GALLERY ROUNDS: Paul Pfeiffer The Museum of Contemporary Art
“Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom” culminates in over thirty multimedia works of artist Paul Pfeiffer. The title of the exhibition references one of the works in the show...
View ArticlePICK OF THE WEEK: Ozzie Juarez Charlie James Gallery
Stepping into the realm of Ozzie Juarez’s paintings at his exhibition, “OXI-DIOS,” is akin to entering a bustling industrial cityscape, where citizens are invited to gather around modern homages to the...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: Nery Gabriel Lemus Charlie James Gallery
There is something about watercolor that is intimate at any scale. The medium’s unforgiving nature sparks an urgency in its use, creating an immediacy in its organic textures, forcing the artist to...
View ArticleJohn Cage & Leah Ke Yi Zheng CASTLE
John Cage and Leah Ke Yi Zheng’s joint exhibition, “The Grasshopper Lies Heavy,” presents two aesthetically dissimilar bodies of work with overlapping concerns that entangle them. The I Ching, an...
View ArticleCatherine Opie REGEN PROJECTS
In a photograph titled Idexa and Denix, 2002 (2002/2024), a woman in a tight black T-shirt, with tattoos poking out from under the sleeves, short coiffed hair and a nose ring, among other piercings,...
View ArticleDyani White Hawk Various Small Fires
A celebrated episode of the groundbreaking Native television series Reservation Dogs takes a harrowing look at life inside an Indian boarding school, where strict Catholic nuns do their best to...
View ArticleAlejandro Cardenas Anat Ebgi
So much more than paintings in bespoke carrying cases—though they certainly are that—the results of Alejandro Cardenas’ collaboration with Case Studyo, a Belgian artist-edition platform, engage the...
View ArticleLeidy Churchman Matthew Marks Gallery
At Leidy Churchman’s “Heart Drop,” what unfolds is not rooted in rationality nor the immediate appearance of the paintings. The show features winsome and playful subjects, colors and text, yielding an...
View ArticleJoey Terrill Marc Selwyn Fine Art
The 1980s witnessed the specter of AIDS as it decimated a generation of queer men and many others. Some prevailed—artist Joey Terrill among them, though he wistfully noted in an interview, “Unlike my...
View ArticleTodd Gray Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photographer Todd Gray is a rule breaker. In this brave new art world he has fashioned for us, gone are the two-dimensional, singular perspective, rectangular photographs that hung on the walls these...
View ArticleGriselda Rosas Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
The title of Griselda Rosas’ exhibition, “Donde pasó antes (Where it happened before),” recalls the classic fairy tale preamble, “Once upon a time…,” but also suggests a cautionary sense of place, a...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: Rodney Graham Lisson Gallery
Does humor belong in art? The late Canadian multimedia artist Rodney Graham evidently thought it did. But Graham’s humor, on display at the Lisson Gallery through March 23, is of the companionable...
View ArticlePICK OF THE WEEK: Amelia Lockwood & Chris Lux Guerrero Gallery
Last week, an abandoned home in the hills of Mt. Washington, once infested by raccoons and possums, transformed into “Revel Hall,” a temporary exhibition space showcasing Amelia Lockwood’s raw,...
View ArticleTHEATER: LA MYTHMAKING Fear of Kathy Acker
In January I was chatting with Jack Skelley, the author of The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker (FOKA) published last year through Semiotext(e). We spoke about how young writers are connecting with the...
View ArticleOUTSIDE LA: Will Hutnick Geary Contemporary
Will Hutnick’s practice resists easy categorization. While largely using the language of abstraction, his mixed media paintings also borrow elements of glitch art with seemingly disjointed imagery that...
View ArticleBOOK REVIEW: parasocialite Brittany Menjivar's Literary Debut
Literati yet to meet Brittany Menjivar can now do so through her hardcopy publishing debut, a slender prose/poetry collection titled parasocialite. As a cheeky culture correspondent (a Salvadorian born...
View ArticlePICK OF THE WEEK: Olivia van Kuiken Château Shatto
In “Biel Lieb,” Olivia van Kuiken’s inaugural exhibition at Château Shatto, oil paintings of untamed, bold color and mark-making swing between styles of ink wash, graphic novel, pixel and gestures on...
View ArticlePUBLISHER’S EYE: Yuji Ueda BLUM
Appearing as if they are on the verge of moving, Yuji Ueda’s ceramic vessels are complex, layered and their own abstracted compositions, both planned through his methodical process yet a surprise from...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: Blood: Medieval/Modern Getty Museum
Blood is unsightly in the flesh. Witnessing a bleeding person, one might turn away—or worse, be overcome with nausea and faint. For a substance essential to our functioning, to life itself, its image...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: June Edmonds Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
Now known as the Black National Anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing , written by James Weldon Johnson and composed by his younger brother, J. Rosamond Johnson iterates the definition of resilience by...
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