Rafael Cardenas is known for his high-contrast, high-drama black and white street photography, but in “Backyard Tableaux,” his new exhibition at the Vincent Price Art Museum, his color photographs of quasi-urban backyard parties evoke the artistry of historical eras...
Mattea Perrotta abstracts figures and Jonathan Ryan abstracts architecture; their juxtaposition at The Landing educes the two painters' similar manners of distilling contemplative moods from their divergent subjects. Ryan's buildings frequently assume anthropomorphic...
While uneven in impact, Columbian-born, British-educated Daniel Silva’s exhibition, “WE ARE EXPERIENCING SOME TURBULENCE – PLEASE STOW AWAY YOUR ELECTRONIC DEVICES LHR | HND | BOG | LAX,” remains impressive for the evocative three-dimensional works that the artist has...
There is irony in donning a mass-produced item that ostensibly projects one's individuality via a saucy slogan coined by somebody else. Pippa Garner uses her art like a knife to cut straight to the revelatory heart of such prosaic absurdities. Under her satiric lens,...
Somewhere between the complex compositions of Cubism and Francis Bacon’s distorted imagery lies Nathaniel Mary Quinn’s distinct approach to portraiture. On view at M+B gallery, Quinn’s newest series looks to music as narrator. Aptly titled “Soundtrack,” the exhibition...
Alexandra Carter's current show, "All gods are hot," is a maze of artworks so tightly packed that one can hardly turn around without colliding with translucent paintings adorning the walls and hanging from the ceiling at Radiant Space. Even so, cramped quarters seem...
A faint odor of incense wafts amidst turquoise and indigo walls at Visitor Welcome Center, an artist-run gallery that seems especially inviting now for its present installation, “Middle Voice,” a homey interior outfitted by Sarita Dougherty with fellow collaborators...
Two shows at The Pit delineate visionary worlds of wacky flourish and dazzling variegation. "Venusian Weather," the title of Laurie Nye's show, suggests the second planet from the Sun as well as the Greco-Roman ideal of female beauty. The paintings therein reflect...
Like many modern women, Marilyn Minter has a complicated relationship with beauty. Both her personal feelings and her luminous artworks are fraught with contempt and desire for the beauty-industrial complex, and animated by attraction and repulsion for our society’s...
Eastern concepts meld with Western painting methods in Thai artist Kamol Tassananchalee's mystical abstractions currently on view at LA Artcore. This transnational painter, who maintains a studio in Chatsworth, received his MFA from Otis in 1977, was titled National...
The larger than life-size, amber toned image of the German artist Joseph Beuys appears to be marching out of the gallery, striding forward towards us. In a hand written note at his feet, La Rivoluzione Siamo Noi (1972) grandly decrees, “We are the revolution.” The...
"Testament of the Spirit" at Pasadena Museum of California Art encompasses over 60 paintings that Eduardo Carrillo (1937-1997) produced over a 40-year period. While traversing this engrossing retrospective, one feels as though perusing an eclectic panoply of peepholes...
Nathan Redwood and Folkert de Jong's tandem solo exhibits at DENK, which feature Redwood's paintings on walls surrounding de Jong's floor sculptures, integrate the two artists' discrete yet analogous flairs for applying satirical humor to classical figuration. Each...
A diverse trio of shows by significant artists is soon to close at Hauser & Wirth. If you haven't attended, and only have time to visit one gallery this week, you might try this three-for-one-special where discrete exhibitions by Mark Bradford, Geta Brătescu and...
In today’s media saturated world, exhibitions of beautifully printed, small-scale, black and white photographs tend to fall through the cracks. As Mark Ruwedel proves in “Rivers Run Through It,” quiet and subtle pictures of nature can be more seductive and meaningful...
Christopher Page's paintings appear as windows into neon voids. "Opening" at Baert Gallery comprises five trompe l'oeil abstractions whose geometric compositions appear flat from afar but disclose illusionistic shading as one approaches. Flashy color fields are...
That Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg are both having retrospective exhibitions in California concurrently, at The Broad in Los Angeles and San Francisco MOMA respectively, is undoubtedly coincidental, yet the timing seems just right. Both artists were part of a...
Romanian-born, having lived through the tragic absurdities of communism, Geta Bratescu represents the strongest blending of conceptual rigor and narrative impulses. Her wide-ranging oeuvre encompasses drawing, sculpture, video, performance, collage and animated film....