Art Questions on the Way

For many people, conceptual artists—those who take on big ideas and hopefully make them even bigger or more emotional in paint, or cardboard, or soup—are a scary bunch.

What are they trying to say and why don’t we who lack an MFA understand it?

And is someone trying to bamboozle us with vanity nonsense or have we just taken less time to understand the rules of their game than we might when first learning, say, softball?

Now it’s your opportunity to ask the questions when Roksanna Pirouxmand, a CalArts grad with a rising reputation on the edge of LA’s art community, gives a talk at the Pacific Palisades Art Association on Tuesday, March 27, at the Pacific Palisades Woman’s Club.

She works in paint, sculpture, wood, metal and video—you can see some of her 14-minute mysteries on Vimeo, which is how we first encounter so much art these days.

Then we can hunt down the real experience.

—JOHN HARLOW