Currently on display at the Center of Contemporary Art in Santa Fe is the 30-year survey of Mark Spencer’s paintings. Entitled "Beings," this is a rare and all too brief opportunity to experience an important artist. Some artists' practice is to work slowly and...
The outdoor entryway to Various Small Fires is a narrow corridor often used for sound installations. This long passageway opens up into a large gravel back yard perfect for exhibiting sculptures. In "Variation in Mass 1-3," Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon creates an...
Kathleen Ryan’s second solo show at François Ghebaly, "Bad Fruit," is a masterclass in contemporary object-making. In her massive fruit sculptures, the duality of decay and the cycle of life is on display as Ryan combines the industrial with the natural, the glamorous...
The repetitive quality of the overall patterns in the grids in Ave Pildas' show at Tufenkian Fine Arts create an almost animated effect, a little like standing in one place over a long period of time and blinking slowly. The different figures traverse the space that...
LA-based artist Hayley Barker graces the cover of our special online May/June 2020 issue. Barker is profiled by Julie Schulte and will be showing her new paintings this fall at Shrine NYC.
Red is a color that should never be messed with, diluted, bastardized, cross-pollinated or otherwise appropriated, which calls into question the reason the color oxblood exists at all. If you cut open the belly of an ox, would the seepage of viscera reveal this...
With the help of Zoom and Facetime, I recently paid a virtual studio visit to Megan Marlatt in Orange, Virginia, where she lives in a former commercial building next to the railroad tracks with her husband, photographer Richard Knox Robinson, an Affenpinscher...
Are you in touch with your collectors and are they still interested in buying art or are they showing hesitation due to the stock market slump? Yes, we have kept in communication with our collectors, and we have been heartened by their continued support and commitment...
Is your current exhibition open to the public by appointment? And does it matter who the “public” is, i.e. only prospective buyers, art critics, art curators? In accordance with LA City and CA state ordinances, we are currently closed to the public and will remain...
On the weekend before everything locked down in Los Angeles, I was fortunate enough to catch the exhibition "To View a Plastic Flower" at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and to hear one of the featured artists, Vietnamese American artist T. Kim-Trang Tran,...
It’s a typical Saturday night, the drinks are flowing and the music is playing - as I lie in the bathtub reading another David Goodis novel, sipping another tequila and soda, with a Brahms piano sonata playing softly in the next room. I’m in my natural element,...
TIME SHARE, the latest programming from performance art organization Performa, is live-streaming just in time for your extended quarantine. The online exhibition explores live performance’s relationship to video-sharing platforms, and imagines, in a few select...
This past March Los Angeles lost a truly wonderful artist, Kate Johnson, after her courageous three-year battle with cancer. She undertook this journey with dignity that I hope I have if I ever need it. I have known Kate since 2000 when she and Michael Masucci brought...
Editor's Note: In lieu of our usual reviews and gallery rounds, we will be running a special SHELTER-IN-PLACE series for the duration of social distancing. This series will focus on that which can be enjoyed from home: musings on stream-able films, online art, and...
Rina Banerjee's assemblages are fantastical potpourris of color, texture and cultural references. The title of her 20-year retrospective, "Make Me a Summary of the World," encapsulates her ambition of laying bare the fluid interdependency of ostensibly discrete...
Is your museum still open and operating with certain staff members still coming in to work? We are keeping staff members to a minimum at the museum to enable some ongoing tasks; to continue that requires one person at a time to handle. Still, the staff has their...
This week we’ll discuss streaming options that are either free, or offer free trials. I’ll pass on recommendations that might help you navigate them. If something good gets dropped for a limited time, I’ll try to alert my readers. HBO GO is offering free access to...
Three weeks ago I was visiting LACMA for their landmark exhibition “Where the Truth Lies: The Art of Qiu Ying,” featuring a Ming dynasty painter at the Resnick. Afterwards I came out to look for the plinth where a new Yoshitomo Nara sculpture would be going—the...
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