Joe Rudko: ‘Untitled Colors’ Fascinating Composites Open to Interpretations
Joe Rudko Untitled Colors Von Lintel Gallery October 30 -December 18, 2021 Joe Rudko is a Seattle, WA-based artist who cuts apart and recombines family snapshots taken by non-professionals he finds in flea markets and antique shops to create dense, visually complex...
Alison Saar: ‘Aether’ and ‘Earthe’ Celebrating and Empowering Women
Alison Saar Aether Armory Center for the Arts July 16 - December 12, 2021 Earthe Benton Museum of Art September 1 - December 19, 2021 The figures in Alison Saar's two-venue exhibition, of Aether and Earthe are stoic and empowered. Throughout her long...
Miguel Angel Payano Jr. ‘Elusive Nature’ Making Use of Family Narratives
Miguel Angel Payano Jr Elusive Nature Make Room Gallery October 23 - December 4, 2021 At Make Room Gallery in Los Angeles, objects and surfaces collide to create dimensional realms through an eye-catching mixed-media experience by Miguel Angel Payano Jr. Born in New...
Hwy 62 Open Studio Art Tours Desert Tripping
Hwy 62 Open Studio Art Tours Various Artists October 9/10, 16/17, 23/24, 2021 As autumn sweeps through the mountainous Hi-Desert, the wind-blown trails are accentuated by region-specific artworks: The Hwy 62 Open Studio Art Tours is an annual celebration of artists...
Lorna Simpson: ‘Everrrything’ Evoking the Pandemic and What We Have Missed
Lorna Simpson Everrrything Hauser & Wirth September 14, 2021 - January 9, 2022 In Lorna Simpson's compelling multi-media exhibition Everrrything at Hauser & Wirth, the works fill both the courtyard and interior gallery spaces. Outside are Stacked...
Keith Boadwee: ‘Frogs & Dogs’ Unsettling Themes That Go Down Easy
Keith Boadwee Frogs & Dogs The Pit October 9 - November 20, 2021 California-based artist Keith Boadwee introduces complex creatures that are playful, existential and erotic in Frogs & Dogs, on view at The Pit in Palm Springs. All created in 2021, these...
Diana Thater: ‘The Conversation’ Creating a Fragmented Dialogue with Ambiguous Meaning
Diana Thater The Conversation 1301 PE September 25 - November 13, 2021 Animals have been the subject of Diana Thater's works for a number of years. From gorillas to monkeys and elephants to zebras, she has filmed animals to explore human animal interactions, animal...
Aubrey Levinthal: ‘The Breakers’ Reflecting the Malaise and Isolation Brought On By the Pandemic
Aubrey Levinthal The Breakers M + B Gallery September 18 - October 16, 2021 Philadelphia-based painter Aubrey Levinthal, whose works illustrate everyday moments culled from family life, renders her subjects— mother (the artist), child, father and friends - lovingly....
Susan Chen: ‘I Am Not A Virus’ Peering Beyond the Snapshot
Susan Chen I Am Not A Virus Night Gallery September 18 - May 20 - October 23, 2021 Susan Chen, a Hong Kong-born painter, divides her time between New York City and Connecticut, but keeps her focus on the Asian diaspora. Her first solo show at Night Gallery, I Am Not...
Yvette Gellis: ‘Verdure’ Proclaiming a New Outlook on Life
Yvette Gellis Verdure LA Louver September 14 - October 16, 2021 For some, the pandemic was a time for reflection. With the directive to stay at home, many people confronted isolation and had to redefine their connections to the outside world. Those living in Los...
Nancy Larrew: ‘Family Reunion’ Exploring the Literal Meaning of Family Connection
Nancy Larrew Family Reunion bG Gallery September 4 - October 4, 2021 Nancy Larrew is a multi-media artist whose interests in social impact are manifest in her inaugural solo exhibition,Family Reunion, on view at bG Gallery. In this highly conceptual series, Larrew...
Yifan Jiang: ‘Names for airy nothings’ Where Reality and Fantasy Collide
Yifan Jiang Names for airy nothings Meliksetian Briggs August 28-October 16, 2021 Yifan Jiang is a young Canadian artist who was born in Tianjin, China and is now based in New York City. She recently received her MFA from Columbia University (2020) and debuted new...
Daniel Martin Diaz and Alexandra Bowers: ‘Searching for the Celestial, Extraterrestrial & the Infinite in Between’ Underlying Themes of Spirituality and Transformation
Daniel Martin Diaz and Alexandra Bowers Searching for the Celestial, Extraterrestrial & the Infinite in Between La Matadora Gallery August 14 - September 6, 2021 Daniel Martin Diaz’s paintings offer an illuminating connection between the mysteries of science and...
Blitz Bazawule: ‘A Moment in Time’ Imagining a Connection Between Past and Present
Blitz Bazawule A Moment in Time UTA Artist Space August 7 - 28, 2021 Blitz Bazawule is an artist who works across numerous disciplines. He is well known as a director, producer, musician and author. Yet he is also an accomplished visual artist who has a series of new...
Dana Powell: ‘Drinking Dust’ Imbuing Everyday Moments with Poetic Feeling
Dana Powell Drinking Dust Tanya Bonakdar Gallery July 24 - August 28, 2021 Dana Powell is a painter based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina who notices the little things — the shadows of a tree on a doorway, the light glistening on a pond, the shape of a hole punched...
Em Kettner: ‘Slow Poke’ Speaking to the Fragility of the Human Condition
Em Kettner Slow Poke François Ghebaly June 26 - July 24, 2021 In her first Los Angeles exhibition Slow Poke, Em Kettner, an artist based in Northern California, presents small, fragile, ceramic and woven cloth sculptures. These pieces have a craft and folk-artsy...
John Baldessari: ‘The Space Between’ Encoding and Decoding the World Around Us
John Baldessari The Space Between Sprueth Magers June 12 - September 11, 2021 The final works by the late John Baldessari (1931-2020) on view at Sprueth Magers are a series of inkjet prints on canvas that juxtapose selectively painted photographs culled from his...
Nari Ward: ‘Say Can You See’ Addressing Social and Political Issues
Nari Ward Say Can You See Jeffrey Deitch June 5 - August 21, 2021 Nari Ward is a Jamaican-American artist based in New York City who makes mixed media works from recycled and found materials. These pieces address social and political issues about class, race and...
