It takes nerve to make art with glitter. And to create compelling and uncompromising paintings with sparkles and watered down acrylics is a feat of pure fabulousness. Stephanie Pryor has made it her business to be fabulous in her most recent show at Marine...
From the light, airy and playful feelings of the Laguna Art Musem’s “Faux Real” exhibition on the main floor, the atmosphere of “Ex·pose: Beatriz da Costa” shifts into dark, moving and intense as one descends into the museum’s dark basement. Da Costa’s “Dying for the...
In the late 1960s and into the ’70s an odd confluence of events made for some very curious cinema. Many stars that had become famous in the studio system were suddenly at loose ends to fend for themselves. At the same time, Hollywood was trying to get down with the...
Most stories about larger-than-life male artists and their girlfriends/wives share a familiar arc—he overshadows her. When Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner bought a house in East Hampton, Pollock got to work in the barn, Krasner painted in the bedroom. It was only...
Some artists make Masterpieces. Others compile Oeuvres. Still others live Lives; if they (and we) are fortunate, those Lives are lived at the center of their times, or at least their times’ artistic practices. Like most Europeans of his time, the Berlin-born Hans...
Shot from behind a glass partition, a girl with long blond hair sits alone at the edge of an empty pool. Her back is to the camera; her legs create ripples in the blue water. Where the pool ends, a golf course begins. The setting is obviously one of wealth. This color...
There are two clues Florian Morlat is up to something different with his show(s) at Cherry and Martin, which held court there for two months. With overlap between the shows, and some work reappearing in slightly different configurations, the second made clear a dry,...
While the exhibition’s title immediately triggers images of wild head-bangin’ rockers wailing away at unheard of decibels, for five African-American abstract sculptors it was a call in response to the use of metal in their work, guided by ancestral memory and tapping...
With eight new oil-and-enamel paintings, Kirsten Everberg continues her practice of exploring filmic images as a means of exercising her interest in perception, memory and narrative. Visually, her paintings present an eerie absence. In Everberg’s hands, film scenes...
Kenneth Tam produces strange and consistently intriguing work. His videos, which are driven by encounters with strangers that the artist has met online, are investigations of the negotiations and power dynamics that occur during uncomfortable social situations....
Part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time initiative, MOCA’s “A New Sculpturalism” exhibition is an attempt to capture the tectonic shift of the last three decades from postmodern design to the new construction technologies and parametric forms found in Southern...
"La Inocencia de los Animales" is a staging of our anxiety regarding our continued survival as a species. The installation piece by Adrián Villar Rojas, one module of “Expo 1: New York” curated by Triple Canopy, is presented in a larger collection of work that...
Rising to prominence in New York in the 1980s, Eric Fischl's dramatically composed, challenging works portrayed a steamy, unwholesome underbelly to suburbia—a vision of the nation's great middle class as throbbing, voyeuristic adolescents, impassive temptresses and...
At first glance Charles Fréger’s “Wilder Mann”—an exhibition filled with photographs of furry giants and frolicking monsters—may seem inconsequential. Yes, the work is fluffy and intentionally entertaining on the surface, but it goes much deeper. After one fully...
“The Encyclopedic Palace,” Massimiliano Gioni’s tour de force at the center of the 55th Biennale di Venezia, is an amazing show about fixations, obsessions, the passions of desire and the transformative capacity of the mind's eye. It is a wonderfully vast array of...
In January, 2012, National Geographic ran a piece called "TWINS: Alike But Not Alike," that used the August, 2011 Twins Days Festival (held annually in Twinsburg, Ohio) as a launching pad for a discussion of the latest scientific advances in twin studies, including...
Perhaps the most impressive thing about Samuel Bayer’s series of photographic “Triptychs,” recently on view at ACE Gallery Beverly Hills, is the complexity of the meditation on desire and representation that they can engender in a [male] viewer. These 16 12-foot...
Catherine Opie enunciates the intentions and ideas behind her current body of 2012-2013 works with the first two images the viewer encounters—one a portrait, the other an abstracted landscape that could loosely be described as meditative. Lawrence (the conceptual...
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