“Beyond 2°”
The international group of artists in “Beyond 2°” question the multidimensional impact of natural resource exploitation, in distinct cases, in different global locations, and in damning portraits of corporate gain at the cost of human rights and the environment. The...
Marilyn Minter
Marilyn Minter’s is an art of amplification. This befits a painter and sometime photographer who came of age in New York in the 1970s; her frames of reference are feminism, the AIDS epidemic, photorealism and the Pictures Generation, equally. Minter’s work of the last...
Catherine Fairbanks
Vestiges of the past can be found all over the West; dead and dying towns are replete with inklings of historic spirit in the forms of half-buried artifacts, wild animals and deserted buildings. Entering Catherine Fairbanks’ exhibition,” Two Chimneys” evoked the...
Carmen Argote
Carmen Argote is a Los Angeles-based multimedia artist who works directly in response to particular locations. Last year, she created a site- specific installation at the MAK Center where she traced the interior and exterior footprint of the Schindler house using...
James Georgopoulos
With an observer’s detachment in the face of dire predictions of humanity’s demise from the rapidly developing field of artificial intelligence (AI), in “The Earth is Flat,” James Georgopoulos lifts from a trove of pop culture imagery adapted from film and other...
Joseph Heidecker
Joseph Heidecker’s collection of embroidered photographs at Craig Krull Gallery is a celebration of textile fauvism. The altered vintage photographs elicit a dissonant response, with subjects’ faces veiled in thread in an almost painterly manner that is reminiscent of...
Julie Beaufils
Perhaps it is a bit cliché to read Julie Beaufils’ French nationality into her work, but there is certainly something undeniably chic, irreverent and casually erotic about her work. Her new paintings and drawings at Overduin & Co. filter desire through cool...
Peter Opheim
In 2011, Peter Opheim abandoned abstraction and began sculpting small maquettes out of colored clay, which he’s continued to transform into monumental oil paintings that uncannily capture the sculptural quality of his small-scale models. Most of his initial pieces...
Julieta Aranda
The New York and Berlin-based artist and e-flux mainstay Julieta Aranda has long been concerned with the workings of the social arena through its medium of human interaction, and its reciprocal relationships with both the production of the self as subject, and the...
ON THE COVER
Nicole Eisenman's two New York shows are featured and reviewed by contributor Stephen Maine.
Witchy and Wonderful, WIFE at the Hammer
Last Wednesday evening we entered a mystical alternate reality better known as a Hammer Museum courtyard performance by WIFE with Dorian Wood and Hecuba called "Enter The Cave." Created by three Los Angeles-based dancers, Jasmine Albuquerque, Kristen Leahy and Nina...
Tigeraugen (Tiger Eyes) Martin Durazo and Kottie Paloma
In their recent collaborative exhibition, Martin Durazo and Kottie Paloma have created a dialogue that is both socially conscious and willfully playful. Durazo's raw canvas works incorporate an odd array of materials including acrylic paint, found macramé, spray...
Vincent Price Art Museum: Silent Wonderment: Exploring the World of Giant Robot
Zine fanatics, toy enthusiasts, pop culture nuts, and all-around lowbrow lovers can rejoice in Vincent Price Art Muesum’s current show, “Silent Wonderment: Exploring the World of Giant Robot”. The exhibition is divided into sections for each main artist—including...
Notes from Basel
Art Basel is serious business, with some 280 galleries taking part—most of them on two floors of Building 2 at the Messeplatz, Basel's sprawling convention center. The action starts with two days of previews on Tuesday and Wednesday, before the fair opens up to the...
Coloring Way Outside the Lines with Lee “Scratch” Perry at Dem Passwords
It’s hard to recall the last time we walked into a gallery not located in someone’s college apartment that smelled so strongly of weed. That is precisely when we remembered that we weren’t at just any gallery. We were at Dem Passwords. A particularly unique gallery...
Strike the Pose: Getting high inside high fashion from way outside – the art of Helen Rae
The art world has been revisiting issues of identity and identity politics in recent months (see, e.g., the current issue of ArtForum), which had their own ‘second wave’ in the late 20th century borne largely upon the convergence of conceptualism, especially in its...
Elliott Hundley
Elliott Hundley's fourth exhibition at Regen Projects once again takes its narrative cue from literature, specifically Antonin Artaud’s play, There Is No More Firmament, also the title of his show. These mostly large-scale works possess a dynamism of movement, shape...
