I spend a lot of time finding ways to make paintings that (I always hope miraculously) look like they aren’t paintings. And then I get what I wish for and they get mistaken in print for collages or computer things or photos of people by journalists who didn’t read the...
Stellar Stoller
“Insights into Architecture,” inspired by architectural photographer Ezra Stoller (1915–2004), who is known for chronicling modernist architecture from the late 1930s to the 1970s was on display at the Palm Springs Art Museum from May 25 to October 6. To comment on...
BUNKER VISION
In a world where art is purchased to display as trophies, it can be hard to remember what a real art patron looks like. While researching my new favorite television station, I stumbled onto somebody who might qualify as the best art patron ever. The station is Classic...
Heros
at Carter & Citizen
Richard Tuttle said “There are artists who know from the bottom of their souls that art is about the experience of reality. The reason we have art is because you can’t get a real experience from the world.” David McDonald, whose most recent curatorial effort is...
Linder
at Blum & Poe
The recent retrospective of photographer, performance artist and counterculture British punk icon, Linder, at Blum & Poe is a rigorous if somewhat hysterically provocative critique on gender roles, specifically the commoditization of female sexuality. Spanning...
Visionary filmmaker BRUCE BAILLIE
Screenings of Bruce Baillie’s visionary short films are uncommon in the movie capital of the world, to say nothing of the known—or at least the non-academic—universe. A full-blown public retrospective of his work, then, stretched over three nights at REDCAT and the...
Moskowitz Gallery: Inaugural exhibition
The inaugural show at the newly opened Moskowitz Gallery on La Brea Avenue brings together the work of four young and talented artists: Alexa Guargilia, Mitch Weiss, Bill Maass and Adam Moskowitz. Although all four bring distinct technical approaches, distinct visual...
Post-Classici
The Palatine Hill, and the Roman Forum beneath it, is a marvelous place to visit if just for the archeology and history. Now a viewer can see how contemporary artists interact with these ruins on a large scale. The exhibition “Post Classici,” curated by Vincenzo...
Gregory Michael Hernandez
at Roberts & Tilton
Gregory Michael Hernandez makes maps, composite environments, deliberate negotiations into our collective humanity as a means of locating what appears to be a seemingly and endlessly metaphoric universe. Los Angeles figures prominently here as surrogate muse; the...
The Edge in CalArts Theater Festival
The annual CalArts-sponsored RADAR L.A. festival of contemporary theater had serious offerings this year of works outside the cultural references of the English-language. Some presentations were more successful than others, based purely on the dynamics and politics of...
Doug Aitken’s Mystery Train
The traveling art bash “Station to Station” concluded its nationwide tour in Oakland last week and it just goes to show: There’s nothing like a road trip fueled by a cool million in corporate donations for having a good time.
Steven Hull
at Rosamund Felsen
The inside of Steven Hull’s brain could be likened to a flowering tree in constant bloom. His newest effort, “Balcony” is an exploration into the various ways that meaning is extrapolated from any artwork, or for that matter any “thing” in the living known world....
Mark Dutcher
at Coagula Curatorial
Every now and again an artist comes along for whom the process of making art is both revolutionary and reverential. Mark Dutcher’s first solo show in almost five years, entitled "Transfer" is a visually transformative experience punctuated throughout as testaments of...
New Season Openings at Pacific Design Center
"NEW SEASON OPENINGS on Sept 18, 2013. Some great shows and people..." From PACIFIC DESIGN CENTER. Posted by Artillery Magazine on 9/27/2013 (18 items) Alisa Yang Annie Wharton Stephanie Duton and Cathy Stone at Another Year in LA Darrick Stone and Michael Hawley...
Jan Kempenaers: Spomenik
In Sarajevo, it only makes sense to remember the day that’s just passed. —Semezdin Mehmedinović, “What Will You remember?” from Sajevo Blues (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1998), 67. What happens when a notoriously heterogeneous people is asked to deny its own...
Stephanie Pryor
at Marine Contemporary
It takes nerve to make art with glitter. And to create compelling and uncompromising paintings with sparkles and watered down acrylics is a feat of pure fabulousness. Stephanie Pryor has made it her business to be fabulous in her most recent show at Marine...
EDITOR’S LETTER
Dear Readers, Suddenly, big is all around. Big, meaning huge spaces to create art in. Big, meaning large works to hang in gargantuan galleries. Big used to be considered vulgar but now it’s vogue. Big was garish, wasteful, decadent and dumb. Now it’s smart and...
Magic Carpet Ride
From the shaded parking lot, a stark beam of light shines through the loosely shut double doors of a nondescript white brick building. It is late morning, and the sun is already beginning to assert its presence as I approach the now-defunct Regen Projects gallery. It...