Art Los Angeles Contemporary
Five Car Garage
Female Sensibility shows a lot of sense. Featuring works by LA-based artist Kirsten Stoltmann and NY-based Jennifer Sullivan, the exhibition highlights the difficulties of existing within gendered expectations and constraints, especially as a ‘woman artist.’ Though...
Sofu Teshigahara
Entering Nonaka-Hill feels like stepping outdoors into a Japanese rock garden. Plant matter and sculptures populate a white-pebble substrate. Evoking sky or water, deep blue walls contribute to a sensation of tranquility. The parking lot outside seems a world away....
All Art Fairs All Weekend
This was the weekend. Art fair weekend. We took in five art fairs this Presidents Day weekend, each with its own flavor. At Frieze Los Angeles on Friday, we took in an astonishing collection of works in the gallery tent. From Alison Saar to James Turrell and Anish...
LA’s Art Week: Flash in the Pan or Seismic Shift?
Over the 25 years of the LA Art Show, Executive Director Kim Martindale has seen fairs come and go in Los Angeles, lost in the quicksand of art market trends. The past two years, however, have seen several new fairs establish themselves in LA – from small satellite...
CSULA’S Ronald H. Silverman Gallery
Perceive Me, a group show curated and conceived by Kristine Schomaker is both a brave and beautiful exhibition. An artist herself, Schomaker served as a model for these works as well, with the result potent and moving. Her concept was to invite artists to create nude...
One Night Stand with Paul
The first rule of going to a Paul McCarthy opening at the Hammer is not to go hungry—art lovers shall not live on breadsticks alone. Visibly disappointed, Artillery writer Ezrha Jean Black arrived right at the moment the food was being whisked away while...
Christopher Russell
"Photography is dead," Christopher Russell declares in the statement for his current show, arguing that with the ease and popularity of digital manipulation, "there is no longer a belief that the captured image is anything more than a record of personalized fictions."...
Not Bad: A Michael Jackson play, For the Love of a Glove
More than a re-imagining of the Michael Jackson story, Julien Nitzberg’s play, For the Love of a Glove, serves as a point of departure for a wildly surreal take on an already bizarre life, from the troubled entertainer’s repressed childhood in Gary, Indiana, to the...
“The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain”
At the Wende Museum, "The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain" spotlights 33 artists that lived in Eastern Bloc countries during Soviet rule. This provocatively themed survey includes familiar names such as Magdalena Abakanowicz, Geta...
Regen Projects
If you’ve ever visited “The Bean” in Chicago and thought, this is cool, but I just wish I could somehow go inside it, then Anish Kapoor’s new installation at Regen Projects is the show for you. Made of the same high-polished, flawless, undulating stainless steel, a...
Two Days at Photo LA
This past Thursday evening, we joined world-class artists, photographers, galleries, dealers, and publishers at photo l.a.’s opening night at the historic Santa Monica Barker Hangar. The annual fair, which has been around for almost three decades, was packed with...
Johanna Went: Passion Container at The BOX Gallery
Loft at Liz’s
Beautifully curated by MOAH’s Andi Campognone, Collaborate and Create, now at The Loft at Liz’s through March 3rd, is an exciting exhibition. Matching up the talents of 17 different pairs of artists, the result is compelling – it reveals new dimensionality in some...
Francis DiFronzo
Irvine-based painter Francis DiFronzo has a knack for capturing the eerie desolation of the Mojave Desert. The title of his show, "Proof of Life," speaks to the fact that his paintings are devoid of people, yet replete with signs of civilization and the desert's own...
LAXART 2019 Benefit
Perceive the Passion: January Ends with Heat
It might still be chilly January, but ahead of the bevy of art fairs coming to LA, January wound down with the visceral heat of passionate exhibition openings. At California State University’s Ronald H. Silverman Gallery, 60 artists presented astonishing depictions of...
Kristy Luck
Floral, terrene, celestial and human elements coalesce to form otherworldly realms in Kristy Luck's paintings suffused with mysterious symbolism. Evoking subconscious vistas, the Los Angeles artist's scenes are reminiscent of abstract landscapes by Modernist painters...
