A beautifully curated show unites abstractions by Andy Moses, Jen Stark and Kelsey Brookes at William Turner Gallery. Its title, "Elemental," betokens the three painters' employment of basic lines and simple shapes as fundamental building blocks for compositions...
Bruce Lurie Gallery: : Lorenzo Marini
Lorenzo Marini’s engagement with the letters of the modern Latin alphabet hovers between that of a graphic designer, that of a painter, that of a linguist, and that of a poet. In each of his paintings and sculptures Marini rhapsodizes on the visual, verbal, and (to a...
Skulpturengarten
"Over the last 10 years, rather surprising things have come to be called sculpture: narrow corridors with TV monitors at the ends; large photographs documenting country hikes; mirrors placed at strange angles in ordinary rooms; temporary lines cut into the floor of...
Two Stops in Culver City
Extended summer weather in this late October made last Saturday the perfect evening to enjoy the stretch of galleries on La Cienega’s gallery row in Culver City. We arrived a little early to ensure ample time to meander around, as it’s customary to stumble upon an...
AMOCA: : Sara Parent-Ramos
Composed of erratically intricate abstract forms, each of Sara Parent-Ramos' brightly hued sculptures seems to twist, writhe and contort with a personality of its own. Yet the myriad pieces in her show, "Jumble, Bunch, Grow," are presented as a single 2018 work by...
Thomas Fougeirol
Painter Thomas Fougeirol doesn't paint in the traditional sense of the word; rather, he encrusts canvases with sculptural superficies across which he sprays pigment and blasts debris. If these techniques sound terribly obtuse, their results are anything but. The...
October Art Scene Fully Charged
Maybe it’s a not-so-spooky Halloween spell, but the October art scene was hauntingly captivating this weekend. The Brewery Art Walk offered a plethora of pleasures all weekend, including "Route, Rut, Lane: A Karkhana Collaboration" at Shoebox Projects, a mixed-media...
Hammer Museum’s Annual Gala in the Garden
Is it wrong to feel like dancing on a school night? The gent sitting next to me didn’t even get to cross that bridge—he had to exit early for a drive out to Malibu on a school-related mission. But whatever you thought of Leon Bridges’ laid-back-going-on-languid set,...
Melanie Pullen
Wanly illuminated in the sickeningly greenish aura of an outdoor motel lamp, a woman's partially clothed body lies lifeless at the threshold of Room # 118. Inside, a reverse peeping Tom anxiously peers out the window, hunching before another woman's body, his piercing...
LAXART: : Sol LeWitt
Sol LeWitt was (and still is) a major influence in the realm of conceptual thinking. During his lifetime (1928-2007) he championed and supported many artists, and over the years his influence has become widespread. LeWitt was among the first to create not only site...
An Authentic Reflection of Life
As soon as the exhibition opened at DENK gallery last Saturday, the space circulated with a plethora of gallerygoers who attended to see the work of Renée Lotenero and Soo Kim—luckily we were amongst the crowd. Upon entrance into the first room, we were captivated...
Klea McKenna; Michael Waugh
Challenging traditional conceptions of photography, Klea McKenna creates embossed photograms based on haptic, rather than visual, impressions. In a darkroom, she generates each image by pressing light-sensitive paper against an object and thus capturing the item's...
Peter Blake Gallery: : Lita Albuquerque
Lita Albuquerque’s Auric Field paintings have graced museums and galleries throughout the Southland and beyond since 1998. With each meditative piece featuring a black background, surrounding a gold or silver-leafed circle, which itself has a blue aura, the effect...
Cover Versions
Like many Pre-Millennial truths that were once irrefutable, the adage, “Don’t judge a book by its cover” is waning into obsolescence. After all, what is the utility of a book cover in the era of e-books that claim neither form nor substance? In his exhibition...
Paolo Colombo’s Visual Poetry
Upon walking into Paolo Colombo’s opening at Baert Gallery last Saturday, we were immediately absorbed into a world of visual poetics. Contrary to most openings, which tend to be more reliant on interaction with the overall “scene,” each of Colombo’s works posed...
Diane Rosenstein: : Anthony Giannini
It is not uncommon for an artist to begin with images from a personal archive amassed over time and use these fragments as a range of raw material. Anthony Giannini's mixed media paintings are all about recontextualization. He draws from a wide range of sources...
Hiba Schahbaz; Sharif Farrag
Two artists exploring aspects of their Islamic heritage and personal identities converge in a pair of enchanting shows at New Image Art Gallery. Originally from Karachi, Pakistan, Brooklyn-based artist Hiba Schahbaz applies her rigorous undergraduate training in...