Alexandra Carter's current show, "All gods are hot," is a maze of artworks so tightly packed that one can hardly turn around without colliding with translucent paintings adorning the walls and hanging from the ceiling at Radiant Space. Even so, cramped quarters seem...
Laurie Nye; Mindy Shapero
Two shows at The Pit delineate visionary worlds of wacky flourish and dazzling variegation. "Venusian Weather," the title of Laurie Nye's show, suggests the second planet from the Sun as well as the Greco-Roman ideal of female beauty. The paintings therein reflect...
Kamol Tassananchalee
Eastern concepts meld with Western painting methods in Thai artist Kamol Tassananchalee's mystical abstractions currently on view at LA Artcore. This transnational painter, who maintains a studio in Chatsworth, received his MFA from Otis in 1977, was titled National...
Eduardo Carrillo
"Testament of the Spirit" at Pasadena Museum of California Art encompasses over 60 paintings that Eduardo Carrillo (1937-1997) produced over a 40-year period. While traversing this engrossing retrospective, one feels as though perusing an eclectic panoply of peepholes...
Mark Bradford; Geta Brătescu; Louise Bourgeois
A diverse trio of shows by significant artists is soon to close at Hauser & Wirth. If you haven't attended, and only have time to visit one gallery this week, you might try this three-for-one-special where discrete exhibitions by Mark Bradford, Geta Brătescu and...
Christopher Page
Christopher Page's paintings appear as windows into neon voids. "Opening" at Baert Gallery comprises five trompe l'oeil abstractions whose geometric compositions appear flat from afar but disclose illusionistic shading as one approaches. Flashy color fields are...
Kelly Berg and Ned Evans
Lightning, volcanoes, geysers and ice floes possess hellish glory whose terror is facilely reduced to quaintness. Depicting these comely but deadly natural forces, Kelly Berg's artworks illustrate humans' relationship to the earth's crust as a labyrinthine blend of...
Alake Shilling
As 356 Mission prepares to shutter, two unorthodox shows whet regulars' regret for the singular gallery's imminent finis. Closing April 22, Charlemagne Palestine's plush extravaganza is apposite to new artist Alake Shilling's outlandish show that will remain through...
Lorser Feitelson
"Lorser Feitelson: Figure to Form" at Louis Stern Fine Arts is a small but insightful survey of the noted painter's transition from Post-Surrealism to Hard-Edge Abstraction. Including nine paintings Feitelson (1888-1978) completed between 1945 and 1962, this show...
Ben Sanders
Ben Sanders envisions paintings and completes drawings while sitting in church. It sounds as though the pictures yielded by this arrangement would be moralistic, maudlin or mocking; but instead, he transfigures personal and religious narratives into open-ended...
Alison Petty Ragguette
Alison Petty Ragguette's sculptures voluptuously incarnate equivocal tensions between nature and artifice. Evincing Ragguette's versatility in ceramics and sculpture, "Visceral Bandwidths" at Launch LA debuts her new "Melanin" series alongside examples from recent...
Roberto Gil de Montes and Ann Chamberlin
Two painting shows at Lora Schlesinger Gallery register as pensive pictorial journals of events both experienced and imagined. Including still lifes, figures, landscapes, and combinations thereof, the easel-sized scenes in Roberto Gil de Montes' show titled "Moments"...
Mondongo
Buenos Aires artist collective Mondongo is a collaborative duo consisting of Juliana Lafitte and Manuel Mendanha. Their work doesn't disappoint curiosity engendered by their mysterious name taken from a stew. Following the rickety elevator ride to the age-old Bendix...
Martin Soto Climent
Martin Soto Climent's exhibition at Michael Benevento is a meticulously orchestrated visual symphony of photos, videos and sculptures. The Mexico City based artist titled his show "Temazcal" after the type of ceremonial sudatorium that inspired this body of work. The...
William Powhida
"Advertising fogs our daily lives less from its peculiar lies than from its peculiar truths," Daniel Boorstin declared in his 1962 book The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America. Seemingly truer than ever in our post-truth era, this notion offers an apt point of...
Beatriz Cortez and Rafa Esparza
Did you know that PST isn't quite over? A few shows remain. If you missed key offerings, your best redress might be at Commonwealth & Council, whose main gallery Beatriz Cortez and Rafa Esparza have metamorphosed into a futurological forum for meditation on Latino...
Takako Yamaguchi
Given the fact that most spend their lives swathed in textiles, it's amazing how dismissively cloth is viewed. Concern for one's apparel is frequently considered a frivolous feminine purview; garments are treated as utilitarian throwaways to be manufactured in foreign...
Alex Couwenberg and Steve Diet Goedde
To striking effect, Finish Fetish painting binds erotic fetish photography in Alex Couwenberg and Steve Diet Goedde's exhibition at Coagula Curatorial. Titled simply "Collaboration," this show tenders surprisingly fecund explorations into how brightly hued abstract...