The atmosphere is quiet and still, the lighting theatrical and in a sequence of different colored rooms, case after display case filled with ceramic vessel-like forms resting at the bottom of brightly lit aquariums exude immobility, enlivened only by fish darting...
In the 1950s-60s, Jasper Johns created two works – Flag (1954-55) and Target (1961) – which both carved his place in the art historical canon and established a new conceptual framework for art. These encaustic versions of instantly recognizable icons (an American Flag...
A Google search for teacup reveals delicate fluted cups and saucers, many decorated with floral patterns. The association is afternoon tea in England, a formal spread with snacks and fine china. The sources for Robert Russell's "Teacups" paintings are random...
The artistic process is often private. Artists seldom actively show the steps taken to craft an end product, but to some, like Ludovica Gioscia, revealing all is vital to their work. In a large, multi-faceted installation at Baert Gallery entitled Arturo and The...
I am certainly not alone in feeling that their idea of the American identity has changed drastically in recent years. The “American Dream” has proved itself to be as fanciful as the name suggests. It simply never existed for the majority of Americans. Even the...
If gazing upon the figurative paintings of Philip Guston is akin to a religious experience, then the exhibition "Transformation" at Hauser & Wirth represents a cornucopia of blessings. Spanning from the early sixties into the late 1970s, the show offers an...
“Precarious as obtained by entreaty or prayer,” Timo Fahler’s solo exhibition at Maple St. Construct, features 27 iterations of The Inspiration of Saint Matthew (1602), a painting by the canonical artist Caravaggio. After visiting Rome and viewing the painting in...
It is no stretch to say that the COVID-19 pandemic – principal among several other tragedies, injustices, and horrors over the past year – has fundamentally altered the way we see our world. It has revealed inequities more sharply than any other time in recent memory,...
Stephen Aldahl’s current solo exhibition, "Cool Intentions," is as pictorially generous as it is emotionally taciturn. His paintings, layered compositions using photo transfer, decals, text, and collage, do equal amounts to reveal as they do to hide. Engaging in a...
This oceanic equine has been spotted in the mangrove forests of South America, sporting a spiny suit of luminous flames – a dapper, irreverent fellow who reads Rilke, Proust and Rimbaud, albeit, soggy in the shallows – he is the avatar of things to come, the...
Nature has been the font from which many artists have taken their inspirational sacrament. And it is a pleasure to see an artist who takes that inspiration and so masterfully manifests the power and majesty of our natural world into something entirely new, which is...
"Skin Deep: Then and Now" at The Loft at Liz's offers a vital visual conversation about race in America. The powerful subject brings together the same eight artists who comprised an original exhibition ten years ago, with pieces still available from the initial...
“Eternal Witness” is a show emblematic of the endless pertinence of history. Adams maintains that history is just as relevant today as it ever was when it was happening. The scenarios may change but he pursues the notion that the ideas driving humanity, for instance,...
Khaki Green loves to talk. Her friends call her “Yacky Khaki,” and sometimes when they’re feeling annoyed, “Quacky Khaki.” But really, it’s a compulsion as at 5 AM every morning Khaki Green begins her rants – everything from contesting this year’s champion at the...
Curated by Gary Brewer and on exhibit both online and IRL at Wonzimer Gallery in DTLA, "The Shape of Life," is a dazzlingly lovely show. The nine-artist exhibition includes works by Brewer, Tim Hawkinson, Aline Mare, Cheyann Washington, Jeff Colson, Mercedes Dorame,...
When Audrey Chan began at the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California in October 2019 as their inaugural Artist in Residence, she and the flagship ACLU affiliate had envisioned the creation of a mural commemorating their centennial on their Los Angeles...
We are saddened to announce the death of Roland Reiss, artist and educator, loving husband, father, and grandfather, who passed away on Sunday, December 13, of natural causes in Los Angeles, at his home and studio at The Brewery Artist Lofts. He was 91. Reiss is...
“Jesus, you know, it wasn’t supposed to happen like this. Even if it strikes me now as having been inevitable….” “I want to know what it will be like once all this (all this: the inexorable, the inexpressible) has become distant memory. I’ve always hated the way...
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