Kristine Schomaker began “Perceive Me” as a personal project, a collection of unique works in disparate mediums, each piece revealing Schomaker herself. Her vision of the exhibition, however, has changed since she began the project in 2018. What began as a personal...
Kristine Schomaker
David John Attyah Los Angeles LGBT Center
Box office superhero origin stories and their sequels—from Sam Rami’s Spider-man (2002), Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins (2005) to Jon Favreau’s Iron Man (2008)—have grossed millions of dollars from the repeat viewings of fans who hunger to know the real story: how...
Trenton Doyle Hancock Shulamit Nazarian
Like his multifaceted painting, drawing and storytelling universe, Trenton Doyle Hancock is many things—but he’s no vegan. The autobiographical, fantastical, art historical, comic-book world of his invention — the Moundverse — is inhabited by a variety of characters...
Sharon Ellis Kohn Gallery
Although raised in a strict Southern Baptist home, Sharon Ellis mistrusts organized religion. Rather than participate in church observances, she expresses her spiritual self by painting visionary psychedelic landscapes, a now common genre that she helped legitimize in...
Wolfgang Tillmans MoMA
Chucking traditional curatorial norms out the window, Wolfgang Tillmans presents a show like it’s a site-specific installation, clustering images together—some wondrous, others just plain blah—hanging framed photographs alongside unframed prints, with the occasional...
Diego Rivera SFMOMA
Diego Rivera’s artistic oeuvre is so connected to our collective unconscious that touring this exhibition of 150 paintings, frescoes and drawings, feels like a homecoming. The show also includes film projections of murals that the artist created in Mexico and the US...
On our Cover; Nov-Dec 2022; Issue 2, vol. 17 Kristin Bedford
Our Cover Art is a photograph by Kristin Bedford. Bedford is featured in our Women's Issue, written by Allison Strauss. "No Soy De Ti / I Don't Belong To You, 2018. What a powerful image; it seemed like the most appropriate image for our Women's Issue. Congrats to...
PICK OF THE WEEK: Vija Celmins / Robert Gober Matthew Marks Gallery
Water flows ceaselessly through the arteries of Robert Gober's solitary faucet, as if it were a trickling monument to the Sisyphean impossibility of cleanliness. Originally made in response to the AIDS crisis, Gober's handcrafted sink is recontextualized in the age of...
Robert Berman has a world to sell to you. Santa Monica Auctions' ongoing reinvention
Robert Berman has always understood one essential factor driving the art market—and especially the auction market: the passion of collectors. To hear him tell it, you might think it was his own collector’s passion more than anything else that pushed him into the art...
PICK OF THE WEEK: Rebecca Morris Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Los Angeles-based painter Rebecca Morris is an obsessive abstractionist. The grid serves as her compositional playground where shapes and colors frolic and meander. The 21-year survey exhibition "Rebecca Morris: 2001-2022," at the Institute of Contemporary Art...
PICK OF THE WEEK: Prunella Clough Château Shatto
Prunella Clough's paintings glitch, sneeze, and itch in states of spaghettification. Observational renderings culled from the everyday–seemingly subtle yet tidal and awkwardly beautiful–Clough discombobulates the gravitational fields that tether shapes and colors to...
PICK OF THE WEEK: Sharon Ellis Kohn Gallery
There is something sugary about Sharon Ellis’ new psychedelic paintings that are reminiscent of my favorite childhood board game, Candy Land, nostalgic of gingerbread plum trees, the peppermint stick forest, Queen Frostine and Princess Lolly. Ellis’ paintings also...
PICK OF THE WEEK: Anina Major Shoshana Wayne Gallery
Vessels are containers–spaces for bodies of volume to dwell, to fill up–shaped by what they have held and what they long to hold. In Anina Major’s solo exhibition “Inheritance” at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, fragmented baskets molded from clay operate as metaphorical...
PICK OF THE WEEK: Shana Hoehn Make Room Los Angeles
An ouroboros of hair and vomit surges through an arched body; vulvic lilypads share a tender moment of caress; aluminum breasts perched above erect flower stocks posture as suits of armor, guardians, gargoyles; a tantalizing cocoon drips from above; a nest of braids,...
Legendary Fabricator Jack Brogan (1930–2022) The Cowboy Gets Off the Saddle
Jack Brogan, the legendary arts fabricator, quietly died at home on Wednesday, September 14 at 3:30 PM. He was 92 years old. His long life was exemplary. Born in Tennessee in 1930, Brogan came home after serving in the Korean War. He drove a truck until the unions...
PICK OF THE WEEK: Paul Mpagi Sepuya Vielmetter Los Angeles
Just as Diego Velázquez’s "Las Meninas" (1656) troubled differentiations between life and painting, Paul Mpagi Sepuya confuses the boundaries that separate life and photography, questioning what is intended to be seen and concealed. In his recent exhibition at...
Remarks on Color: Mischievous Mustard September's Hue
Mischievous Mustard often shows up where he’s not wanted—on T-shirts and dress slacks, in the car (like the time Joe Morrison ate a hot dog for breakfast on his way to work and dropped it on his brand new leather seats), at the corners of Virginia Ramona’s mouth...
Adam Greener — Spiraling Out of Bounds
You don’t need a DSM to figure Adam Greener out, but it can’t hurt. Not to worry—he’s not quite there yet, though there are indications that as post-pubescent hormones flood his bloodstream, he’ll be on his way in no time. Adam is an American student aged about 10...