With Artificial Intelligence, or AI, on everyone's mind, it seems pertinent to go back in time to 1952 and think about a pre-digital world, a time before the personal computer, cell phones and social media. The exhibition "Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age,...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age
GALLERY ROUNDS: Karla Klarin Vielmetter Los Angeles
A native of the San Fernando Valley, painter Karla Klarin has long been interested in the Los Angeles cityscape. She depicts the city's sprawl as an abstraction, and she fills her scenes with different colors that extend across her compositions. In her early paintings...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Deborah McDuff Williams The Center for Social Justice and Civil Liberties
In Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing (2005), Dr. Joy DeGruy writes “Although slavery has long been a part of human history, American chattel slavery represents a case of human trauma incomparable in scope, duration and...
GALLERY ROUNDS: JEFFREY VALLANCE Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
The long, unlikely, and utterly genuine friendship between two artists—conceptualist cross-platform tragicomedian Jeffrey Vallance, and painter of wildly popular cottage-core idylls Thomas Kinkade—is commemorated in "Kinkadian La-Z-Boy Room," a new exhibition by...
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...
GALLERY ROUNDS: George Pocari as-is.la
The subject of each photograph in George Porcari's exhibition "Things: A Story" is a narrative that is constructed from the relationship between what appears on the cover of a book and the objects Porcari has placed around. Shot with natural light in Porcari's Los...
GALLERY ROUNDS: “The Land of Milk and Honey” Cheech and MexiCali Biennial
Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, Chicano Movement Leader, founder of the Crusade for Justice, and Poet once wrote: I am the masses of my people and I refuse to be absorbed. I am Joaquín. The odds are great, But my spirit is strong, My faith unbreakable, My blood is pure....
GALLERY ROUNDS: Lee Krasner Kleefield Contemporary Art Museum
Cubist, geometric, abstract, and seminal—together those words sum up the exhibition of Lee Krasner’s work, “A Through Line” at the Kleefied Contemporary Art Museum. The exhibition traverses Krasner's vibrantly colored path, showcasing her wide range of painted works...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Nancy Monk Craig Krull Gallery
Many of the works featured in Nancy Monk's exhibition "Walk + Wood" at Craig Krull Gallery are of small scale and draw from a restrained palette. Looking at the works, the viewer sees things that, at first glance, appear whimsical and childlike. However, on closer...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Refik Anadol Jeffrey Deitch
Geophysical reality and machine dreams meld together to often mesmerizing effect in Refik Anadol’s revelatory exhibition at Jeffrey Deitch. The show is at once an ode to the elemental forces shaping the earth’s outdoor spaces (and the human mind’s internal ones) and...
GALLERY ROUNDS: “Identity Semantics of the African Diaspora in the United States” The Loft at Liz's
The 1960s Black Arts Movement ignited an important cultural event among its participants. Visual artists addressed themes of Black pride, self-determination, and culture. Preceding it was the Harlem Renaissance (1920–29) with aesthetic architect, Alain Locke, the...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Strings of Desire Craft Contemporary
Linked by their common use of embroidery, the 13 artists featured in Craft Contemporary's exhibition "Strings of Desire" bring the beautiful intricacy of thread to life. It is imperative to see these works in person to appreciate the effect of threads, yarns and...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Robert Russell Anat Ebgi
Robert Russell is a Los Angeles painter whose conceptually based process often begins with an internet search. Be it for other people named Robert Russell, artist's monographs, tea cups, or for his current exhibition, Allach porcelain figurines, Russell culls online...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Kehinde Wiley Roberts Projects
When Kehinde Wiley had the honor of being selected to paint a portrait of former President Barak Obama, it marked a historic moment as he became the first African American to paint an official US presidential portrait for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery....
GALLERY ROUNDS: Amadour Lauren Powell Projects
Hard-edge painting has rarely been so romantic—or had such an enchanting soundtrack. Visual and musical artist Amadour’s exhibition of breezy architectural abstractions, "Echolocation" (even the name evokes a merger of sound and space), explores the recurring motif of...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Hayley Barker Night Gallery
Laguna Castle is a domestic show, focused tightly on the objects and spaces of everyday living. The solo exhibition at Night Gallery takes its name from the complex in Echo Park that hosted artist Hayley Barker’s residency in the apartment of the late community...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Fran Siegel Wilding Cran Gallery
To meander is not the same as to walk from point to point. Aside from being less direct it also implies a kind of dallying and teasing out of things that marching from place to place simply does not accomplish. All the artworks in Fran Siegel's show "Chronicle,"...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Whitney Bedford Vielmetter Los Angeles
Depicting the passage of time and light through the color of a repeated landscape, Whitney Bedford’s “Vedute” immerses viewers in a stunning but haunting forested world. The landscape in each large-scale work depicts the same scene mid-morning, mid-afternoon, and...