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In Living Color: Felix LA 2021
Art IRL at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel

Felix LA, the fair that for two years has run concurrently with Frieze LA, is once again at the Roosevelt from July 29 through August 1. This time it is going up without the auspices of the larger Frieze fair, which first delayed in February, then fully cancelled in July. To keep to the current code, all booths will also be held in the open-air cabanas, or in the downstairs rooms that open up...

John Knuth’s The Dawn
John Knuth and Writer Matt Stromberg talk Horseshoe Crabs, Manet, Realism and Kids in a Vaccinated World

by Matt Stromberg

John Knuth is a Los Angeles-based artist who recently had a solo show with Hollis Taggart Gallery in Southport, CT. His work explores how humanity and material and the natural world intersect and influence each other. “The Dawn” ran from May 15–July 3. MATT STROMBERG: From its title, the show has an unmistakably optimistic tone. what makes you hopeful? is it for a return to pre-pandemic life, or...

Tribute to L.A. Sculptor Kenzi Shiokava (1938-2021)

by Allison Strauss

L.A. sculptor Kenzi Shiokava died June 18 at age 82. His passing was announced by the Japanese American National Museum. JANM featured Shiokava's totemic wood sculptures in the 2017 Pacific Standard Time exhibition "Transpacific Borderlands: The Art of Japanese Diaspora in Lima, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and São Paulo." The artist was an ideal fit for the show. Born to Japanese immigrant parents...

THE PERSISTENCE OF DALI
"The Dali Legacy" By Christopher Heath Brown and Jean-Pierre Isbouts

by Skot Armstrong

Salvador Dali has always had a troubled relationship with the Art World. His work embraced figurative representation during a century where deconstruction and reinvention were the mode du jour. His theatrics often upstaged his considerable talent. The amount of energy he expended playing the role of eccentric artist often distracted critics from the solid theories and concepts that underlie his...

Black Grief Examined at New Museum, NY
"Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America" By Okwui Enwezor

by Max King Cap

Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, 2020 By Okwui Enwezor 264 pages Phaidon/New Museum, New York In a pivotal scene in Francis Ford Coppola’s film The Godfather a Mafia don grieves over the body of his dead son. “Look how they massacred my boy,” the weeping father intones, and the audience grieves with him. A worldwide audience is moved by the pantomime death of a handsome...

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OUTSIDE LA: Emily Ginsburg
SE Cooper Contemporary

They are dense forms, knots of entwined ropes and masses of clay, approximately the size of one of the larger internal organs. This suite of recent ceramic sculptures by Emily Ginsburg is presented on clusters of columnar plinths of corrugated cardboard that would be...

GALLERY ROUNDS: Jessie Homer French
Various Small Fires

“January in the last extant stable society.” Joan Didion, “In Hollywood” (1973) — included in The White Album (1979) “You can get there from here,” was something like the thought rippling just beneath my immediate observations, coming upon several Jessie Homer...

PICK OF THE WEEK: Matthew Gallagher
Moskowitz Bayse

One half of Moskowitz Bayse’s gallery is dedicated to “Impossible Apprentice,” a sublime inaugural solo presentation by Matthew Gallagher composed of intensely delicate and labored drawings made by fusing drafting film onto a molten wax surface. From a seemingly...

GALLERY ROUNDS: Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio
Museum of Contemporary Art

The Museum of Contemporary Art returns with its “Focus Series” featuring the first solo show of LA-based artist, Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio. “MOCA Focus: Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio” showcases some of Aparicio’s previous work of rubber castings and amber installations, while...

NIKOLAS SOREN GOODICH
Gallery 169

Especially in an era of infinite variability, the mirror motif can get pretty tired pretty fast, whether as a means of solving abstract compositional problems or finding meaning in figurative relationships. In his latest series of mounted, translucent, usually backlit...

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