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,...
58th Venice Biennale 2019: ‘May You Live In Interesting Times’ Amplifying the Magic of Venice
58th Venice Biennale May You Live In Interesting Times Various Sites, Venice, Italy May 11 - November 24, 2019 May You Live In Interesting Times at first seems a lackluster title for the 2019 Venice Biennale. Organized by Ralph Rugoff, the official...
Orkideh Torabi: ‘Give them all they want’ Exploring Issues of Patriarchy
Orkideh Torabi Give them all they want Richard Heller GalleryJune 22 - August 10, 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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
