Ezrha Jean Black

Shoptalk Made in L.A.; Art Economy; Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize winner; and more.

Shoptalk
Made in L.A.; Art Economy; Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize winner; and more.

The Art Economy Inquiring minds want to know how galleries are faring during the pandemic. As you know, a number have opened up with limited hours, reservations and timed entry. More than once I have found myself the only person visiting a gallery, which made me feel...

Art Brief Art Museums Get Woke

Art Brief
Art Museums Get Woke

COVID-19 has caused severe financial distress to art institutions—some have closed or cut back on hours and staff, and now there is pressure to sell artworks from collections to reduce deficits in operating budgets. At the same time, the “woke” culture movement has...

Provenance Seeing Los Angeles Anew

Provenance
Seeing Los Angeles Anew

I first purchased my now well-worn copy of David Gebhard and Robert Winter’s Architecture in Los Angeles: A Complete Guide some three years ago. For just six dollars, I walked away from downtown LA’s The Last Bookstore with the 1985 edition of a book that quickly...

BUNKER VISION The New Abnormal

BUNKER VISION
The New Abnormal

The other day while seeking collage materials, I picked up a magazine. There was an article about Beethoven’s 250th birthday this year. It seemed like every performing arts venue was doing something grand to commemorate the occasion. Something seemed off, so I checked...

ASK BABS School’s Out, or Not

ASK BABS
School’s Out, or Not

Dear Babs, I’m a high school senior and I was planning on enrolling in college to study art next fall either in Los Angeles or New York City, but Covid has me thinking I might want to take a year off or reconsider college entirely. What should I do? —Nervous in...

Poems

Poems

The Mountain If a man should ask to meet me at the summit of a mountain to discuss the great questions of life, I would have to turn him down. Talking Woman A woman with a coarse voice can be very sexy, especially if she only says the most negative things. Table In...

COMICS Artists in Hell

COMICS
Artists in Hell

Reconnoiter: Carmina Escobar

Reconnoiter: Carmina Escobar

Carmina Escobar is an extreme vocalist with an active teaching practice. Born in Mexico and based in Los Angeles, Escobar investigates emotions, states of alienation, and the possibilities of interpersonal connection through voice performances that challenge our...

Isabelle Albuquerque Nicodim Gallery

Isabelle Albuquerque
Nicodim Gallery

Lou Andreas-Salomé, the psychoanalyst, writer and infamous lover, defined eroticism as “what ruptures the ego.” To enter into an erotic encounter is to break apart our neatly constructed selves, to invite destruction; it is also a chance for a volcanic eruption of...

Mildred Howard Parrasch Heijnen

Mildred Howard
Parrasch Heijnen

The profoundly moving installation Ten Little Children Standing in a Line (One Got Shot, and Then There Were Nine) (1991), positioned to be the first work encountered in Parrasch Heijnen’s career-spanning survey of Mildred Howard, imparts a sense of the Oakland-based...

Mark Steven Greenfield William Turner Gallery

Mark Steven Greenfield
William Turner Gallery

Mark Steven Greenfield’s latest paintings are expansive fields of gold leaf inset with depictions of Black Madonnas and other religious figures. They shimmer and radiate. Though some are adaptations of iconic Madonnas from art...

Heather Day: Ricochet Diane Rosenstein Gallery

Heather Day: Ricochet
Diane Rosenstein Gallery

Intertextual play between the external world of nature and the internal world within the human psyche reigns supreme in Heather Day’s exhibition “Ricochet” at Diane Rosenstien Gallery. The large-scale abstract mixed-media works are delightfully fresh, with swaths of...

Ferrari Sheppard Wilding Cran Gallery

Ferrari Sheppard
Wilding Cran Gallery

In a suite of charcoal, acrylic and 24K leaf paintings on canvas, Ferrari Sheppard blends compositional citations from the Western art historical canon with an affecting, humanistic narrative of diasporic Black life. Across the mostly large-scale works, Sheppard...

Camilla Taylor Track 16 Gallery

Camilla Taylor
Track 16 Gallery

In her solo show “Your Words in My Mouth,” Camilla Taylor has created a body of work which, beautiful as it is, aches with bitterness and sorrow. While the sculptural works are ebony, white and gray standouts, the exhibit’s opening salvo includes a series of 10 x 8”...

Francesca Lalanne Galerie Lakaye

Francesca Lalanne
Galerie Lakaye

In the world of appointment-only gallery visits, many have bemoaned the more restricted experience, and galleries themselves have completely reinvented the way that they conduct themselves. They are no longer able to attract visitors off the street nor draw large...

Colleen Hargaden Hunter Shaw Fine Art

Colleen Hargaden
Hunter Shaw Fine Art

Colleen Hargaden’s latest exhibition at Hunter Shaw Fine Art is many things: a tool kit to survivalism and self-reliance in reaction to the ever-intensifying symptoms of a dying planet, and a prompt to question what the future of art-making may look like by combining...

Film: Hometown Proud Debut Documentary by Tyler Stallings and Naida Osline

Film: Hometown Proud
Debut Documentary by Tyler Stallings and Naida Osline

Hometown Proud, the debut documentary by Tyler Stallings and Naida Osline, speaks volumes to our current political and cultural environment. The project grew out of their interest in exploring social issues through their individual practices, for Stallings, as a...

Remarks on Color: Flamingo’s Dream Pink

Remarks on Color: Flamingo’s Dream Pink

Flamingo’s Dream has never missed a church social, eats all the watermelon at the weekly buffet, shoving the rinds in her purse to take home to her poodle. Flamingo never goes out without makeup, “putting her face on,” hoping to catch the eye of a bad boy, a...

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