Like Schrödinger’s cat, the figures populating the canvases of Italian painter Patrizio Di Massimo’s paintings exist in two potential states at once. In his newest exhibition, Close at Hand at François Ghebaly Gallery, time/space freezes in each of the five paintings...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Patrizio di Massimo
GALLERY ROUNDS: Emil Alzamora Lowell Ryan Projects
Emil Alzamora’s “Waymaker” is like journeying through a series of time warps. Cement, steel and wood figures loom in various states of decay like Greco-Roman relics in a museum. Yet a modern sensibility invites the sculptures into a surrealist dream conjuring a...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Cristian Castro Building Bridges Art Exchange
Cristian Castro’s latest exhibition, “Robotix: Intersections of Art and Technology,” features new work expanding on his practice repurposing vintage appliances and found objects. Each room is defined by different themes that pertain to the entire exhibition: beauty,...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Paige Emery Coaxial
Human connection and relationships are at the heart of Paige Emery’s “Ritual Veriditas” at Coaxial. Though small in size, the works create an immersive experience with video, sound and mixed-media visuals created entirely by the artist. The praxis of “Ritual...
Gallery Rounds: Eric Nash KP Projects
Eric Nash’s latest collection of charcoal drawings is along the same vein as some of his previous series, with new signs, buildings and pools explored in different angles. These renderings stem from thousands of source photos that he takes around Los Angeles at any...
OUTSIDE LA: Remy Jungerman Fridman Gallery, NYC
“Jungerman’s materials and reference points present a postcolonial approach to the minimalist form: he visits visual references the viewer may associate with famed 20th century minimalist painters and reconsiders these forms with his own reference points. His geometric lines refer to grids seen in his childhood printed on Maroon tribal clothing, and in books of Western art that he consumed. The syncopated rhythm of the Agida Drum—a 2.5m long drum played in Maroon tribes’ rituals—are felt in the works, palpable in the rhythmic and fragmented movements of the lines.”
GALLERY ROUNDS: Hana Ward Ochi Projects
Ochi Projects’ current exhibition, “an exit from this room and others like it,” features the latest painting and ceramic work of artist Hana Ward. In this show (all works 2021) both objects and paintings reflect on themes of time and isolation; feelings we are all too...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Ishi Glinsky Chris Sharp Gallery
Ishi Glinsky’s exhibition explores monuments of survival that honor the sacred practices of his tribe, the Tohono O’odham Nation, native to the Sonoran Desert in Arizona. Upon entering Chris Sharp Gallery I am instantly subsumed by Glinsky’s monolithically scaled...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Shockboxx Gallery "Dude Unmute Yourself" at Shockboxx Gallery
“Dude, Unmute Yourself” is a sprawling group exhibition of Shockboxx Gallery regulars that the pandemic-smart title reflects the need, particularly in these times, to speak out through art. A few highlights are in the backroom where Randi Matushevitz offers two...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Brenna Youngblood, “The LIGHT and the DARK” Roberts Projects
How we balance our individual experiences within the larger scope of our lives in many ways determines who we are, and how we understand and relate to the world around us. Reflecting on the dense and often traumatic events of the past year, which included a global...
OUTSIDE LA: Artes Mundi 9 National Museum Cardiff, Chapter and g39
For the 9th edition of the Artes Mundi Prize, an international panel of jurors —made up of Cosmin Costinas (Executive Director and Curator of Para Site, Hong Kong), Elvira Dyangani Ose (Director at The Showroom, London) and Rachel Kent (Chief Curator at MCA,...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Vanessa Prager
It’s Vanessa Prager versus art history in this confounding and enchanting suite of oil on panel paintings, and her aggressive Impressionism-infused impasto is a knockout. Taking on the foundational figurative tropes of nude, still life, and landscape but proceeding...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Evita Tezeno Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
As the planet enters the beginning of a post-pandemic, post-Trump administration era, it was wonderful to be baptized in optimism from Evita Tezeno’s exhibition, “Better Days” at the Luis De Jesus Los Angeles gallery. One sweeping taste of these works results in a...
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye at Tate Britain "Fly in League with The Night" at Tate Britain
A man sits center frame, drowned within an interior sea of red hues, arms spread as he pensively gazes against our direction into the distance of the frame. A woman laughs cross-legged on a stool, mouth wide open as if paused mid-speech or laughter, as a grinning fox...
Gallery Rounds: Ulala Imai Nonaka Hill
Although "Amazing" is the first exhibition of Ulala Imai's works in Los Angeles and the United States, she has quite a following in Japan. Imai is a prolific painter as the presentation of over thirty paintings at Nonaka Hill demonstrates. She successfully combines...
Devendra Banhart Nicodim Gallery
“The Grief I Have Caused You” is Devendra Banhart’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Nicodim is hosting the exhibition in their upstairs gallery, which surveys work made during the lockdown and beyond. The past year has been one of great suffering and...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Cammie Staros Shulamit Nazarian
The atmosphere is quiet and still, the lighting theatrical and in a sequence of different colored rooms, case after display case filled with ceramic vessel-like forms resting at the bottom of brightly lit aquariums exude immobility, enlivened only by fish darting...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Robert Russell Anat Ebgi
A Google search for teacup reveals delicate fluted cups and saucers, many decorated with floral patterns. The association is afternoon tea in England, a formal spread with snacks and fine china. The sources for Robert Russell's "Teacups" paintings are random...