Dynamics of style, technique, technology and authorship are at issue in an exhibition of new landscapes, portraits, still lifes, and abstractions by the painter KATSU. That’s not only due to the liberal citations of the Western art canon which feed his...
Vikky Alexander
A stunning expansion upon themes she explored in her last Los Angeles show, Vikky Alexander’s “Vertical Dreams” features four floor-to-ceiling photomurals turning the entire gallery into an immersive meta-collage that asks us to consider how we sanitize, prettify and...
Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley
It takes guts to imagine former president Harry S. Truman as a strange and profligate hero, a man who played a significant role in authoring our now debased socio/political framework, a uniquely polarizing figure who is now the unlikeliest muse in the most recent...
En Plein Error, Brian Kennon
The art collective En Plein Error, comprised of artists Jenny Gagalka, Beaux Mendes and William Wasserman, practices a kind of extemporaneous riffing to create their pastel on paper works, in a process that might be loosely compared to a session of exquisite corpse,...
Christopher Murphy
The current drawings of Christopher Murphy are for the most part unassuming and quiet. Only occasionally do they mesmerize through dramaturgy. Some appeal through inversions, others through thinly populated landscapes, which recall the recurrent theme in American...
Alex Miller
Don’t hate the metaphor, hate the estrangement of Forms, one might say—or at least that’s the phrase that came to me in light of ceramicist/conceptual artist Alex Miller’s debut exhibition. Mounted on one wall, a 36-piece edition of handmade ceramic “dart boards” are...
Lauren Satlowski
Lauren Satlowski’s four new paintings at Odd Ark situate us squarely in our anxious feminist moment. Their landscapes are creepy, with tinges of the natural; their delicious surfaces bounce the gaze around like the mise en scène for Spielberg’s child-android in A.I....
Giovanni Battista Piranesi & Gregory Bennett
New Zealand based digital artist Gregory Bennett is a virtuoso when it comes to utilizing high-end 3D animation software and motion capture to create animated videos in which featureless android bodies inhabit synthetic worlds, wherein they are trapped in perpetual...
ON THE COVER
Christopher Russell graces the cover of our January/February 2019 issue. Russell is one of the top shows of 2018, selected by Staff Writer Ezrha Jean Black on page 30 in our print edition and on our website.
Andy Warhol
“I told them I didn’t believe in art, that I believed in photography.” Andy Warhol In 2014, The Warhol Foundation gifted its hefty archive of 3,600 contact sheets shot by Warhol in the late 1970s and early to mid-’80s to Stanford University, under the care of...