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SIGHTS UNSCENE Fashion at Frieze Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, 2022
COMICS Where the Wild Beasts Are
SIGHTS UNSCENE Superbowl Sunday at the Geffen Contemporary; “Das Zimmer” (The Room) in Pipilotti Rist Exhibition, Los Angeles, 2022
COMICS Joseph Wright of Derby
GALLERY ROUNDS: Tim Hawkinson PRJCTLA
Tim Hawkinson is full of surprises. He is an idiosyncratic artist who is at once a master craftsman, a scientist and a tinkerer who has an amazing facility with a wide range of materials and mediums. His works are precise and cerebral, yet often about the imprecisions...
SIGHTS UNSCENE Deinstalling artist Ning-Hsin Hu’s "Pressure Test" at Torrance Art Museum’s NOMAD show, Torrance, CA, 2021
COMICS A Bunch of Sour Grapes
OUTSIDE LA: Jennifer Bartlett Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Various sizes of square panels mostly covered with dots with groups of parallel lines and occasional fields of paint line the gallery walls of Locks Gallery in Jennifer Bartlett's installation "Recitative"—its title derived from a rhythmic free form vocal style of...
Bennett Roberts It’s About Time
Back in 2006, I approached Bennett Roberts at his gallery on Wilshire Boulevard with a bit of chagrin. The LA art dealer had always been nothing but nice, helpful and accommodating to me as a person and as an arts writer. So my heart was heavy when I had to break it...
Constance Mallinson Talking Trash: Figuratively and Abstractly
Constance Mallinson’s career has spanned the many vicissitudes of the art world, from Minimalism to Pattern and Decoration, through to postmodern conceptual strategies. More recently, she has created a form of realistic painting that draws from Modernist Abstraction...
Things Art Should Be Doing Decoder
Maggie West took over a large, dark space somewhere north of Frogtown last week and filled it with massive images of flowers, pulsating time-lapse photographed in UV light. The colors have weird harmonies: bad-acid Disney-villain purples and magentas, alien and dreamy...
SIGHTS UNSCENE Artist Ewedrt Hilgemann’s Sculpture Implosion Event, Royale Projects, Los Angeles, 2017
COMICS Future Features for Creative Creatures
SIGHTS UNSCENE Birth of a Foothill Fire, San Gabriel Valley, CA, 2019
COMICS Concerned Creative Artists Against Climate Change
Dozie Kanu’s “to prop and ignore” Manual Arts, Los Angeles
The sculptures in Dozie Kanu’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles flirt with functionality but refuse to reveal a clear purpose. Instead, these stylish hybrids possess the elegance of aspirational interior design and the subtle menace of dystopian relics. Many of...
Remarks on Color: Subterranean Smog September's Hue
Subterranean Smog is not one color or another, but a sickening miasma of grays, browns and a lingering smoky orange. Drawn from the bowels of the earth, SS identifies with the antihero -- Pig Pen in Charlie Brown, Sir Gawain, the Green Knight, Alex from a Clockwork...
