by Natalie Pashaie | Oct 22, 2018 | Reviews
Tomoo Gokita Blum & Poe September 8 – October 27, 2018 Nestled within Blum & Poe’s expansive first floor galleries is a series of 2018 works by Tokyo-based painter Tomoo Gokita. Though nearly entirely monochrome, the paintings are not lacking in...
by Victoria Looseleaf | Oct 19, 2018 | The DaVinci Questionnaire
The Los Angeles and Vancouver-based self-taught figurative and contemporary surrealist painter whose modified oil and egg tempera techniques originally used by the Old Masters, creates works of magical realism – her subjects are often young, hauntingly innocent and...
by Jody Zellen | Oct 12, 2018 | Reviews
Paco Pomet Melancholia Richard Heller Gallery September 8 – October 20, 2018 What would happen if the natural landscape developed sores? Mountains and rivers would ooze red, alluding to something abject beneath the surface. The documentation of the recent...
by Natalie Pashaie | Oct 9, 2018 | Reviews
Maysha Mohamedi OAR TATIG The Lodge September 8 – October 13, 2018 Situated in East Hollywood, in a complex that was home to Ed Ruscha’s first studio, The Lodge, like many contemporary galleries, is wrapped in layers of history. It is fitting, then, that the...
by Victoria Looseleaf | Oct 7, 2018 | The DaVinci Questionnaire
The Manhattan-born only child of Communist union organizers, and American guerilla poster artist whose gnarled, grotesque depictions of U.S. political figures are immediately recognizable and have been printed and plastered across America – from the Iran-Contra...
