If you’ve ever visited “The Bean” in Chicago and thought, this is cool, but I just wish I could somehow go inside it, then Anish Kapoor’s new installation at Regen Projects is the show for you. Made of the same high-polished, flawless, undulating stainless steel, a...
Beautifully curated by MOAH’s Andi Campognone, Collaborate and Create, now at The Loft at Liz’s through March 3rd, is an exciting exhibition. Matching up the talents of 17 different pairs of artists, the result is compelling – it reveals new dimensionality in some...
Irvine-based painter Francis DiFronzo has a knack for capturing the eerie desolation of the Mojave Desert. The title of his show, "Proof of Life," speaks to the fact that his paintings are devoid of people, yet replete with signs of civilization and the desert's own...
Floral, terrene, celestial and human elements coalesce to form otherworldly realms in Kristy Luck's paintings suffused with mysterious symbolism. Evoking subconscious vistas, the Los Angeles artist's scenes are reminiscent of abstract landscapes by Modernist painters...
Diane Rosenstein Gallery’s exhibition, King Dogs Never Grow Old, curated by Brooke Wise, invites us into a display of the uncanny, rocking traditional senses of stability and instead, celebrates the nonsensical. The show’s title, borrowed from the surrealist text, Les...
What is a blacksmith? Although the meaning is one who works in heavy metals that are heated in contrast to whitesmiths who beat gold or tin, experiencing the LA Blacksmith group exhibition at the California African American Museum (CAAM), guest curated by independent...
At the Getty, two exhibitions of works on paper examine process and technique while presenting disparate views of peasantry. The Getty Research Institute's "Käthe Kollwitz: Prints, Process, Politics" comprises over 50 prints, preparatory drawings and studies by...
Enchanting objects spill from tiny containers in "The Box Project," an unconventional show of 76 artists from three countries. These artworks were not originally intended for public display; rather, they were created as part of an esoteric correspondence between three...
Distributed across the otherwise empty gallery spaces (there is nothing on the walls) are carefully placed, custom-designed wooden tables. Atop each table is a specific arrangement of artist's books by the painter Laura Owens. The presentation is inviting as the books...
The paintings in John Currin’s show at Dallas Contemporary, a non-collecting warehouse museum, widely induced a queasy, unsettling tension. A common response to the artist’s work, the visceral repulsion and simultaneous attraction result from an unresolvable friction...
Two weeks after the exhibition “Thomas Joshua Cooper: The World’s Edge” opened last fall at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The New Yorker magazine published a piece by Dana Goodyear titled “The Ends of the Earth: Thomas Joshua Cooper risks his life to...
“Elegy,” the title of Cynthia Daignault’s show, referenced Robert Motherwell’s 1948-1967 “Elegies to the Spanish Republic.” In contrast to his abstractions mourning the results of the Spanish Civil War, her representational portrayals lament the passage of time, with...
Upon entering the gallery it is hard not to do a double-take. Seated, hunched over on the railing that parallels the entrance is a life-sized figure, the artist’s doppelganger. This crocheted replica dressed in his signature clothing— a blue t-shirt, black Levi’s...
Even in a white cube, there is always an element of architectural engagement to grapple with when laying out out an exhibition. But when the exhibition space is not a white cube -- and moreover, when the venue itself is a storied architectural landmark, such as the...
“How to Fall in Love in a Brothel” offers a mix of the experiential and the conceptual, expressed as an interactive sculptural installation and an HD video. A collaboration between artists Ellen Sebastian Chang, Sunhui Chang and Maya Gurantz, the idea of a “brothel”...
Both literally and figuratively, it feels as if Photography Beyond the Surface serves as a portal to a new dimension in photographic art. The group show includes innovative, exciting work by eight photographers, including a survey of Melanie Pullen’s work, Joni...
The art architects make we expect to mirror their architectural aesthetic, if not extend it seamlessly. It is a modernist trope — going back to the Baroque, in fact — that images and objects, functional and otherwise, further distinguish a notable space by integrating...
At his first solo show in Los Angeles in over 10 years, San Pedro based arist Tony Marsh presents eleven ceramic works from an ongoing series called Crucible and Cauldron. Some of the tankard-like objects appear to be bubbling over with one dominant color that is...
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