A wide range of passion-filled projects added excitement to the art scene this past weekend, ranging from a stellar three-artist exhibition at Castelli to the 2019 COLA event at Barnsdall Art Park’s Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. On Saturday night, the moving,...
This past Saturday there were an exciting array of openings to attend, but top on my list was in lieu gallery’s opening "Body remnants, and other impressions." The exhibition organized by Kate Eringer featured work by Jack C. Baker, Alice Jacobs, Bennet Schlesinger,...
The Conspiracy of Art: Part I; a prelude or forward Entering the Bendix Building, at which Chateau Shatto is located (“[on] the 10th floor,” the security guard kindly reminds me, without my telling him which gallery I am looking for), one feels momentarily transported...
The exhibition not to miss this past weekend was the jam-packed opening at the Brand Library and Gallery in Glendale. With Sway, curated by Chenhung Chen, artists Debbie Carlson, Chenhung Chen, Gina Herrera, Echo Lew, Snezana Saraswati Petrovic, Linda Sue Price, and...
Irene Tsatsos is the director of exhibition programs and chief curator at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena. Sandra de la Loza’s current beautiful photographic exhibition “Mi Casa Es Su Casa” seems highly prescient. How did it come about, and how do you feel...
Last Saturday night, we hopped over to the opening reception at Nicodim Gallery featuring works of Mi Kafchin in her thought-provoking show, "Chemtrails." Walking into the gallery, I knew little about the artist or the concepts behind her practice. My only peek into...
Last Thursdays’ opening reception for this years’ Los Angeles Art Book Fair was an interconnected web of the art publishing community. Each corner turned presented a new cache of friends and colleagues. With 100 newcomers (from an impressive total of 390 contributors)...
The spring edition of the Brewery Art Walk was in full swing this weekend, drawing art lovers, fellow artists, and families with skipping children through a myriad of cool gallery exhibits and open studios. The always-happening Jesus Wall space included magical...
Last Saturday night, we hopped over to Baert Gallery to check out their new opening, Territorios y Mapas, featuring the works of painter José Manuel Ciria. Like most galleries in LA, Baert is nestled in an unassuming little nook, yet never fails to charm and intrigue....
Matthew Brown Gallery’s second opening was eagerly anticipated; especially after an impressive and overwhelmingly well-attended debut last month premiering Yale MFA graduate Kenturah Davis. We arrive on the early side so it is a little quieter though with the same...
Feminism is an ideology that powers political and social movements dedicated to establishing gender equality between men and women. As such, it serves as inspiration for artistic exploration of the various issues involved in that process. First-generation feminist...
Last Saturday night, the Bendix Building in the Fashion District was the place to be, when a wide range of openings spilled out of galleries on multiple floors, causing crowds to trample the stairways and cram onto elevators that persisted in heading down to garage...
This weekend we were lucky enough to start off Friday afternoon with an exclusive preview of Mash Gallery’s group exhibition, "Radiant Spectrum," curated by Mark Murphy. The show comprised a vibrant array of works by 16 contemporary artists including, Michelle A....
It might have been a rainy weekend in LA that started the spring art season, but it didn’t put a damper on attendance at gallery shows. On Thursday, the Palladium paid tribute to iconic rock stars such as Tom Petty, Bob Marley, and Ray Charles, with the opening of the...
In 2016, Los Angeles-based multimedia artist Kim SchoeNstadt launched her “Now Be Here” project in Los Angeles where 733 contemporary women artists gathered for a group photo at Hauser & Wirth. Tell me about how you started the project, Now Be Here. Hauser Wirth...
The excitement for Takashi Murakami’s, GYATEI², at Gagosian in Beverly Hills was apparent even before walking into the opening. The annual pre-Oscar opening had a line of eager gallerygoers wrapped around the building—their enthusiasm escalating upon entrance. ...
There aren’t too many equalizers in today’s stratified society; in fact, one can say that the act of waiting is the only inconvenience that’s shared by everyone, rich and famous, or poor and anonymous. Consider a traffic jam on the Santa Monica Freeway; the CEO in the...
Desert X is back. Its inaugural year in 2017 saw 200,000 visitors from around the world flocking to see exciting, site-specific temporary art installations in the California desert. It was a beautiful thing – no walls, no cost, no barriers keeping anyone from...
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