Orikdeh Torabi: ‘Give them all they want’ Exploring Issues of Patriarchy
Orikdeh Torabi Give them all they want Richard Heller GalleryJune 22 - August 3, 2019 Give them all they want refers to men: the subject and objects of Orkideh Torabi's gaze. Her colorful paintings, created by screening fabric dye onto cotton, explore...
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Paul Heyer: ‘Blue Boy’ An Ode to Transformation
Paul Heyer Blue Boy Night Gallery June 1 - July 13, 2019 In his fourth solo exhibition at the Night Gallery, Chicago-based artist Paul Heyer presents a collection of new paintings (all works 2019), focused on transience and visualizing - for lack of...
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Holly Coulis Playing with Perspective and Simultaneity
Holly Coulis Philip Martin Gallery May 4 - July 6, 2019 Holly Coulis paints shapes in soft muted colors. These shapes represent organic and inorganic things, often what might be found in a domestic space like a kitchen. Within her abstract compositions,...
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Greg ‘Craola’ Simkins: ‘Let The Outside In’ Fantastical, Familiar, Ferocious
Greg 'Craola' Simkins Let The Outside In KP Projects May 18 - June 15, 2019 Having explored the worlds of street art, video games, and clothing, Greg ‘Craola’ Simkins is accustomed to making art that is immersive. Though his new body of work is a...
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Ruby Neri: New Sculptures Fertility Goddesses for the Contemporary Imagination
Ruby Neri New Sculptures David Kordansky Gallery May 11 - June 15, 2019 California native Ruby Neri has worked with paint, plaster, ceramic and more. Daughter of a sculptor and a graphic designer, Neri’s investment in art is rather inherent. Her father...
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Robert Rauschenberg: ‘The 1/4 Mile or 2 Furlong Piece’ A Career Encapsulated
Robert Rauschenberg The 1/4 Mile or 2 Furlong Piece LACMA October 28, 2018 - June 9, 2019 How to picture 1/4 mile? Exactly how far is it? A 1/4 mile is one lap around a track. Imagine artworks placed side by side along that perimeter…it is quite a...
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Robert Russell Infusing Reproductions With New Life
Robert Russell Book Paintings Anat Ebgi April 27 - June 1, 2019 Each of Robert Russell's large-scale oil paintings depict the cover of an art catalogue. As painted objects, these books lay flat, but are also awkwardly positioned at a diagonal (not...
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Mel Bochner A Deep Dive Into the Possible
Mel Bochner Marc Selwyn Fine Art March 30 - May 18, 2019 ‘Blah,’ according to the dictionary, is defined as dull or unexciting, something without meaningful content. Used in a sentence, it might read "this game has been very blah." Blah can also be used to...
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Vanessa German: ‘$lang: Short Language in Soul’ Modern Day Deities
Vanessa German $lang: Short Language in Soul Gavlak Los Angeles in Association with Pavel Zoubok Fine Art March 22 - May 25, 2019 Vanessa German is a Los Angeles-raised, now Pittsburgh-based artist, poet and community activist. Though self-taught, her...
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Christina Quarles: ‘But I Woke Jus’ Tha Same’ Moving From the Representational to the Gestural
Christina Quarles But I Woke Jus' Tha Same Regen Projects April 6 - May 9, 2019 In her first solo exhibition at Regen Projects, Christina Quarles creates a melange of paintings and drawings in which figures and styles meld. The works are purposely...
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Alexandra Bell: ‘Counternarratives’ Questioning How A News Story Is Framed
Alexandra Bell Counternarratives Charlie James Gallery April 6 - May 4, 2019 In 2017, large-scale printouts of articles from the New York Times focusing on issues of race started appearing on walls around New York City. This public intervention was...
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Fred Wilson: ‘Afro Kismet’ Examining Representations of Blackness
Fred Wilson Afro Kismet Maccarone March 16 - May 25, 2019 Fred Wilson, a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant recipient in 1999, is well known for his installations that reframe and recontextualize art historical objects and cultural symbols relating to...
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Tim Hawkinson: ‘New Works’ Unpredictable Physical Conundrums
Tim Hawkinson New Works Denk Gallery February 14 - March 30, 2019 Tim Hawkinson’s much anticipated exhibition at Denk Gallery is a major coup for a small, two-year old gallery. The acclaimed L.A.-based artist (represented by Pace Gallery in New York)...
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‘People’ A Smorgasbord of Styles
People Jeffrey Deitch February 9 - April 6, 2019 No two people are exactly the same. We are all shapes, sizes and colors. So, it comes as no surprise that an exhibition at Jeffrey Deitch entitled People would be a smorgasbord of styles, attitudes and...
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Gonzalo Lebrija Radiance Held in Aesthetic Arrest
Gonzalo Lebrija Veladuras Nocturnas Kohn Gallery January 19 - March 23, 2019 Gonzalo Lebrija’s hypnotic paintings, sculpture and video suspend the passage of time in ephemeral moments that have a mysteriously sublime quality. In his first exhibition at...
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Chris Engman: ‘Refraction’ Creating an Immersive Environment
Chris Engman Refraction Luis De Jesus Los Angeles February 16 - March 23, 2019 A photographic image represents the transformation of the three-dimensional world onto a flattened picture plane. In our mind's eye, we recreate the scene to understand the...
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David Hockney: ‘Something New in Painting (and Photography) [and even Printing] . . . Continued Studying and Observing the Diversity of Mankind …
David Hockney Something New in Painting (and Photography) [and even Printing]...Continued LA Louver February 7 - March 23, 2019 One of the most compelling and fascinating things about David Hockney's career, is his embrace of technology and his desire to...
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Ed Moses: ‘Through the Looking Glass’ Engaging with Gesture and Transparency
Ed MosesThrough the Looking GlassWilliam Turner GalleryJanuary 26 - April 30, 2019 Throughout his long and impressively productive career, Ed Moses (1926-2018) explored the myriad possibilities within abstraction. He was decidedly curious to experiment...
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