Vestiges of the past can be found all over the West; dead and dying towns are replete with inklings of historic spirit in the forms of half-buried artifacts, wild animals and deserted buildings. Entering Catherine Fairbanks’ exhibition,” Two Chimneys” evoked the...
Carmen Argote is a Los Angeles-based multimedia artist who works directly in response to particular locations. Last year, she created a site- specific installation at the MAK Center where she traced the interior and exterior footprint of the Schindler house using...
With an observer’s detachment in the face of dire predictions of humanity’s demise from the rapidly developing field of artificial intelligence (AI), in “The Earth is Flat,” James Georgopoulos lifts from a trove of pop culture imagery adapted from film and other...
Joseph Heidecker’s collection of embroidered photographs at Craig Krull Gallery is a celebration of textile fauvism. The altered vintage photographs elicit a dissonant response, with subjects’ faces veiled in thread in an almost painterly manner that is reminiscent of...
Perhaps it is a bit cliché to read Julie Beaufils’ French nationality into her work, but there is certainly something undeniably chic, irreverent and casually erotic about her work. Her new paintings and drawings at Overduin & Co. filter desire through cool...
In 2011, Peter Opheim abandoned abstraction and began sculpting small maquettes out of colored clay, which he’s continued to transform into monumental oil paintings that uncannily capture the sculptural quality of his small-scale models. Most of his initial pieces...
The New York and Berlin-based artist and e-flux mainstay Julieta Aranda has long been concerned with the workings of the social arena through its medium of human interaction, and its reciprocal relationships with both the production of the self as subject, and the...
Nicole Eisenman's two New York shows are featured and reviewed by contributor Stephen Maine.
Last Wednesday evening we entered a mystical alternate reality better known as a Hammer Museum courtyard performance by WIFE with Dorian Wood and Hecuba called "Enter The Cave." Created by three Los Angeles-based dancers, Jasmine Albuquerque, Kristen Leahy and Nina...
In their recent collaborative exhibition, Martin Durazo and Kottie Paloma have created a dialogue that is both socially conscious and willfully playful. Durazo's raw canvas works incorporate an odd array of materials including acrylic paint, found macramé, spray...
Zine fanatics, toy enthusiasts, pop culture nuts, and all-around lowbrow lovers can rejoice in Vincent Price Art Muesum’s current show, “Silent Wonderment: Exploring the World of Giant Robot”. The exhibition is divided into sections for each main artist—including...
Art Basel is serious business, with some 280 galleries taking part—most of them on two floors of Building 2 at the Messeplatz, Basel's sprawling convention center. The action starts with two days of previews on Tuesday and Wednesday, before the fair opens up to the...
It’s hard to recall the last time we walked into a gallery not located in someone’s college apartment that smelled so strongly of weed. That is precisely when we remembered that we weren’t at just any gallery. We were at Dem Passwords. A particularly unique gallery...
The art world has been revisiting issues of identity and identity politics in recent months (see, e.g., the current issue of ArtForum), which had their own ‘second wave’ in the late 20th century borne largely upon the convergence of conceptualism, especially in its...
Elliott Hundley's fourth exhibition at Regen Projects once again takes its narrative cue from literature, specifically Antonin Artaud’s play, There Is No More Firmament, also the title of his show. These mostly large-scale works possess a dynamism of movement, shape...
For his exhibition, “Sunflower Seed” at Team (Bungalow), Portland born, New York based artist/programmer Tabor Robak has created custom built PCs with high definition display screens on which generative abstractions morph constantly. Robak's technical prowess creating...
With June welcoming gay pride across the country, what better time to display and celebrate the range of LGBTQ, here called “queer,” arts in one of the largest cities in the U.S., Los Angeles. “Queer Biennial II: Yooth: Loss and Found”—whose title plays on the...
Imagine being able to chart the interior of someone's brain—to witness ideas as they begin to take shape between ecstatically firing neurons. This is “intermedial” artist Marc Fichou's obsession as evidenced in his most recent exhibition “Outside-In.” Fichou succeeds...
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