Climate change is a crisis that we must all recognize and work together to mitigate. For artists engaging with climate content, their activism manifests in many different ways. Some choose to showcase the devastating evidence of global warming, while...
Zaria Forman: Fear and Awe
OUTSIDE LA: Un/Common Proximity Group Exhibition at James Cohan, NY
During the last year, proximity became a defining characteristic of our daily lives. Geographic proximity limited our access to family, friends and resources, and ideological proximity determined the news we consumed, the information we shared and the concepts we...
Outsider Art Fair & Takashi Murakami "Super-Rough" Group Show, New York
Outsider art is on display in full force in SoHo with a special exhibition hosted by the Outsider Art Fair and curated by Takashi Murakami. Focusing solely on sculpture, the exhibition brings together works by nearly 60 Outsider artists, a term that generally refers...
OUTSIDE LA: Derek Weisberg
From the outside, Trotter&Sholer’s current exhibition of works by Derek Weisberg might look like jarring Frankensteinian creations. With roughly hewn figural assemblages, mixed media collages, and fragmented bricolages of ceramic masks, the show reveals sensitive,...
OUTSIDE LA: Rachel Rossin Magenta Plains, New York
While the intersection of art and technology may be new for some, artist Rachel Rossin has been a pioneer in the field for nearly her whole life, having taught herself programming at a young age. Her practice includes painting, sculpture and digital art, as well as...
Frieze New York Fairgoers' Delight sans the Fashion
Frieze New York is back for the first major in-person art fair since the pandemic—and it felt shockingly and refreshingly normal. In a time when the success or failure of an event is often based on how COVID-safe it felt, Frieze did a remarkable job at emphasizing...
OUTSIDE LA: Katya Grokhovsky Smack Mellon, New York
Katya Grokhovsky is an artist and curator who explores the expectations of the American dream and the lived experiences of immigration to the US. Originally from Ukraine, Grokhovsky founded The Immigrant Artist Biennial, which launched last year despite many...
OUTSIDE LA: Izzy Barber James Fuentes, New York
Izzy Barber’s exhibition, “Maspeth Moon,” at James Fuentes brings together new plein air paintings that capture daily life in New York. Petite in size (the smallest 4” x 4” and others around 10” x 9”) Barber’s paintings are snapshots of quiet scenes that are at once...
OUTSIDE LA: Eric Shaw The Hole, New York
In a year when art sales floundered and galleries around the world quietly scaled back their operations, the announcement from New York’s The Hole, that they were celebrating their 10th anniversary by opening a second gallery, felt like a collective sign of hope. To...