“What the Constitution Means To Me” Schooled By Heidi Schreck
What the Constitution Means to Me Mark Taper Forum January 12 - February 28, 2020 Who knew the Constitution could be such a laugh riot? Okay, so if it’s not exactly a guffaw-inducing extravaganza, it does provide an evening of theater that is particularly relevant...
Kathleen Henderson: ‘Watch Me Make You Disappear’ Expressing the Dire State of Our World
Kathleen Henderson Watch Me Make You Disappear Track 16 January 4 - February 1, 2020 Kathleen Henderson has a facile hand and a keen wit. She mines the news media for content and rather than make didactic and preachy work about the state of the world, she offers...
Shirin Neshat: ‘I Will Greet the Sun Again’ A Testament to a Sustained Celebration of Culture
Shirin Neshat I Will Greet the Sun Again The Broad October 19 2019 - February 16 2020On current display at The Broad Museum is a survey exhibition of the works of Iranian contemporary artist Shirin Neshat. A ticketed event, the show stands out: Neshat’s often...
Linda Besemer: ‘An Abundance of Errors’ Images of Graphical Chaos and Disorder
Linda Besemer An Abundance of Errors Vielmetter Los Angeles November 2 - December 21, 2019 It has been five years since her last solo exhibition, and during this time Linda Besemer has been experimenting. Her new works in An Abundance of Errors are...
Octavio Abúndez: ‘Facts, contradictions, puzzles, an explanation and a few lies Expansive and Amorphous Utopian Ideals
Octavio Abúndez Facts, contradictions, puzzles, an explanation and a few lies Kohn Gallery November 9 - January 18, 2020 In Facts, contradictions, puzzles, an explanation and a few lies, Guadalajara-based, mixed media artist Octavio Abúndez presents large brightly...
Russell Crotty: ‘Paintings Distant and Perilous’ Whimsical, Magical, Haunting
Russell Crotty Paintings Distant and Perilous Shoshana Wayne Gallery October 20 - January 25, 2020 Russell Crotty is an astute observer. He has spent endless hours drawing surfers and surf spots along the California coast, as well as looking up into the night sky...
Laura Karetzky: ‘Ratio: Poems’ Intimate and Personal Works
Laura Karetzky Ratio: Poems Lora Schlesinger Gallery October 26 - December 7, 2019 In Ratio: Poems, Laura Karetzky creates paintings within paintings. These intimate and personal works construct narratives that bring people together while also...
Phillip K. Smith III: ’10 Columns’ Overwhelmed By Successive Fields of Light
Phillip K. Smith III 10 Columns Bridge Projects October 12, 2019 - February 16, 2020 10 Columns, the inaugural exhibition at Bridge Projects is an immersive installation by Phillip K. Smith III. It is an exploration of light and color via programmed...
Kenny Scharf: ‘Optimistically Melting!’ No Place Like Home
Kenny Scharf Optimistically Melting! Honor Fraser September 7 - November 16, 2019 Los Angeles-born artist Kenny Scharf is known for his colorful painting and praised for his street art. Having gotten his BFA from New York’s School of Visual Arts in 1980,...
Charles Gaines: ‘Palm Trees and Other Works’ A Rigor and Specificity to Investigations
Charles Gaines Palm Trees and Other Works Hauser & Wirth September 14, 2019 - January 5, 2020 Since the early 1970s, Charles Gaines has been making serial artworks in which he carefully maps aspects of nature, transforming living forms like trees...
Tammi Campbell Presenting Male Artists as Relics
Tammi Campbell Boring Art Anat Ebgi September 7 - October 26, 2019 I have always been drawn to art about art. I am continually intrigued by the question, "Why do artists remake works by other artists?" I have contemplated appropriationist strategies...
Judy Chicago Reimagining Female-Centered Art
Judy Chicago Jeffrey Deitch September 7 - November 2, 2019 Judy Chicago’s latest exhibition at Jeffrey Deitch feels right at home: The show features work that was developed in Los Angeles and Fresno between the years 1965 and 1972. Not only are the...
Mary Corse : ‘A Survey in Light’ Following Her Curiosity
Mary Corse Mary Corse: A Survey in Light LACMA July 28 - November 11, 2019 You may have heard about the Mary Corse survey exhibition currently on view at LACMA. Before travelling to the West Coast, it was on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art in...
Christian Marclay: ‘Sound Stories’ The Multi-Sensory Possibilities of Social Media
Christian Marclay Sound Stories LACMA August 25 - October 14, 2019 Some might ask "What is Snapchat?" Snapchat would answer: "Snapchat is a camera—no, not the kind with a flashbulb and a lens cap. It’s a new kind of camera that’s connected to your...
Terry Allen: ‘The Exact Moment It Happens in the West’ A Cutting, Engaging and Inventive Imagination
Terry Allen The Exact Moment It Happens in the West L.A. Louver June 26 - September 28, 2019 Terry Allen is first and foremost a story teller. He is a gifted musician and artist who also makes amazing paintings, drawings, sculptures and installations...
Alwin Lay: ‘Rollout’ Illusory Properties of Photography
Alwin Lay Rollout Nino Mier Gallery July 20 - August 31, 2019 Alwin Lay is a German artist based in Cologne whose photographic and video works are smart puns in which incongruous objects are coupled or composited to create delicately balanced sculptures...
Eric Fischl: ‘Complications From an Already Unfulfilled Life’ Communicating More Than Meets the Eye
Eric Fischl Complications From an Already Unfulfilled Life Sprüth Magers Los Angeles June 19 - August 30, 2019 Scenes well-suited for summertime decorate the gallery walls: people nude and semi-nude, clad in bathing suits, situated within skies and...
Steve Roden: ‘could/cloud’ Myriad Elements Create A Unified Whole
Steve Roden could/cloud Vielmetter Los Angeles July 13 - August 24, 2019 Steve Roden is a versatile artist who easily flows between different media. His current exhibition at Vielmetter Los Angeles includes both large and small paintings on canvas,...
