Mel Kadell
The greatest new light in my art universe! O! go to Mel Kadel's website and enjoy the lonely, sad, Dahl-ish magic tricks... what a mind and hand can fashion with a pencil!! I believe again, all tears and drinks and cynics be damned! The frightful month when I lived in L.A. (2004?), I made a pilgrimage of sorts to the Richard Heller Gallery in Santa Monica, home of a meticulously gathered collective of gifted, unusual artists. The owner, affable, gregarious Richard himself, was kind enough to show me his giant secret stash of Marcel Dzama drawings....Gadzooks!! a seemingly endless supply of old-children's-book magic! -- as if Dahl, Grimm and Seuss met at a public camping site and played Ouija board... or something like that. Richard later took me for sushi and told bad jokes all night long. We drank scotch and didn't talk about art. It was surreal. Anyway --- Mel Kadel... o my goodness I am happy to have eyes again. Thank you, angel!
www.melkadel.com/