“FOOD - WATER - LIFE” presents a sort of equation, a distillation of concerns about immigration, labor and meaning in a globalized economy that drags our personal lives along for the ride.Married French artists Lucy+Jorge Orta construct a figurative Ikea catalog of...
“Domesticating Disturbances,” Nathan Huff’s solo exhibit of drawings and paintings in gouache and sculpture/installation never dogmatically adheres to a set of organizing principles, instead freely adapting ideas to form a unique figurative language. His point of...
Taking the animal kingdom as a point of departure, Japanese-born artist Misako Inaoka explores formal and conceptual concerns, posing broad questions about life on our planet, its evolution and human interventions. As man exerts continual domination over beast, with...
Showcasing appropriated images of young girls alongside pornography from niche fetish websites in her daring mixed-media works, Darja Bajagic’s solo exhibition offers “Cold Comfort,” as the show’s title so aptly indicates. The recent Yale MFA grad stirred controversy...
To write about Charlotte Schulz’ drawings requires a language equal to their elegant and surreal lyricism. The poet Jorie Graham comes close, describing a mythical space as consisting of “little whelps, vanquishings, discoveries, here under this / rock / no, over...
We’ve all played gin rummy, or been beat at poker at some time in life, but Mark Licari, in his first exhibition at Koplin Del Rio, reconstitutes the everyday playing card as a luminous object of desire, violence, death and impermanence, wherein the drawing on each...
Damn, Kiel Johnson knows how to draw -- not to mention he’s an amateur beekeeper; thus the inspiration for his newest exhibition at Mark Moore where strangely kinetic, hive-like utopias appear to be unraveling, creating a damnable system of ultimate unreliability....
Transformation is never easy, but almost always necessary, and in the case of Zachary Drucker and Rhys Ernst, a cause for undaunting exploration. Their most recent collaboration, aptly titled “Post/Relationship/X” explores the intimate moments within a relationship...
In mythology a chimera is described as a strange hybrid monster composed of the parts of more than one animal -- usually depicted as a lioness with full breasts, with the head of a goat and a tail with a snake's head. Stas Orlovski astonishingly beautiful and poetic...
Group shows are always fun especially when they serve as a means of reminiscing as is the case at Edward Cella Art and Architecture Gallery which is soon to relocate to a new facility in 2015. Spanning 11 years, the show is a survey of the artists who have exhibited...
Twenty miles outside of Los Angeles there happens to be one of the best shows of the season. "Another Thing Coming," the Torrance Art Museum's group show of new sculpture from 15 Los Angeles-based artists is a remarkably successful and compelling show. At first...
Internationally acclaimed artist Ronald Ventura’s third solo exhibition “E.R. (Endless Resurrection)” at Tyler Rollins Fine Art gallery in New York is his strongest yet. Taking on the deep-set rituals of Catholicism in his native Philippines, Ventura’s combination of...
No doubt The Miaz Brothers (from Venice, Italy) believe in ghosts, weirdly seductive apparitions, or at the very least “antimatter perception.” Indeed the latest installment of their unique vision achieves a fuzzy gratification, deliberately blurring large format...
Rashid Johnson’s newest effort, "Islands," like subsequent exhibitions of his work at the David Kordansky Gallery encompasses a difficult, if necessary journey into and beyond a constructed human identity. In this case, Johnson takes inspiration from the exceptional...
The art of successful collaboration involves the ability to transcend the individual vision in favor of the project as a whole, and Rochelle Botello and Marion Lane have certainly done just that in their exhibition, aptly titled Double Trouble. Lane’s elegant...
John Altoon couples his relaxed, entirely convincing painterly hand with a flippant disregard for norms whether social, societal or artistic. His retrospective at LACMA cavorts, galumphs and saunters through a wide variety of styles, approaches and modes of...
In much the same way Chris Burden imbues his visual vernacular with his own brand of personal/social provocation, Sean Duffy, in his newest exhibition, aptly titled “Paintings,” at Susanne Vielmetter, shatters the expectation of the pristine sacred surface, electing...
The concentric circle, or target, has been one of the predominant motifs in American abstract painting for the last half-century or more, and, as a result, to wring unexpected changes from it has become increasingly difficult. Gary Lang has made the multi-orbital...
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