Already known for planting her cut-out shapes onto a dense matte black ground, which she has characterized as ‘non-space,’ for this show, Kent challenges viewers straight off with a plunge into a black field already seemingly torn away to reveal both apparent voids...
Central Valley ceramicist David Hicks doesn’t have a big footprint in Los Angeles. To see his work, you have to drive out to a hospital in Sylmar: a sun-parched, semi-rustic neighborhood at the northernmost tip of Los Angeles. There, above the lobby welcome desk, once...
Poetic, internal, observational and mysterious—all describe Tristan Espinoza’s “Index, Interiors,” currently on display at the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery. Both inscrutable and mesmerizing, Espinoza’s work uses the mediums of hand-made cyanotypes and AI, a...
These new paintings by Jessie Makinson are absolutely wild. From large-scale soiree tableaux to small-gathering social vignettes and intimate, symbolism-rich character portraits, her singular swirl of posh post-male society is both feral and fancy, cheeky and courtly,...
A painting requires nothing more than a painter. Everything else is malleable. Once a painter has been established, that which they create are paintings no matter the form. Michael Henry Hayden is – as he has been throughout his long career – a painter. But in the...
“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...
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...
In the 1950s-60s, Jasper Johns created two works – Flag (1954-55) and Target (1961) – which both carved his place in the art historical canon and established a new conceptual framework for art. These encaustic versions of instantly recognizable icons (an American Flag...
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...
The artistic process is often private. Artists seldom actively show the steps taken to craft an end product, but to some, like Ludovica Gioscia, revealing all is vital to their work. In a large, multi-faceted installation at Baert Gallery entitled Arturo and The...
I am certainly not alone in feeling that their idea of the American identity has changed drastically in recent years. The “American Dream” has proved itself to be as fanciful as the name suggests. It simply never existed for the majority of Americans. Even the...
If gazing upon the figurative paintings of Philip Guston is akin to a religious experience, then the exhibition "Transformation" at Hauser & Wirth represents a cornucopia of blessings. Spanning from the early sixties into the late 1970s, the show offers an...
“Precarious as obtained by entreaty or prayer,” Timo Fahler’s solo exhibition at Maple St. Construct, features 27 iterations of The Inspiration of Saint Matthew (1602), a painting by the canonical artist Caravaggio. After visiting Rome and viewing the painting in...
It is no stretch to say that the COVID-19 pandemic – principal among several other tragedies, injustices, and horrors over the past year – has fundamentally altered the way we see our world. It has revealed inequities more sharply than any other time in recent memory,...
Stephen Aldahl’s current solo exhibition, "Cool Intentions," is as pictorially generous as it is emotionally taciturn. His paintings, layered compositions using photo transfer, decals, text, and collage, do equal amounts to reveal as they do to hide. Engaging in a...
Nature has been the font from which many artists have taken their inspirational sacrament. And it is a pleasure to see an artist who takes that inspiration and so masterfully manifests the power and majesty of our natural world into something entirely new, which is...
"Skin Deep: Then and Now" at The Loft at Liz's offers a vital visual conversation about race in America. The powerful subject brings together the same eight artists who comprised an original exhibition ten years ago, with pieces still available from the initial...
“Eternal Witness” is a show emblematic of the endless pertinence of history. Adams maintains that history is just as relevant today as it ever was when it was happening. The scenarios may change but he pursues the notion that the ideas driving humanity, for instance,...
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