…simply, abolition—are the removal of harmful systems and the imagining of alternatives to those systems, such as mutual aid, liberation and rehabilitation. CDM’s exhibition “Free the Land! Free the People!”…
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NATURE’S WAY Lucia Monge Collaborates with Her Environment
…more waste, Monge started brainstorming how an artwork might live on after the end of its exhibition. Compostable materials, for example, are a way for the elements of an artwork…
SENSE OF WONDER Innovation in the Islamic World
Centuries before Leonardo da Vinci lived and worked in Italy, a Persian astronomer, physician, geographer and writer was conducting research into the nature of the cosmos and man’s place in…
Chiffon Thomas Michael Kohn Gallery
A church is a grand gesture to the community it serves and sustains. At its best it’s a hub, as well as a display of worship, tradition, sacrament and humility….
OUTSIDE LA: Margot Samel New York “Thank you, I’m rested now. I’ll have the lobster today, thank you”
…work, dreamlike paintings and miniature sculptures. A universal space of comfort, the bed has become a symbol of luxury in a world where rest is a privilege afforded only to…
PICK OF THE WEEK: “Bruts” David Kordansky Gallery
…ancient being and Bill Traylor’s acutely simple and lyrical drawings to Isa Genken’s trouble-free assemblage mannequins, the works span vastly different periods and mediums. My favorite thing about artist-curated exhibitions…
World in Ashes Constantin Werner Solo Exhibition Wonzimer Gallery 341-B S Avenue 17 Los Angeles 90031 / wonzimerinfo@gmail.com Opening: 7pm- 10pm/Saturday, July 20th, 2024 Dates of Show: July 20th –July 27th 2024 – 1
NO REALER THAN OTHER THINGS Focusing on the Positive at This Year's Whitney Biennial
…has been exposed in a “completely wrong” way, according to Kang—she’s interested in pushing materials beyond their accepted limitations. Her film captures ghostly images that suggest blurred landscapes or abstract…
ART BRIEF The Role of an Art Advisor, Part 2
…may pay me an introductory commission, a fee based upon the sales. I’m very transparent with my collectors that I’m not going to take that introductory commission if I’m charging…
Claire Chambless Carlye Packer
…and steel, Chambless uses materials like hydroxyapatite, a calcium phosphate material more commonly found in dental settings, enameled here with epoxy resin. Skeletal limbs are variously spiraled and encrusted with…
pascALEjandro Blum
…settings. There are images of death and love, struggle and escape. As the duo states in the show’s press release, “Our working material is the material of our lives ……
OUTSIDE LA: Rochelle Botello Bakersfield Museum of Art
…and falling before our very eyes. Rochelle Botello, “Free Fall,” installation view, 2024. Photo: Gene Ogami. Courtesy of the artist. Complementing the sculptures, yet independent from them, are a series…
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Anne Austin Pearce: Her Blue Period River Deep–Mountain High at Founders Gallery at Soka University, Aliso Viejo
…candy-pink grids that quote Agnes Martin, and Jeffrey Gibson, who currently represents the US in Venice with prismatic, multidisciplinary work that comments on Indigeneity, conquest and queerness. In Southern California,…
GALLERY ROUNDS: Groove The Hammer Museum
…matter and composition that have taken place since the Renaissance, as well as the slowly broadening range of identities to receive institutional recognition and representation. The survey commences with capacious,…