I am grateful to have received a couple of thoughtful reviews on January’s Big House solo show at Denk Gallery in Downtown Los Angeles. The first is by Genie Davis for Art and Cake, and the other is with long-time supporter Beatrice Chassepot of be-Art Magazine. Check them out!
“Shift” and “Big House” Perfectly Paired at DENK Gallery
Genie Davis, Art and Cake, 2018
Excerpt:
“Here are 15 paintings staged as an installation, their interconnectedness rendering the floor to ceiling work an intimate, dream-like look. Revealing groupings within groupings, the non-linear narratives within the piece focus on a house Stockton used to live in with his family near Lake Elsinore…”
“The work has an elegiac, almost ghostly feel, as if both the warmth of family and the cold of abandonment and self-revelation lived side by side.”
Read the full review (Art and Cake): (live link)
Archived version: (Internet Archive link)
A Cubist Narrative
By Beatrice Chassepot, be-Art Magazine, 2018
Excerpt:
“At DENK, the eye is first knocked out because of the size of the installation of those 15 paintings… plus a chair and real plants.”
“Stockton embarks his viewers in a subtle deconstruction of the narrative… The narrative is dismantled piece by piece and shown in its essence under the form of a fragment.”
Read the full review (be-Art Magazine): (link)
Archived version: (Internet Archive link):
