Art Pick
Pink

By Peter Frank
Wednesday, March 7, 2007 - 12:00 pm
It's become an art-world version of one of those roaming dance-club parties,
and it has a lot of the same energy and sass. "Pink," now in its third
incarnation, has landed in Santa Monica Airport, and is cooler and hotter
than ever — most especially with the little side room devoted to Art
Girl–designed T-shirts (the sale of which benefits Women for Afghan Women).
The energy extends through even the most nominally sedate abstractions. In
fact, some of the sexier moments here are provided by Andy Moses' rippling
strata of rosy-toned blues, Robert Acuña's brittle blue form shot through
with a deep rose, Thierry Feuz's painterly fireworks, the large
pinkish-orange light box of Daniele Albright and Stefan Lawrence, and Jimi
Gleason's lustrous whirlpool of lavender. The spiky floral conceits
concocted by Wendy Adest and Maura Bendett straddle reality and fantasy —
and two and three dimensions. Rosha Yaghmai has extruded stitched-together
wetsuits to find a pink interior. And to top it off, Katy Stone's duralar
sheet wraps a narrow side space with pink spatters.