Articles

Zaria Forman: Fear and Awe
Showcasing Beauty and Fragility

Climate change is a crisis that we must all recognize and work together to mitigate. For artists engaging with climate content, their activism manifests in many different ways. Some choose to showcase the devastating evidence of global warming, while others highlight the beauty of the natural world. Part of the latter group, Brooklyn-based Zaria Forman has been engaging with the...

Ron Athey at the ICA Los Angeles
“Queer Communion”

by Jamie McMurry

I’m on the freeway traveling through the San Fernando Valley to see the Ron Athey exhibition of art, documentation and ephemera called “Queer Communion” at the ICA in downtown Los Angeles. All of the LA tropes are in place: It’s a sunny and clear June day, the hills of Griffith Park are dry and brown, the plentiful commuters spawning upstream on the 5 all slow to see a majestic Honda engulfed in...

GONE TO THE DOGS

by John Tottenham

“Ride on the street, man.” With difficulty, I attempted to maneuver my way around a young couple who, with their three dogs, were hogging the entire sidewalk. “I beg your pardon,” I said, as I cleared these five figures, who had only made the most minimal effort to make room for me. “What did you just say?” “I said ride on the street, man,” said the man in a lower voice. The speaker of these...

Remarks on Color: Lachrymose Lemon
August's Hue

by Eve Wood

Lachrymose Lemon cannot stop weeping. She sobs uncontrollably at everything all the time: the changing of the guards at Buckingham Palace, softball games, dinosaur conventions, the day her favorite chicken finally laid an egg. From the moment the sun rises to the last feeble rays of the day, Lachrymose Lemon greets the world through her tears. She’s what’s called an “indiscriminate crier,” “a...

Matt Warren Makes Movie Posters For Your Consideration

by Tucker Neel

As any Angeleno knows, every awards season, from about September - February Hollywood studios buy up billboards to promote their films as award-worthy works of art; it’s like LA’s version of leaves changing color in Fall. Unlike normal ads for new releases, each of these billboards reminds its viewers that the film is available “for your consideration” as a potential award nominee or winner....

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Reviews

OUTSIDE LA: “The Shape of Time: Korean Art After 1989”
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Viewing art is often followed by epiphanies—moments in which the viewer understands things both cognitively and perceptually. Sometimes it even provides a glimpse into another place, at another time, about which one does not yet have any real experience. “The Shape of...

GALLERY ROUNDS: XANADU
Gallery V, Pasadena City College

Currently on view at Gallery V, located on the Pasadena City College campus, is “Xanadu,” a group show featuring the work of nine artists. Though tightly curated by Shelli Tollman, who is also in the show, each artist has enough breathing room to leave a real impact...

GALLERY ROUNDS: Nicole Wittenberg
at Fernberger Gallery

Vivid and broad brushstrokes streak across Nicole Wittenberg’s paintings currently on view at the newly opened Los Angeles gallery, Fernberger. The exhibition, titled “Jumpin’ at The Woodside,” marks Wittenberg’s first solo show in Los Angeles and the debut of her new...

PICK OF THE WEEK: Cristina Iglesias
Marian Goodman

Cristina Iglesias’ exhibition, “Ellipsis,” features otherworldly, large-scale sculptural environments crafted from materials such as casted aluminum, bronze, copper, glass, steel and various pigmented materials. This collection draws inspiration from Stanislaw Lem’s...

GALLERY ROUNDS: Marek Wolfryd and Michele Lorusso
John Doe Gallery

For their joint exhibition at John Doe Gallery, Marek Wolfryd and Michele Lorusso present a selection of sculptures and paintings embedded in their shared exploration into Mexico’s history of architecture, urban planning and design. The title, “A Collapsing...

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