In Erica Vincenzi’s intimate paintings of cropped images, the artist focuses on snippets of everyday life that may feel familiar to us, both in action and setting—two hands open a wine bottle, a blue dish rests on a kitchen counter—yet have a dreamy, mysterious...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Erica Vincenzi
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Maja Ruznic Karma, Los Angeles
Achieving a rich depth through numerous layers of thinned oil paint, Maja Ruznic creates vibrant, large-scale paintings that are both figurative and geometric, the flattened shapes of her almost patterned compositions reminiscent of Klee. With her subjects spanning...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Kelly Wall New Low
Featuring two of Kelly Wall’s large, impressive stained-glass sculptures—the first a fusion of two reclining beach chairs and the second an awning—this show becomes an experience with light through the artist’s medium. With “Star” placed across the face of the awning,...
PEER REVIEW Fin Simonetti on Ambera Wellmann
A stone sculptor and stained-glass artist (among many other things), Fin Simonetti approaches demanding classical mediums with cultural critique and tender ambiguity. The New York–based Canadian artist has become known for her stone carvings of canine body parts—such...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Laura Larraz Chris Sharp
In these bright, gestural paintings, Laura Larraz explores ranging depictions of femininity, from notions of purity and domesticity to the idea of witches. At first glance, her paintings have a clear sense of humor; in Beware of Holy Whore, two pink cherubs hover over...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: “Strong Winds Ahead” François Ghebaly
In this expansive group show featuring the works of 18 artists, curator Lekha Jandhyala creates a strange, almost dystopian environment, both primordial and futuristic, of works that imply destruction and rebirth; in dialogue with each other, Ragini Bhow’s floor...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Saun Santipreecha Reisig and Taylor Contemporary
Incorporating sound, painting and sculpture into his work, Santipreecha addresses political histories and climates from a range of places through his methodical, layered process—an engulfing triptych responds to the war in Ukraine, a cement painting probes the history...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Frank Bowling Hauser & Wirth
Titled “Landscape,” this exhibition of Frank Bowling’s recent vibrant and expansive paintings highlights the artist’s long-standing experimentation with material and process. Reminiscent of his “Map Paintings” from the late 1960s and early ’70s, the landscapes feature...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Rosie Lee Tompkins GGLA
Displaying four vibrant quilts from the late 1970s and early ’80s, this show of Rosie Lee Tompkins’ work invites the viewer to consider both the front and back of the textiles, with three of them hanging from the ceiling. Intricate and tactile, the quilts incorporate...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: “For the Sake of Dancing in the Street” Oxy Arts
As this country has regressed in women’s rights and the right to abortion, and as the women in Iran are still fighting for freedom and equality, this group exhibition—titled after a lyric in Shervin Hadjipour’s song about the Iranian uprisings after the murder of...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Juliana Halpert and Parker Ito Bel Ami
Occupying both spaces of Bel Ami, one brightly lit and the other black like a darkroom, this duo show of artists Juliana Halpert and Parker Ito is a celebration of image-making, whether that process is through painting, photography or scanning art catalogs....
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Didier William James Fuentes
Emanating electric forces almost like lightning, the speckled glowing figures in Didier William’s paintings are studies of both the physical and spiritual body interacting in different environments; they hoist each other up by a stream in the woods, plunge into water,...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Tania Franco Klein ROSEGALLERY
Disorienting and mysterious, the stunning works of Tania Franco Klein—both her photographs and her exhibition design—are studies in tension, space and texture. Her photographs of female subjects in mostly domestic settings are suspenseful and cinematic: a woman walks...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: CHIMERA la BEAST Gallery
Featuring paintings and sculptures by 10 artists, this show creates a dreamlike atmosphere with the fluidity, delicateness and color palette of the works—the centerpiece is Se Oh’s white porcelain fountain, surrounded by a rug of rocks arranged on the gallery’s...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Thornton Dial Blum & Poe
In the works made a few years before the artist’s death, Thornton Dial created layered, heavily textured compositions with an array of found materials, such as ash, wire fencing and scrap metal. Caked onto the thick canvases, the objects are almost...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Francisco Palomares Bermudez Projects
A native Angeleno, Francisco Palomares captures his version of the city through his paintings of fruit vendors and street views of bright storefronts (such as Merry’s Flowers LLC and Botanica del Indio), adding personal allusions to his childhood through his still...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952-1982 Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Including videos, computer-generated drawings, screenprints, sculptures and textiles (among many other works), this wide-ranging exhibition presents new ways of thinking about the human relationship with computers by looking at the origins of the computer and digital...
PUBLISHER’S EYE Coady Brown at Shulamit Nazarian
Donning big pinstripe suits, ties, hoop earrings and purple velvet boots, the cool, striking women in Coady Brown’s paintings cinematically glow in nightlife and domestic scenes; the artist plays with colored light, texture and proportion, the long limbs and strong...