The idea that abstract painting can be a direct conduit to the unknown, or a means by which artists struggle to understand their own mortality and relationship to God, etc., is certainly not a new concept, yet "Remains," a group show at Durden and Ray, attempts to...
To be a truly outstanding ceramicist one must possess a love of nuance and detail. Kathy Butterly’s exhibition titled "The Weight of Color" at Shoshana Wayne Gallery is more than a mere testament to these attributes, but an all-engrossing visual experience not to be...
Filmmaker and installation artist Maureen Selwood has turned her attention to the tactile world of sculpture and drawing in her first solo exhibition "Sounding the Note of A" at Rosamund Felsen Gallery, and are we lucky to witness it. Extrapolating on gestures of...
Gazing out of a window or peering into a painting: both imply curiosity, perhaps driven by a sense of longing, for what is beyond. John McAllister’s paintings self-reflexively allude to this, highlighting their own window-like rectangularity while presenting snapshots...
“A Cold War,” Jamison Carter’s current solo exhibition, and his second with Klowden Mann, revisits dichotomous themes introduced in his 2013 solo exhibition with the gallery, in which he explored the tensions that exist between man’s pervasive desire for advancement...
The series of relatively small digital photomontages Clayton Campbell has assembled under the rubric “Wild Kingdom” satirize social habits—on more than just the most evident levels. The images, all horizontal, consist of wildlife dioramas, the kind that fill corridor...
One measure of a contemporary artist’s success is that he or she allows us to view the world, our history, or ourselves differently; Candice Lin is notable for doing all three. Her mixed-media work upsets epistemological meta-narratives, conflates binaries and revels...
Contrary to certain art historical narratives, painting has never waned, but only been ever more rigorously interrogated—usually by the artists engaged with the medium. Chris Barnard is one of those artists mining and turning over the modernist tropes of figural...
John Baldessari once said that art should make you stop and look as you’re crossing through a museum. Mark Jenkins’ sculpture-installations certainly break one’s forward momentum. On entering the gallery you’re confronted with a clothed leg and shoed foot growing from...
he beasts of burden in Cynthia Minet’s conceptually and politically astute project include an elephant, pack dogs and birds of prey (vultures/falcons/raptors). Internally illuminated by LEDs and created from recycled and repurposed plastic fragments of all shapes,...
“These Carnations Defy Language” started with Alexandra Grant and Steve Roden’s mutual enchantment with the writings of the French poet and essayist, Francis Ponge. Ponge created a form of prose poetry, in which he worked with highly ambiguous and elliptical language...
Our experience of the natural world is mediated through filters both internal and external. The scientific term “Haptic Rendering” refers to a robotic interface that allows users to “touch” virtual objects. Francesco Igory Deiana, who recently presented a series of...
Mark making is the Cuban born, Atlanta based artist Rocio Rodriguez’ mode of operation. Continuing in the tradition of Abstract Expressionists such as Mark Rothko, whose groundbreaking practice emphasized process and feelings, Rocio Rodriquez devises a language of...
Ned Evans’ recent survey exhibition entitled Slight Return; A Selection of paintings 1985 – 2015 at Craig Krull comprises a long-standing commitment to abstraction with the oft visual nod to great abstractionists like Helen Frankenthaler and Mark Rothko. As a whole,...
Let’s face it. Artists make the coolest and best gallerists, and when they don their artist’s hats, as in the recent exhibition "10 Part Invention" at Jaus gallery, where gallery collective Tiger Strikes Asteroid flex their art muscles, it’s truly a pleasure to...
Ceramics are all the rage these days, and certainly it’s a tradition richly steeped in ceremony, especially as it applies to Japanese ceramic work. Art star Takashi Murakami has assembled a group of artists who not only push the boundaries of possibility within the...
"States of Being" currently on view at Torrance Art Museum examines the nature of existence not so much as a physical inevitability, but more as a phase or process by which each of the artists included, expose themselves through their work at pivotal moments of...
Red-on-red is difficult to pull off, yet James Hayward makes it work beautifully in his most recent survey entitled "At Last" at Roberts & Tilton where an entire room is painted red to showcase his very dense red paintings. And that's just the side gallery....
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