In Part One of this article, gallerist Charlie James, collector Tom Peters, arts advisor Michelle Isenberg, art writer Shana Nys Dambrot, insurer William Fleischer and book designer Roy Brooks discuss art books and all their glory. Click Here. Yah, sure. Everybody...
Last Saturday night, we hopped over to the opening reception at Nicodim Gallery featuring works of Mi Kafchin in her thought-provoking show, "Chemtrails." Walking into the gallery, I knew little about the artist or the concepts behind her practice. My only peek into...
Lars Jan’s staging of The White Album has returned to Los Angeles; and suddenly I feel drawn back to 1969, a year that was in a sense my first real introduction to Los Angeles as three things simultaneously: a place (its suburban and studio/dream factory aspects clear...
Morgan Mandalay's paintings of tainted jungle paradises are radiant with color and lush verdure, yet they bloom with inklings of mortality. Dead fishes hang amid the umbrage of burning orchards where cadaverous human arms emerge from lurid thickets. Figs and oranges...
If the wallet of your heart is running low, then Gabby Rosenberg’s “Night Pockets” provides enough spare change for your paradigm to spend. Rosenberg’s exhibition at Steve Turner LA embodies the identity narrative seeping with the primal desire for interpersonal...
Yah, sure. Everybody loves an art book. But why? When a fine art book is published, the action generates a series of exponential benefits that ripple across the art world. Here, we present ten art world leaders, specialists in their roles, to detail the intricacies of...
Fantasy and reality encroach upon each another in "Works on Paper 1967-1995" by Ken Price (1935-2012) at Kayne Griffin Corcoran. Twenty-eight deceptively straightforward pictures draw you into nuanced realms where familiarity gives way to strangeness. In Price's...
The title of Chris Trueman's show, "After(image)," betokens the fleeting vivid impressions his paintings convey. Hovering between abstraction and representation, each of his nine vibrant works currently on view at Edward Cella embodies a wide array of marks,...
Last Thursdays’ opening reception for this years’ Los Angeles Art Book Fair was an interconnected web of the art publishing community. Each corner turned presented a new cache of friends and colleagues. With 100 newcomers (from an impressive total of 390 contributors)...
The Joshua Treenial returns this weekend, April 12-14, with a new slate of artists who look at the desert -- its people, its environment, and its off-the-grid spirit in “Paradise::Parallax.” One never knows what to expect at this home-grown desert art expo – anything...
I confess that I’m not sure why I particularly care, or at what point I might have begun to see this as something larger than simply the loss of a theatre or auditorium space (i.e., LACMA’s Bing Theatre, which was a part of the original LACMA complex), or the razing...
The black-and-white magic of Graciela Iturbide's photography is difficult to capture in words. Through her lens, quotidian moments acquire an iconic, spiritual quality as life's dichotomies and death's mysteries lyrically play out in light, shadow, pattern, and...
The spring edition of the Brewery Art Walk was in full swing this weekend, drawing art lovers, fellow artists, and families with skipping children through a myriad of cool gallery exhibits and open studios. The always-happening Jesus Wall space included magical...
For “Dreamhouse Vs. Punk House (plus Cat House),” nearly 200 artists made works averaging 4 x 4 inches to be shown in three thematic multi-story dollhouses. It may sound like just so much whimsy, but this delirious exhibition/installation hybrid is an impressive and...
Instagram, for all its corporate complications and endless lifestyle posturing has become a viable avenue for artists to share work. It’s the open, free for all, pop gallery of the world. Sure, there’s a lot of junk being algorithmically forced to the top, but with a...
Last Saturday night, we hopped over to Baert Gallery to check out their new opening, Territorios y Mapas, featuring the works of painter José Manuel Ciria. Like most galleries in LA, Baert is nestled in an unassuming little nook, yet never fails to charm and intrigue....
America Martin, the young Colombian-American artist known for her bold use of color and line in primitive, abstracted images of humans, is gaining recognition with growing momentum. With commanding forms that call to mind Picasso’s portraits and Basquiat’s energetic...
“What happens to a dream deferred?” This question asked by Langston Hughes in his poem Harlem sets the stage of Charles White’s development as an artist. In 1934, and again in 1935, the teen was awarded scholarships to study art. Each time White showed up in person to...
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