Jasmine Gregory at Soft Opening

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The current thing online is a dunkathon on Dan Colen's painting "Holy Shit", specifically its auction downfall. A 96% precent loss. Spurned by Artnet's headline (the article is only headline) ending in a dry sardonic "Why? - a question which seems to treat us as so stupid that one might believe that there is something else afoot. But maybe there isn't. Maybe we are this stupid. Maybe we need the system explained to us over and over again. But comically the question is never answered. The why is only headline bait. Because the system is predicated on being able to cast the same line into the sea where everyone buys it hook line and sinker again and again and again. Holy shit it will return again and again and again.

Carlos Reyes at Soft Opening

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It's about time the techno-conceptual and the surreal had their current vogues assimilated. Martin Creed's lights turning on and off with a more technically advanced press spanking.

Tam Ochiai at Soft Opening

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Ochai's painting collect their painting like a window sill collects dust. The only requisite might be time passing and its loss sedimented of whatever accumulate. You might write your name in the dust, but these collect places as dust. We could just be happy it doesn't look like painting.