Upon landing at LAX, I rushed to Regen Projects to see James Welling’s show before it closed at 6pm. Enticed by one bright photograph of Philip Johnson’s Glass House in Art Forum was the cause for the rush. I started at Regen II and found the gallery full of images from PJ’s Connecticut masterpiece. The pictures were sharp, blurry, color soaked, scary, inspirational and soothing. The mood and feeling of a photograph was completely dependent on the colors used in manipulating the landscape.
In the main Regen space was a four minute film that dreamily floated over the “boathouse”, sometimes at very close distances to the concrete and others zooming out to see the entirety of the structure. This video seemed odd, especially given the subject matter and the time. I would have expected (and maybe had hoped) to see more of the compound outside of just the boathouse. In general I was hoping to see Welling’s interpretation of other structures on the property.
The photographs were quite beautiful, the shots of the Glass House were the highlights for me. To my surprise, there was no need for the rush at it seems the same work by Welling is opening at Zwiner on March 24th in New York.
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