Art Los Angeles Contemporary
Kenton Parker
While it would not be incorrect to say that Kenton Parker’s work primarily deals with nature, it would be rather misleading. There are no polite painted landscapes or photographs of waterfalls or mountain ranges. Cement, cars and trash are just as common as flowers...
VICTOR HUGO ZAYAS
With 40 expressive oils, Victor Hugo Zayas’ exhibition “The River Paintings,” responds to the ebb and flow of the Los Angeles River in its many moods and manifestations, with each piece flowing naturally to the next. Created from 2013 to 2015, these huge paintings,...
RECONNOITER
Stephen Cohen is the founder of photo l.a. and the Stephen Cohen Gallery, which is now the Cohen Gallery on Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles. In January the stalwart photo fair celebrates its 25th anniversary. Artillery: Why did you start photo l.a.? What made...
Andy Fedak
Playfully assaulting the construct of the rational, coherent, autonomous individual in his solo exhibition “You Have Nothing To Worry About,” Andy Fedak’s new stereoscopic (3D) film and virtual reality installation and three early “anxiety” videos explore his...
Ulrich Wulff
A recognizable figure or persona, which may or may not stand in for the artist but, regardless, bears on his relationship to the world and his painterly address of it, emerges in the Berlin-based painter Ulrich Wulff’s most recent show, “Preparations.” Call it the...
Josh Jefferson
Human beings are genetically programmed to respond positively to the face, no doubt a survival instinct, as babies bond with their nurturing parents. Perhaps not coincidentally a fairly recent dad himself, Boston-based Josh Jefferson has tapped into this universal...
Laura Kimpton
Every year explorers, wanderers and artists gather at “The Playa,” or, as it is more commonly known, Burning Man. They convene in the desert with the desire to connect with others and experience a genuinely altruistic life, especially through art. Laura Kimpton, an...
Dorothy Cross
The Irish artist Dorothy Cross’ explorations of the links between human activity and the natural world often possess great lyricism and poetic insight. Born in Cork in 1956, she represented Ireland in the 1993 Venice Biennale.In 2001 she went to live on the edge of...
Joy to the World: My Holiday Season in a Nutshell
Happy New Year, dear reader(s). I know I was living up to the blog title just a bit excessively in the last month of this just past year; but I wasn’t just staying at home. First of all, there was Norma – the Los Angeles Opera’s production of Bellini’s classic tale of...
VOLTA-NY: Video Series Derrick Adams
Artist Derrick Adams curates Something I Can Feel, the debut Curated Section at VOLTA NY. Watch this 2 min video as he discusses his creative intent in assembling the participating artists in this thematic exhibition exploring elements of provocation.
Little Nemo
New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic, 1919–1933
The New Objectivity was an art movement in Germany established between the end of World War I and the Nazi rise to power. Artists like Otto Dix, Christian Schad and Aenne Biermann among others recognized the darkness of the times in which they lived and celebrated it...
Dan Hernandez: Genesis 2015
While Dan Hernandez was standing in front of the Leonardo Annunciation a few years ago at the Uffizi, he recognized similarities between the painting and the classic arcade game Street Fighter II. Leonardo has the Archangel Gabriel leaning in toward the Virgin with a...
Whitney Bedford
Whitney Bedford’s newest exhibition “West of Eden” at Susanne Vielmetter, is compulsory viewing for anyone who thinks they know anything about painting. Mind you, Bedford’s elegantly crafted oils on canvas of mostly landscapes, flora and fauna and the like, are...
JAMES HYDE: GROUND
Entering James Hyde's show at Luis De Jesus, one immediately wonders: What sort of pictures are these? At first glance, it is difficult to determine whether the expansive images are manual or mechanical, painterly or photographic.Materially, they are hybrids. Each...
MIAMI VIRGIN DIARIES: DAY 4
I LOVE THIS MUSEUM.I wanted to visit at least one local arts institution before leaving town, and I’ve heard good things about the Perez Art Museum, so that’s where we went Sunday. The new director there—Franklin Sirmans—was the curator for contemporary art at LACMA,...
Carol Es
Carol Es’ first solo exhibition at Craig Krull Gallery, "Rock and Refuge," is a testament to precision and detail and color and space. Her paintings, largely mixed media materials including meticulously cut bits of fabric on birch panels, are both whimsical and...
