Like fairy tales about to reach sinister climaxes, Laura London’s new photographs present spuriously romanticized views of female youth. Each portrait’s idealized setup is tempered…
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Amy Elkins’ Male Protagonists
Tough/Tender
Inside American prisons, thousands of men sequestered in tiny, dim rooms spend their lives waiting to die. Outside, this marginal population is hardly considered, except…
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Polly Apfelbaum and Dona Nelson’s collaboration yields surprising relationships among artworks, viewers, and surrounding architecture.Each artist’s celebrated inventiveness is amply represented. Collaged from dyed velvet,…
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In Channing Hansen’s solo gallery debut, which consists of nine large knitted works and one salon-style grid of smaller pieces, traditional stretcher bars are visible…
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Alternate Empires
Science Inspires Three Women Sculptors
As a student, seeking respite from the relatively hidebound painting department, I often retreated to the sculpture studios. There, the critical gaze of teachers seemed…
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Alia Malley
Sloan Projects / Los Angeles
In his essay “The Ontology of the Photographic Image,” film theorist André Bazin observed that image-making was “no longer a question of survival after death,…
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JAMES HYDE: GROUND
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
Entering James Hyde’s show at Luis De Jesus, one immediately wonders: What sort of pictures are these? At first glance, it is difficult to determine…
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Shiri Mordechay Deals with Darkness
Cinema of the Brain
During her childhood in provincial Nigeria, Shiri Mordechay recalls traversing roadways littered with human skulls, glimpsing live babies discarded in trash cans and being spellbound…
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JOHN MCALLISTER
RICHARD TELLES / Los Angeles
Gazing out of a window or peering into a painting: both imply curiosity, perhaps driven by a sense of longing, for what is beyond. John…
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ALISON FREY ANDERSSON
C. NICHOLS PROJECT / Los Angeles
The ocean sometimes gets the best of those who love it most. The title of Alison Frey Andersson’s exhibition, “86’d” offers a surfer’s take on…
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Austin Irving at Wilding Cran
Photographs Invoke Disquieting Feelings of Being Trapped
It seems every traveler, on occasion, suffers a collapse of time and space. Careening down a hotel hallway late at night, carrying a suitcase whose…
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