The new year got off to a rousing start on the LA art scene this week, with a wide variety of exhibitions all around town. At Durden and Ray, viewers were encouraged to “cleanse your soul” through the art of "Disclosure." Curators Dani Dodge and Alanna Marcelletti...
The holidays are starting, and so is a festive month in Los Angeles art. Two strong shows took the stage at Torrance Art Museum: performance and mixed media of all kinds. In the main gallery, Forum 1 included a wide selection of artists exciting a packed-house crowd....
As we approach Thanksgiving, it’s pretty awesome to be living in Los Angeles where the art scene gives us plenty to be thankful for besides cornbread stuffing and candied yams. Art at the Rendon: "Stories" took attendees into the lives of multiple characters in an...
From Santa Monica’s The Other Art Fair to two rewarding shows at Roberts Projects in mid-city, the art crowds were out in force the last weekend in October, buzzing about the exhibitions and reveling in the arrival of sweater weather. Running Thursday through Sunday...
Maybe it’s a not-so-spooky Halloween spell, but the October art scene was hauntingly captivating this weekend. The Brewery Art Walk offered a plethora of pleasures all weekend, including "Route, Rut, Lane: A Karkhana Collaboration" at Shoebox Projects, a mixed-media...
Every September, the art scene really revs up—not that summer was slow. But after Labor Day, art exhibitions heat up as the evenings cool down. The Culver City Arts District swelled with openings Saturday. First stop had us at Roberts Projects for German artist Lenz...
The heat goes on—and so does the beat of pulsating great art in Los Angeles. On Thursday, Laurie Shapiro offered a DTLA studio preview of her about-to-open gallery installation at Da Plume, "All Yoni is Love." The immersive lush psychedelic installation was draped...
Temperatures might have cooled slightly—just slightly—this week, but the art scene remains hot and happening. Saturday evening at SoLA, a packed house of art lovers and exhibiting artists mingled over two strong shows. Pulse of LA in the main gallery, a juried...
It’s summer, so the art scene is easy—with a wide range of cool openings that help beat the heat. It was a hot, steamy evening at PØST gallery in the Bendix Building last night, but that didn’t stop an excited and engaged crowd from enjoying the wide array of...
Narsiso Martinez shapes richly detailed images of farm workers in oil, charcoal and ink wash—with discarded produce boxes as his canvas. A simple trip to Costco for pizza proved revelatory for the artist, when he found a purple-and-yellow banana box at the store. When...
This past weekend brought a summer feast of art exhibitions all over town, some with potent topical messages. The 11th annual "Diverted Destruction" exhibition at Loft at Liz’s featured works made of found, discarded or recycled items, and a found-object giveaway...
A wide range of lively openings dotted the city this past weekend, including openings at Launch and KP Projects on La Brea, the closing of a terrific exhibition at Keystone Art Space, and the intensely beautiful "Carbon" at Fellows of Contemporary Art in Chinatown...
Tasty art offered a feast for viewers’ eyes everywhere in LA this weekend. At the Korean Cultural Center, art collective Durden and Ray offered a terrific 23-artist group show, "Odd Convergences: Steps/Missteps." The expansive upstairs gallery featured a wide range of...
From the Valley to the Beach to Downtown LA, a wide range of entertaining art exhibitions opened this past weekend. At the Museum of the San Fernando Valley, artist Jodi Bonassi launched her retrospective, "PUBLIC SETTINGS… Private Conversations." Showing a collection...
Liminal: occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold. "Liminal Spaces" at Jason Vass gallery, which opened Saturday night, occupies a position of cool, whether the boundary is mixed-media wall art, free-standing sculpture, or something in...
Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles opened three buzzy new gallery shows this Saturday: Louise Bourgeois: "The Red Sky;" Mark Bradford: "New Works;" and Geta Brătescu: "The Leaps of Aesop." Bradford’s large-scale, abstract paintings drew oohs and aahs for their stunning...
Exciting art exhibitions opened all around town this past weekend, Eastside and West. At Durden and Ray in DTLA, “Book Club: Speedboat,” inspired by Renata Adler’s episodic 1976 novel, utilizes the concept of a book club to create a provocative, fun community event. A...
All weekend, the Westside was ablaze with art. StART Up Fair, located at The Kinney (no relation to our editor!) Hotel in Venice, featured over 67 artists in a series of terrific and eclectic motel-room installations. At Friday’s opening, performance artist Guta Galli...
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