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Clayton Schiff: ‘Close Quarters’ Cinematic and Dreamlike Fragmentations Suggest an Unknown Journey Into the Unconscious
Clayton Schiff Close Quarters Harkawik February 11 - March 25, 2023 Clayton Schiff's paintings metaphorically depict psychological states and emotions that everyone can relate to. While his characters have some realistic qualities, they are for the most part...
MOCA Announces Its Annual Gala
The Museum of Contemporary Art has announced its annual Gala on Saturday April 15, 2023 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in the Little Tokyo neighborhood. This year presented by Tiffany & Co., the MOCA Gala will celebrate the much...
Gracie DeVito at Overduin & Co
Overduin & Co. is presenting “Breaker’s Edit” by Gracie DeVito. The exhibition will feature a group of new paintings and sculptures. The show runs March 11th through April 22, 2023 DeVito’s is an art feeding on contingencies. Calling up...
Charles Arnoldi A Constantly Expanding Vocabulary of Artistic Expression
Ohio-born, Los Angeles-based abstract painter, printmaker and sculptor, Charles Arnoldi, whose 50-year passion for the material world, a commitment to experimentation and a tireless focus on studio production – and whose work has been exhibited in galleries including...
L.A. Louver Presents Gajin Fujita
L.A. Louver is presenting a new, transformational body of work by Gajin Fujita. Created between 2020 and 2023, the paintings and drawings in True Colors demonstrate radical technical and thematic developments in Fujita’s oeuvre as the artist...
Gerhard Richter at David Zwirner, New York
The exhibition presents a group of Richter’s last paintings, made in 2016–2017; a number of these abstract oil paintings will be shown here for the first time. Though Richter completed his last paintings in 2017, his dynamic practice continues...
William Kentridge: ‘In Praise of Shadows’ Exploring Past and Present Injustices
William Kentridge In Praise of Shadows The Broad November 12, 2022 - April 9, 2023 The first work I saw by the South African-based artist William Kentridge was in Germany at Documenta X in 1997. On view was the mesmerizing, just under nine-minute animation Felix in...
Desert X Returns to Coachella Valley
After the 2022 Desert X exhibition was presented in the ancient Saudi Arabian city of AIUIa, the immersive art exhibition now returns to Coachella Valley, exhibiting works from eleven artists from Europe, North America, and Southeast Asia....
Jean Lowe: Light and Space at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
Jean Lowe: Light and Space now at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles is an exhibition of new paintings, sculptures, photographs, and video, on view in Gallery 2 and Gallery 3 from March 11 – April 22, 2023. Weaving cultural critique with humor, visual...
Intersect Palm Springs An Annual Celebration of Visual Art and Design
Intersect Palm Springs An Annual Art & Design Fair Various Galleries & Makers February 8 - 12, 2023 In the Coachella Valley, a recent explosion of art was both ignited and relished by gallerists, art lovers, and makers alike. Swarms of guests strutted their...
Louise Nevelson at Pace Los Angeles
Running from March 11 to April 29, 2023 the show will feature works created by the artist between the 1950s and 1980s. Marking the fifth exhibition dedicated to Nevelson’s work ever mounted in Los Angeles, this immersive presentation will...
Joan Mitchell Foundation Sends Cease-and-Desist to Louis Vuitton
The Joan Mitchell Foundation has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Louis Vuitton after the brand used several works by Mitchell in an advertising campaign, despite having been explicitly denied permission to do so. Vuitton recently released a...
Mungo Thomson: ‘Time Life’ Drawing Viewers In and Holding Their Attention
Mungo Thomson Time Life Karma, Los Angeles January 14 - March 4, 2023 Time Life is an installation by Mungo Thomson consisting of eight short stop motion animations that cycle through pages of books accompanied by soundtracks composed by Andrea Centazzo and Pierre...
Anish Kapoor at Regen Projects
Regen Projects is presenting a new body of large-scale paintings by renowned artist Anish Kapoor. Over the last 40 years, Kapoor has engaged a diverse range of media and materials to probe the qualities and contradictions of form and perception....
LACMA Acquires Largest Collection of Blockchain Artworks
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has announced the first and largest collection of artworks minted on blockchain to enter an American art museum. Thanks to a generous gift from collector Cozomo de’ Medici, 22 digital artworks by a...
Elizabeth McGrath Reflections From a Low-Brow Artist
Recently, ArtNowLA sat down with a queen of the pop surrealism scene, Elizabeth McGrath, at her cozy home in Pasadena, CA, to catch up on her recent activities and glean insights into the life of an artist. Born in Los Angeles in 1971, McGrath, self-taught, has been...
Pedro Pedro at the Hole, Los Angeles
The Hole has a new exhibition of paintings and drawings by Pedro Pedro: Table, Fruits, Flowers and Cakes. The exhibit runs through April 29, 2023. For his third solo show with The Hole, LA-based artist Pedro Pedro (b. 1986) includes a variety of...
Daniel Arsham: Wherever You Go, There You Are at OCMA
The Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) is presenting Daniel Arsham’s first major solo museum exhibition in the United States. Running February 15–June 4, 2023, Daniel Arsham: Wherever You Go, There You Are brings together a collection of over 40...
Calder/Tuttle: ‘Tentative’ Relationships and Conversations Between Two Exhibitions
Calder/Tuttle Tentative Pace Gallery/Kordansky Gallery; Richard Tuttle/Alexander Calder/Tuttle January 21 - February 25, 2023 To fully experience Calder/Tuttle: Tentative one must cross La Brea Avenue and visit both David Kordansky and Pace Galleries. On view at...
Clayton Schiff: Close Quarters at Harkawik
Harkawik's new show with Clayton Schiff, Close Quarters, is the third time the artist has shown at the gallery and will run from Feb 11 to March 25, 2023. In eight new canvases, Schiff probes domestic life, inward escapism, the lives of others,...