Every surface, each object of Aaron Fowler’s thirteen assemblage paintings in “Blessings On Blessings,” has been contemplated, touched and worked to build layers of meaning and matter that cohere and disrupt. Dimensionality—of ideas, materials, possible readings—is...
Christopher Richmond’s “Double Fantasy,” a pairing of his videos Panthalassa (2015) and Rendezvous (2016) in his solo debut at Moskowitz Bayse, like much video work, challenges the audience, understandably not wanting to be easy or mere “entertainment.” Brimming with...
Linda Arreola’s debut as an artist was as a sculptor and installation artist. She’s also an architect; and her show, “Architect of the Abstract,” a survey of work curated by William Moreno from 2005 to 2016, is very much the work of an architect who has crossed over...
Like many Cuban artists, Aimée García has learned how to avoid censorship while still communicating her message and ideas. In García’s current body of work titled “Suprematist Speech,” she combines self portraiture with appropriated fragments from the government...
Kim Abeles’ aptly named “Portraits and Autobiographies,” which explores the boundaries between photographer and subject with intimate self-portraits and sculptures, features silver print photographs produced from 1979 to 1983 along with assemblage and digital prints...
In this two-person exhibition of paintings, drawings, collages, sculptures and writing, Rebecca Campbell and Samantha Fields mine their own personal histories, passing them through the filters of their respective multifaceted art practices, and elevate them to models...
With multimedia and hybrid disciplines on the rise, photographers, and artists who incorporate photographic materials and techniques into their work, continue to find ways to step further outside the boxes of camera and frame. Los Angeles–based Owen Kydd, who has...
Abel Alejandre's meticulously crafted charcoal drawings address the complexities of the human experience with eloquence and power. "Public Secrets" represents an amalgam of acrylic paintings (and paintings on hats) that memorialize the richness of the world we live...
Memories, like dreams, are fleeting and fragmented. In her engaging exhibition "Hitched to everything else," Jennifer Celio explores where past and present, personal and global intersect. Close to 100 hexagonal wooden panels (ranging in size from three to 48 inches)...
Sometimes “outsider” artists are really not that far outside, though they may indeed be “far out” in content and imagination. Deveron Richard, whose first exhibition at The Good Luck Gallery in Chinatown, is far out in its glorious exploration into the fantastical...
The sculptural objects and installations of “Other Relevant Experience,” with their ceremonial shine and talismanic power, exhume dark histories of conquest and ruin while conjuring notions of magic, sacrifice and salvation. Karen Lofgren’s command of materials and...
In the tradition of the famous and innovative Light and Space artists working in Los Angeles in the 1960s, Carrie Seid fashions beautiful sculptural works that, like her predecessors, celebrate light in all its luminous vicissitudes. For Seid, optics can be an...
Polly Apfelbaum and Dona Nelson's collaboration yields surprising relationships among artworks, viewers, and surrounding architecture.Each artist's celebrated inventiveness is amply represented. Collaged from dyed velvet, Apfelbaum's Blue Joni (2016) and Brown Sugar...
Robert Frank's timeless photographs capture the quintessential human experience, specifically living and working in the city and street culture. This exhibition sponsored by UCLA's Art History Department, gives us a deeper, more profound understanding of Frank's...
Marie Bovo’s formally complex, visually gratifying and meditative photographs invite prolonged looking. What is captured in the viewfinder and the subsequent print is a mere ghost of her true subject, and this mediation or distance interposed between photographer and...
If walking into the crypt-like rotunda of Soka University’s Founders Hall is a bit chilling, entering the world of Natasha and Anushe Shoro is a return to nature. Within the glistening, well-lit space of the Founders Hall Art Gallery, this mother-daughter exhibition...
Western Project, formerly a brick-and-mortar gallery in Culver City, now puts on pop-up shows in and around Los Angeles. Their most recent migrated to Jaus Gallery, and the results are a grouping of playful, colorful abstractions that aim to please. Beverly Fishman's...
Jesse Mockrin’s recent collection of works are an exercise in aesthetics. Reminiscent of old-master painting techniques (also familiar turf to painter John Currin), the figurative works display Mockrin’s technical skill with soft edges of fingertips and whimsical...
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