Centering his ten charcoal drawings around the silhouette of the cowboy hat, David Shull meditates on the object’s form as well as significance and associations in our culture, such as the masculine traits of the Western hero, in his show titled “FLHAT EARTH FALLING...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: DAVID SHULL
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Chyrum Lambert la BEAST Gallery
With rich, saturated hues on both black and cream backgrounds, Chyrum Lambert’s collages on wooden panels are mysterious yet familiar, reminiscent of botanical illustrations or a rock collection display. Titled “An Alphabet of Looking,” the show provides a chance to...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Olivia Mole Tiffany's
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: 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...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Yuji Ueda BLUM
Appearing as if they are on the verge of moving, Yuji Ueda’s ceramic vessels are complex, layered and their own abstracted compositions, both planned through his methodical process yet a surprise from the firing process. Based in Shigaraki, Japan—a place famous for...
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...
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...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Izumi Kato Perrotin
This inaugural exhibition of Perrotin’s new LA space, as well as the artist’s first show in the city, features Kato’s recent paintings, drawings and sculptures of vibrant, mystical humanoid figures that he has become known for, some in the form of intimate wood...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Cynthia Hawkins STARS Gallery
Titled “Maps Necessary for a Walk in 4D,” Cynthia Hawkins’ show of new, bright and abstract paintings explores the idea of space-time, a subject the artist has considered in her work since the 1970s—lines cutting through the picture plane almost appear as aerial views...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Sonya Sombreuil, Come Tees Jeffrey Deitch
I first encountered Sombreuil’s work about 10 years ago—the coolest woman I had met in New York was wearing a pair of Come Tees screen-printed jeans, the legs bleached from the hip down, covered with bold drawings of red and blue faces and text reading, “The whole...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Atavism for the Future Ehrlich Steinberg
The gallery’s inaugural exhibition, this group show of ten artists considers the tenderness of objects through various materials and scales, balancing between historical and futuristic sensibilities, as the exhibition title suggests. Spanning two floors and multiple...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Gillian Wearing Regen Projects
Including photography, painting and video, Gillian Wearing’s show, titled “reflections,” rethinks portraiture and perception, as the artist is well known to do, with many of the works directly referencing artists from the past and their compositions. In a striking...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Casey Baden La Loma Annex
Titled "Soft Moves," Casey Baden's show of bright and emotive paintings blends figures with abstracted organic backgrounds; her subjects' skin tones range from blues and purples to deep oranges reminiscent of Kirchner, and the plants and nature are reduced to...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Rachel Youn Night Gallery
With artificial flowers attached to motorized objects (such as massagers and exercise devices), Rachel Youn’s animated sculptures are hypnotic and strangely erotic, the rhythmic sounds of both the machines and the movements of the plants pulsating throughout the...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Erica Vincenzi Giovanni's Room
In Erica Vincenzi’s intimate paintings of cropped images, the artist focuses on snippets of everyday life that may feel familiar to us, both in action and setting—two hands open a wine bottle, a blue dish rests on a kitchen counter—yet have a dreamy, mysterious...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Maja Ruznic Karma, Los Angeles
Achieving a rich depth through numerous layers of thinned oil paint, Maja Ruznic creates vibrant, large-scale paintings that are both figurative and geometric, the flattened shapes of her almost patterned compositions reminiscent of Klee. With her subjects spanning...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Kelly Wall New Low
Featuring two of Kelly Wall’s large, impressive stained-glass sculptures—the first a fusion of two reclining beach chairs and the second an awning—this show becomes an experience with light through the artist’s medium. With “Star” placed across the face of the awning,...
PUBLISHER’S EYE: Laura Larraz Chris Sharp
In these bright, gestural paintings, Laura Larraz explores ranging depictions of femininity, from notions of purity and domesticity to the idea of witches. At first glance, her paintings have a clear sense of humor; in Beware of Holy Whore, two pink cherubs hover over...