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...
Nick McPhail: ‘Windows’ Light and Color Filtered Through Architecture
Nick McPhail Windows Ochi Projects January 11 - February 15, 2020 Nick McPhail's paintings present aspects of the vernacular Los Angeles landscape that are often overlooked, focusing on moments and places that pass by unnoticed. Though the final works are paintings,...
Julie Mehretu Resonating Beyond Formal Qualities
Julie Mehretu Los Angeles County Museum of Art November 3, 2019 - March 22, 2020 While Julie Mehretu‘s works appear to be geometric abstractions, they are rooted in representation. Mehretu culls through the media and often uses news imagery as the basis of her...
“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...
