Careening from a blotted and splattered background into what almost appeared to be real objects floating on the surface, the paintings cavort around a plethora of meanings in Max Presneill's latest body of work titled "In Case of Emergency." The overall sense is that...
Max Presneill
Ed Clark Hauser & Wirth
Ed Clark "Expanding The Image" marks the first time Hauser & Wirth has shown the abstract painter's work at their Los Angeles location. The exhibition consists of Clark's formative work from the 1960s and 1970s, and complements an exhibition Hauser & Wirth...
Robb Putnam and John Bankston Walter Maciel Gallery
In Robb Putnam's "Unattended Creatures," sad-faced bears and rabbits, some with no faces at all, make up most the sculptural works, while another exhibition at Walter Maciel Gallery, "Escape," by John Bankston, combines several different series of paintings and mixed...
2 Ceramics Shows: Joakim Ojanen & Max Maslansky Richard Heller Gallery & Five Car Garage
Stockholm-based artist Joakim Ojanen's delightful exhibition of paintings, drawings, and ceramics at Richard Heller Gallery is aptly titled: "A Show for the Lonely Distant Baby Souls." According to the artist, it is "a celebration of the human being." He goes on to...
Gallery Rounds: Linda Stark David Kordansky Gallery
In grad school at Cal Arts, I remember a renowned professor telling me there were certain symbols one should always avoid because they were “too loaded” oversaturated with other cultural referents to be read clearly. One of these symbols was the heart, not the...
Kathryn Garcia Gavlak Los Angeles
Exploring the potency of deep, elemental feminine power and the quality of female corporeality that for many folks evokes a certain kind of planetary magic, Kathryn Garcia joins the ranks of artists across generations whose works have sought to give tangible form to...
SPOTLIGHT Dominique Gallery
Dominique Gallery presents SPOTLIGHT, a group exhibition on view from July 24th through October 15th, 2020. The virtual exhibition, which features photographic journalism, mixed media collage, and cultural documentary, highlights visual artists of color in two-week...
Lauren Quin ‘Clutches’ Real Pain Fine Arts
At a time when abstract painting seems mired in self-reference, I itch for shows like "Clutches," Lauren Quin's second solo show in Los Angeles. Quin's paintings are impressively complex. They feel like the orchestrated chaos of Albert Oehlen, but with an affinity for...
Riders of the Red Horse The Pit
The eclectic group show, Riders of the Red Horse, at the Pit marks the re-opening the gallery after four months of closure due to the pandemic. The show features works by Diana Yesenia Alvarado, Amy Bessone, Keith Boadwee, Elana Bowsher, Canyon Castator, John de...
‘Semblance | Sunshine’ and ‘Music to My Eyes’ at Torrance Art Museum
Two lush summer shows are blossoming online at Torrance Art Museum. Both exhibitions are visual stunners; and they continue the museum’s ongoing aesthetic for cutting edge, culturally resonating art. Semblance | Sunshine co-curated by Josh Hashemzadeh and the Torrance...
Kate Newby at Feuilleton
Kate Newby is an artist of the immediate and quotidian. Her work is rooted in place, which she defines through the conditions, actions, and events that occur there. Her investment in the local is often expressed through site-specificity. This exhibition gives its...
Evan Nesbit Roberts Projects
Both vibrant in color and visceral in texture, Evan Nesbit, now at Roberts Projects in Culver City here works on burlap, a continuation of the artist’s use of materials to pull viewers into the depths of his vivid palette. Nesbit’s abstract works deal in illusion,...
Lucio Fontana Hauser & Wirth
Lucio Fontana, the Argentine-born Italian artist best known for his slashed, punctured canvases and lumpy ceramic sculpture, had another less acknowledged side to his oeuvre- his “spatial environments”. Created in the last 20 years of his life, these ephemeral...
Gagosian Gallery
For Richard Prince, well known for his appropriationist works from the 1980s and 1990s, the discovery of Instagram opened a new window onto old methodologies. It was only after watching his daughter post to Tumbler that he came to understand the possibilities of...
Durden and Ray
As an exhibition I had intended to see on what should’ve been a busy night, Durden and Ray’s Another Dimension was high on my list. As things turned out, the show itself entered another dimension, in the limbo of closings-before-they-opened, as we practiced social...
Tufenkian Fine Arts
The adventure of color in these paintings creates a wild conundrum for writing in that color is absolutely palpable in terms of its sensation and feeling, yet is nearly ineffable in terms of being translated into words. These paintings structure a wonderfully...
A+D Architecture and Design Museum
Codi Barbini's immersive six-channel video installation The Executive Condolence carefully montages excerpts from presidential addresses in response to mass shootings spanning the last thirty years. Barbini selects portions of clips from speeches by President Bill...
Fisher Museum of Art
Charles (or Chuck) Arnoldi has been a mainstay in Los Angeles art since the early 1970s, proposing a kind of material grittiness that is, if anything, the inverse of the finely tooled polish practiced by his finish/fetish friends. Arnoldi is, in fact, every bit as...