Last Thursday night I braved the fiercely blustering wind and joined the trickle of funky-fresh San Francisco locals snaking through the industrial Dogpatch neighborhood, to land at Minnesota Street Project (MSP), a set of warehouses tucked under the 280 Freeway which...
Tomm El-Saieh's paintings evoke the mystical feeling of hearing incantations in strange tongues. Born of mixed heritage in Port-au-Prince, El-Saieh migrated to Miami at the age of 12. The artist is steeped in Western and Caribbean art traditions; he co-directs an...
Argentina sometimes tosses the world an indescribably singular artist. There was Leon Ferrari, whose Vietnam-era political pieces inspired widespread spite and repression. And now there is Guillermo Kuitca. Since his 2007 Venice Biennale showing, he is perhaps his...
There are indeed ghost towns, despite the well-known edict by Daniel Burnham. Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical...
Samuel Little is by all accounts a despicable human being. Convicted of the strangulation murders of three women, he has confessed to 90 killings between 1975 and 2005. FBI agents who interviewed him said Little remembered his victims and the killings in great detail,...
Beauty and the grotesque, foreign and familiar poetically intersect in “the living + soft center” at Kate’s Little Angel, an exhibition space in a renovated garage in the back of Kate Eringer’s home (Eringer is contributor to Artillery's Last Night column). Curated by...
This past Saturday was stacked with a number of intriguing openings, so we decided to join the sea of gallerygoers in a valiant effort to attend as many as possible. First on our list was Wilding Cran Gallery for their opening of Stephen Neidich’s "Making the Rounds...
Tandem shows by Candice Lin and Genesis Belanger divide François Ghebaly into two curious realms as materially engaging as they are thought-provoking. Each artist's work is replete with backstories of historical and anthropological purport. Incorporating weaving,...
Last Thursday night I walked amongst the hoards of tourists, along the Hollywood walk of fame and arrived at my destination – a storefront in the corner of a strip-mall with blackout windows and no light coming from inside. Upon opening the doors to Freedman...
Greyhounds sprint in front of Frank Stella paintings; songbirds perch before Rothkos; a metallurgist pours glowing popcorn from a giant crucible: These are just a few goings-on in "All of the Above," Ralph Allen Massey's entertaining painting show at bG Gallery....
Michael Massenburg’s paintings eddy about the boundaries of figuration and abstraction. The artist’s acrylic on paper and acrylic and collage on panel, earth-toned works, which seem to encircle first the one, and then, the other mode of painting, express an intuitive...
A wide range of passion-filled projects added excitement to the art scene this past weekend, ranging from a stellar three-artist exhibition at Castelli to the 2019 COLA event at Barnsdall Art Park’s Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. On Saturday night, the moving,...
In the early 1980's, George Condo coined the neologism "artificial realism" to describe his unique manner of interpreting human contrivance through emotively exaggerative paintings. Rather than growing stale, his work only seems to increase in relevance as reality...
Littered with newsprint—though not from an actual newspaper, but instead, oversized diptychs (34 x 21 inches) printed with news photographs and headlines drawn from The New York Times—the gallery floor in York Chang’s installation The Signal and the Noise (all works...
This past Saturday there were an exciting array of openings to attend, but top on my list was in lieu gallery’s opening "Body remnants, and other impressions." The exhibition organized by Kate Eringer featured work by Jack C. Baker, Alice Jacobs, Bennet Schlesinger,...
Heidi Hahn's grandly scaled paintings lend iconic status to plain-Jane women going about quotidian routines. Breezily limned in free-flowing brushstrokes and translucent washes, her anonymous characters appear lost in dreamy, meditative worlds even as they shop,...
Roy Dowell seems to be forever attempting to reconcile physical actualities or their aftermaths with moments of apprehension or anticipation, agents or instrumentalities with their symbolic equivalents. Collage is his medium par excellence, but in recent years, his...
As noted in 1001 Things Everyone Should Know about African American History (1996) by Jeffrey Stewart, Althea Gibson received her first tennis racket in 1940, being barely a teenager. She was not only the first African American to win a women’s singles at Wimbledon;...
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