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....
A refreshing fragrance of hyacinth and tiger lilies sets the tone for Thai artist Pinaree Sanpitak’s delicate installation of white garlands, or Ma-Lai, for which her third solo exhibition in New York is named. Continuing with her interest in the body that she has...
Chris Goennawein is an artist who “theorizes” painterly surfaces and the underlying structures that support them. His first exhibition at c.nichols project explores various notions of place wherein the signification of an object wrestles with the process by which it...
Sarah Awad’s paintings are large-scale and meditative—images that exude a sense of “place” and attitude, a timelessness as it were, even as they remain powerfully contemporary. Awad has chosen to paint gates and with that choice comes an entire visual history of...
Who doesn’t love David Bowie? Some would argue that Ziggy Stardust was Bowie at his best, and at Taschen Gallery on Beverly Boulevard one can experience the “Bowiesque” 1970s in all their weirdness and colorful splendor. Noted photographer and bandmate Mick Rock...
It would be negligent to discuss “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” at the newly opened Richard Taittinger Gallery without referring to the eponymous film. Both attempt to test and topple our expectations and assumptions. The film’s plot centers on Sidney Poitier’s John...
The catastrophic intersection of the man-made or engineered environment with nature may be the great subject of 21st century art. As the title of her show implies, Liza Ryan places visual brackets around our notions of boundary—of separation, protection or insulation...
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