Roger Herman is a Los Angeles-based artist and professor at UCLA department of art. How long have you been teaching painting at UCLA? Was teaching a profession you wanted to do, or was it a matter of practicality, a way to supplement your income as an artist. I have...
From Santa Monica’s The Other Art Fair to two rewarding shows at Roberts Projects in mid-city, the art crowds were out in force the last weekend in October, buzzing about the exhibitions and reveling in the arrival of sweater weather. Running Thursday through Sunday...
Extended summer weather in this late October made last Saturday the perfect evening to enjoy the stretch of galleries on La Cienega’s gallery row in Culver City. We arrived a little early to ensure ample time to meander around, as it’s customary to stumble upon an...
Maybe it’s a not-so-spooky Halloween spell, but the October art scene was hauntingly captivating this weekend. The Brewery Art Walk offered a plethora of pleasures all weekend, including "Route, Rut, Lane: A Karkhana Collaboration" at Shoebox Projects, a mixed-media...
Is it wrong to feel like dancing on a school night? The gent sitting next to me didn’t even get to cross that bridge—he had to exit early for a drive out to Malibu on a school-related mission. But whatever you thought of Leon Bridges’ laid-back-going-on-languid set,...
As soon as the exhibition opened at DENK gallery last Saturday, the space circulated with a plethora of gallerygoers who attended to see the work of Renée Lotenero and Soo Kim—luckily we were amongst the crowd. Upon entrance into the first room, we were captivated...
Like many Pre-Millennial truths that were once irrefutable, the adage, “Don’t judge a book by its cover” is waning into obsolescence. After all, what is the utility of a book cover in the era of e-books that claim neither form nor substance? In his exhibition...
Upon walking into Paolo Colombo’s opening at Baert Gallery last Saturday, we were immediately absorbed into a world of visual poetics. Contrary to most openings, which tend to be more reliant on interaction with the overall “scene,” each of Colombo’s works posed...
The LA gallery scene was stacked with quite the line-up for openings this weekend, making it difficult to decipher which to hit and which to save for a later date. However, Ron Arad’s debut exhibition of CUBA working title, at Over the Influence Gallery was too...
Major religions don’t do much image control; with his long hair and white skin, the hippyesque Jesus of the 21st century looks identical to the savior of the 11th century. The Buddha is also presented as the same old, same old; hair or no hair, it’s the smilin’ guy...
Every September, the art scene really revs up—not that summer was slow. But after Labor Day, art exhibitions heat up as the evenings cool down. The Culver City Arts District swelled with openings Saturday. First stop had us at Roberts Projects for German artist Lenz...
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions closed their summer residency of CAVERNOUS: Young Joon Kwak & Mutant Salon on the last Sunday of August, having nothing fall short of the visually sensual inviting tone to come bask in the beauty of being vulnerable together....
Anuradha Vikram is the artistic director of 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica, which is currently celebrating its 30th year. Vikram is also a senior lecturer in the MFA Social Pratice Area Emphasis at Otis College. One Googles your name, and the term...
If you are one of the cool kids (or artists or gallerists), then most likely you were at 3rd street in DTLA last Saturday for a jam-packed and super festive opening. We aren’t talking Hauser, rather its newish next-door neighbor Over the Influence. OTI—with its Hong...
Halfway through the selection of videos by LA artist Ulysses Jenkins, I was sweaty and sticking to my seat in the crowded upstairs cinema room of ltd los angeles gallery. Still, it was little of a deterrent to my enjoyment. The gallery provided beverages along with...
The heat goes on—and so does the beat of pulsating great art in Los Angeles. On Thursday, Laurie Shapiro offered a DTLA studio preview of her about-to-open gallery installation at Da Plume, "All Yoni is Love." The immersive lush psychedelic installation was draped...
There is a new queen in town. Last Saturday the Tanya Bonakdar matriarchy entered Hollywood in the most appropriate of ways—with the 12th solo presentation of gallery SoCal artist Charles Long. The exhibition “husbands, sons, fathers, brothers” provides context; it is...
Temperatures might have cooled slightly—just slightly—this week, but the art scene remains hot and happening. Saturday evening at SoLA, a packed house of art lovers and exhibiting artists mingled over two strong shows. Pulse of LA in the main gallery, a juried...
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