Doug Harveyat Jancar GalleryDoug Harvey, whose a regular contributor to Artillery, is also a terrific artist as his newest exhibition entitled, Found Moldy Slides, at Jancar Gallery can attest. Weirdly haunting, and sometimes just plain haunted, these images celebrate...

Julie Adlerat Campbell Hall Art GalleryJulie Adler’s recent exhibition of paintings, monoprints, etchings, linocuts and more at Campbell Hall Art Gallery suggests a fiercely compelling and singular mind at work. Mining an intensely personal vein and responding to the...

Mary Jo Boleat Jose Drudis Biada Art Gallery/Mount St. Mary's CollegeOne does not necessarily equate tombs with toilets, or more metaphorically speaking, these two types of “evacuation” – one of the body, the other of the soul, yet Mary Jo Bole creates an exquisite,...

In 2040Jaus Gallery Joe Biel, Stack 4 (Dave)It’s good to know artists are constantly thinking, cogitating, peeling the proverbial cultural onion, to transform our human experience into a charged and luminous imaginative landscape. Such is the case at Jaus Gallery this...

Carlson Hattonat Barrett Art Gallery at Santa Monica College Carlson Hatton, Random Neurons Firing, 2014Carlson Hatton’s immense and powerful exhibition of mostly mixed media drawings on view at the Barrett Art Gallery at Santa Monica College is both fantastical and...

Morgan Fisherat China Art Objects Rejoice! Color field painting is far from dead, and in fact can be seen thriving in its natural habitat no less in Morgan Fisher’s fourth exhibition at China Art Objects. I must admit I usually go in for more narrative, metaphoric...

  Licketh The Rainbow at JAUS Rainbows sometimes make me cringe—not that I am inherently opposed to their beauty and deeper metaphoric meaning, but in the wrong hands, they can fall so easily into triteness. Tricky little things those rainbows can be, however the...

Zackary Drucker & Manuel Vason at Luis De Jesus Gallery Performance/video artist Zackary Drucker and London-based photographer Manuel Vason have teamed up to create a series of self-reflexive and sometimes enigmatic images shot in Milan in 2010 during one of Drucker’s...

Kim Rugg at Mark Moore Gallery Kim Rugg dismantles and reassembles things—mostly words and images, including newspaper articles, magazines, cereal boxes, stamp and now maps. “Rendering their original content meaningless,” Rugg teases out new and sometimes...

Martin Mull, “State of the Union,” 2013. Oil on linen, 50 x 60in Martin Mull at Samuel Freeman Accurately representing the human experience in this day and age presents unusual complications—mainly because the business of being alive today is painful on a collective...

  Richard Tuttle said “There are artists who know from the bottom of their souls that art is about the experience of reality. The reason we have art is because you can’t get a real experience from the world.” David McDonald, whose most recent curatorial effort is...

The recent retrospective of photographer, performance artist and counterculture British punk icon, Linder, at Blum & Poe is a rigorous if somewhat hysterically provocative critique on gender roles, specifically the commoditization of female sexuality. Spanning...

The inside of Steven Hull’s brain could be likened to a flowering tree in constant bloom. His newest effort, “Balcony” is an exploration into the various ways that meaning is extrapolated from any artwork, or for that matter any “thing” in the living known world....