Two painters posit banal architectural environments as metaphoric expressions of thoughts and emotions at George Billis Gallery. Each of the eight oil paintings comprising Alex Roulette's show, "Memory Moving Sideways," features one or more people dwarfed by...
Without overt intention, this has become an age of portraiture. It’s not only Instagram, but portraits precede every tweet and supervise every LinkedIn profile. Tinder and Bumble offer portrait-based dating, and any number of applications propose that you select new...
Richard Hoblock’s recent paintings appear as peekaboo scrims offering tantalizing glimpses into abstruse corners of the artist’s mind. Each of 16 abstractions in the San Francisco-based painter’s show “View from the Cheap Seats” appears non-objective but specific in...
Danial Nord’s solo installation at the Torrance Art Museum, Cloud Nine (2018), presents translucent human-like sculptures, lit by LEDs responding to social media and video feeds. Nord fire-casted clear polycarbonate sheets into the shapes of recognizable figures...
“Fructis,” Michael Williams’ first exhibition with David Kordansky Gallery, presents the painter’s familiar wisecracking take on the ephemera of the everyday, as seen in his inkjet paintings, and his formally ambitious “Puzzle” paintings, which take a serious stab at...
The title of Sarah Awad’s recent show seems intended to encapsulate its scope, which is as expansive as the painting from which it’s borrowed. However appropriate it might be for that particular painting, applying it to the exhibition as a whole, though, seems...
Paul Anthony Smith is a Jamaica-born, Brooklyn-based artist who digitally composites photographs of people (family, friends and strangers), as well as places (Jamaica, Brooklyn and Puerto Rico), then decorates the surface of the paper with a stippled pattern by...
Michael Scott transforms conventional landscape motifs in his new show of five large-scale oil paintings at The Autry. In these works, traditions both bucolic and catastrophic are subverted, as depictions of several varieties of hot flame and icy mist offer views of...
Realities are relative to the individual, yet at Baert Gallery’s current exhibition, one is granted entrance into two worlds of interpretation at once. Curator Louis Blanc-Francard unites the works of two London-based artists, which hanging side by side, hold obvious...
The arresting neon orange construction fencing fixed to the walls of Automat Collective’s gallery space vividly sets the tone for the tales of romantic drama contained within artist Rachel Deane’s installation Mending. The black-and-white bubble letters layered on...
Ellen Lesperance has never trod lightly when imparting the social and political beliefs, inspirations and intentions guiding her practice. Raised in Seattle and based in Portland, Lesperance has been consistently straightforward in pointing to her feminist mother and...
A collection of paintings with a medieval, folk-inflected stylistic take on modern abstraction, “Everything Counts” presents nearly isolated elements of mostly interior and architectural scenes. Foregrounded single objects and components are rendered by the...
A beautifully curated show unites abstractions by Andy Moses, Jen Stark and Kelsey Brookes at William Turner Gallery. Its title, "Elemental," betokens the three painters' employment of basic lines and simple shapes as fundamental building blocks for compositions...
Lorenzo Marini’s engagement with the letters of the modern Latin alphabet hovers between that of a graphic designer, that of a painter, that of a linguist, and that of a poet. In each of his paintings and sculptures Marini rhapsodizes on the visual, verbal, and (to a...
"Over the last 10 years, rather surprising things have come to be called sculpture: narrow corridors with TV monitors at the ends; large photographs documenting country hikes; mirrors placed at strange angles in ordinary rooms; temporary lines cut into the floor of...
Composed of erratically intricate abstract forms, each of Sara Parent-Ramos' brightly hued sculptures seems to twist, writhe and contort with a personality of its own. Yet the myriad pieces in her show, "Jumble, Bunch, Grow," are presented as a single 2018 work by...
Painter Thomas Fougeirol doesn't paint in the traditional sense of the word; rather, he encrusts canvases with sculptural superficies across which he sprays pigment and blasts debris. If these techniques sound terribly obtuse, their results are anything but. The...
Wanly illuminated in the sickeningly greenish aura of an outdoor motel lamp, a woman's partially clothed body lies lifeless at the threshold of Room # 118. Inside, a reverse peeping Tom anxiously peers out the window, hunching before another woman's body, his piercing...