Bringing back recurring characters from her practice, Olivia Mole is changing the installation of her show, “Dopesheet Batman,” each week in this intimate East Hollywood space, keeping only the wall pieces and purple carpeted platform intact. In her first iteration of...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Olivia Mole
GALLERY ROUNDS: Marilyn Nance Roberts Projects
The Marilyn Nance exhibition at Roberts Projects beautifully demonstrates the phenomenon known as six degrees of separation—the idea that all people are six or fewer connections away from each other. Nance was 21 when she was chosen to be the United States’ official...
PICK OF THE WEEK: Janet Olivia Henry Stars
Absorbing and jocular, Stars’ current exhibition, “Janet Olivia Henry’s Recent Academic Abstractions,” is where tableaux dioramas become the central force and unique vantage point from which deliberate performance emerges from assemblage and sculpture. In Wrought:...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Evangeline AdaLioryn Sebastian Gladstone
Feathers, fur, gills, horns, tails (spiked and scaled), claws, talons, hooves, and forked tongues are some of the characteristics that adorn Evangeline AdaLioryn's strange amalgamations. The locust of the exhibition, "Her Labyrinth," presents an assemblage of...
REMARKS ON COLOR: LBJ’s Lucky Light Grays April's Hue
He had five of them—hats that is. Part cowboy, part fedora—they saw him through the presidency like stalwart protectors. They gave him confidence. They engendered a swagger. They saw him through the race riots, civil and civic unrest, and the anti-war protests that...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: I Call it Home, My Hell Bel Ami
In this group exhibition of artists based in Germany, curated by the Cologne gallery DREI, the videos, paintings and photographs come together to comment on surveillance and pop culture, creating a sense of eeriness and familiarity within the show. Featuring the works...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Blood: Medieval/Modern Getty Museum
Blood is unsightly in the flesh. Witnessing a bleeding person, one might turn away—or worse, be overcome with nausea and faint. For a substance essential to our functioning, to life itself, its image provokes extreme distress. If we were to trust our physiological...
PICK OF THE WEEK: Olivia van Kuiken Château Shatto
In “Biel Lieb,” Olivia van Kuiken’s inaugural exhibition at Château Shatto, oil paintings of untamed, bold color and mark-making swing between styles of ink wash, graphic novel, pixel and gestures on the verge of becoming scripture, spellbinding the gallery. Fuchsia,...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Jane Corrigan Sea View
Conveying narratives of girlhood, Jane Corrigan’s gestural oil paintings are like snippets from a coming-of-age book—whimsical and playful, they straddle imagination and reality, showing her subjects situated in domestic or nature scenes, her expressive brushstrokes...
OUTSIDE LA: Will Hutnick Geary Contemporary
Will Hutnick’s practice resists easy categorization. While largely using the language of abstraction, his mixed media paintings also borrow elements of glitch art with seemingly disjointed imagery that is somehow both static and in motion as patterns, shapes, and...
THEATER: LA MYTHMAKING Fear of Kathy Acker
In January I was chatting with Jack Skelley, the author of The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker (FOKA) published last year through Semiotext(e). We spoke about how young writers are connecting with the older generation in the Los Angeles writing scene—it feels a lot like...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Jennifer West Gattopardo
In her multimedia installation at Gattopardo’s new location, Jennifer West combines images of outer space with those of spiderwebs, highlighting their organic and geometric patterns—drawing parallels between stars eons away and glistening dewdrops caught in a web, her...
PICK OF THE WEEK: Amelia Lockwood & Chris Lux Guerrero Gallery
Last week, an abandoned home in the hills of Mt. Washington, once infested by raccoons and possums, transformed into "Revel Hall," a temporary exhibition space showcasing Amelia Lockwood's raw, altar-like and talismanic ceramics alongside Chris Lux's admirably crooked...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Rodney Graham Lisson Gallery
Does humor belong in art? The late Canadian multimedia artist Rodney Graham evidently thought it did. But Graham’s humor, on display at the Lisson Gallery through March 23, is of the companionable sort: gentle, slightly self-deprecating, never sarcastic or cutting,...
ART FOR DUMMIES Sophie Becker and the Ventriloquy Redux
Often seen as an eccentric art form, ventriloquism has resurfaced and gained popularity again in mainstream culture over the past few years, from televised talent competitions (three ventriloquists have won America’s Got Talent: Terry Fator, Paul Zerdin and Darci...
HYPER-REAL HYBRIDIZATION Patricia Piccinini Finds Beauty in Otherness
Australian artist Patricia Piccinini’s world is inhabited by creatures that suggest genetic engineering gone awry or the infusion of sentience in hitherto inanimate objects. Her hyper-realistic sculptures combine elements of human form blended with those of animals,...
ABSTRACTION STUDIES George Legrady's Collaborations and Mythic Narratives
Generative AI image synthesis, exemplified by software like Midjourney, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion and similar tools, has captivated widespread attention enabling on-the-fly image creation through text prompts and image prompts. While either text or image quickly...
INFINITE VARIETY David Em Finds Endless Possibilities
Digital art pioneer David Em, whose work has been published and exhibited internationally, was the first to make images with pixels at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1975. He then went on to build articulated 3D creatures with mainframes at the company...