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Martin Soto Climent's exhibition at Michael Benevento is a meticulously orchestrated visual symphony of photos, videos and sculptures. The Mexico City based artist titled his show "Temazcal" after the type of ceremonial sudatorium that inspired this body of work. The...
Both love letter and indictment, “The Modernist,” Catherine Opie’s new photographic installation and short film, blurrily overlays real places and occurrences with imagined events, creating an alternate near-term history of Los Angeles. Known as a portraitist and...
Vija Celmins’ work is best when you are caught by surprise—don’t read the manifest, just board the ship. Sublime encounters open quiet pathways to deep consideration of the now-octagenarian artist, her times and her legacy. Celmins’ exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery...
“Fever Pitch,” Wendell Gladstone’s new collection of paintings, achieves that elusive characteristic in which the longer you look, the more you see. It may be the bright, cotton candy-colored palette that draws you in, but it’s the details that keep you looking. At...
Minimalism, as Robert Hughes remarked, was the last great “ism” in contemporary art. It was perhaps defined best in the writings of Donald Judd (who hated the term), and in a few of Judd’s interviews from the 1970s. What seem significant in these are his ideas...
Looney Toons, Leger, Lewitt, and Kandinsky battle it out for aesthetic prominence across these epic and absolutely eccentric new paintings and sculptures by Rives Granade. Abstract forms, deracinated texts, and schematic signifiers festoon the gestural grounds of his...
Nearly everyone is aware of the smartphone’s impact on photographic aesthetics. Once-novel styles engendered by the cameras embedded in these devices have become so clichéd that they might pose more of a burden than a boon to smartphone shutterbugs shooting for...
There is a lacerating wit in the work of Grant Levy-Lucero, a solemn shrewdness dressed in Bermuda shorts. He is playful but he is not playing around. His exhibition of crude ceramics at Night Gallery borders one wall of an otherwise barren chamber. Displayed upon a...
Just inside the entrance and visible through the plate glass window that leads in from the hallway, a bloated lozenge floats, supported from below, in an oddly visceral pink bulb. From one corner, a white tassel hangs. Conjuring both entrails and a soiled gown, the...
During his year-long residency at the American Academy in Rome, Michael Queenland roamed the streets. Rome is a beautiful city to walk in, filled with ruins and monuments, but like any modern city, it is also cluttered with trash. The detritus—what was thrown...