The first exhibition at Art+Practice, which recently opened in the historic Leimert Park district, is a site-specific installation by veteran conceptual artist, Charles Gaines. “Librettos: Manuel de Falla/Stokely Carmichael” (2015) consists of 23 acrylic box frames...
Always following his impulses, Timothy Washington is an artist’s artist, and in the Southern California African-American artist’s community is one of the last remaining practitioners from South Central LA’s Golden Age of Assemblage (late 1960s to mid-’70s). Washington...
The sprawling Charles Dickson retrospective, dispersed throughout the Purifoy Gallery at the Watts Towers Arts Center and the Mingus Gallery in the Charles Mingus Youth Arts Center, exhibits an artist who knew he was born with a gift and that his life’s work was to be...
“Speaking Tongues (The material of communication)” introduces Duane Paul's considerable talent and ability in the artist's first solo exhibition. The show’s 12 works (all 2013) are divided into three sections or “dialect clusters:” six works on paper, two...
While the exhibition’s title immediately triggers images of wild head-bangin’ rockers wailing away at unheard of decibels, for five African-American abstract sculptors it was a call in response to the use of metal in their work, guided by ancestral memory and tapping...
This 35-year retrospective, consisting of 52 sculptures (some presented in small editions) and nine digital photographs, offers a revealing cross section of Charles Tatum’s work dating from 1973 until 2008, the year the artist passed. Consistent throughout the...