Christopher Murphy: ‘Tangle’ Combining Abstraction and Representation
Christopher Murphy Tangle Billis Williams Gallery January 7 - February 18, 2023 Since his first exhibitions in the early 2000s, Christopher Murphy has presented paintings and works on paper, often derived from found photographs. Murphy looks closely at both people...
Uta Barth: ‘Peripheral Vision’ Perception and the Act of Looking
Uta Barth Peripheral Vision Getty Center November 15 - February 19, 2023 Uta Barth has been exploring the way light interacts with walls, surfaces and spaces throughout her career. The work is often minimal, showing empty areas or flattened planes and it relies on...
Alia Ahmad: ‘A Meadow…from a dream’ Emotionally Charged, Elusive Landscapes
Alia Ahmad A Meadow...from a dream Kohn Gallery November 5, 2022 - January 14, 2023 At Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles, Saudi Arabian artist Alia Ahmad makes her debut in the United States with a solo show of emotionally charged, elusive landscapes. As the show’s title...
Rammellzee: ‘Gothic Futurism’ A Potent Reflection of Inner and Outer Worlds
Rammellzee Gothic Futurism Jeffrey Deitch November 5 - January 14, 2023 Instrumental in having introduced elements of the avant-garde into hip-hop culture, Rammellzee (1960-2010) was a New York-based visual artist and musician who, to many, may need no introduction....
David Hockney: ’20 Flowers and Some Bigger Pictures’ More Complex Works Continue to Wow Viewers
David Hockney 20 Flowers and Some Bigger Pictures LA Louver November 16, 2022 - January 7, 2023 The combination of his versatility and his ability to embrace new technologies and methods of working sets David Hockney apart from many other artists of his generation....
Shahzia Sikander: ‘Radiant Dissonance’ Themes of Boundlessness, Feminine Divinity and Duality
Shahzia Sikander Radiant Dissonance Sean Kelly Gallery November 19, 2022 - January 7, 2023 On view at Sean Kelly Gallery, New York-based artist Shahzia Sikander debuts her first solo show in Los Angeles with a sundry of mediums including 2D, 3D, and even film. While...
Annie Lapin: ‘Contours of the Vast’ Grappling with a Bombardment of Endless Information
Annie Lapin Contours of the Vast Shulamit Nazarian November 12 - December 17, 2022 Fascinated by how we perceive the world around us, Los Angeles-based painter Annie Lapin presents us with a new kind of visual challenge. In her most recent paintings, windows into...
Nancy Holt: ‘Locating Perception’ Examining the Act of Looking
Nancy Holt Locating Perception Sprueth Magers October 28, 2022 - January 14, 2023Nancy Holt is best known for her iconic Sun Tunnels (1973-76). But in addition to making land art, site specific installations and sculptures, Holt (1938-2014) was also a prolific...
La Quinta Art Celebration From the Whimsical to the Sophisticated
La Quinta Art Celebration La Quinta Civic Center La Quinta, California November 10-13, 2022 With numerous canopies strewn across curvy lawns surrounding a charming lake and fountain, a recent art fair in the low desert offered the perfect excuse to take a...
Daniel Dove: ‘reAnimal’ Exploring the Familiar Against the Unknown
Daniel Dove reAnimal Philip Martin Gallery October 29 - November 26, 2022 In the exhibition Picasso Cut Papers (Hammer Museum October 1 - December 31, 2022), numerous animal forms emerge from folded and cut pieces of paper. Picasso had the ability to maximize the...
Makan Negahban: ‘Collisions’ Turning Off Our Analytical Minds
Makan Negahban Collisions Lois Lambert Gallery September 10 - November 5, 2022 Makan Negahban is an artist who paints with unbridled emotion. In his solo show Collisions, currently on view at Lois Lambert Gallery, a profusion of figurative paintings on unstretched...
Lucy McRae: ‘Future Sensitive’ Explorations Relating to a Post-Apocalyptical World
Lucy McRae Future Sensitive Honor Fraser October 1 - December 17, 2022Lucy McRae describes herself as a science fiction artist, filmmaker, inventor and body architect. While the terms inventor and filmmaker do not need clarification, what does it mean to be a body...
Stan VanDerBeek: ‘Panels for the Walls of the World: Phase II’ Understanding the Power of the Media and Technology
Stan VanDerBeek Panels for the Walls of the World: Phase II The Box LA September 17 - November 5, 2022 Stan VanDerBeek (1927-1984) was an experimental filmmaker and visual artist best known for his live action and animated films. These were often presented as multi-...
Laure Mary-Couégnias: ‘All or Nothing’ An In-Between Universe
Laure Mary-Couégnias All or Nothing Richard Heller Gallery September 10 - October 22, 2022 Existential, serene, meditative. In All or Nothing, on view at Richard Heller Gallery, artist Laure Mary-Couégnias has created a private realm where mundane household objects,...
Ayin Es: ‘This Land’ Contradicting Elements of Whimsy and Doom
Ayin Es This Land Craig Krull Gallery September 10 - October 22, 2022 In This Land, currently on view at Craig Krull Gallery, Joshua Tree -based artist Ayin Es reimagines desert life through a unique and playful lens, tinted with an overtly sardonic hue. Throughout,...
59th Venice Biennale: ‘The Milk of Dreams’ An Invitation to Look, See, Dream and Reflect
59th Venice Biennale The Milk of Dreams Various Site, Venice, Italy April 25 - November 27, 2022 The graphic identity for The 59th Venice Biennale (April 25 - November 27, 2022) is an image of eyes. The title The Milk of Dreams is taken from a book by Leonora...
Jinyoung Yu: ‘the LIFE II’ Conforming To and Questioning Societal Norms
Jinyoung Yu the LIFE II Shoshana Wayne Gallery August 6 - September 10, 2022 Jinyoung Yu's poly vinyl chloride (PVC) and fiber-reinforced plastic works are fascinating and unsettling sculptures that explore the disparity between the inner and outer self. Numerous...
Andrea Bowers Communicating her Involvement with Dedication to Social and Political Issues
Andrea Bowers Hammer Museum June 19 - September 4, 2022 Andrea Bowers is an artist and activist who has the uncanny ability to make sophisticated, beautiful and visually engaging artworks that communicate her involvement with and dedication to a wide range of social...
