GALLERY ROUNDS: Bruce Richards Sea View
For naïve or semi-initiated Los Angeles art-goers such as myself, a visit to “Soundings,” Sea View’s summer exhibition, might elicit two questions. Who is Bruce Richards? And why does the show’s...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: Francisco de Goya Norton Simon Museum
To see the work of Francisco de Goya in present-day Los Angeles is disturbingly pertinent, echoing the turbulent anxieties of our time with a wickedly sadistic smile. “Saw It: Francisco de Goya,...
View ArticleOUTSIDE LA: Junior Art Exhibition Laguna Beach Festival of Arts
One of the most popular shows at the Laguna Beach Festival of Arts is the “Junior Art Exhibition,” featuring 400 art pieces by 200 Orange County students from kindergarten through grade 12. The show...
View ArticleOUTSIDE LA: Margot Samel New York “Thank you, I’m rested now. I’ll have the...
Two galleries have teamed up to co-present the group exhibition, “Thank you, I’m rested now. I’ll have the lobster today, thank you,” borrowing its title from Karen Kilimnik’s 2016 collage of a Siamese...
View ArticlePICK OF THE WEEK: Matthew Barney Regen Projects
Somewhere between warfare and entertainment, sports as a spectacle is deeply rooted in the ways modern societies organize, present and consume events and expectations. Pacing through “SECONDARY:...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: Alice Wang Vincent Price Art Museum
In his journals from his first expeditions in the Sierra Mountains, John Muir wrote, “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” The...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: Christopher Culver Michael Benevento
If—in the next couple days—you are keen on communing privately with melancholic beauty (or “tough joy,” as the artist might have it), visit Christopher Culver’s latest suite of charcoal and pastel...
View ArticlePICK OF THE WEEK: Covey Gong and Monique Mouton Bel Ami
The meeting of Covey Gong and Monique Mouton at Bel Ami is like watching the contact of two elements transforming one another. While their respective works are satisfying on their own, together,...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: Everything But the Kitchen Sink La Luz De Jesus
California amusement parks like Disneyland are multi-layered entertainment fantasies, offering created environments for escapism and joy-filled distraction. These tourist sites entice visitors with...
View ArticleUta Barth 1301PE
As part of her career-spanning 2022–23 survey, “Peripheral Vision” at the Getty, and in honor of the museum’s 20th anniversary, the German-American photographer Uta Barth presented an expansive...
View ArticleChiffon Thomas Michael Kohn Gallery
A church is a grand gesture to the community it serves and sustains. At its best it’s a hub, as well as a display of worship, tradition, sacrament and humility. A chapel by contrast is a modest little...
View ArticleChris Eckert Long Beach Museum of Art
Incessant texts and social-media alerts are inescapable facets of contemporary life, and artist Chris Eckert attempts to make sense of this glut of seemingly endless data. Eckert has successfully...
View ArticleKyungmi Shin Craft Contemporary
In The Head in the Tiger’s Mouth (2021), the first composition in Kyungmi Shin’s kaleidoscopic exhibition, my eyes immediately landed on the luminous collection of swirls and stripes suggesting the...
View ArticleBernard Cooper Gattopardo
If you’ve read any of Bernard Cooper’s books, you know about the care with which he constructs his sentences, how he gives each detail its own breathing room. (If not, Maps to Anywhere [1990] and his...
View ArticleMarkus Lüpertz & Pierre Puvis de Chavannes Michael Werner
There is something inherently contentious about an exhibition juxtaposing the work of a contemporary artist with another whose work has some place within the art-historical canon, more particularly one...
View ArticlePEER REVIEW Kelly Wall on Ellen Schafer
Known for her life-sized stained-glass sculptures of intertwined lawn chairs, Kelly Wall uses sculpture and time to explore perspective in different ways, turning familiar objects into something...
View ArticleGALLERY ROUNDS: Piper Bangs Megan Mulrooney Gallery
Juicy larvae play amongst feral grasses. Slugs laze on velvety pillows of tufted lichen. Cornucopias of ripened fruits germinate in tendrilled verdant habitats. I can’t help but delight in Piper Bangs’...
View ArticleBrett Ginsburg at Matthew Brown
This show feels like something that I would have walked in and out of quickly about twenty years ago. The paintings—hazy process-based geometric abstractions—artfully avoid the conventions of painting...
View ArticleBetye Saar at Roberts Projects
Mojotech is Betye Saar’s abbreviation for the “magic of technology” and the title of her large-scale installation from 1987 on view at Roberts Projects. Standing at the horizon of Saar’s trailing...
View ArticleAustin Lee at Jeffrey Deitch
Some shows suck, and some shows barely avoid sucking. Austin Lee seems capable of great things while failing by a long mile. The paintings depict brightly hued, crying, Gumby-like cartoon figures. They...
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