Charlie White and five others in "SIX: alumni making fine art" @ Williamson Gallery, Art Center

Just kidding. It's just that I'd rather see the gallery full of Charlie's work. Truthfully, I like all of the included artists. But a blatant advertising showcase like this is a little hard to stomach. It's worse than an art fair in that it is using the long, hard work of these talented artists to get more students to sign-up for indentured servitude. And I'm convinced it does little for each artist's practice to show them together like this. I would much rather have seen a rotating series of smaller shows that could have given each artist their own space and time.

Nevertheless, be sure to check it out before it closes:

SIX
alumni making fine art

June 3 — August 19, 2007
Opening reception: Saturday, June 2, 7 to 10pm

Opening June 3, "SIX : alumni making fine art," includes work by Sharon Lockhart, Jennifer Steinkamp, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Mark Tansey, Charlie White, and Pae White. The exhibition continues through August 19.

At Art Center, the fine and applied arts are mutually and intensely exposed to each of the others' vocabularies and processes - what Fine Art Department Chair Laurence Dreiband calls a "perpetual conflict of values" -- and the work being accomplished by Art Center graduates finding their expression in the fine art world is making a strong statement about contemporary art practices and culture today.

Williamson Gallery hours are 12 noon to 5 pm, Tuesday through Sunday (12 noon to 9 pm on Fridays), closed Mondays and holidays. Parking and admission are free. For taped gallery information call (626) 396-2446.

thanks to Sassy Pedro for the tip...