This summer, in what seemed like a large seizure of prime advertising real estate, 10 LA billboards were repurposed for an alternative exhibition of text-based artworks by the Scottish artist Robert Montgomery. Sponsored by the Do Art Foundation and Art Share LA,...
Nostalgia for the raw flow of dreams suffuses Stas Orlovski’s hypnotic installation, “Chimera,” activating a longing for the power of imagination as dreams coalesce into interpretation and noetic concerns. Orlovski conjures a fantastic synthesis from diverse parts:...
“FOOD - WATER - LIFE” presents a sort of equation, a distillation of concerns about immigration, labor and meaning in a globalized economy that drags our personal lives along for the ride.Married French artists Lucy+Jorge Orta construct a figurative Ikea catalog of...
“Domesticating Disturbances,” Nathan Huff’s solo exhibit of drawings and paintings in gouache and sculpture/installation never dogmatically adheres to a set of organizing principles, instead freely adapting ideas to form a unique figurative language. His point of...
Taking the animal kingdom as a point of departure, Japanese-born artist Misako Inaoka explores formal and conceptual concerns, posing broad questions about life on our planet, its evolution and human interventions. As man exerts continual domination over beast, with...
Showcasing appropriated images of young girls alongside pornography from niche fetish websites in her daring mixed-media works, Darja Bajagic’s solo exhibition offers “Cold Comfort,” as the show’s title so aptly indicates. The recent Yale MFA grad stirred controversy...
To write about Charlotte Schulz’ drawings requires a language equal to their elegant and surreal lyricism. The poet Jorie Graham comes close, describing a mythical space as consisting of “little whelps, vanquishings, discoveries, here under this / rock / no, over...
"We were everywhere during the Fall Opening Season of the Los Angeles Art world. The 20th anniversary of ACME gallery, Chinatown, Beverly Hills, Culver City...we were there!" From Los Angeles Fall Openings 2014. Posted by Artillery Magazine on 11/04/2014 (27 items)...
For all the talk about its fragility (at least in economic terms), opera remains a remarkably durable art form. Great music wedded to a strong dramatic core can never be easily dismissed. Add some good orchestration and the human voice in its full dynamic range,...
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