Simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar, utopian and dystopian, Dean Byington’s complex canvases are the result of a meticulously refined process that is both digital and analog. Byington begins…
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Thomson & Craighead
Young Projects
Wake Me Up When It’s Over is a compelling and timely installation featuring selected works from 1998–2016 by the London-based duo Thomson & Craighead. Jon…
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Dean Monogenis destroyed nine paintings putting them on display in a work entitled Black Hole. Feeling the need to purge, Monogenis selected older pieces from the gallery’s…
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Nathan Redwood
Jaus Gallery
Unexpected Portrait (2016) is a large-scale acrylic-on-canvas painting where a long tube-shaped orange line with dark edges glides across the work defining a cartoon-like head…
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Brendan Fowler is interested in the relationship between photography and material culture, and his works transform photographic images into something unexpected. He is best known…
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In Blair Saxon-Hill’s installation to no ending except ourselves (2016), wall and floor based sculptures fashioned from discarded and broken materials come to life. Making…
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Erika Rothenberg
Charlie James Gallery
Erika Rothenberg’s “House of Cards” is as timely now as it was when it was first shown in 1992. In our changing political climate, Rothenberg’s…
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Paul Sietsema’s works have an aesthetic and intellectual dimensionality and the path through his exhibition is an invitation to put together the pieces of a…
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Looking At Doug Aitken
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
Exiting Electric Earth, Doug Aitken’s immersive, multichannel narrative installation first presented in 1999 and immediately confronting Twilight (2016), an eerie, translucent ghost-like freestanding replica of…
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A long banner of colorful flowers fills the second floor window of 1301PE. Seen from the outside, it functions as a precursor to the works…
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Barry Anderson, Timothy Paul Myers, Andrew Barnes
Walter Maciel Gallery
Constructed spaces, both virtual and actual, link the works of Barry Anderson and Timothy Paul Myers (in collaboration with Andrew Barnes). In the front galleries,…
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David Hockney, well known as a painter and draftsman, is also a versatile multi-disciplinary artist who has embraced technology in surprising ways. It comes as…
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Swedish artist Joakim Ojanen creates paintings and ceramic sculptures that are quirky and compassionate. His part-human / part-animal creatures have distinct personalities and are full…
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Carmen Argote
Shulamit Nazarian Gallery / Los Angeles
Carmen Argote is a Los Angeles-based multimedia artist who works directly in response to particular locations. Last year, she created a site- specific installation at…
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For his exhibition, “Sunflower Seed” at Team (Bungalow), Portland born, New York based artist/programmer Tabor Robak has created custom built PCs with high definition display screens on…
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Aimée García
Couturier Gallery / Los Angeles
Like many Cuban artists, Aimée García has learned how to avoid censorship while still communicating her message and ideas. In García’s current body of work…
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