While the underlying engineering of Tim Hawkinson’s artworks appears to be of an extraordinarily complex order, the raw materials with which they are made, taken from everyday objects that are typically discarded after the substance in them is extracted, structure a...
Fred Wilson
“The aim of the dreamer…is merely to go on dreaming and not to be molested by the world… But the aims of life are antithetical to those of the dreamer, and the teeth of the world are sharp.” This quote from James Baldwin’s 1962 novel Another Country is on the wall of...
Cayetano Ferrer
“Many years ago,” Maggie Nelson writes in her memoir, The Argonauts, “[the poet Anne] Carson gave a lecture ...at which she introduced (to me) the concept of leaving a space empty so that God could rush in ...” Nelson writes that she “fastened” to the idea, which she...
Sara Kathryn Arledge
Featuring over 60 works on paper and seven films, “Sara Kathryn Arledge: Serene for the Moment” discloses the brilliance of one singular artist who never should have been forgotten. This enthralling retrospective begins with a room of early drawings, archives and a...
Inheritance
Three immersive films from Africa about political and cultural resistance use tropes of the Imaginary from Fanon to Lacan to challenge inherited postcolonial mindsets. Kudzanai Chiurai presents a gorgeous, disorienting series of seven tableaux dramatizing the agony of...
Flora and Fauna
Sometimes there is that rare and ineffable dialogue between artists that resists being quantified or easily understood. It’s like snow or the first time you fall in love. It works for no apparent reason, and is wonderful to behold. The current exhibition “Flora &...
Color Out of Space
A lot happens in the room at the Lowell Ryan group show Color Out of Space, so much that it seeps into more than one dimension. In large-scale mixed-media paintings and sculptures that take the very idea of mixed media to new places, five artists address not only...
Oli Epp
Oli Epp is a young London-based artist whose humorous paintings depict contemporary pop culture and our abject relationship to technology and commerce. The brashly colored works are populated by airbrushed blobs that become quasi-human forms sporting sunglasses or 3D...
Purvis Young
A single black scrawl—Young—hovers over painting after painting. It may cover the side of a building or a truck—and indeed the artist hung his work on the outside of abandoned buildings, as an uneasy compromise between an exhibition and graffiti. It may float just out...
Coachella 2019
Coachella 2019 has come and gone, leaving literal dust in its wake. This was the 20th year of Coachella festival, and it shared a particularly strong art program with its visitors. Large art installations are an integral element of the festival, providing shade, joy,...
Lia Halloran: Double Horizon, Dark Passages, and Portraits of Consciousness
Double Horizon takes its title from Lia Halloran’s three-channel video installation composed from documentation of roughly thirty flights the artist made in the course of her training in air piloting and navigation and early aviation experiences over the greater Los...
We Love Art Books! (Part 2)
In Part One of this article, gallerist Charlie James, collector Tom Peters, arts advisor Michelle Isenberg, art writer Shana Nys Dambrot, insurer William Fleischer and book designer Roy Brooks discuss art books and all their glory. Click Here. Yah, sure. Everybody...
Conspiracy & Otherworldliness
Last Saturday night, we hopped over to the opening reception at Nicodim Gallery featuring works of Mi Kafchin in her thought-provoking show, "Chemtrails." Walking into the gallery, I knew little about the artist or the concepts behind her practice. My only peek into...
The White Album: The View From Los Angeles in 1969; and How the 1960s Gave Way to The Long Hangover of the 1970s
Lars Jan’s staging of The White Album has returned to Los Angeles; and suddenly I feel drawn back to 1969, a year that was in a sense my first real introduction to Los Angeles as three things simultaneously: a place (its suburban and studio/dream factory aspects clear...
Morgan Mandalay
Morgan Mandalay's paintings of tainted jungle paradises are radiant with color and lush verdure, yet they bloom with inklings of mortality. Dead fishes hang amid the umbrage of burning orchards where cadaverous human arms emerge from lurid thickets. Figs and oranges...
Steve Turner LA: : Gabby Rosenberg
If the wallet of your heart is running low, then Gabby Rosenberg’s “Night Pockets” provides enough spare change for your paradigm to spend. Rosenberg’s exhibition at Steve Turner LA embodies the identity narrative seeping with the primal desire for interpersonal...
We Love Art Books! (Part 1)
Yah, sure. Everybody loves an art book. But why? When a fine art book is published, the action generates a series of exponential benefits that ripple across the art world. Here, we present ten art world leaders, specialists in their roles, to detail the intricacies of...
Kayne Griffin Corcoran: : Ken Price
Fantasy and reality encroach upon each another in "Works on Paper 1967-1995" by Ken Price (1935-2012) at Kayne Griffin Corcoran. Twenty-eight deceptively straightforward pictures draw you into nuanced realms where familiarity gives way to strangeness. In Price's...