A surreal dreamscape exists inside Ariana Papademetropoulos’ mind. In the current paradoxical time of digital vintage filters on technological apps, Papademetropoulos’ work is a picturesque merger of past and present, with large-scale colorful oil paintings created...
Lester Monzon's second solo exhibition with Mark Moore Gallery is titled "SI VIS PACEM PARA BELLUM," which translates to "If you want peace, prepare for war," and reads as an enigma wrapped within an enigma as these loosely rendered gestural works are also...
When art is construed to be some thing that translates the tension between its physical and visual manifestation and the more complex thinking and barely articulable feeling-processes of the artist, then the sculptural work of Rebecca Ripple should be described as...
Photo-sculptor Jeremy Kidd stares down the clash of the natural with the aerodynamic lines of technology in his bracing installation at the Museum of Art and History at Lancaster. Kidd’s “The Interrupted Landscape” is one of several solo exhibitions currently at MOAH...
In 1985, an anonymous group of women artists interested in exposing gender inequality in the art world formed the Guerrilla Girls, a collective whose members wore guerrilla masks to art events, gave lectures and created posters, ads and stickers to publicize their...
Stephanie Pryor's work continues to evolve and resonate in both the abstract and narrative realm. This most recent suite of paintings are exquisitely lush and suggest more complex narrative relationships as in “Crow Jane,” where a series of small crow heads punctuate...
The aggressively mimetic realism that crowds this exhibition, curated by one of the gallery’s artists, is exceedingly white. Nearly every work is completed on white paper and color is employed by only four of the fourteen artists included. This makes the exhibition...
In Channing Hansen's solo gallery debut, which consists of nine large knitted works and one salon-style grid of smaller pieces, traditional stretcher bars are visible behind the gauzy woven materials. For these undeniably engaging works, Hansen acquires, dyes, and...
Evan Trine's digitally generated photographic works are distillations—works that abstractly reference their sources. Trine sifts through trending online news feeds, reducing or compressing into a single element the images and headlines he finds. The colored grids and...
Nihura Montiel’s current solo show, “New Paintings,” now on view at @leiminspace in Chinatown delights in mimicking the various plush terrycloths and fabrics that function as fetish objects in her critique of misunderstood femininity. Her paintings of Cinderella,...
Black Mountain College was for a short time a hotbed of collaboration and inspiration among the very best and most gifted artists and poets of the 20th Century. "Leap Before You Look" at the Hammer Museum gives us an unerring glimpse into the world of artists whose...
Jake Ziemann's elegantly understated sculptural works on view at Shulamit Nazarian are as delightfully witty as they are beautifully constructed. Ceramics is witnessing a renaissance lately, particularly in Los Angeles, and it is a real pleasure to come across an...
There are 15 pieces in Yao's show “Bay of Smokes,” but one work transcends its counterparts so glowingly that it's hard not to long for a one-work show. Or at least with a caveat: one work per room. The piece in question, called Doppelgängers (all works 2016), is a...
With his new solo show, “Time Machine” at Jason Vass, Mark Dutcher seeks to convey through his paintings various subjective and illusory experiences, starting with a moment of supreme clarity he felt as he stood before the Susan Rothenberg painting Blue Bars at LACMA...
Cy Twombly’s suite of stunningly chaotic and gorgeously rendered free-form drawings at c.nichols project would stop any viewer dead in their tracks. These are ferociously contemporary works that are mandatory viewing for anyone interested in modern art in any...
Bubblegum colors and an interest in the mundane are threads that unite the seemingly unrelated pieces in “Pizza, Bagpipe, Carburetor” by Meg Cranston. The show’s conceptual gambit—subject matter selected by Cranston using an internet-hosted random noun generator, an I...
Erwin Wurm’s "One Minute Sculptures" at The MAK Center is crammed with critically disruptive content, though at first glance there’s not much to look at. In a literalized enactment of the Duchampian observation that “the viewer completes the art,” visitors to Wurm’s...
Aaron Curry’s “STARFUKER” at David Kordansky Gallery seemingly comprises fragmented collisions of space debris tearing through a parallel universe. The two-part exhibition contains a series of paintings on variously shaped canvases in one room and large-scale aluminum...
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