During his year-long residency at the American Academy in Rome, Michael Queenland roamed the streets. Rome is a beautiful city to walk in, filled with ruins and monuments, but like any modern city, it is also cluttered with trash. The detritus—what was thrown...
In the late 1940s, Abstract Expressionism developed as an aesthetically pure style, stripped of the political content of 1930s Depression-era art, memorably dismissed by Arshile Gorky as “Poor art for poor people.” That attitude persisted until a counter-reaction set...
Gabriela Castillo, Hector, 2013, Cretacolor and charcoal on paper, 11 x 15 inches, courtesy of the artist. In our March/April 2018 issue, on Drawing. Read about Castillo's work and other artists in contributor Betty Ann Brown's article Seeing Reality, on page 34, and...
The opening movement of “Soul Recordings” is a polka-dot revelry, a bedazzled wake-up call, a cymbal-clap altarpiece, a plastic-bead trumpet blast, and a monster of a skull-ringed, glitter-bombed orchestral chord breaking in fuchsia major. This is Ebony G. Patterson’s...
"Drawing is still basically the same it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic." -Keith Haring, from Betty Ann Brown's piece. pg 34. The Drawing Issue, March-April 2018, hits newsstands today. Don Bachardy, Eli...
2017 has been a brilliant year for the movies. And they were good in so many ways, let me try to count them: They offered novel subject matter, woman falls in love with fish-man in The Shape of Water; a despised ex-athlete gets her cinema redemption in I, Tonya; a...
The 4th Annual gala at 800Main this past Saturday pulled out all the stops in creating a nexus for young leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators to engage in supporting a humanitarian cause, while being able to expand their art collection and have some fun too....
"Advertising fogs our daily lives less from its peculiar lies than from its peculiar truths," Daniel Boorstin declared in his 1962 book The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America. Seemingly truer than ever in our post-truth era, this notion offers an apt point of...
Pascual Sisto's immersive video installation Inside Out is a tour de force for both its technical accomplishments and its compelling, albeit obtuse and ambiguous narrative. Sisto has choreographed an approximately twenty-minute symphony of sound, lights and video,...
Bettina Hubby and Saskia Wilson-Brown's new online gallery debuted in the brick-and-mortar Bestor Architecture building on Hyperion in Silver Lake last Sunday, Feb 17. The place was packed with Chardonnay sippers provided by neighbors Silverlake Wine, accompanied by...
Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles opened three buzzy new gallery shows this Saturday: Louise Bourgeois: "The Red Sky;" Mark Bradford: "New Works;" and Geta Brătescu: "The Leaps of Aesop." Bradford’s large-scale, abstract paintings drew oohs and aahs for their stunning...
Did you know that PST isn't quite over? A few shows remain. If you missed key offerings, your best redress might be at Commonwealth & Council, whose main gallery Beatriz Cortez and Rafa Esparza have metamorphosed into a futurological forum for meditation on Latino...
Dion Johnson's abstract paintings inhabit hairline margins between technologic and handmade. The ten examples in "Feel the Sky," Johnson's decadal retrospective at Azusa Pacific University, chart his pictorial evolution while affirming his enduring interests. From...
Like most of the longer-standing buildings in the Fashion District in DTLA, their salient nature keeps them obscure. Unless its the Bendix Building with its glowing rooftop neon sign, it attracts art wanderers toward it like a moth to light. The building has made...
Given the fact that most spend their lives swathed in textiles, it's amazing how dismissively cloth is viewed. Concern for one's apparel is frequently considered a frivolous feminine purview; garments are treated as utilitarian throwaways to be manufactured in foreign...
In her last show with Rosenstein, Gisela Colon presented her first large free-standing object, a Parabolic Monolith that curved gracefully towards the gallery’s high ceiling and loomed over visitors. For Colon this was a notable translation of her light-and-space...
Entre le coucher de soleil et le clair de lune, les feux d’artifice nous appellent encore. There is something tragic about the decline of a great operatic voice. It’s a tragedy that encompasses all the smaller tragedies of decline – including our own individually...
Exciting art exhibitions opened all around town this past weekend, Eastside and West. At Durden and Ray in DTLA, “Book Club: Speedboat,” inspired by Renata Adler’s episodic 1976 novel, utilizes the concept of a book club to create a provocative, fun community event. A...
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