Robert Frank's timeless photographs capture the quintessential human experience, specifically living and working in the city and street culture. This exhibition sponsored by UCLA's Art History Department, gives us a deeper, more profound understanding of Frank's...
Western Project, formerly a brick-and-mortar gallery in Culver City, now puts on pop-up shows in and around Los Angeles. Their most recent migrated to Jaus Gallery, and the results are a grouping of playful, colorful abstractions that aim to please. Beverly Fishman's...
Lester Monzon's second solo exhibition with Mark Moore Gallery is titled "SI VIS PACEM PARA BELLUM," which translates to "If you want peace, prepare for war," and reads as an enigma wrapped within an enigma as these loosely rendered gestural works are also...
Stephanie Pryor's work continues to evolve and resonate in both the abstract and narrative realm. This most recent suite of paintings are exquisitely lush and suggest more complex narrative relationships as in “Crow Jane,” where a series of small crow heads punctuate...
Black Mountain College was for a short time a hotbed of collaboration and inspiration among the very best and most gifted artists and poets of the 20th Century. "Leap Before You Look" at the Hammer Museum gives us an unerring glimpse into the world of artists whose...
Jake Ziemann's elegantly understated sculptural works on view at Shulamit Nazarian are as delightfully witty as they are beautifully constructed. Ceramics is witnessing a renaissance lately, particularly in Los Angeles, and it is a real pleasure to come across an...
Cy Twombly’s suite of stunningly chaotic and gorgeously rendered free-form drawings at c.nichols project would stop any viewer dead in their tracks. These are ferociously contemporary works that are mandatory viewing for anyone interested in modern art in any...
Jimi Gleason’s newest body of work on view at William Turner Gallery almost seem like painterly mirrors reflecting the artist’s continued investigation into materiality and form. These large-scale paintings are brightly colored and luminously reflective, giving them...
Bettina Hubby displays a raucous sense of humor in her second solo show aptly titled "The Sexual Bronze Show" at Klowden Mann. Mining a territory that expounds on the sexual pun, Hubby identifies objects from the grocery store that in some way compliment one another...
"Love Potions" at Maloney Fine Art is a wonderfully subtle and wistful exhibition of works by three Los Angeles artists. Kim McCarty, Roger Herman and Mona Kuhn have created a mélange of ceramics, watercolors and photographs that play off each other, creating...
Mary Anna Pomonis has curated a thoughtful and nuanced exhibition entitled Rosette in the project space at Charlie James Gallery. Working with the central idea of the constructed image of a rose with all its itinerant histories and meanings, etc. the works in this...
Rebecca Campbell believes in paying it forward as her most recent exhibition entitled You Are Here at LA Louver so elegantly demonstrates. Each of these eighteen portraits represents an image of a woman artist whom Campbell knows and admires, but more importantly...
The New Objectivity was an art movement in Germany established between the end of World War I and the Nazi rise to power. Artists like Otto Dix, Christian Schad and Aenne Biermann among others recognized the darkness of the times in which they lived and celebrated it...
Whitney Bedford’s newest exhibition “West of Eden” at Susanne Vielmetter, is compulsory viewing for anyone who thinks they know anything about painting. Mind you, Bedford’s elegantly crafted oils on canvas of mostly landscapes, flora and fauna and the like, are...
Carol Es’ first solo exhibition at Craig Krull Gallery, "Rock and Refuge," is a testament to precision and detail and color and space. Her paintings, largely mixed media materials including meticulously cut bits of fabric on birch panels, are both whimsical and...
Multiples mostly bore me. That said, there are exceptions and Sean Townley’s second exhibition at Night Gallery in Downtown Los Angeles is one. The show consists largely of one image: three cast aluminum lions sculpted from a 3D scan of an ancient Greek funerary lion....
Matt Wedel’s is not a “peaceable kingdom” but a kingdom of fruit that happens to be strangely and miraculously at peace, and quite astonishing indeed. Over two dozen wall-mounted and free-standing sculptures comprise this densely imagined tundra, encompassing Wedel’s...
The idea that abstract painting can be a direct conduit to the unknown, or a means by which artists struggle to understand their own mortality and relationship to God, etc., is certainly not a new concept, yet "Remains," a group show at Durden and Ray, attempts to...
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