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Art review: John Baldessari at Gemini GEL

July 9, 2010 | 10:30 am

"John Baldessari season" continues apace in Los Angeles, with a show of fragmented recent paintings at Margo Leavin (closing Saturday) and a full 50-year retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art now joined by six recent mixed-media prints at Gemini GEL. (A print retrospective comes to the Palm Springs Art Museum in February.) Like the paintings, the large prints employ silhouettes that simultaneously conceal and reveal.

They're funny too. Each pictures a black, stocking-clad right foot set against a flat background in one of three color combinations. A hole in the sock lets the big toe stick out. It's like a hulking portrait emerging from an inArt review: John Baldessari at Gemini GEL | Culture Monster | Los Angeles Times