Richard Mensah Band of Vices
When writer and poet Peter J. Harris wrote in his poem Only Wine (2004): Blessed be the laughter of lovers for it separates the edges of the future / bless me with your laughter, Blessed be the music...
View ArticleRosemary Mayer Hannah Hoffman; Marc Selwyn Fine Art
The act of writing is a process of appropriations. Words predate the user, who then borrows and deploys them. With each new text, these tools of communication are shuffled to embody another of their...
View ArticleFred Wilson Pace Gallery
Over the past three decades, Fred Wilson has frequently exhibited objects in unexpected juxtapositions as a means for examining things in a new light. For his groundbreaking 1992 installation, “Mining...
View ArticleHanna Hur Kristina Kite Gallery
Like the checkerboard floor of the gallery in which they are displayed, the two largest works in Hanna Hur’s exhibition, “Two Angels,” are gridded and divided down the middle. However, unlike the...
View ArticleKenwyn Crichlow Diane Rosenstein Gallery
With his first solo show in California, the Trinidadian painter Kenwyn Crichlow makes a memorable debut, displaying dynamic, reflective abstractions that engulf the viewer in a spectrum of sensations....
View ArticleTeddy Sandoval Vincent Price Art Museum
The Vincent Price Art Museum has mounted an ambitious and idiosyncratic survey of a little-known slice of Los Angeles art history. “Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art,” curated by Dr....
View ArticlePEER REVIEW Ishi Glinsky on Kristopher Raos
A standout artist in 2023’s “Made in L.A.” biennial, Ishi Glinsky often plays with scale in his sculptures, paintings and drawings that reflect the customs of his tribe, the Tohono O’odham Nation....
View ArticleNIKOLAS SOREN GOODICH Gallery 169
Especially in an era of infinite variability, the mirror motif can get pretty tired pretty fast, whether as a means of solving abstract compositional problems or finding meaning in figurative...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio Museum of Contemporary Art
The Museum of Contemporary Art returns with its “Focus Series” featuring the first solo show of LA-based artist, Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio. “MOCA Focus: Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio” showcases some of...
View ArticlePICK OF THE WEEK: Matthew Gallagher Moskowitz Bayse
One half of Moskowitz Bayse’s gallery is dedicated to “Impossible Apprentice,” a sublime inaugural solo presentation by Matthew Gallagher composed of intensely delicate and labored drawings made by...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: Jessie Homer French Various Small Fires
“January in the last extant stable society.” Joan Didion, “In Hollywood” (1973) — included in The White Album (1979) “You can get there from here,” was something like the thought rippling just...
View ArticleOUTSIDE LA: Emily Ginsburg SE Cooper Contemporary
They are dense forms, knots of entwined ropes and masses of clay, approximately the size of one of the larger internal organs. This suite of recent ceramic sculptures by Emily Ginsburg is presented on...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: Marek Wolfryd and Michele Lorusso John Doe Gallery
For their joint exhibition at John Doe Gallery, Marek Wolfryd and Michele Lorusso present a selection of sculptures and paintings embedded in their shared exploration into Mexico’s history of...
View ArticlePICK OF THE WEEK: Cristina Iglesias Marian Goodman
Cristina Iglesias’ exhibition, “Ellipsis,” features otherworldly, large-scale sculptural environments crafted from materials such as casted aluminum, bronze, copper, glass, steel and various pigmented...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: Nicole Wittenberg Fernberger Gallery
Vivid and broad brushstrokes streak across Nicole Wittenberg’s paintings currently on view at the newly opened Los Angeles gallery, Fernberger. The exhibition, titled “Jumpin’ at The Woodside,” marks...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: XANADU Gallery V, Pasadena City College
Currently on view at Gallery V, located on the Pasadena City College campus, is “Xanadu,” a group show featuring the work of nine artists. Though tightly curated by Shelli Tollman, who is also in the...
View ArticleOUTSIDE LA: “The Shape of Time: Korean Art After 1989” Philadelphia Museum of...
Viewing art is often followed by epiphanies—moments in which the viewer understands things both cognitively and perceptually. Sometimes it even provides a glimpse into another place, at another time,...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: Louise Lawler Sprüth Magers
Since the early 1980s, Louise Lawler has been making photographic works that focus on the collection and presentation of fine art, and the various meanings of “in-situ.” Her early images were...
View ArticlePICK OF THE WEEK: Jairo Sosa Room 3557
Step into Jairo Sosa’s installation, “Be True to the Game” and it feels as though you’ve stumbled upon the conclusion of a journey, an archaeological site or a moment of collective surrender. Room...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: Material Recovery Angel's Gate Cultural Center
“Material Recovery” combines printmaking with assemblage, collage and sculpture to illustrate the iconography of the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro, along with images suggesting the waste left there...
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