No doubt The Miaz Brothers (from Venice, Italy) believe in ghosts, weirdly seductive apparitions, or at the very least “antimatter perception.” Indeed the latest installment of their unique vision achieves a fuzzy gratification, deliberately blurring large format...
Rashid Johnson
Rashid Johnson’s newest effort, "Islands," like subsequent exhibitions of his work at the David Kordansky Gallery encompasses a difficult, if necessary journey into and beyond a constructed human identity. In this case, Johnson takes inspiration from the exceptional...
Double Trouble
The art of successful collaboration involves the ability to transcend the individual vision in favor of the project as a whole, and Rochelle Botello and Marion Lane have certainly done just that in their exhibition, aptly titled Double Trouble. Lane’s elegant...
Expressionism in Germany and France: From Van Gogh to Kandinsky
What can I say that hasn’t already been said about two of the greatest artists in history, except that Van Gogh and Kandinsky, not to mention other lesser known expressionists like Gabrielle Münter, and Franz Marc helped to shape the way we look at the world today....
Draftpunk
I overheard a student of mine say “Nobody uses pencils anymore. They are just so old school.” This made me very sad until I saw Kio Griffith’s recent curatorial effort, "Draftpunk" at Autonomie Projects. I was reminded that not only is the pencil very much alive, but...
John Altoon
Regarding John Altoon—all I can say is GO TO LACMA NOW and see Altoon’s stunning, inspiring first major retrospective. Altoon was a visionary, but more that perhaps, he was deeply committed to the process of painting and willing to see where that journey took him....
Steve McQueen
As a viewer, one must “bear witness” to Steve McQueen’s artwork, which constitutes a totally awe inspiring engaging sensory experience. McQueen’s 1998 video installation titled Drumroll, in combination with his series of 56 photographs of gutters and dams in and...
Mike Kelley
Mike Kelley was a ruthless investigator, of everything from Mother Mary, to rainbow afro wigs to stuffed toys to the complex mechanism, which was his own mind. The works that comprise this retrospective are alternately humorous and aggressive, quietly lurking and...
Nathan Mabry at Cherry And Martin
Nathan MabryI can think of nothing as “fiercely alluring” (literally) as the open-mouthed skull of a T-Rex, and one with a luscious bronze patina to boot! Nathan Mabry delivers another provocative and mythologically charged visual opus at the Cherry Martin Gallery....
John Mills At Rosamund Felsen Gallery
John MillsJohn Mills’ recent exhibition at Rosamund Felsen Gallery is compositionally complex and visually challenging. As the title suggests, High On Signs represents the artist’s love affair with line and shape and more importantly perhaps, the iconographic...
John Tottenham at Maloney Fine Art
John TottenhamJohn Tottenham, who regularly graces Artillery’s pages with his near orgasmic wit and verbal subterfuge, is a fantastic artist, though in typical self-deprecating style, he might in fact tell you otherwise. “The Indifferent Sublime” is, well, truly...
Koi No Yokan II at 101 Exhibit
Koi No Yokan IIImagine meeting someone, and knowing that you will one day fall madly in love with that person, and you have mastered the Japanese concept of Koi No Yokan. Love is not immediately activated, as in the American sense of “love at first sight,” but becomes...
Luke Butler at Charlie James Gallery
Luke ButlerI can see Luke Butler hanging out with Montgomery Clift and Liz Taylor, sipping daiquiris by the lake-house with not a care in the world, but then all great movies must come to “an end.” Butler specializes in these two powerfully evocative little words...
Materially Defined at CMay Gallery
Materially Defined All art has corporeal form, and must be “made” of something, and in the case of “Materially Defined,” at CMay Gallery, the literal materials themselves dictate the greater metaphorical meaning of the individual works in the exhibition. Macha...
Rachel Lauren Kaster at Gallery 825
Rachel Lauren KasterRachel Kaster creates startlingly effective visual conversations between seemingly disparate objects including glass, found wood and bronze. Many of Kaster’s visual relationships depend on tangible visceral associations; glass is so fragile, yet...
Night Terrors And Day Dreams at The Loft at Liz’s
Night Terrors And Day Dreams Edgar Allen Poe, the undisputed master of darkness once said, “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night,” suggesting that the light can be a necessary benediction just as the dark...
Mary Weatherford at David Kordansky Gallery
Mary Weatherford Mary Weatherford’s first exhibition at David Kordansky finds its roots in the powerful gestural mark making of artists like Helen Frankenthaler and Joan Mitchell. These powerful large-scale paintings conflate the loose semi autonomic gestural...
Julia Dault at China Art Objects
Julia Daultat China Art ObjectsJulia Dault’s recent exhibition “Rhythm Nation,” at China Art Objects feels like a trip down memory lane, or more specifically, a journey back through 1980’s color field abstraction where artists like Jack Whitten and David Reed were...