Deana Lawson David Kordansky Gallery
While Deana Lawson is known for her individual, staged photographs depicting African-Americans communities in interior and exterior environs, she also conceptualizes the entirety of her presentations,...
View Article“Nonmemory” Hauser & Wirth
“Nonmemory,” for the artist Mike Kelley, was something akin to his notorious usage of the “uncanny,” a theory borrowed from Freud wherein repressed memories emerge into disturbing feelings. In...
View ArticlePEER REVIEW Matthew Rosenquist on Pat Phillips
Raised in and around Washington DC, with two degrees in painting, Matthew Rosenquist now makes sculptures, albeit with some paint applied. How did that happen? I ask him. After grad school in the...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: Julian Charrière Sean Kelly, Los Angeles
Julian Charrière is a Berlin-based artist whose work often focuses on nature, ecology and the changing climate. For his first Los Angeles exhibit at Sean Kelly, “Buried Sunshine”, Charrière was drawn...
View ArticlePoncili Creación: No limits, no bounds—only possibilities Hauser & Wirth
Poncili Creación is in LA, preparing to take us by storm with the glory of trash at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles. In advance of their November 11 performance, Our Name is Moving, I took part in their...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: Terri Friedman Shoshana Wayne Gallery
Terri Friedman’s wonderful woven tapestries are on display in “tomorrow is just a thought,” the artist’s solo exhibition at Shoshana Wayne Gallery. Friedman has been creating her “yarn...
View ArticlePICK OF THE WEEK: Simphiwe Ndzube BLUM
“Have I ever felt strange suddenly being myself?” I thought after leaving Simphiwe Ndzube’s exhibition, “Chorus” at BLUM. If I integrate all the parts of myself into the world I believe in and want to...
View ArticleFILM: Welcome Space Brothers Los Angeles Theatre
It’s weird how the treasure trove of Outsider Video Art that was Public Access Television has only started to seep into mainstream consciousness as it has disappeared—the amateur programming itself, as...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: “DEL CIELO” ROSEGALLERY
Birds in the trees: all is right in the world unless it’s three in the morning and their birdsong is interrupting your sleep. Birds on a telephone wire: a testament to adaptation in one’s habitat; I...
View ArticlePICK OF THE WEEK: Isabel Nuño de Buen Chris Sharp Gallery
Persuaded by her alchemist rhapsody and teetery yet unshakeable assertion, Isabel Nuño de Buen’s exhibition, “Now and Away” at Chris Sharp Gallery instills in me a yearning for more. Her intricately...
View ArticleOUTSIDE LA: Atlanta Art Week
When Donovan Johnson and his new partnership cohort stepped in to renovate and relaunch the once-venerable Bill Lowe Gallery—transforming it into the buzzy and ambitious Johnson Lowe Gallery of...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: Phranc Craig Krull Gallery
“Phranc: The Butch Closet” at the Craig Krull Gallery is a joyous celebration of a Los Angeles icon. The ambitious exhibit, which includes work and documentation from the past forty years, illuminates...
View ArticlePICK OF THE WEEK: Sascha Braunig François Ghebaly
Inclining towards controlled madness while also surveying the forces to which we may dutifully acquiesce, Sascha Braunig’s painting exhibition, “Poseuses,” at François Ghebaly, vividly replicates...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: “A Space Between Us” Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art
Global pandemics democratize pain, suffering and loss. Therefore, who does one turn to when inquiring about world-reshaping events that impact the interpersonal and economic fabric of society? The...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: Ann Weber Wönzimer Gallery
Spectacular and sinuous, Ann Weber’s large-scale sculptures create a mythic world, one that viewers step within and explore as if moving through a strange and lovely forest of anthropomorphic shapes....
View ArticlePERFORMANCE: X’ene’s Witness Justen LeRoy's Contemporary Opera
As our rushing descent into global environmental catastrophe continues, we are inundated with images of our planet’s suffering. We’ve all seen the snapshots—a man up to his neck in water pushing...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: Claudia Keep Parker Gallery
As with many works of contemporary art, Claudia Keep’s compact paintings first entered my field of vision on social media, where her imagery retains its appeal, even as her textured, varicolored and...
View ArticlePICK OF THE WEEK: Fin Simonetti Matthew Brown
Suspending the administrative and bodily powers of fences and safety cones, Fin Simonetti’s sculpture exhibition, “Hardening,” at Matthew Brown quizzes viewers to ponder, “Am I safe, am I scared, or am...
View ArticleVishal Jugdeo Commonwealth and Council
Two men are talking in a car, as low green fields stream past the windows. “This used to all be fruit trees but the new owner tore them up,” says the driver. “And he planted rice?” the other man...
View ArticleKeith Sonnier parrasch heijnen
Post-minimalist Keith Sonnier, who passed in 2020, was too prominent a figure to fall into the shadows, as have so many of his contemporaries. But given his striking originality, restless inventiveness...
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