A master of text-based montage working in the traditions of Fluxus, Concrete Poetry and Dada, Tm Gratkowski pays homage to artists like Kurt Schwitters and Tristan Tzara, whose complex word/image juxtapositions were imbued with cultural critiques. Trained as both an...
Geomorphology—the study of the evolution and formation of Earth’s topographic and bathymetric features—forms the basis of Andy Moses’ new work at William Turner. Moses has taken his cue for these paintings from the richly complex formations of the Earth’s surface that...
Lita Albuquerque transformed the Orange County community of Laguna Beach in November for the Laguna Art Museum’s (LAM) second annual Art + Nature. This multidisciplinary event/happening/festival showcased Albuquerque, who is known for her ethereal works of art,...
“This Kind of Face,” Siri Kaur’s exhibition at the Cohen Gallery, reveals both the artifice inherent in the medium of photography and its ability to capture truth, however elusive and subjective it might be. Kaur’s photographic subjects are professional impersonators...
Sayre Gomez’s solo offering at François Ghebaly Gallery, “I’m Different,” trumpets its title’s adolescent battle cry across two galleries of new work. Speakers disguised as Froot Loop-hued boulders pipe in the Top 40 from every corner of “The Hypnotic Presence of...
Factories are not settings that usually inspire meditative or poetic work, but for artist Surabhi Saraf, the connection makes perfect sense. Saraf, who was born in Indore, India, grew up playing around the machinery and workers at her parents’ pharmaceutical factory....
London is one of the world’s leading centers for contemporary art and also has a history that reaches back beyond Roman times. It’s a place of contradictions, home to great financial and cultural institutions, fine universities and wonderful buildings, as well as to a...
There has long been a history of poets and painters collaborating, and in many instances, as was the case with poet Robert Duncan and Jess, sharing their lives together. Michael Duncan’s recent curatorial efforts on view at the Pasadena Museum of California Art have...
Dan McCleary has long been a favorite artist of mine. My father even owns one of his drawings! His recent exhibition at Craig Krull features a series of paintings that employ masterful painting strategies like the Golden Mean while also imbuing his images with...
Remember Wood Shop? Well, Matt Rosenquist certainly does. And he has created an incredibly appealing, often humorous group of sculptures at the Glike Gallery in Culver City. With titles like Suburban Punk Rock Girl (2014), these works are rough around the edges for...
I will not lie, Jim Hodges is one of my favorite artists, and the reasons why are innumerable. Like the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning once wrote, allow me to “count the ways.” His recent retrospective at the Hammer Museum, entitled "Give More Than You Take"...
Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch seem to have channeled the Bauhaus’ Oskar Schlemmer—not an easy task, but one certainly worth considering. Working in the vein of sculptural theater, Fitch and Trecartin have created a strangely alluring alternate universe using “a...
Pitzer College's exhibition, "Racial Imaginary," the visual art component of a larger project that includes a book of essays, musings and poems, demonstrates the fecundity of race and identity for artists of all media and aesthetic proclivities. The featured artists...
Robert Olson was a colleague and fellow art world traveler. From the beginning his work was marked with a deep sense of isolation, and it this deeply private motivation that suffuses his retrospective at the Luckman Art Center. Spanning a twenty-year period, the show...
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art continues to set a high bar for film exhibitions with their latest, “Haunted Screens: German Cinema in the 1920s.” The striking exhibition design by architects Amy Murphy and Michael Maltzan has it “interrupted” by three...
In a brick-arched space of the Serpentine Sackler Gallery—a Grade 1-listed 19th-century building in the middle of Hyde Park, originally designed to store gunpowder during the Napoleonic wars—a strange noise is being emitted. It comes from a pair of transparent...
Forrest Bess (1911–77) was, by his own account, a man divided. He saw himself as containing two selves: the masculine, roughneck hard-drinking fisherman, and the sensitive painter. He believed that he could unify these parts of himself by surgically becoming a...
Darren Almond’s two decades of paintings, sculptures, videos and photographs reflect on time as a paradox. He is not the only contemporary artist to investigate time as a subject—Andy Goldsworthy, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and John Divola come to mind—but his approach...
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