"Figuratively Speaking" is a 25-year retrospective on the female figure as studied by the artist, Haleh Mashian. Haleh is an Iranian-born artist, who opened Mash Gallery in 2018. Since the works are presented undated, it is unclear exactly what Mashian’s “early work”...
Gallery Rounds: Haleh Mashian
Gallery Rounds: Sam Durant Blum & Poe
What stories do monuments tell? Is there more than one story, more than one point of view? Can monuments be moved from one location and placed in another? Confederate statues taken away from the Kentucky capital go where? How can they be recontextualized? During the...
Max Presneill Rio Hondo College Gallery
Careening from a blotted and splattered background into what almost appeared to be real objects floating on the surface, the paintings cavort around a plethora of meanings in Max Presneill's latest body of work titled "In Case of Emergency." The overall sense is that...
Ed Clark Hauser & Wirth
Ed Clark "Expanding The Image" marks the first time Hauser & Wirth has shown the abstract painter's work at their Los Angeles location. The exhibition consists of Clark's formative work from the 1960s and 1970s, and complements an exhibition Hauser & Wirth...
Robb Putnam and John Bankston Walter Maciel Gallery
In Robb Putnam's "Unattended Creatures," sad-faced bears and rabbits, some with no faces at all, make up most the sculptural works, while another exhibition at Walter Maciel Gallery, "Escape," by John Bankston, combines several different series of paintings and mixed...
2 Ceramics Shows: Joakim Ojanen & Max Maslansky Richard Heller Gallery & Five Car Garage
Stockholm-based artist Joakim Ojanen's delightful exhibition of paintings, drawings, and ceramics at Richard Heller Gallery is aptly titled: "A Show for the Lonely Distant Baby Souls." According to the artist, it is "a celebration of the human being." He goes on to...
Gallery Rounds: Linda Stark David Kordansky Gallery
In grad school at Cal Arts, I remember a renowned professor telling me there were certain symbols one should always avoid because they were “too loaded” oversaturated with other cultural referents to be read clearly. One of these symbols was the heart, not the...
Kathryn Garcia Gavlak Los Angeles
Exploring the potency of deep, elemental feminine power and the quality of female corporeality that for many folks evokes a certain kind of planetary magic, Kathryn Garcia joins the ranks of artists across generations whose works have sought to give tangible form to...
SPOTLIGHT Dominique Gallery
Dominique Gallery presents SPOTLIGHT, a group exhibition on view from July 24th through October 15th, 2020. The virtual exhibition, which features photographic journalism, mixed media collage, and cultural documentary, highlights visual artists of color in two-week...
Remarks on Color: Slate Gray
Slate gray is stoggy, sometimes stingy, and believes himself diplomatic. Presses his suits in the dead of night. Prefers the dawn to the dusk, and rarely works even a minute past five. Is precise and patriotic, though rarely vulgar in his applause. Married for...
Lauren Quin ‘Clutches’ Real Pain Fine Arts
At a time when abstract painting seems mired in self-reference, I itch for shows like "Clutches," Lauren Quin's second solo show in Los Angeles. Quin's paintings are impressively complex. They feel like the orchestrated chaos of Albert Oehlen, but with an affinity for...
Riders of the Red Horse The Pit
The eclectic group show, Riders of the Red Horse, at the Pit marks the re-opening the gallery after four months of closure due to the pandemic. The show features works by Diana Yesenia Alvarado, Amy Bessone, Keith Boadwee, Elana Bowsher, Canyon Castator, John de...
‘Semblance | Sunshine’ and ‘Music to My Eyes’ at Torrance Art Museum
Two lush summer shows are blossoming online at Torrance Art Museum. Both exhibitions are visual stunners; and they continue the museum’s ongoing aesthetic for cutting edge, culturally resonating art. Semblance | Sunshine co-curated by Josh Hashemzadeh and the Torrance...
Rodrigo Valenzuela at Klowden Mann
Rodrigo Valenzuela pursues a robust and multivalent practice that encompasses lavishly produced and materially rich photography, sculpture, installation and video. At the same time, these pursuits are equally centered on a semiotic, politically engaged post-capitalist...
SHELTER-IN-PLACE: ‘Who Am I?’ Bruce Baillie and Experimental Lyricism
As part of a teaching proposal to the Autonomous University of Guadalajara in Mexico in July 1995, filmmaker Bruce Baillie makes clear what he believes to be the foundation for any kind useful communication, art, film or otherwise: “I want to present in my teaching,...
SHELTER-IN-PLACE: Remarks on Shit Brown
Why does brown always get the short end of the stick? If it’s yellow, let it mellow. If it’s brown, flush it down. It’s not fair – earthy, practical, pragmatic brown is so much more than the leavings of a last meal. Brown is the color of the earth, your Sunday school...
Kate Newby at Feuilleton
Kate Newby is an artist of the immediate and quotidian. Her work is rooted in place, which she defines through the conditions, actions, and events that occur there. Her investment in the local is often expressed through site-specificity. This exhibition gives its...
All of Them Witches at Jeffrey Deitch
My experience at the opening night of All of Them Witches--snaking through the costumed crowds, the abundance of art from such a wide-reach of featured artists--78!-- was a maddening, sensual delight--because women, because witches. With so much to feast my eyes on,...