GALLERY ROUNDS: Evangeline AdaLioryn Sebastian Gladstone
Feathers, fur, gills, horns, tails (spiked and scaled), claws, talons, hooves, and forked tongues are some of the characteristics that adorn Evangeline AdaLioryn’s strange amalgamations. The locust of...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: Carolyn Castaño Walter Maciel Gallery
Carolyn Castaño’s “Otros Seres” (Other Beings) exhibition at Walter Maciel Gallery is an exhilarating eyeful of stealth environmental disaster. Castaño, of Colombian-American heritage, is well-known...
View ArticlePICK OF THE WEEK: Janet Olivia Henry Stars
Absorbing and jocular, Stars’ current exhibition, “Janet Olivia Henry’s Recent Academic Abstractions,” is where tableaux dioramas become the central force and unique vantage point from which deliberate...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: Marilyn Nance Roberts Projects
The Marilyn Nance exhibition at Roberts Projects beautifully demonstrates the phenomenon known as six degrees of separation—the idea that all people are six or fewer connections away from each other....
View ArticleEditor’s Pick: Margaret Lazzari USC Fisher Museum of Art
The New York Times recently ran an article with the headline “Art Isn’t Supposed to Make You Comfortable”—Margaret Lazzari’s series of works devoted to her traumatic struggle with breast cancer, “The...
View ArticleStephen Seemayer: Dark Side of Paradise Bermudez Projects
The precarious balance of society and nature, and man’s place within the magnetism of both is the central theme of Stephen Seemayer’s “Dark Side of Paradise” at Bermudez Projects. The collection of...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUND: Pat Steir Hauser & Wirth
The point of departure for Pat Steir’s exhibition “Painted Rain” at Hauser & Wirth is an exploration of blue, a color omnipresent in Los Angeles. When first visiting the city over fifty years ago...
View ArticleJudithe Hernández Cheech Marin Center
At the retrospective “Judithe Hernández: Beyond Myself, Somewhere, I Wait for My Arrival,” mounted by The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum, the full...
View ArticleMarc Camille Chaimowic Gaga & Reena Spaulings LA
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View ArticlePaul McCarthy and Benjamin Weissman THE PIT
Don’t be fooled by the name: The Pit in Atwater Village is a snake-free, gleaming, new 13,000 square-foot space, zippy with colorful work. After the first two galleries, there was a huge room devoted...
View ArticleMarianne Wex Tanya Leighton
Long before it was called out as a public nuisance, the phenomenon of manspreading was exhaustively, perhaps definitively, documented by the German feminist artist Marianne Wex (1937–2020) in a...
View ArticleZizipho Poswa Southern Guild
Zizipho Poswa’s monumental ceramic and bronze sculptures hold court like an enclave of demigods. While not figurative per se, they are anthropomorphic in the way all ceramic vessels are: All are...
View ArticleSe Oh Stroll Garden
As a Korean-born queer person who was adopted at nine months by a conservative white Christian family in the Tennessee Bible Belt, Se Oh struggled for years with the trauma of rejection, including from...
View ArticleNora Turato Sprüth Magers
“Self is source. Self is pure positive energy. Self is worthy. Self is full of vitality. Self is healthy. Self is eager about life. Self is amazing.” One might imagine this incantation spoken in a low,...
View ArticleBrad Kronz Gaylord Apartments
For his untitled exhibition at Gaylord Apartments, Brad Kronz created what looked like a kind of deinstallation—the last few items left in an apartment before moving out, things you don’t know whether...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: Aly Helyer Vielmetter
In the arresting painting On Your Side (2024), a person and their cat canoodle in twinned profiles that make it seem like they share an eye—and that’s not even the strangest thing about it. The main...
View ArticlePICK OF THE WEEK: Rhea Dillon Soft Opening at Paul Soto
There’s no trick of the moonlight at Rhea Dillon’s show, “Gestural Poetics.” Inside and out, each work happens twice. Dillon’s drawings, nestled in sapele mahogany boxes within the white cube gallery,...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: Groove The Hammer Museum
“Groove,” an exhibition of approximately 100 intaglio prints currently on view at the Hammer Museum, has something for everyone, and a bit of everything (save for works in other media), but it will...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: Tidawhitney Lek and Veronica Fernandez Sidecar Gallery
At Night Gallery’s newly debuted kunsthalle-inspired space, Sidecar, “What Will You Give?” features numerous large-scale paintings by up-and-coming artists Tidawhitney Lek and Veronica Fernandez. Lek...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: Suzan Woodruff Billis Williams
Suzan Woodruff’s new body of ethereal, abstract paintings and undulating wall sculptures came at a price—one as much physical as psychological. Diagnosed with virulent cancer amid a national pandemic,...
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