Paper, Rock, City

City Paper items this week: Teo Gonzales and Inigo Navarro Davila at Irvine Contemporary and Alex Gutierrez at Project 4. I'll add links when they're available on the CP site and Spanish diacriticals when I'm feeling less lazy.

Also this week I have a feature profile on artist Ledelle Moe. Excerpt:

Given that the giant heads in "Memorial (Collapse)" appear to have been haphazardly lopped off a trio of disfavored colossuses, you'd expect the faces to be drawn from those of Saddam, Lenin, Kim Jong-Il, maybe even the National Party pols of Moe's homeland. "Coming from South Africa, people who have died are [seen as] a microcosm of a bigger political ripple," says Moe, explaining how some people tend to read her work. However, the faces reference not despots but people in Moe's life who have died. She doesn't say who, but she's still apparently trying to get over the loss.

"[P]eople who I knew personally, or not personally—their deaths stayed with me," she says. The heads, she says, "are about my own overturning."