Last fall Patricia Sweetow relocated to Oakland’s vibrant Uptown district, where Spun Smoke, her new venue, combines fine art with high-end, high-fire ceramics and a few skeins of her very own hand-spun, hand-dyed wool. Spun Smoke recently presented work by...
Thai artist Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook’s retrospective at SculptureCenter in Queens, New York, and her concurrent solo exhibition at the Tyler Rollins Gallery titled “Niranam” is the work of a profound humanist. Using videos as her primary medium, she tackles subjects...
Altered States at Patrick Painter represents yet another collective representation of irrational modes of being where sometimes the simplest gesture is the most oddly satisfying. Comprised of Justin Bower, Martin Kippenberger, Rinus Van De Velde, Valie Export and Mike...
French artist Vincent Lamouroux has recently taken over Silver Lake’s Sunset Pacific Motel. Prohibitively known by locals as the “Bates Motel,” the condemned structure at Sunset and Bates has been transformed by Lamouroux into a temporal art intervention that will...
The daily newspaper is not quite a thing of the past. For some, it still arrives in printed form each morning at the front door. But the combination of "breaking news" stories and the Internet often makes this printed document obsolete: the web brings current news to...
Enrique Martinez Celaya is a visionary in the very best sense of the word. I would even go so far as to say his recent exhibition, “Lone Star” at LA Louver is a fierce evocation of humanity, despite the fact the show is mostly populated with birds, both painted and...
Tam Van Tran’s newest exhibition "Exodus" at Susanne Vielmetter represents a meditation on duality wherein forces in nature collide with our own human frailties. These paintings accelerate our sensibilities as colors push forward and break apart, yet it is the tension...
Chitra Ganesh’s site-specific mural Eyes of Time at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art of the Brooklyn Museum recalls the Kitsch Movement of the ’90s. As the child of Indian immigrants living in New York, Ganesh’s art responds to the dearth of her...
Trio at c. nichols project is a visual exploration into harmony wherein three unique photo-based artists explore their individual visions while also maintaining a harmonious unity amongst each other. Kathleen Johnson’s beautifully mysterious landscapes allude to the...
Thank God for Mernet Larsen, making art for decades because her life depends on it! Her recent show at Various Small Fires attests to a fiercely independent and imaginative spirit, one that is not swayed by the newest fashion or art world fickleness. She is the “real...
Diane Christiansen makes images much like great poets make poems, slowly and with tremendous tenderness and care. Works like the intrepid and vaguely menacing Secret Obstacles, or the strangely whimsical Enough Space in the Head to Breathe, seem to reference luminous...
All good homes should contain great art, or at least that is what David Stone, owner and director of Another Year in LA, would have us believe. The gallery is a home and the home is a gallery and Jerrin Wagstaff’s elegantly engaging paintings of mostly abstracted...
For many centuries, the wunderkammer model of organizing collections of art and objects of curiosity was de rigueur. The earliest wunderkammer, or cabinets of curiosity, were the private collections of wealthy Europeans, including Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, Ole...
Ornately grotesque, Aaron Johnson's paintings, on display at Stux & Haller Gallery, are vibrant, densely packed expositions on sex and death. According to Johnson the effect he’s after is the erotic intensity of two bodies merging together and two individual...
Claudia Parducci currently has three stunning paintings up at Sloan Projects at Bergamot Station, paintings that straddle the chasm between landscape and psychological terrain, works that are as much about evacuation as they are about prescience. Works like Doomed...
Cole Case is a gem of an artist who, in his most recent exhibition at Western Project, has demonstrated tremendous sensitivity of the finer elements of life. He is a master of seeing – dead birds, Iberian hounds with pink legs, the variegated lines and shadows that...
Curated by Laura Hoptman and on view at MoMA through April 5, “The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World” attempts to identify a distinctly current impulse to select and recombine styles, materials, iconography and other references from a broad...
I had never heard of Lancaster, let alone gone there, before I drove up the 405 and the 14 last November to see “Being Here and There” at the Museum of Art and History. It was “worth the trip,” as the Guide Michelin says of exceptional destinations. Almost all the 26...
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