COMICS
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Izumi Kato Perrotin
This inaugural exhibition of Perrotin’s new LA space, as well as the artist’s first show in the city, features Kato’s recent paintings, drawings and sculptures of vibrant, mystical humanoid figures that he has become known for, some in the form of intimate wood...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Nery Gabriel Lemus Charlie James Gallery
There is something about watercolor that is intimate at any scale. The medium’s unforgiving nature sparks an urgency in its use, creating an immediacy in its organic textures, forcing the artist to build depth from layers and shallow pools that bounce the light around...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Paul Pfeiffer The Museum of Contemporary Art
“Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom” culminates in over thirty multimedia works of artist Paul Pfeiffer. The title of the exhibition references one of the works in the show which shows a video of director Cecil B. DeMille on loop exiting and...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Material Recovery Angel's Gate Cultural Center
"Material Recovery" combines printmaking with assemblage, collage and sculpture to illustrate the iconography of the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro, along with images suggesting the waste left there by the shipping industry. The exhibition of 81 pieces by 31...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Cynthia Hawkins STARS Gallery
Titled “Maps Necessary for a Walk in 4D,” Cynthia Hawkins’ show of new, bright and abstract paintings explores the idea of space-time, a subject the artist has considered in her work since the 1970s—lines cutting through the picture plane almost appear as aerial views...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Louise Lawler Sprüth Magers
Since the early 1980s, Louise Lawler has been making photographic works that focus on the collection and presentation of fine art, and the various meanings of “in-situ.” Her early images were straightforward, black-and-white photographs that documented artworks in...
OUTSIDE LA: “The Shape of Time: Korean Art After 1989” Philadelphia Museum of Art
Viewing art is often followed by epiphanies—moments in which the viewer understands things both cognitively and perceptually. Sometimes it even provides a glimpse into another place, at another time, about which one does not yet have any real experience. “The Shape of...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Nicole Wittenberg at Fernberger Gallery
Vivid and broad brushstrokes streak across Nicole Wittenberg’s paintings currently on view at the newly opened Los Angeles gallery, Fernberger. The exhibition, titled “Jumpin’ at The Woodside,” marks Wittenberg’s first solo show in Los Angeles and the debut of her new...
REMARKS ON COLOR: Orange is the New Corruption February's Hue
Orange is, what one might call, an unwitting participant in the steady brigade of mutant politicians strong-arming their way through Washington. One such behemoth is particularly “luminescent” like a psychotic azalea or a schizophrenic cantaloupe. Living deep inside...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Marek Wolfryd and Michele Lorusso John Doe Gallery
For their joint exhibition at John Doe Gallery, Marek Wolfryd and Michele Lorusso present a selection of sculptures and paintings embedded in their shared exploration into Mexico’s history of architecture, urban planning and design. The title, “A Collapsing...
OUTSIDE LA: Emily Ginsburg SE Cooper Contemporary
They are dense forms, knots of entwined ropes and masses of clay, approximately the size of one of the larger internal organs. This suite of recent ceramic sculptures by Emily Ginsburg is presented on clusters of columnar plinths of corrugated cardboard that would be...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Jessie Homer French Various Small Fires
“January in the last extant stable society.” Joan Didion, “In Hollywood” (1973) — included in The White Album (1979) “You can get there from here,” was something like the thought rippling just beneath my immediate observations, coming upon several Jessie Homer...
REMARKS ON COLOR: Wicked Wicker Brown January's Hue
John F. Kennedy’s back was almost as famous as he was, having survived the sinking of PT-109 and the saving of several fellow sailors for the freezing waters of the great Pacific. A true hero, Kennedy’s back was awarded the prestigious Navy and Marine Corps medal, but...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio Museum of Contemporary Art
The Museum of Contemporary Art returns with its “Focus Series” featuring the first solo show of LA-based artist, Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio. “MOCA Focus: Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio” showcases some of Aparicio’s previous work of rubber castings and amber installations, while...
COMPASSIONATE VISIONS The Los Angeles Poverty Department Brings Attention to Skid Row Artists
The Skid Row History Museum and Archive (SRHMA), founded by artist John Malpede and directed by Henriëtte Brouwers, is located at 250 South Broadway. It is a unique community art center, as well as a museum and archive for the historical displacement of people in Los...
BEYOND PORTRAITURE Danie Cansino: Seeing LA Through Her Lens
High drama and Baroque chiaroscuro meet tattoo art in Danie Cansino’s elaborate paintings of Los Angeles and Chicanx culture. The artist and educator draws from her own life—family, friends and the neighborhoods she knows best, including East LA and Boyle Heights....
ACCESS TO ABSTRACTION Anne Libby and Anna Rosen Find Freedom in Collaboration
Communal and collaborative art practices have long appealed to artists as a means of disrupting the patriarchal mythology behind the solitary creative genius, and escaping the art-market matrix of competition and authorship. For the two Los Angeles–based artists...
