Artfully Dressed - Los Angeles Times

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Heather John is a senior Style editor at the magazine. DAVID FAHEY/ 54 GALLERY: Fahey/Klein Gallery, co-owned with Ken Devlin, Los Angeles. MEDIUMS: Vintage and contemporary fine art


photography. DREAM PIECE: Man Ray’s “Le Violon d’Ingres.” ON HIS WALLS: Photographs including Irving Penn’s “Scarified Girl, Dahomey, Africa,” Peter Beard’s “Maureen With Giraffe,”


Joel-Peter Witkin’s “Studio of the Painter (Courbet), Paris,” Herb Ritts’ “Versace Dress, Back View, El Mirage,” Allen Ginsberg’s “Jack Kerouac, Heroic Portrait,” Harry Shunk’s “Leap Into


the Void,” Henri Cartier-Bresson’s “Hyeres, Boy on Bicycle,” William Claxton’s “Chet Baker (at Piano),” Jim Marshall’s “Bob Dylan With Tire,” Garry Winogrand’s “Portrait of Diane Arbus,”


Horst P. Horst’s “Mainbocher Corset,” Phil Stern’s “James Dean,” Paul Outerbridge’s “Mannequin,” Man Ray’s “Portrait of Juliet,” Andy Warhol’s “Gertrude Stein.” IN HIS CLOSET: Giorgio


Armani, Hugo Boss, Issey Miyake and Tommy Bahama. * JEFFREY POE/ 42 DREAM PIECE:Michelangelo’s “David.” “It’s perfect.” ON HIS WALLS: A lightbox by Sam Durant that spells out “Tell It Like


It Is.” A Larry Clark photograph of a naked teenage couple making out in the backseat of a car, Dave Muller watercolors, a yellowed note from 1934 that his grandfather left to his


grandmother that reads “Goodnight Sweetheart,” a postcard of Bas Jan Ader’s “Farewell to Faraway Friends,” and Gregg Gibbs’ photo-realist portraits of his pet dogs past and present. IN HIS


CLOSET: Agnes B, John Varvatos. * TIM BLUM/ 38 GALLERY: Blum & Poe, Santa Monica. MEDIUMS: International contemporary painting, sculpture, video, film, installation, photography. DREAM


PIECE: Marcel Duchamp’s “Etant Donnes.” ON HIS WALLS: A “landscape” photograph by Sharon Lockhart, Sam Durant collages and drawings, a Takashi Murakami painting, Yayoi Kusama’s 1978 “After


the August Rain” painting, a Chris Ofili “Madonna” watercolor, Chris Williams and Nobuyoshi Araki photographs, Dave Muller and Yoshitomo Nara watercolors, a Florian Maier-Aichen photograph


and a Mark Grotjahn butterfly painting. IN HIS CLOSET: Patagonia, Paul Smith, Helmut Lang. MICHAEL KOHN/ 44 GALLERY: Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles. MEDIUMS: Contemporary painting and


works on paper. DREAM PIECE: Jacques-Louis David’s “Death of Marat.” ON HIS WALLS: “St. Gerome,” by Palma Giovane; “Portrait of a Woman,” by Friedrich von Schadow; “Shades,” by Mark Tansey;


“Big as Me,” by Fred Tomaselli; “Untitled Abstraction,” by Mitja Tusek; Bruce Conner drawings; “Cherries,” by Mark Innerst; Maureen Gallace paintings; a “Celia Seated” lithograph by David


Hockney; a Brice Marden silkscreen print; Sharon Lockhart photographs; a Saul Fletcher photograph; a signed Edward Curtis bluetone photograph of a Cecil B. De Mille film; a signed photograph


of Buster Keaton. IN HIS CLOSET: Loro Piana, Hugo Boss, Giorgio Armani, Banana Republic, Sulka. * PAUL KOPEIKIN / 45 GALLERY: Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles. MEDIUMS: Contemporary


photo-based art, vintage photography and paintings. DREAM PIECE: A large Richard Serra two-piece sculpture and a vintage Edward Weston nude. ON HIS WALLS: Photographs, including a series of


Harry Callahan portraits of his wife Eleanor, and a Richard Misrach of “Pyramid Lake.” “In one bathroom I have a series of 36 miscellaneous vernacular photographs and, last but not least, a


couple of paintings by my good friend Darren Waterston.” IN HIS CLOSET: Levi Strauss, J. Crew T-shirts, slip-on Merrills and Hugo Boss suits. * DAVID MCAULIFFE GALLERY: Angles Gallery, Santa


Monica. MEDIUMS: International contemporary art. DREAM PIECE: Van Gogh’s “Portrait of Dr. Gachet.” ON HIS WALLS: Photographs, works on paper, and paintings by Rodney Graham, Richard Long,


Walter Niedermayr, Kevin Appel, Linda Besemer and Tom LaDuke. IN HIS CLOSET: Dries Van Noten, Margaret Howell shirts, Taka Puna. * CRAIG KRULL / 42 GALLERY: Craig Krull Gallery, Santa


Monica. MEDIUMS: Photo-based mediums, installations and paintings. DREAM PIECE: John Frederick Kensett’s “Eaton’s Neck, Long Island,” oil on canvas. ON HIS WALLS: Engravings by Winslow


Homer, photographs by Timothy O’Sullivan, Carleton E. Watkins, Julia Margaret Cameron, James Fee, Edmund Teske, Julius Shulman and my wife, Karen Hirshan. Paintings and drawings by Astrid


Preston and Hilary Brace. Portraits of Thoreau, Twain, Steinbeck and other writers. IN HIS CLOSET: Giorgio Armani, Ermenegildo Zegna. MORE TO READ