PAUL THEK at Hannah Hoffman
I ring the buzzer three, maybe four times at 725 N. Western. No one answers. While I debate whether to abandon my mission, a man with a ladder leaves a side gate open and I slip in. Wandering through a...
View ArticleDUELLING REVIEWS: Doug Aitken at Regen Projects and the Marciano Art Foundation
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View ArticleEd Gomez at the MXCL BNL LAB
The long-running MexiCali Biennial got a recent boost from Mellon Foundation and is currently making its mark in the eastern LA suburb of Whittier. The space, which also houses an archive, MXCL BNL...
View ArticleRamekon O’Arwisters at Craft Contemporary
Textile art has not always been one of my favorite mediums, but Ramekon O’Arwisters’ exhibit altered my thinking. At a time where being Black and Queer, and any semblance of DEI seems fraught – the...
View ArticleRyan Preciado at Palm Springs Art Museum
Palm Springs’ annual Modernism Week dominates the city in February, but I caught this quiet, elegant exhibit at the museum’s satellite space. It’s a revelatory history and homage to Frank Lloyd Wright...
View ArticleDERRIANN PHARR at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
It’s not uncommon that an art show claims to deconstruct the human form and challenge societal notions of beauty. Derrian Pharr’s innovative “I Am a Bloodstone” makes good on this promise. The...
View ArticleKELLY AKASHI at Lisson Gallery
Time is a common theme in Kelly Akashi’s work. Doilies inherited from her grandmother represent the past. The artist’s hands, cast in bronze, serve as timestamps for the present— lines and wrinkles...
View ArticleHAILEY HEATON at Authorized Dealer
Sontag famously wrote about the photograph as a means of securing ownership over an ethereal past. Her words come to mind as one moves through Hailey Heaton’s “Hissyfit,” which reckons with the...
View ArticleKYLE DUNN at Vielmetter
Kyle Dunn celebrates the languid vibe of siesta culture through figurative and still-life pieces. The works on view use acrylic to replicate the luminosity of the Old Masters’ oils, giving Vermeer...
View ArticleJOE SOLA at La Loma Projects
It seems heaven is butter scented. Or at least La Loma Projects is butter scented. And who knew the Pearly Gates were actually in Highland Park? Walking through those gallery doors, you’re hit with a...
View ArticleDL ALVAREZ at Guerrero Gallery
Those of us who have dreamed—which I pray is everyone reading this—know how it goes: A cacophony of vignettes rattle through your unconscious, some a single flash, some endless, though in reality,...
View ArticleTERESA MURTA at Nicodim
Teresa Murta’s hallucinatory fever dream of gestural abstraction is full of organic lines and undulating forms that made me feel like I was finding images in clouds that would begin to take a...
View ArticleYORGOS LANTHIMOS at Webber Gallery
The images in Yorgos Lanthimos’ first photography exhibition were captured while the filmmaker was shooting Kinds of Kindness (2024) and Poor Things (2023), but you wouldn’t be able to tell by looking...
View ArticleALEXANDRA GRANT at Alloy Project Space, Curated by John Wolf
Situating her work at the juncture of word and image—an intermedial locus where, in her case, verbal content is at once borne and engulfed by complex painterly structures —Alexandra Grant has, in fact,...
View ArticleFIRST ALIENATION at Timeshare
In “First Alienation,” printed matter and machine vision come together in a clearly human context at Timeshare, a co-curated gallery run by six artists in Lincoln Heights. The earliest work included in...
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