PICK OF THE WEEK: Jordan Nassar Anat Ebgi
Intertwining tradition, identity and memory, Jordan Nassar’s exhibition, “Surge,” turns large-scale Levantine embroidery and mosaics into sites of tactile continuity, connection and solace. These works...
View ArticleAnne Austin Pearce: Her Blue Period River Deep–Mountain High at Founders...
What is a colorist painter? In the 19th century, the painter and critic Eugène Fromentin assessed that the work of colorist artists engage hues that are “rare, tender, or powerful, but resolutely...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: Karla Diaz 18th Street Arts
Karla Diaz has been drawing since she was a child. The title of her current exhibition, “Wait ’til Your Mother Gets Home,” is something her aunt would say to her when she would draw on the walls of the...
View ArticlePICK OF THE WEEK: Paige Jiyoung Moon Steve Turner
With unruffled confidence, Paige Jiyoung Moon’s, “Gen 3” reveals small-scale acrylic paintings depicting informal rituals from her daily life with a profusion of care. Most of the time memories get...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: “Before You Now” Riverside Art Museum
“Before You Now” features work by 56 artists who employ photography, prints, drawings, installations and video to depict themselves, their identities and, especially, their artistic perspectives....
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: Jim Isermann Miles McEnery Gallery
When I stepped into Jim Isermann’s spectacular show “Wrapture” presented by the Miles McEnery Gallery and the Pacific Design Center, my first thought was, “It’s 1967 again,” — and I don’t mean in a...
View ArticleOUTSIDE LA: Rochelle Botello Bakersfield Museum of Art
“Free Fall,” Rochelle Botello’s solo exhibition at the Bakersfield Museum of Art, affords an incredibly rich and evocative visual experience. Botello’s organic and sometimes strangely discomfiting...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: Tony Cragg Marian Goodman Gallery
One of the most durable traditions in Modernism, organic form sculpture emerged in the first part of the 20th century in the work of Constantine Brancusi, Jean Arp, Alberto Giacometti and others....
View ArticlePICK OF THE WEEK: Winfred Rembert Hauser & Wirth
A life lived in the midst of harrowing times of chain gangs, sharecropping and Jim Crow laws in the Deep South is the bullseye of Winfred Rembert’s exhibition, “Hard Times.” In hand-carved and debossed...
View ArticleSimone Leigh LACMA and CAAM
Simone Leigh’s presence at the 2022 Venice Biennale was monumental: Her sculptural contributions to the main exhibition garnered a Golden Lion, while her solo show for the US national pavilion...
View ArticlepascALEjandro Blum
The nonagenarian artist Alejandro Jodorowsky is best known as a filmmaker, while his wife, the 40-something Pascale Montandon-Jodorowsky, works as a painter, photographer and designer. Together, they...
View ArticleCoco Young Night Gallery
Melancholy rendered in pools of soft, golden sunlight. Love and loss braided into fields of wildflowers. In the press release for “Passage,” Coco Young’s first solo show at Night Gallery, curator...
View Article30th Anniversary Group Show David Zwirner
On a murky day in May, the art cognoscenti made their way to a preview of gallerist David Zwirner’s newest addition to his burgeoning enclave in Los Angeles. Among the city’s unremitting attempts at...
View ArticleMelanie Pullen William Turner Gallery
Images of violence are so prevalent in today’s media landscape that news commentators now prompt us to look away, while social-media clips of police misconduct or war-ravaged bodies are shared and...
View ArticleAlicja Kwade and Agnes Martin Pace Gallery
The sprinklers of Pace Gallery’s immaculate lawn activated as I entered its courtyard for “Alicja Kwade & Agnes Martin: Space Between the Lines.” One of them was installed only a few inches from...
View ArticleNick Angelo Sebastian Gladstone
A big pharma scion funded the Tolkien exhibition at Rome’s National Gallery of Modern Art to normalize drug dependency by suggesting its correlation to Bilbo Baggins’ obsession with the One Ring. Or,...
View ArticleClaire Chambless Carlye Packer
Transformation in its most expansive and contradictory sense was at work throughout Claire Chambless’ exhibition, “Role Play.” Both individually and taken as a choreographed ensemble, the work—while...
View ArticlePEER REVIEW Tom Knechtel on Thomas Antell
Tom Knechtel, a Los Angeles–based artist who shows with PPOW in New York and Marc Selwyn Fine Art here in LA—where his exhibition, “The Hare in the Studio,” just ended in June—is known for his...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: Gretchen Bender Sprüth Magers
In 1987, Cindy Sherman interviewed Gretchen Bender for BOMB Magazine, discussing the influence of her work on mass media. Bender denied the relationship between the two and instead described media as a...
View ArticlePICK OF THE WEEK: “Bruts” David Kordansky Gallery
In this group exhibition of 15 artists, Rashid Johnson splendidly arranges ablaze and brooding drawings, paintings and sculptures into a pristine playlist. From Huma Bhabha’s uneasy cork, wood and...
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