiefly at two locations: Dana Jazyeri's late, lamented Subject Matter gallery/boutique at the Lab, and the eponymous J. Flynn Gallery—both of which sprang up in Costa […]
Jack Flynn
Creepy Inner Light
Every so often—”almost once a week” on the Mayan calendar—some paintings come along that look like the paintings you've already seen. And somewhat less often, those paintings are done well enough, with real depth, interesting subjects, and hazily glazed-on color from the nicotine side of the color wheel, that you forgive them their trespasses against […]
Best of OC, Nos. 11 to 25
No. 21: Librera Martnez Let the Segerstroms and Brens of the world build their shiny edifices and announce to the world that Orange County finally has Culture. Rueben Martnezis the best culture baron for the rest of us. He received the Macarthur Fellowship (the “Genius Award”) two years ago yet remains the same garrulous, humble wizard […]
Art: For Dummies?
There really is an Art for Dummies—an entry in the for Dummies series that must come somewhere after Aardvark Husbandry and before Brain Surgery.This is not a comforting thought, particularly in the art world, a self-styled Smarter Set that has already made considerable sport of the notion that art and the dummy should be friends. […]
Commie Girl
There are certain things we're just going to have to agree on, and nobody gets to opt out. When John from Malibu called our spanking new talk show Melting Pointon KRLA—Sundays at 11 p.m. at 870 on your a.m. dial!—and mentioned the melting ice caps in a program about gas prices, my two handsome and […]
Raise the Bar
Photo by Jack GouldI don't want Jack Flynn to be too rich and happy. I want him to be moderately successful, but maybe not so successful that he can afford to put a shower into the bitchen Costa Mesa warehouse where he lives. (He does shower, but at the Y.) You see, if Jack Flynn […]
