It’s been said all literature is comprised of two stories: man goes on a journey; stranger comes to town. In her two-channel video, Sympathy for the Devil (2011), Claudia Joskowicz examines these alternate sides of the same coin, exploring the exile of two...
Even more than, say, Richard Tuttle, to whom he might (uneasily) be compared—B. Wurtz tests a viewer’s relationship to objects and construction of their meaning, significance, even utility. This encompasses relations among objects, and by extension, our relationship...
California artist Alyson Souza creates paintings and sculptures that draw parallels between man-made relics—vintage electrical equipment, say, or battered geographer’s tools—and nature forms of similar shape, texture, or function. An immense head of cabbage opens to...
Always following his impulses, Timothy Washington is an artist’s artist, and in the Southern California African-American artist’s community is one of the last remaining practitioners from South Central LA’s Golden Age of Assemblage (late 1960s to mid-’70s). Washington...
Environmental undertones, bright poppy color and a sense of collaboration create a striking combination for Devon Tsuno’s exhibition “Watershed,” which is split into two distinct sections. Tsuno is native to LA and an educator enamored with the Los Angeles River...
The guise of the paint-slinging hero never quite fit William T. Wiley, whose early folksy, Western-styled brand of funk art, fueled by Abstract Expressionist and conceptual underpinnings, atrocious puns and general anarchy, was christened “Dude Ranch Dada” by Hilton...
It is rare to see an artist make a shift in their work as dramatic as the one Michelle Segre made between her shows at Derek Eller in 2008 and 2011. Within a few short years, she went from making fastidious, slightly-surreal beeswax and papier mâché sculptures to...
Who knew? Who knew that Andy Warhol would become an angel, full of love and the love of God and the beauty that surrounds him in the heavens above? Last night, at the Underground Museum in Los Angeles, artist Jeffrey Vallance conducted a séance with psychic medium...
Julia Daultat China Art ObjectsJulia Dault’s recent exhibition “Rhythm Nation,” at China Art Objects feels like a trip down memory lane, or more specifically, a journey back through 1980’s color field abstraction where artists like Jack Whitten and David Reed were...
What makes a fair work? (Of any kind, really: a question out of Merchant Capitalism 101—or even Trade 101.) The merchants and the goods are key—by far the most important factor. But we’re not just talking about a marketplace, retail street or mall design – an...
After ten years, the Santa Monica Museum of Art’s Incognito benefit has become a fixture on the L.A. art world calendar; and although I don’t necessarily make it every year (the never-ending battle of time and distances, to say nothing of travel contingencies), I’m...
Paris Photo is in town; and although there are rumors afoot that it will be the last edition of the fair to be exported to Los Angeles, Deborah Vankin reports today in the Los Angeles Times that it will be back in 2015, to be paired alongside the French art fair, FIAC...
"Lora Schlesinger Gallery photos by Eric Minh Swenson" From Roberto Gil de Montes: Hecho en Mexico. Posted by Artillery Magazine on 4/23/2014 (10 items) Roberto Gilde Montes, artist talk Molly Barnes, Lora Schlesinger, Roberto Gil de Montes, Joan Quinn Farrah...
Matt Saunders at Blum & PoeIn the Hindu language of Sandskrit the word shanti means the perfect calm. Matt Saunders' images bring this kind of quietude to mind, and despite the highly involved technical process by which he makes these evocative and sometimes...
The Telegraph A team of artists, computer experts and archivists have discovered dozens of previously unknown experimental artworks by Andy Warhol which have been gathering dust on ageing floppy disks since 1985. . . READ MORE
William Kentridge's dazzling "The Refusal of Time," at New York’s Metropolitan Museum, marries science and art in an installation that comprises a 30-minute, 5-channel video featuring live stop-action animation, the spoken word and music projected on three walls of a...
The desert is a surprising place, and we see it anew when artists are drawn there by site-specific projects such as “Spectacular Subdivision,” which took place recently in Wonder Valley over the weekend of April 4 through 6. About 35 artists made work for two sites,...
Los Angeles TimesMike Kelley's "Deodorized Central Mass With Satellites," 1991-99, mixed media, shown at Perry Rubenstein Gallery in November 2012. (Perry Rubenstein Gallery) The list of creditors in a recent bankruptcy filing for the Perry Rubenstein Gallery in Los...
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