reviews

OUTSIDE LA: Psychopathia Sexualis, Overgaden Copenhagen The Pathologization of Queerness Does not Begin nor End with Gay Men

OUTSIDE LA: Psychopathia Sexualis, Overgaden Copenhagen
The Pathologization of Queerness Does not Begin nor End with Gay Men

“All men are gay,” reads the cover of a newspaper from Bøssehuset (The Gay House). The newspaper is part of the exhibition Psychopathia Sexualis at the art space Overgaden in Copenhagen, which displays a combination of archival material and contemporary art—the former...

GALLERY ROUNDS: Hanna Hur Kristina Kite Gallery

GALLERY ROUNDS: Hanna Hur
Kristina Kite Gallery

It is hard not to wonder if Hanna Hur's paintings were made explicitly for Kristina Kite's gallery space or if it is pure coincidence that the black and white checkerboard floor so perfectly complements the geometric patterns within the paintings. The way the space...

Pick of the Week: Camille Rose Garcia KP Projects

Pick of the Week: Camille Rose Garcia
KP Projects

As an omnipresent symbol across the history of humanity, the ocean assumes many roles. It is a healing force, and is immensely destructive; it is divine and earthly. The ocean encompasses the myriad of natural and mystical forces which have captivated our imagination...

Pick of the Week: Art on Paper Athenessa Gallery

Pick of the Week: Art on Paper
Athenessa Gallery

Paper is a flexible medium. It is unconstrained frames and backings, untethered by nails or staples, and has become essential across countries and centuries. Still, in the canon of western art history, the primacy of canvas painting has pushed works on paper aside,...

OUTSIDE LA: Nam June Paik SF MOMA

OUTSIDE LA: Nam June Paik
SF MOMA

Nam June Paik, the “father of video art” and the man who coined the phrase “the electronic superhighway,” weaves humor, Buddhism, technology, music and sex. Paik was born in 1932 in Japanese-occupied Korea. Tutored in piano and composition, he attended college at the...

GALLERY ROUNDS: LACMA Review of Vera Lutter and "Acting Out"

GALLERY ROUNDS: LACMA
Review of Vera Lutter and "Acting Out"

For a museum that has torn down all of the buildings on its original campus, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has been putting up some pretty interesting exhibitions in one of only two exhibition spaces that are left. The two photography exhibitions I’m thinking...

New York Art Fairs The Armory Show and Future Fair

New York Art Fairs
The Armory Show and Future Fair

This week, New York’s art scene is buzzing with events. With five major fairs and innumerable openings, the city is alight with a variety of options from the heavy hitting Armory Show to the relatively wallet-friendly Art on Paper Fair. I had the chance to preview the...

OUTSIDE LA: “I See You” Ania Hobson SETAREH X, Düsseldorf

OUTSIDE LA: “I See You” Ania Hobson
SETAREH X, Düsseldorf

Ania Hobson’s women often look like they don’t want to be in the spaces they find themselves in: ready to leave the party, staring at wine to avoid a conversation, planning an Irish goodbye. Her characters are dressed cool and distinct in their clothes, expressions...

Intergalactix: against isolation/ contra el aislamiento Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions

Intergalactix: against isolation/ contra el aislamiento
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions

Step into “Intergalactix: against isolation/contra el aislamiento” at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) and the first thing you’ll see is a largish, flattish, squarish stone smack in the middle of a white-walled room decked with wicker beds of tenon...

HK Zamani PRJCTLA

HK Zamani
PRJCTLA

Not front of house, with its symmetrically billeted art objects reflecting in its polished concrete floor, these rawboned works by HK Zamani are arrayed deep in the back, in a brick and concrete garage, its loading dock and ramp illumined by dangling warehouse...

Kandice Williams; JPW3 Night Gallery

Kandice Williams; JPW3
Night Gallery

“Eurydice,” Kandis Williams’ film and solo exhibition is a work that, once experienced, retains the power to alter one’s perceptions, a power that continues to linger. Both aesthetically graceful and experimental, the central part of the exhibition is a 20-minute,...

Kengo Kito Japan House

Kengo Kito
Japan House

Through his glorious tangle of color and motion Kengo Kito has offered an oversized ravel of joy with Reconnecting (2021) a fascinating and immersive installation of hula-hoop spirals that fill the gallery and immerse the spectator. On view at Japan House in...

Leo Mock M+B Doheny

Leo Mock
M+B Doheny

Leo Mock’s oil stick, oil and charcoal paintings are imaginative hybrids that distort the recognizable elements found in the natural landscape into something fantastic and surreal. Through six large-scale paintings, viewers are taken on a journey to an unknown world....

Rosy Keyser parrasch heijnen

Rosy Keyser
parrasch heijnen

From an ultramarine field, a glyph emerges. It is the shape of something, human or animal, and it appears to pirouette in the center of the canvas. Drawing closer reveals other marks scratched into the surface of the blue, or small fragments embedded in the field. One...

Nari Ward Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles

Nari Ward
Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles

Installation—often understood as the act of locating, positioning and inserting—has, in Nari Ward’s exhibition at Jeffrey Deitch gallery in Los Angeles, intersected with the examination of founding American democratic principles. This combination of past works and...

Nick Dong USC Pacific Asia Museum

Nick Dong
USC Pacific Asia Museum

In his kinetic objects and interactive environments, Nick Dong combines the simple, fractal serenity of Buddhist design with the quirky warmth of Victorian curio cabinets, as well as a refined yet theatrical sense of surprise. Across a handful of discrete objects and...

Mario Giacomelli The Getty

Mario Giacomelli
The Getty

The very model for a great photographer in the post-World War II era was Henri Cartier-Bresson, a cosmopolitan heir to a fortune who was a co-founder of the photographic cooperative Magnum and traveled the world taking photographs with his hand-held Leica camera. His...

Dozie Kanu’s “to prop and ignore” Manual Arts, Los Angeles

Dozie Kanu’s “to prop and ignore”
Manual Arts, Los Angeles

The sculptures in Dozie Kanu’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles flirt with functionality but refuse to reveal a clear purpose. Instead, these stylish hybrids possess the elegance of aspirational interior design and the subtle menace of dystopian relics. Many of...

« Older Entries

Next Entries »

Newsletter

Subscribe to our weekly Gallery Rounds Newsletter for new Reviews, Art opps, Art Events, & More every week!

Thank you for Subscribing! Look out for the ARTILLERY Newsletter to your inbox on Thursday every week!