Allison Miller’s oeuvre is firmly and unequivocally rooted in the painting tradition, and yet is built upon a conviction, evident in her output over the past decade or so, to explore every inch of the possibilities, conditions and inherited clichés of painting. It...
Bruce Conner
In the darkened gallery, a single row of seats faces a large screen on which a series of images loop. These images run by in rapid succession with all of the characteristic flashes of light, scratches and stuttering of an acetate film. Transitions from one scene to...
Teresa Braun
In this era of information overkill, one may absorb endless volumes, yet the impact of each tale remains a solitary and private event, each word soaking in, one at a time, to imprint its distinctive mark on one’s being.A somber family legend took root in the mind of...
James Hoff
Even in December, the trees on Delancey Street have a coppery glow. It is not the glow of fall foliage, not on a Lower East Side thoroughfare better known for traffic than for signs of life. At least one gallery has bricked up its glass façade to keep out the sights...
ON OUR COVER: Tom Knechtel
Tom Knechtel is one of the top ten "best of Los Angeles" shows in 2016, selected by staff writer Ezrha Jean Black.
Happy New Year! I hope you had a wonderful holiday and didn’t over-eat as much as I did! I want to start the new year off with a couple of announcements.First, you may have noticed that the name of this blog has changed to Jane Chafin: Offramp. The name references the...
MAMA Gallery: Jordan Sullivan
Jordan Sullivan’s “The Divine Nothing” is clearly an indulgence in color and aesthetics, and it isn’t a bad thing. Sullivan’s work is strikingly painterly. The large format C-prints appear more like washes of watercolors than photographs, with their blissfully...
Sometime between the morning of November 9th and the current holiday season, there was an interruption in the more or less weekly postings in this space. It’s not like it’s never happened before. I do drop out of sight now and again; and there are those intervals when...