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Linda Vallejo A New Exhibition at parrasch heijnen Showcases Five Decades of the Artist’s Work

Linda Vallejo
A New Exhibition at parrasch heijnen Showcases Five Decades of the Artist’s Work

Linda Vallejo’s career-spanning exhibition at parrasch heijen is a homecoming of sorts. The gallery is ensconced in the center of Los Angeles’ Boyle Heights district, where she was born, and a stone’s throw from the iconic Sears Building — an area where Vallejo spent...

Chris Eckert Long Beach Museum of Art

Chris Eckert
Long Beach Museum of Art

Incessant texts and social-media alerts are inescapable facets of contemporary life, and artist Chris Eckert attempts to make sense of this glut of seemingly endless data. Eckert has successfully melded backgrounds in the fields of mechanical engineering and...

30th Anniversary Group Show David Zwirner

30th Anniversary Group Show
David Zwirner

On a murky day in May, the art cognoscenti made their way to a preview of gallerist David Zwirner’s newest addition to his burgeoning enclave in Los Angeles. Among the city’s unremitting attempts at reinvention, Melrose Hill—a longstanding, dense and vibrant...

GALLERY ROUNDS: Suzan Woodruff Billis Williams

GALLERY ROUNDS: Suzan Woodruff
Billis Williams

Suzan Woodruff’s new body of ethereal, abstract paintings and undulating wall sculptures came at a price—one as much physical as psychological. Diagnosed with virulent cancer amid a national pandemic, she endured multiple surgeries and radiological treatments, which...

FIELD REPORT Art For All: The Gilbert & George Centre, London

FIELD REPORT
Art For All: The Gilbert & George Centre, London

Gilbert & George, the quintessentially British pioneering queer artist-duo have staked a clear position within the milieu in which they operate. They have scant tolerance for art-world conventions, yet it is precisely that peevishness and their enduring, long-term...

GALLERY ROUNDS: Carolyn Castaño Walter Maciel Gallery

GALLERY ROUNDS: Carolyn Castaño
Walter Maciel Gallery

Carolyn Castaño's “Otros Seres” (Other Beings) exhibition at Walter Maciel Gallery is an exhilarating eyeful of stealth environmental disaster. Castaño, of Colombian-American heritage, is well-known for her early extravagant and provocative Garden Heads...

Joey Terrill Marc Selwyn Fine Art

Joey Terrill
Marc Selwyn Fine Art

The 1980s witnessed the specter of AIDS as it decimated a generation of queer men and many others. Some prevailed—artist Joey Terrill among them, though he wistfully noted in an interview, “Unlike my friends … I’m still here—working....” That sentiment sets a...

Teddy Sandoval Vincent Price Art Museum

Teddy Sandoval
Vincent Price Art Museum

The Vincent Price Art Museum has mounted an ambitious and idiosyncratic survey of a little-known slice of Los Angeles art history. “Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art,” curated by Dr. C. Ondine Chavoya and David Evans Frantz, sheds light on the...

FABRICS OF CONSCIOUSNESS Ahree Lee Weaves Seamlessly Between Art and Technology

FABRICS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Ahree Lee Weaves Seamlessly Between Art and Technology

Multidisciplinary Los Angeles–based artist Ahree Lee started her career focused on video work. In 2001, she took on her first major long-term project employing the repetitive and somewhat pedestrian habit of taking a daily selfie. The resulting images were transformed...

Abel Guzmán la BEAST Gallery

Abel Guzmán
la BEAST Gallery

Religious parochial dogma is often fraught with pedagogical conflicts in the spheres of doctrine, institutional curricula and, unsurprisingly—queer identity. Overlay these ideologies with Mexican-American cultural norms and concomitant conventions of masculinity, and...

Linda Arreola Avenue 50 Studio

Linda Arreola
Avenue 50 Studio

Curated by Nicolas Orozco-Valdivia, Linda Arreola’s “Abstract Wanderings From the LA Borderlands: 2020–2023” comprises the artist’s strongest work to date. The presentation of nine paintings, some in multi-panel formats with varying scales, can scarcely be contained...

GALLERY ROUNDS: Linda Arreola Avenue 50 Studio Gallery

GALLERY ROUNDS: Linda Arreola
Avenue 50 Studio Gallery

Linda Arreola has been quite busy as her nearly sold-out show of new abstract paintings at Avenue 50 Studio Gallery attests. Curated by Nicolas Orozco-Valdivia, the exhibition comprises the artist’s strongest work to date. The presentation of nine paintings—some in...

THE BOOK AS BOOKWORK Luis Delgado's Physicality as a Thing

THE BOOK AS BOOKWORK
Luis Delgado's Physicality as a Thing

Luis Delgado, prolific photographer, documentarian and inveterate bookmaker seemingly operates under the radar—even after a nearly 50-year run. A recent Los Angeles transplant, he was born and educated in Mexico City to a Mexican father and American mother —immersed...

GALLERY ROUNDS: Amalia Galdona Broche and Demetri Broxton Patricia Sweetow Gallery

GALLERY ROUNDS: Amalia Galdona Broche and Demetri Broxton
Patricia Sweetow Gallery

Amalia Galdona Broche and Demetri Broxton’s recent Los Angeles debuts at Patricia Sweetow Gallery are nothing less than startling, sensorial revelations. Moving through the exhibition of these intimately personal works, it’s hard to catch one’s breath. Both bodies of...

Commerce and Culture Andy Freeberg's Cheekily Captured Art-World Inequalities

Commerce and Culture
Andy Freeberg's Cheekily Captured Art-World Inequalities

Even when photographers are most concerned with mirroring reality, they are still haunted by tacit imperatives of taste and conscience. —Susan Sontag, "On Photography" Photographer Andy Freeberg has become something of an inadvertent cultural sociologist. Born in New...

All That Glitters The Transformative Portraiture of Jamie Vasta

All That Glitters
The Transformative Portraiture of Jamie Vasta

One of my favorite paintings is a portrait of myself at the age of five or so, composed by my father. Along with my siblings’ pictures and beyond the sentimentality, these portraits have become distinctive family emblems and historical markers, wrought at a time of...

Victor Estrada Peter and Merle Mullin Gallery, ArtCenter

Victor Estrada
Peter and Merle Mullin Gallery, ArtCenter

Victor Estrada erupted onto the art world landscape with his confounding work in the 1992 Los Angeles MOCA exhibition, “Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s,” along with other luminaries such as Harry Gamboa Jr., Megan Williams and Mike Kelley. What’s mystifying is...

CHEECH MARIN’S NEXT MOVE An Explosion of Chicano Art in Riverside

CHEECH MARIN’S NEXT MOVE
An Explosion of Chicano Art in Riverside

How apt that the new Cheech Marin Museum for Chicano Art and Culture in Riverside, California should open in a repurposed public library. Libraries are historically accessible spaces for learning and intellectual research. Museums, on the other hand, still struggle to...

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