Abel Alejandre's meticulously crafted charcoal drawings address the complexities of the human experience with eloquence and power. "Public Secrets" represents an amalgam of acrylic paintings (and paintings on hats) that memorialize the richness of the world we live...
Memories, like dreams, are fleeting and fragmented. In her engaging exhibition "Hitched to everything else," Jennifer Celio explores where past and present, personal and global intersect. Close to 100 hexagonal wooden panels (ranging in size from three to 48 inches)...
More often than not we attend gallery openings all over LA with our friends and colleagues that work within the art industry. They’re comfortable with the scene, know what to expect, and digest the art through an agreeable lens, fundamentally understanding the work if...
The panel of guest selectors comprising Anya Gallaccio, Alan Kane and Haroon Mirza has chosen 46 artists for the annual open submission exhibition, New Contemporaries. has announce This year's selected artists for the 2016 exhibition will open the show as part of the...
So much of contemporary art and music is preoccupied with a space, both physical and cerebral, between layers, liminal boundaries – the space between potential and actuality; the ‘what-if’ imponderables of what-was, what-might-have-been, and what-might-be. It’s both...
Los Angeles–based Ace Gallery was taken over by a bankruptcy trustee after founder Douglas Chrismas defaulted on a $17.5 million court-ordered payment in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. Ace consists of two gallery spaces located in LA and Beverly Hills and an estimated...
Sometimes “outsider” artists are really not that far outside, though they may indeed be “far out” in content and imagination. Deveron Richard, whose first exhibition at The Good Luck Gallery in Chinatown, is far out in its glorious exploration into the fantastical...
Liberty Cabbage. Freedom Fries. Whenever a reactionary quorum congregates one can be certain no good can come of it. While our senate stages a work stoppage on judicial appointments, and a viable presidential candidate—best known for his government shutdown...
The sculptural objects and installations of “Other Relevant Experience,” with their ceremonial shine and talismanic power, exhume dark histories of conquest and ruin while conjuring notions of magic, sacrifice and salvation. Karen Lofgren’s command of materials and...
Last night found us in Downtown LA at Chimento Contemporary for Laura London’s show. We’ve been following London’s “girls” for quite some time, so we were anxious to see the newest crop of female adolescents usually featured in her work.It was a beautiful day once...
This video follows Clarissa Esguerra, Assistant Curator, and Melinda Kerstein, Mount Maker in the Department of Costume & Textiles, while they get a mannequin dressed and ready for the exhibition "Reigning Men". The ensemble shown here features a a silk...
I recently overheard somebody make the observation that David Bowie’s death has “staying power.” It sounded like an idiotic remark at first but in this case it seems accurate. Sure, Bowie was one of the greats, an unfading star who provided an exhilarating soundtrack...
In the tradition of the famous and innovative Light and Space artists working in Los Angeles in the 1960s, Carrie Seid fashions beautiful sculptural works that, like her predecessors, celebrate light in all its luminous vicissitudes. For Seid, optics can be an...
Attending openings every weekend in LA can begin to feel a little monotonous. The same hip circles, lots of 2D art, a glass of wine here, a few fake smiles there, rinse repeat. That is until one Saturday night when you find yourself innocently walking into Culver City...
Polly Apfelbaum and Dona Nelson's collaboration yields surprising relationships among artworks, viewers, and surrounding architecture.Each artist's celebrated inventiveness is amply represented. Collaged from dyed velvet, Apfelbaum's Blue Joni (2016) and Brown Sugar...
Ross Lipman, the legendary film restorationist responsible for preserving the cinematic legacies of Bruce Conner, Kenneth Anger, John Cassavetes, and a cluster of forgotten American neorealist gems including Killer of Sheep and The Exiles, has turned his attention to...
These notes are for Marilyn. “Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs....”William Shakespeare, Richard II, III:2I woke up this morning thinking about death – my own and others’ (including a friend who may be...
And the winners are . . . Center for the Study of Political Graphics To Protect and Serve? 50 Years of Posters Protesting Police ViolenceClockshop Courtesy the Artists and Lauren Halsey @ Radio ImaginationCoaxial Arts Foundation Experimental Half-Hour...
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