Since I first saw Olivia Hill’s solo exhibition “Strike-Slip” at Bel Ami, I’ve found myself returning to one work in particular—one of the smallest in the show, a sunset-hued rendering of sandy terrain. Entitled Tire Mark in Yucca Valley 34°12’27.9″N 116°26’17.2″W...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Olivia Hill
Robert Ginder Craig Krull Gallery
The ornate paintings depicted in Robert Ginder’s first solo show at Craig Krull Gallery induce nostalgia, especially for those Angelenos. Palm trees, long-standing businesses, bungalow-style homes, and points of attractions rise from their gold leaf-encrusted wooden...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Loft at Liz’s Group Exhibition "Diverted Destruction 15: The Demolition Edition”
Co-curated by Liz Gordon (of Loft at Liz's) and Monique Birault, the 15th iteration of Gordon’s ecologically driven “Diverted Destruction" is both exciting, and more visually spare than past exhibitions. Rather than filling the main gallery space with smaller pieces...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Lev Rukhin East 26 Projects
Russian exile Lev Rukhin creates grand works of realism tinged with just enough peculiarity to suggest doubt. They are dreamlike—much of the imagery is suspended in a nimbus—and implies both memory and trickery. This device is quite intentional; the exhibition is...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Robert G. Achtel Marshall Gallery
The City of Namara is a fictitious place created by Robert G. Achtel. In the photographs that define this curious and digitally fabricated location, Achtel presents Namara as a place devoid of people and filled with modernist architecture. Each building is shot...
Dreams in Deixis Tufenkian Fine Arts
If the endpoint of a viewer's perception in art is to re-create something in the mind's eye through one's own experience of the artwork, then the work of art is demonstrative. It acts as a catalyst for the imaginative re-creation of something the artist is pointing at...
GALLERY ROUNDS: DAVE MULLER Blum & Poe
Once upon a time there were "record stores" where one could look through bins of new and used albums, often organized alphabetically by musician/band and type of music, allowing listeners and viewers to troll though specific musical histories. Today, many people...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Life By Design Gresham Gallery at San Bernardino Valley College
In a planet crowded with polarizing paradigms, is it possible to contribute aesthetically to larger conversations about culture and existence? Life by Design, a group show currently at the Gresham Gallery at San Bernardino Valley College (SBVC), masterfully...
GALLERY ROUNDS: AHN HYONG NAM Helen J Gallery
Upon entering Helen J Gallery, the electric sounds produced by the neon lights of Ahn Hyong Nam’s dynamic sculptures pour into visitors’ ears and plunges them into the artist's reimagined matrix. As the show's title implies, "Automatic Nature," Ahn's work investigates...
GALLERY ROUNDS: AMIR ZAKI Diane Rosenstein Gallery
Amir Zaki's exhibition 'On Being Here' presents hyper-real, large-scale color photographs of piers in Southern California. In each image, Zaki divides the composition into two sections, juxtaposing a view on the pier looking towards the ocean with another from the...
GALLERY ROUNDS: KRISTOPHER RAOS Charlie James Gallery
Kristopher Raos’ "No Escaping the Housework" is an eye-popping splash of vibrant color. His bold works are highly refined pop art which depict the packaging for a variety of different cleaning products. Technically untitled, each piece indicates a “product” name and...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Nathan Redwood and Senon Williams PRJCTLA
A pair of exhibitions each in their own manner engage with formula and intuition. In Portraits: Invented Subjects and Divergent Styles, 90 works (all acrylic on paper, 30 x 22 inches, 2015-22) by Nathan Redwood form a tight procession flanking the walls in grids and...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Emma Ruth Rundle Lethal Amounts
Lethal Amounts in Downtown LA is well known in the underground scene for being a venue which supports alternative music and outsider artists. This unconventional venue is the locale for Emma Ruth Rundle’s first solo show entitled Dowsing Voice. Rundle is originally...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Patrick Nickell Rory Devine Fine Art
The tradition of organic and biomorphic form sculpture is one of the most singularly important in modern and contemporary art. Stretching all the way back to the undulating serpentine forms of the Läocoon, the tradition really took off in the early 20th century in the...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Black Kirby UCR Arts, Culver Center for the Arts
The creation of Black superheroes in Marvel Comics during the Silver Age (comics published from 1956–1970) and Bronze Age (comics published from 1970–1984) has consistently been the exception and not the rule. There was Black Panther (1966), Blade (1973) and Monica...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Luis De Jesus Los Angeles Evita Tezeno; Laura Krifka; Nancy Evans
Three fine solo shows of paintings offer personal perspectives as unique as the artists who created them: Laura Krifka, Evita Tezeno, and Nancy Evans. Krifka’s “Still Point,” is a beautiful tribute to light, the human body, and the human heart. With domestic settings...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Mark Dion Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
Mark Dion is best known for his conceptual artworks that riff on traditional historical or scientific presentations. He begins by collecting objects and researching a specific subject or locale, then merges his findings into evocative artworks that have an air of...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Sandow Birk Track 16 Gallery
Highly prescient, somehow whimsical, Sandow Birk’s exhibition “Los Angeles and Her Surroundings” explores what can only be described as late-stage capitalism in Southern California. In 40 drawings that have whiffs of nostalgia, environmental and architectural...