Morgan Mandalay's paintings of tainted jungle paradises are radiant with color and lush verdure, yet they bloom with inklings of mortality. Dead fishes hang amid the umbrage of burning orchards where cadaverous human arms emerge from lurid thickets. Figs and oranges...
Fantasy and reality encroach upon each another in "Works on Paper 1967-1995" by Ken Price (1935-2012) at Kayne Griffin Corcoran. Twenty-eight deceptively straightforward pictures draw you into nuanced realms where familiarity gives way to strangeness. In Price's...
The title of Chris Trueman's show, "After(image)," betokens the fleeting vivid impressions his paintings convey. Hovering between abstraction and representation, each of his nine vibrant works currently on view at Edward Cella embodies a wide array of marks,...
The black-and-white magic of Graciela Iturbide's photography is difficult to capture in words. Through her lens, quotidian moments acquire an iconic, spiritual quality as life's dichotomies and death's mysteries lyrically play out in light, shadow, pattern, and...
"The Diamond Hunters," Cristian Răduță's installation at Nicodim Gallery, places you in the midst of an army of animals cobbled from oddments. The Romanian artist's menagerie of untitled 2019 sculptures encompasses myriad species fashioned from spray-painted wood,...
Craig Krull Gallery seems larger than usual for the quantity of intriguing work in its current trio of tandem solo shows. Pierre Picot, Stan Edmondson and Lou Beach each work in different mediums but overlap in their surrealistic sensibilities rooted in prior eras....
With crafty charm belying provocative content, Lara Schnitger's textile collages strike a unique balance between daintiness and mordancy. One of the first pictures you'll find in her show, "Victory Garden" at Grice Bench, is a portrait titled Judith (all works 2019),...
Jewel-like translucency and vibrant hues set off the disturbing nature of sculptures by Rona Pondick at Zevitas Marcus, where luminous human heads are frozen in resin blocks or attached to freakish creatural bodies. Several pieces, such as Encased Yellow Green...
David Hockney recycles work from one medium into another, reinventing his own methodologies in the process. His versatility is highlighted in his show titled "Something New in Painting (and Photography) [and even Printing]... Continued," where landscape paintings,...
Why, exactly, is Laura Owens’ art so compelling? This is a question I’ve been asking myself since I was in art school. Elusiveness seems intrinsic to her work’s magic, which in my mind boils down to two intertwined notions: possibility and freedom. Owens’ eclectic art...
Beverly Pepper's renown for large-scale outdoor sculptures makes her lesser-known small works seem particularly fresh and intimate. "New Particles from the Sun" features 25 modestly-sized indoor sculptures, mostly on pedestals, and a larger one in the courtyard at...
One transparent parabolic-lens sculpture by Fred Eversley offers a dynamic experience. Ten offer something closer to awe. Individually, they call forth orbicular celestial bodies; en masse, they encompass a galaxy of evocations. Each of his untitled resin sculptures...
Drawing parallels between seashells, glass and the human body, Kelly Akashi's exhibition, "Figure Shifter," is a mystical mise-en-scène whose cryptic press release reads as a brief fairytale written in the first person by some mythical spiritual entity. This dimly lit...
A mood of musing remembrance pervades "Rearranging My Furniture," Farnaz Shadravan's show presenting sculptural reconfigurations of household items. In Shadravan's hands, parts of once-utilitarian objects such as chairs and doors become meditative totems of...
Helen Lundeberg (1908-1999) wrote in 1942 that her aim was "to calculate, and reconsider, every element in a painting with regard to its function in the whole organization." The renowned Post-Surrealist's precision of shape, color and composition is amply displayed in...
"A Piebald Era" at Garis & Hahn showcases Lisa Adams' latest explorations of painting's potential for capturing modern life's contradictions and irrationalities. Evoking derelict urban landscapes filtered through surreal reveries, Adams' new paintings lead viewers...
The first thing one notices upon entering Caitlin Cherry's show at Luis De Jesus is her sensational palette so improbable that it seems to have dropped from outer space. Clashing vibrant colors contrast, oscillate and dazzle as though her paintings were a laser light...
Who needs hallucinogens when there are Bridget Riley paintings to fill your field of vision? I'm dizzy, my head is swimming, and vivid spots and rays are dancing so furiously in my eyes that it's like I'm looking through a ghost of a kaleidoscope, minutes after...
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