Lester Monzon's second solo exhibition with Mark Moore Gallery is titled "SI VIS PACEM PARA BELLUM," which translates to "If you want peace, prepare for war," and reads as an enigma wrapped within an enigma as these loosely rendered gestural works are also...
When art is construed to be some thing that translates the tension between its physical and visual manifestation and the more complex thinking and barely articulable feeling-processes of the artist, then the sculptural work of Rebecca Ripple should be described as...
Photo-sculptor Jeremy Kidd stares down the clash of the natural with the aerodynamic lines of technology in his bracing installation at the Museum of Art and History at Lancaster. Kidd’s “The Interrupted Landscape” is one of several solo exhibitions currently at MOAH...
In 1985, an anonymous group of women artists interested in exposing gender inequality in the art world formed the Guerrilla Girls, a collective whose members wore guerrilla masks to art events, gave lectures and created posters, ads and stickers to publicize their...
Why is there never nothing to do in the Los Angeles art world? We were hoping for a quiet weekend, but there were just too many openings to avoid them all. We decided to park our vehicle on Highland Avenue and take it from there. First stop was Diane...
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Fresh (if that’s the word for it) from the carbon cycle conundrums posed by the FotoFest 2016 Biennial in Houston, I faced the ambivalence of ‘homecoming’ between LACMA and the Getty Museum, returning to, if not the ‘haunts’ of my mole-dark youth, certainly a few of...
Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood’s son, Joe Corré, has issued a press release stating his plans to burn his £5 million punk memorabilia collection in Camden on 26 November, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of punk. The designer said; “When the Queen gives a...
It’s not every day that a public university art museum, outside the Hammer Museum, features an amazing show with cutting-edge artists. So when I saw the "Second Wave" exhibition at UC Riverside where I attend graduate school, I just had to chat with UCR ARTSblock...
Stephanie Pryor's work continues to evolve and resonate in both the abstract and narrative realm. This most recent suite of paintings are exquisitely lush and suggest more complex narrative relationships as in “Crow Jane,” where a series of small crow heads punctuate...
The aggressively mimetic realism that crowds this exhibition, curated by one of the gallery’s artists, is exceedingly white. Nearly every work is completed on white paper and color is employed by only four of the fourteen artists included. This makes the exhibition...
In Channing Hansen's solo gallery debut, which consists of nine large knitted works and one salon-style grid of smaller pieces, traditional stretcher bars are visible behind the gauzy woven materials. For these undeniably engaging works, Hansen acquires, dyes, and...
On the corner of East 3rd and South Garey lies a blurry line between museum and gallery better known as Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, the newest art empire to touch down in Los Angeles. The entire Arts District was overflowing with people and Porsches on Sunday...
Scott Hove's installations are at once decadent and repulsive, seductive and vile, playful and grave, immersing the viewer in multilayered and tantalizing worlds. His acrylic frosted works draw our attention to the dualistic nature of every vice – we enjoy them, even...
AWOL is in Houston this evening – with official leave this time (at least in theory, still leaving no accounting for her invisibility the last two or three weeks in Los Angeles) – at the 2016 FotoFest Biennial. The theme of this year’s Biennial is Changing...
Evan Trine's digitally generated photographic works are distillations—works that abstractly reference their sources. Trine sifts through trending online news feeds, reducing or compressing into a single element the images and headlines he finds. The colored grids and...
Nihura Montiel’s current solo show, “New Paintings,” now on view at @leiminspace in Chinatown delights in mimicking the various plush terrycloths and fabrics that function as fetish objects in her critique of misunderstood femininity. Her paintings of Cinderella,...
Black Mountain College was for a short time a hotbed of collaboration and inspiration among the very best and most gifted artists and poets of the 20th Century. "Leap Before You Look" at the Hammer Museum gives us an unerring glimpse into the world of artists whose...
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