I’ve got to be honest. I’m a sucker for images of bloodied fingers and dead birds. Kind of an acquired taste I suppose, so Jessicka Addams newest exhibition entitled “Please Stop Loving Me,” struck a cord of familiarity, stirring an odd reprisal of grief, and...
In his new project at Commonwealth & Council, “and Child,” Kang Seung Lee plunges deeper into his interest in rules and systems and branching investigation of the power structures of the art world with an analysis of the intersections of aesthetic and financial...
For his solo show at Reserve Ames, “Scalar-Daemon,” David Muenzer froze ingot molds filled with neon highlighter ink in an industrial freezer. He then stacked the frozen ingots on top of a platform placed in RA’s bucolic backyard shed. The platform has three recessed...
Bettina Hubby displays a raucous sense of humor in her second solo show aptly titled "The Sexual Bronze Show" at Klowden Mann. Mining a territory that expounds on the sexual pun, Hubby identifies objects from the grocery store that in some way compliment one another...
For her second exhibition with Von Lintel Gallery, Farrah Karapetian has produced a thoughtful new series comprising 12 large-scale Chromogenic photograms. The show’s title, “Relief,” is a direct reference to the perilous flight of the refugee at sea while other...
Our distance from the object of desire is always measured. In Paul Donald’s new work, “Endymion Project,” the measuring is done with great nuance in his rethinking of the relationship between desire, power and the white male subject. The artist has literally and...
In her solo exhibit at Chainlink Gallery, Lithuanian artist Gedvile Grace Bunikyte demonstrates how the dichotomy between simple shapes and complexity of mind is one of the most compelling spaces in which to create. Her work, which consists largely of drawings and...
"Love Potions" at Maloney Fine Art is a wonderfully subtle and wistful exhibition of works by three Los Angeles artists. Kim McCarty, Roger Herman and Mona Kuhn have created a mélange of ceramics, watercolors and photographs that play off each other, creating...
Mary Anna Pomonis has curated a thoughtful and nuanced exhibition entitled Rosette in the project space at Charlie James Gallery. Working with the central idea of the constructed image of a rose with all its itinerant histories and meanings, etc. the works in this...
A slate of concrete with blue Skittles scattered across it is illuminated by a clamp light in Full Haus' current outdoor exhibition: "Andy Robert: Heavy Rain and Lightning." Titled Dream Deferred (Skittles on Concrete), this simply executed sculpture seems commonplace...
Rebecca Campbell believes in paying it forward as her most recent exhibition entitled You Are Here at LA Louver so elegantly demonstrates. Each of these eighteen portraits represents an image of a woman artist whom Campbell knows and admires, but more importantly...
To find a curatorial through-line for the wildly varied career of Frank Stella must be an enormous challenge. Hanging opposite the elevators on the new Whitney’s fifth floor, as a kind of preamble to “Frank Stella: A Retrospective,” are Pratfall (1974), a precise...
Laurie Anderson fairly disappeared in the gaping vastness of the darkened Park Avenue Armory. Standing, violin in hand, next to a Lincoln Memorial–sized plaster sculpture of an armchair, she told the story of Mohammed el Gharani.El Gharani—or rather his shimmering...
Looking like contorted urns collapsing inward or twisting outward, the 16 new cup-sized works that comprise “The Weight of Color,” Kathy Butterly’s fifth show with Shoshana Wayne Gallery, demonstrate her strength as an innovator. Working within the confines of a long...
In his essay “The Ontology of the Photographic Image,” film theorist André Bazin observed that image-making was “no longer a question of survival after death, but of a larger concept, the creation of an ideal world in the likeness of the real, with its own temporal...
The individual works in Devin Troy Strother’s 2010 solo debut were tiny spectacles, collages full of frolicking figures and bright shards of colored paper that extended beyond the confines of the frames. In his current exhibition “They Should’ve Never Given You Niggas...
Humor is often a neglected muse in the production of fine art. Seldom is it thought of as a legitimate field of cultural inquiry or a productive platform for the creation of an aesthetic. Los Angeles-based mixed media artist Marc Horowitz, known for his socially...
While it would not be incorrect to say that Kenton Parker’s work primarily deals with nature, it would be rather misleading. There are no polite painted landscapes or photographs of waterfalls or mountain ranges. Cement, cars and trash are just as common as flowers...
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