The summer sizzles when it comes to art in LA, with a wonderfully eclectic collection of art events this past weekend. Saturday night began at the Louis Stern Gallery in Beverly Hills, where Veda B. Kaya held forth with a beautiful, motion-filled series of works that...
Wilmington-based artist Armando G. Cortés has incorporated realities and legends from his birthplace, Urequío, a small farming town in Michoacán, Mexico, into a captivating installation titled "Reverberante." Natural springs run through some Urequío adobe homes' clay...
Terry Allen rocks. In two sold out concerts at the Frogtown club Zebulon, presented in conjunction with his exhibition, “The Exact Moment it Happens in the West,” Allen and his Panhandle Mystery Band had audiences cheering and dancing as they sang along to his...
Last week we had the delight of attending The Broad museum’s “Black Fire Sessions.” Before even stepping through the doors, it was clear the night was in full swing. An outdoor garden was filled with enthused attendees who enjoyed a stocked bar of wines and cocktails...
Orkideh Torabi's painted burlesques of men offer sardonic commentary on patriarchal oppression of women in Iran and beyond. The Tehran-born, Chicago-based artist's 2017 LA show featured mostly frontal portraits of caricatural men whose stark, formal poses against...
There’s something undeniably seductive about Andreas Mühe’s spare, yet sumptuous photographs. A superb technician and gifted storyteller, Mühe uses both formal and narrative elements with concentrated, yet restrained intensity to create images of arresting beauty and...
Walking into the 3rd floor gallery of Craft Contemporary, which is filled with disparate objects and images, what a viewer is likely to notice first is what a broad spectrum of art is on exhibit there. John T. Riddle, the artist who is the focus of this show, was a...
On July 4th, CNN’s website featured photographs of drawings done by several ten-year-old migrant children who had been separated from their parents by US Customs and Border Protection. After their release from CBP, the Catholic Charities Humanitarian Respite Center,...
Eileen Cowin's solo exhibition at As Is comprises eight photographic works chosen from two series, "Mad Love," and "Kafka's Diary." Each of Cowin's pictures cleverly pairs two disparate photos whose strange vertical abutment evokes emotion and suggests open-ended...
‘What is Fun Hang?’ Begins the press release of Jools Braiman-Rothblatt’s summer exhibition at Karma International, presenting works by Alex Becerra, Py Born, Nick Farhi, Kim Fuck, Kezia Harrell, Ariana Papademetropoulos, Rachelle Sawatsky, Nicole-Antonia Spagnola,...
Richard Ehrlich is a photographer and a long time Malibu resident whose exhibition "27 Miles: Abstract Truth" is presented, in part, as a way to raise awareness and support for the California Community Foundation's Wildfire Relief Fund. Included in the sprawling...
Yes, it was a holiday weekend, but the art flag still waved after the fireworks and BBQ subsided. On Saturday at the Alfa Romeo Tango Gallery aboard the battleship U.S.S. Iowa in San Pedro – a perfect patriotic location for the holiday – Kio Griffith’s CORAL SEA, The...
Hanna Hur believes in art's power to generate supernatural experiences. By repetitively drawing geometric forms and fashioning chain mail sculptures link by link, she places herself in meditative states of mind receptive to subconscious thoughts; the resulting...
If math is not your strongest suite, then Todd Gray’s art will shape-shift your perceptions of geometry. Currently on display at the Riverside Art Museum, “Pop! New Works by Todd Gray,” celebrate the cartoon imagery associated with the Pop Art Movement of the late...
It’s summer and in cities like New York and London, galleries seem to take a little breather; we’ve all received the newsletters instructing "summer hours" observing en mass departure from the city on weekends. But with our temperate (mostly) climate, and the...
Alejandro Cardenas' paintings present surreal myths woven partly from the artist's personal memories. The title of his show, "Calusa Garden," refers to a park near his childhood home on Key Biscayne, Florida. The periwinkle blue skies and green forests in paintings...
Before fashionable Londoners removed most of the iconic red phone boxes from their streets—and converted them into enviable shower cubicles—they functioned not only for telephonic missives but printed dispatches as well. Babysitters were sought, religious entreaties...
Dear Reader, Traveling can sometimes seem like a pursuit for the privileged. But many of us have the wanderlust, and even the poorest of the poor have been known to get around. I have one friend that globe-trots from “residency to residency.” This is her strategy for...
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