Dirk Braeckman's photographs celebrate the passing moment. Images that we are all too familiar with yet often take for granted, are laid bare in exquisite and ethereal shades of gray whereby a single tree set into the landscape explodes with a glowing internal...
Amy Park
New York-based artist Amy Park, in her second solo show at Kopeikin Gallery has reproduced, in intimate and gorgeously rendered watercolors, Ed Ruscha's 1966 seminal book project “Every Building On The Sunset Strip.” This is no easy task to be sure, and Park nails...
TRI (…ed) Revisting TRI Gallery
Artist Rory Devine has organized a perfectly exquisite gem of a show at Wilding Cran Gallery. One that revisits—with much celebratory aplomb—the artists who once exhibited at the fabled TRI Gallery back in the 1990s. Though disparate, thankfully the artists featured...
Abel Alejandre
Abel Alejandre's meticulously crafted charcoal drawings address the complexities of the human experience with eloquence and power. "Public Secrets" represents an amalgam of acrylic paintings (and paintings on hats) that memorialize the richness of the world we live...
Deveron Richard
Sometimes “outsider” artists are really not that far outside, though they may indeed be “far out” in content and imagination. Deveron Richard, whose first exhibition at The Good Luck Gallery in Chinatown, is far out in its glorious exploration into the fantastical...
Claudia Parducci
“The Space Between Us,” Claudia Parducci’s first solo exhibition at Ochi Projects, represents the artist’s commitment to understanding and investigating the darkest sides of human nature. This intense examination is largely atmospheric and abstracted, though the...
Jimi Gleason
Jimi Gleason’s newest body of work on view at William Turner Gallery almost seem like painterly mirrors reflecting the artist’s continued investigation into materiality and form. These large-scale paintings are brightly colored and luminously reflective, giving them...
Jessicka Addams
I’ve got to be honest. I’m a sucker for images of bloodied fingers and dead birds. Kind of an acquired taste I suppose, so Jessicka Addams newest exhibition entitled “Please Stop Loving Me,” struck a cord of familiarity, stirring an odd reprisal of grief, and...
Bettina Hubby
Bettina Hubby displays a raucous sense of humor in her second solo show aptly titled "The Sexual Bronze Show" at Klowden Mann. Mining a territory that expounds on the sexual pun, Hubby identifies objects from the grocery store that in some way compliment one another...
Love Potions
"Love Potions" at Maloney Fine Art is a wonderfully subtle and wistful exhibition of works by three Los Angeles artists. Kim McCarty, Roger Herman and Mona Kuhn have created a mélange of ceramics, watercolors and photographs that play off each other, creating...
Rosette
Mary Anna Pomonis has curated a thoughtful and nuanced exhibition entitled Rosette in the project space at Charlie James Gallery. Working with the central idea of the constructed image of a rose with all its itinerant histories and meanings, etc. the works in this...
Rebecca Campbell: You Are Here
Rebecca Campbell believes in paying it forward as her most recent exhibition entitled You Are Here at LA Louver so elegantly demonstrates. Each of these eighteen portraits represents an image of a woman artist whom Campbell knows and admires, but more importantly...
Ned Evans
Ned Evans’ recent survey exhibition entitled Slight Return; A Selection of paintings 1985 – 2015 at Craig Krull comprises a long-standing commitment to abstraction with the oft visual nod to great abstractionists like Helen Frankenthaler and Mark Rothko. As a whole,...
10 Part Invention
Let’s face it. Artists make the coolest and best gallerists, and when they don their artist’s hats, as in the recent exhibition "10 Part Invention" at Jaus gallery, where gallery collective Tiger Strikes Asteroid flex their art muscles, it’s truly a pleasure to...
KAZUNORI HAMANA, YUJI UEDA, OTANI WORKSHOP
Ceramics are all the rage these days, and certainly it’s a tradition richly steeped in ceremony, especially as it applies to Japanese ceramic work. Art star Takashi Murakami has assembled a group of artists who not only push the boundaries of possibility within the...
States of Being
"States of Being" currently on view at Torrance Art Museum examines the nature of existence not so much as a physical inevitability, but more as a phase or process by which each of the artists included, expose themselves through their work at pivotal moments of...
James Hayward
Red-on-red is difficult to pull off, yet James Hayward makes it work beautifully in his most recent survey entitled "At Last" at Roberts & Tilton where an entire room is painted red to showcase his very dense red paintings. And that's just the side gallery....
Chris Goennawein
Chris Goennawein is an artist who “theorizes” painterly surfaces and the underlying structures that support them. His first exhibition at c.nichols project explores various notions of place wherein the signification of an object wrestles with the process by which it...