The inaugural show at the newly opened Moskowitz Gallery on La Brea Avenue brings together the work of four young and talented artists: Alexa Guargilia, Mitch Weiss, Bill Maass and Adam Moskowitz. Although all four bring distinct technical approaches, distinct visual...
Jan Kempenaers: Spomenik
In Sarajevo, it only makes sense to remember the day that’s just passed. —Semezdin Mehmedinović, “What Will You remember?” from Sajevo Blues (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1998), 67. What happens when a notoriously heterogeneous people is asked to deny its own...
Martin Schoeller: Identical
In January, 2012, National Geographic ran a piece called "TWINS: Alike But Not Alike," that used the August, 2011 Twins Days Festival (held annually in Twinsburg, Ohio) as a launching pad for a discussion of the latest scientific advances in twin studies, including...
Samuel Bayer: Diptychs and Triptychs
Perhaps the most impressive thing about Samuel Bayer’s series of photographic “Triptychs,” recently on view at ACE Gallery Beverly Hills, is the complexity of the meditation on desire and representation that they can engender in a [male] viewer. These 16 12-foot...