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...
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...
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...
Even mountains deserved to be loved. I don’t mean literally of course, but metaphorically the mountain represents a force to be reckoned with, and hopefully, if not scaled, then appreciated. Jacci Den Hartog, in her newest exhibition at Rosamund Felsen Gallery has...
Anish Kapoor is a master in “organic monumentality.” Working with literal organic matter including pigments and earth as well as nonorganic substances including resins and silicone, Kapoor has forged yet another series of complex and visually challenging sculptural...
Jason Yates is preternaturally disposed to emulate, extrapolate and thoroughly and passionately investigate anything that relates to pop culture, therein creating his newest foray into the simultaneous realms of sculpture, paintings, installation and collage at C....
Poet Wallace Stevens, in his seminal poem “Notes Toward A Supreme Fiction,” eschews a literal interpretation of anything, vying instead for a Greenbergian-like approach to art, indeed to life itself, privileging purity in abstraction over narrative. This recent...
First of all, soda and gardeners don’t usually go together; that’s not to say that all gardeners must abstain from soda or that soda doesn’t sometimes yearn for the garden, but it’s an unlikely alliance, yet Jason McLean’s exhibition at Wilding Cran is a playful and...
Monique Prieto’s newest exhibition aptly titled Hat Dance, on view at the brand new LAM Gallery on Highland Avenue, charts like the banned Mexican dance it was named for: a kind of radiant courtship between the artist and the painting, and further still between the...
Max Presneill has broken through to the “other side” and by this I do not mean he’s cavorting with spirits, but simply that he has in his second exhibition at the Garboushian Gallery in Beverly Hills created a stunningly rigorous body of work that even the dead would...
Robert Heinecken was truly obsessed with modern culture and all its sometimes unfortunate and always ubiquitous vicissitudes. Using a wide range of materials including photography, sculpture, video, printmaking and collage, the artist recontextualized images toward 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...
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