Valerie Keane at Gaylord Fine Arts
Valerie Keane’s works on paper are constructed with devotion, resulting in miniature worlds that reflect the viewer back unto herself. These are “flat” images in comparison to Keane’s other work, and...
View ArticleSawako Goda at Nonaka-Hill
This exhibition features paintings, sketches, and ephemera from the estate of Sawako Goda (1940-2016). Goda’s oil paintings immerse the viewer into a strange urban sea in which the body merges with...
View ArticleADORATION at REDCAT
Atom Egoyan’s 2008 film Adoration follows a half-Arab teenager who weaves a fictional story about his father orchestrating a terrorist attack, causing a stir within his suburban community. Adapting it...
View ArticleFrançois Pain at JOAN
What is art without the asylum (from classical Latin asȳlum: refuge, sanctuary)? In François Pain’s first solo show in the US, three video displays, a mini-bookstore, and a vitrine of pamphlets...
View ArticleREFRAMING DIORAMAS Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
This beautiful show grapples with the history and purpose of habitat dioramas—those eerily lifelike tableaus found in darkened museum halls—and, by extension, questions the past and present life of...
View ArticleWILLIAM KENTRIDGE at The Wallis
In his monumental displays of structure, history, movement and sound—operatic compositions that unabashedly aspire to the now-“traditional” status of Gesamtkunstwerk, William Kentridge has become a...
View ArticleRUBY ZARSKY at Ceradon
Goddesses once etched into stone tablets and later deified in oil paintings now live another immortal existence: nude or scantily clad, wet and voluptuous, digitally rendered and plastered across...
View ArticleORDINARY PEOPLE at MOCA
MOCA’s “Ordinary People” manages to tell a story about photorealism that is eclectic, diverse, condescending and drab. Homage to the People of the Bronx: Double Dutch at Kelly Street – La Freeda,...
View ArticlePIPPA GARNER at STARS
The artist died during the run of her exhibition, just a few days before the new year. It is fitting given that Pippa Garner used her body as a sort of extended art project, something she worked on for...
View ArticleFAYE DRISCOLL at REDCAT
I’ve always said that I have a crush on dance—on the medium itself, its libidinousness, its structural uninhibitedness, the insanity of memorizing your body’s movements on command and then repeating...
View ArticleANGELYNE at Melrose Botanical Garden
As I fought through crosstown traffic, the messages came in fast and furious. Hurry up!… Where are you?!… She’s about to arrive!… You’re gonna miss her corvette pull up! When I finally parked and made...
View ArticlePAUL 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...
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