Technology is always suspect, even in its pleasurableness. We love to hate it, yet we rely on it arguably to the point of our own obliteration. Bruce Yonemoto and Grant Levy-Doolittle have quite literally woven together the fibers that decimate information in our...
Mark Moore Gallery: Christopher Russell
Christopher Russell has made several series of works by scratching the outlines of objects or patterns into photographs of dreary nature scenes, empty domestic interiors, and even high-contrast images of lens flare. In his latest show, "Ersatz Infinities," Russell...
Henry Rollins with Robert Longo
Last Tuesday night we stood in front of the Orpheum Theatre quickly eating a slice of Two Boots pizza watching Keanu Reeves talk on the phone while he smiled and ate an apple. You’d think that would have been enough excitement for the evening but the main event that...
Dirk Braeckman
Dirk Braeckman's photographs celebrate the passing moment. Images that we are all too familiar with yet often take for granted, are laid bare in exquisite and ethereal shades of gray whereby a single tree set into the landscape explodes with a glowing internal...
Go Big or Go Home: COLA 2016
Last weekend we threw on our LA Sunday best and attended the opening of COLA 2016 at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. If you’ve never been that’s probably because you didn’t realize there was a gallery (a good one at that) tucked away in the mini man-made forest...
Kayne Griffin Corcoran: The Ocular Bowl
Visionary currents circulate around "The Ocular Bowl," a beautifully curated exhibition of paintings by Agnes Pelton, Linda Stark and Alex Olson. While each artist is separately well-known, this show illuminates their intersecting interests.Two paintings by Pelton...
Laura London, Cole Case
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John Kilduff: Kilduff’s Cavern
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Amy Park
New York-based artist Amy Park, in her second solo show at Kopeikin Gallery has reproduced, in intimate and gorgeously rendered watercolors, Ed Ruscha's 1966 seminal book project “Every Building On The Sunset Strip.” This is no easy task to be sure, and Park nails...
Upending Absurdity
When the Long Beach City College Art Gallery invited Cheri Gaulke to show “Peep Totter Fly” alongside Michael Arata’s “Texas Style Beauty Contest—Miss M,” she initially recoiled. “I wasn’t quite sure where he was coming from,” she remarked in regard to Arata’s...
Disappearing in Public (and Private): Ramiro Gomez’s On Melrose and Domestic Scenes
While much of the focus on Ramiro Gomez’s new show at Charlie James Gallery, and Gomez’s work generally, has been on labor – as subject and focal point; as a device re-framing public discourse around the subject; as the un- or under-addressed component of its surround...
Disappearing In Public (and Private): Ramiro Gomez’s On Melrose and Domestic Scenes
While much of the focus on Ramiro Gomez’s new show at Charlie James Gallery, and Gomez’s work generally, has been on labor – as subject and focal point; as a device re-framing public discourse around the subject; as the un- or under-addressed component of its surround...
Kilduff’s Cavern at Daniel Rolnik Gallery
A buck naked Michelan Man, radioactive chicken heads, a dinosaur dog and a blob of liquid fat attacking a gallery full of art hung on yellow, pink AND green walls. Sound like a really intense acid trip? Nope. Just a party at Daniel Rolnik Gallery. This Saturday night...
Chimento Contemporary: Laura London
Like fairy tales about to reach sinister climaxes, Laura London's new photographs present spuriously romanticized views of female youth. Each portrait's idealized setup is tempered by a portentous feeling that something is amiss.The show's title, "Relocation,"...
Julian Schnabel returns to Pace Gallery
Painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel is returning to Arne Glimcher’s Pace after 13 years with the Gagosian Gallery. Pace had repped Schnabel from 1984 to 2003.Schnabel said “I wanted to have a more human relationship with the person . . . representing my work.”...
Diane Arbus
M + B: Whitney Hubbs
Whitney Hubbs’s "Body Doubles" presents the artist's first attempts at color photography after a decade of working in black and white. Eleven midsize photographs feature anonymous women intermingling with provisional sets and props. These cropped and fractured limbs...
TRI (…ed) Revisting TRI Gallery
Artist Rory Devine has organized a perfectly exquisite gem of a show at Wilding Cran Gallery. One that revisits—with much celebratory aplomb—the artists who once exhibited at the fabled TRI Gallery back in the 1990s. Though disparate, thankfully the artists featured...