Eleanor Swordy: ‘Earth Signs’ Issues of Abstraction and Representation
Eleanor Swordy Earth Signs Moskowitz Bayse July 11 - August 29, 2020 In her latest exhibition, Earth Signs, Brooklyn-based artist Eleanor Swordy continues to paint individuals and groups of abstracted, bulbous figures. Often depicted from above or straight on,...
Jackson Casady: ‘Peccadillo Soup’ Strange and Magical Images
Jackson Casady Peccadillo Soup Richard Heller Gallery July 11 - August 8, 2020 Jackson Casady is a young Los Angeles artist (just 24 years old) whose surreal and satirical paintings cull their subject matter from the entertainment industry, popular culture and the...
Jamison Carter: ‘All Season Radials’ Merging Drawn and Sculpted Elements
Jamison Carter All Season Radials Klowden Mann June 20 - July 30, 2020 In his exhibition, All Season Radials, Jamison Carter presents urethane resin works that fill the walls and floor of the gallery. These new pieces are made by combining poured urethane resin with...
Simone Leigh Exploring the Power of the Sculpted Female Figure
Simone Leigh David Kordansky Gallery May 26 - July 11, 2020 Following solo exhibitions at both the Hammer Museum (2016-17), the Guggenheim Museum (2019) and a large-scale public art project currently installed on New York's High Line, Brooklyn-based, multi-media...
Michael Tedja: ‘The Color Guide Series’ Navigating Through Disparate Images
Michael Tedja The Color Guide Series Chimento Contemporary January 18 - June 30, 2020 Because of COVID-19, many galleries went into hibernation soon after they opened their winter/spring exhibitions and therefore never took them down. Amsterdam-based Michael Tedja's...
Rachel Hayes: ‘Land Lines’ Exploring Perceptual Phenomena
Rachel Hayes Land Lines Lowell Ryan Projects May 16 - June 27, 2020 (by appointment only) Rachel Hayes' exhibition Land Lines at Lowell Ryan Projects is a formally elegant and beautiful installation consisting of twelve (150 x 120 inch) fabric banners that are...
Fran Siegel: ‘Suspended Drawings in Suspended Animation’ Creating a Coherent Whole
Seam & Transfer, an exhibition of works by Fran Siegel and Paul Scott, opened at Wilding Cran Gallery on March 20th, just as Los Angeles was ordered to shelter in place. While the gallery posted ample photo and video documentation on social media, nothing really...
Bill Barminski: ‘Experimenting with the Unexpected’ Work in the Time of COVID-19
Bill Barminski is full of surprises. He is an imaginative and versatile artist who has worked in a wide range of media to create projects that are humorous and charming while also socially and politically astute. Before immersing himself in digital media, Barminski...
Stas Orlovski: ‘The running man has nowhere to go’ Permission to Play
Creating during the Covid-19 pandemic has meant different things for different artists. For many, it is a time for reflection and experimentation as day to day life is far from normal. As art professors are struggling to teach online, presenting lessons via Zoom, the...
Austyn Weiner: ‘Head’ Processing the Past and the Present
Austyn Weiner HEAD Soul Car Garage By Appointment Only Los Angeles-based artist Austyn Weiner seems to be thriving in quarantine. This makes sense considering she is an artist whose very practice “denotes and engages a recourse in chaos” (artist’s website). Born in...
Eileen Cowin: ‘A culture of anxiety’ Precisely Visualized Narratives
Eileen Cowin was preparing for her May exhibition at as-is.la which has been postponed due to Covid-19. In many ways, the work for that show encapsulates our global uncertainty and the new fear that this pandemic has unleashed. We are all very much like Cowin's "Deer...
Group Show: ‘To Bough and To Bend’ Nature Provides a Respite
To Bough and To Bend Group Show Bridge Projects March 11 - June 27, 2020 To Bough and To Bend is a large group exhibition curated on the subject of trees. The exhibition takes its point of departure from a poem by Mary Oliver ("When I Am Among Trees") and focuses on...
Jennifer West: ‘Future Forgetting’ Preserving the Memory of Objects
Jennifer West Future Forgetting Joan Los Angeles February 28 - April 26, 2020 The centerpiece of Jennifer West's exhibition, Future Forgetting is a large projection of a nine-minute film originally shot on the banks of the Los Angeles River in 2016. Entitled 6th...
Rodrigo Valenzuela: ‘Journeyman’ Labor Intensive Artistic Practices
Rodrigo Valenzuela Journeyman Klowden Mann February 29 - May 1, 2020 Upon entering Klowden Mann's gallery space, it is impossible not to be immediately taken by its transformation. For his exhibition Journeyman, Rodrigo Valenzuela has fabricated a raised plywood floor...
Don Suggs: ‘Face-Off’ Insightful Musings on the Human Condition
Don Suggs Face-Off LA Louver March 11 - May 30, 2020 Don Suggs' post-humous exhibition, Face-Off comes as a bit of a surprise. A beloved professor and mentor, Suggs (1945-2019) was well known for his paintings of concentric circles and photographs in which he...
Lauren Halsey: New Works Embodying Social Consciousness
Lauren Halsey: New Works David Kordansky Gallery January 25 - March 14, 2020Walking into Lauren Halsey’s latest exhibition at David Kordansky is like being transported to an electric – and simultaneously nostalgic and futuristic - maze. A Los Angeles-born contemporary...
Mark Dean Veca & Mark Steven Greenfield: ‘Graphic Subversion’ The Power of the Mark
Mark Dean Veca & Mark Steven Greenfield Graphic Subversion California State University Northridge (CSUN) Main Gallery February 1 - March 14, 2020 To make one’s mark is an ancient impulse. Indeed, the earliest known design made by humans to communicate this...
Karl Haendel: ‘Double Dominant’ Subjective and Personal Images of the Body
Karl Haendel Double Domination Vielmetter Los Angeles January 25 - March 7, 2020 Many years ago, in a ranging wind storm, Karl Haendel and I played tennis. A few years later, I asked him about his tennis game and he replied that sadly he had to give it up as he...
