Darya Diamond at Sebastian Gladstone
Looking at Darya Diamond’s limp latex sculpture, In Every Dream Home a Heartache (2024), I think of bruised skin, frail shoulders: a tired body collapsed on the floor — phallic, deflated, stamped with...
View ArticleJane Dickson at Karma
I never feel hotter or more detached (indeed, more American) than in a car, windows down in the August heat. It’s an exercise in movement, longing on an unremarkable plane of asphalt. Each lane is a...
View ArticleLarry Madrigal at Nicodim
With scraped knees, tangled sheets, and yesterday’s discarded clothes strewn across the floor, Larry Madrigal’s new evocative paintings at Nicodim showcase the artist at his strongest. In moments where...
View ArticleMeg Lipke at SHRINE
These paintings have a slight hamfistedness, which suggests distance from their alternately whimsical, mystical, Modernist, and Premodern sources. The allusions and references here—like Lipke’s...
View ArticleKevin Brisco Jr. at albertz benda
Most figurative painting is terrible but these are surprisingly good. Brisco’s restrained brushwork produces a flat clarity that recalls Alex Katz but with harsh moody colors and lonesome figures which...
View ArticlePlugged In: Art and Electric Light at Norton Simon Museum
Grouping art by medium is always too obvious, even when the medium in question has the pizzazz of electric light. This exhibition focuses on the years 1964-1970 but does not, otherwise, establish a...
View ArticleShirazeh Houshiary at Lisson Gallery
Houshiary’s mesmeric abstract canvases depose our human perception of scope and scale, engaging the macro and microscopic; they connect a single breath to the breadth of the sea, carbon’s molecular...
View ArticleEugenia P. Butler at The Box
Butler’s threadbare saffron works-on-silk line the perimeter of the back gallery, floating forward and back, filling and falling as if breathing. Suspended by invisible supports and backlit, the...
View ArticleLotus L. Kang at Commonwealth and Council
To experience lack is to be reminded of the boundaries of the self, of others. Lacking realizes the unassailable distance between you and everything you don’t and won’t ever have. Therein to lack...
View ArticleNate Lowman at David Zwirner
I’ll admit that before attending a press walkthrough for Nate Lowman’s “Parking” at David Zwirner a few weeks ago, I wasn’t familiar with Lowman’s oeuvre. The paintings first appeared to me...
View ArticleCai Guo-Qiang and cAI™ at the Los Angeles Coliseum
At dusk on September fifteenth, nearly 5,000 spectators gathered on the field of the Los Angeles Coliseum to view WE ARE: EXPLOSION EVENT FOR PST ART, a monumental daytime fireworks display by Cai...
View ArticleThe Harrison Studio [Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison] Survival Piece #1: Air,...
Organized in concert with the Getty’s PST ART initiative, this re-mounting of Survival Piece #1: Air, Earth, Water Interface or Annual Hog Pasture Mix (1970–71) — in keeping with the entirety of the...
View ArticleDuncan Hannah at The Journal Gallery
In the early years of cinema, actors were treated as crew members working the conveyor belt of industrialized studio systems. But by the silent-film era of the 1910s, the star system had begun to take...
View ArticleEchoes of Voynich: Coded Systems in Contemporary Art at Wonzimer Gallery
This show at Wonzimer Gallery, organized by contributing artist Marcie Biegleiter, is inspired by the Voynich Manuscript, a work that constitutes a parallel exhibition to the show she curated. The...
View ArticleAria Dean at Château Shatto
In her still-young career, Aria Dean has shown a remarkable knack for giving the institution exactly what it wants: shrewd work that stings the nerve of the moment without quite stabbing it. In...
View ArticleLarry Johnson/curated by Larry Johnson at Reena Spaulings/ O-Town House
In two exhibitions spanning galleries some twenty-minutes apart depending on traffic, Larry Johnson presents his own work alongside that of two other gay artists of a certain age and a certain...
View ArticleAlexander Reben at Charlie James Gallery
The central piece here is four split-flap displays showing AI-generated text and a large HD TV displaying images based on those texts. The problem is that AI images are already familiar enough to be...
View ArticleJ. Parker Valentine at Bel Ami
The one large abstract drawing here, wedged precisely in between the ceiling and floor, explores a relationship between geometric form and explorative mark-making. The light touch is enticing, but the...
View ArticleRocky Morton Shatto Gallery
These paintings feature drip-like tendrils of paint, blown by a leaf-blower and sprawled across the canvas at all angles. Areas of the surface are covered at random but, more or less, evenly, like...
View ArticleBeatrice Arraes at Sea View
The song Kukukaya, which partly inspired Beatrice Arraes’s solo exhibition, speaks of a game meant for four, but “Jogo de Mesa (Table Game)” feels purposely solitary, quiet—a slow reckoning with time,...
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