Hannah Epstein: ‘Do You Want A Free Trip To Outer Space?’ Blending the Tactile and the Digital
Hannah Epstein Do You Want A Free Trip To Outer Space? Steve Turner January 5 - February 16, 2019 For her second solo exhibition at Steve Turner, Halifax-born, Los Angeles and Toronto-based Hannah Epstein has transformed the darkened gallery into outer...
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Vivian Maier: ‘Living Color’ The Soul of an Artist
Vivian Maier Living Color KP Projects December 1, 2018 - January 26, 2019 A band musician pauses to take a sip of water, a newspaper salesman is caught off guard and a nanny strolls the streets of her city. That last character, in this case, was the...
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Jen Stark: ‘Multiplicity’ Pulsating Concentric Shapes and Colors
Jen Stark Multiplicity Wilding Cran Gallery November 18, 2018 - January 13, 2019 Jen Stark's frenetic installation, Multiplicity is an immersive animated projection of pulsating concentric shapes and colors coupled with sound by Jamie Vance. While Stark...
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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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Max Hooper Schneider: ‘Tryouts For The Human Race’ Worlds of Chaos and Excess
Max Hooper Schneider Tryouts For The Human Race Jenny's November 9 - December 29, 2018 In his exhibition, Tryouts For The Human Race, Max Hooper Schneider constructs four different worlds. Each sculpture is a table-top diorama filled to the brim with a...
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Betye Saar: ‘Something Blue’ Subverting Established Systems of Thought
Betye Saar Something Blue Roberts Project October 27 - December 15, 2018 A floating silhouette, a hanging birdcage, an enshrined statuette: These are some of the things one sees when confronted by the recent work of canonical artist Betye Saar. Saar...
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B. Wurtz: ‘This Has No Name’ A Purveyor of Cultural Artifacts
B. Wurtz This Has No Name The ICA LA September 30, 2018 - February 3, 2019 B. (Bill) Wurtz's sculptures and wall works are created from basic things like mesh sacks, disposable broiler pans, 35mm slides, table and chair legs, shoe laces, buttons, socks,...
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Ai Weiwei: ‘Zodiac’ Mesmerizing, Meditative, Magnificent
Ai Weiwei Zodiac Jeffrey Deitch September 29, 2018 - January 5, 2019 The Chinese dissident and art world superstar Ai Weiwei can’t be everywhere at once, but his art certainly can. In a confluence of events, Ai, who previously had not had an exhibition in...
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Soo Kim: ‘Homesick for a Better World’ Windows Onto Fragmented Worlds
Soo Kim Homesick for a Better World Denk Gallery October 6 - November 10, 2018 In the pre-digital world, a photographer often used a camera and film to frame some aspect of reality. Waiting to see the picture was not instantaneous, it was part of a...
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Karon Davis: ‘Muddy Water’ Private and Universal Crises
Karon Davis Muddy Water Wilding Cran Gallery September 16 - November 4, 2018 It is hard not to be swept away by Muddy Water, a new work by Karon Davis, her second breathtaking and emotionally powerful installation at Wilding Cran Gallery. Her first, Pain...
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Tomoo Gokita Implicating the Viewer
Tomoo Gokita Blum & Poe September 8 - October 27, 2018 Nestled within Blum & Poe’s expansive first floor galleries is a series of 2018 works by Tokyo-based painter Tomoo Gokita. Though nearly entirely monochrome, the paintings are not lacking in dynamism,...
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Paco Pomet Transforming the Ordinary
Paco Pomet Melancholia Richard Heller Gallery September 8 - October 20, 2018 What would happen if the natural landscape developed sores? Mountains and rivers would ooze red, alluding to something abject beneath the surface. The documentation of the recent...
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Maysha Mohamedi: ‘OAR TATIG’ Negotiating Two Cultures
Maysha Mohamedi OAR TATIG The Lodge September 8 - October 13, 2018 Situated in East Hollywood, in a complex that was home to Ed Ruscha’s first studio, The Lodge, like many contemporary galleries, is wrapped in layers of history. It is fitting, then, that...
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Lari Pittman: ‘Portraits of Textiles & Portraits of Humans’ Dialectical Relationships
Lari Pittman Portraits of Textiles & Portraits of Humans Regen Projects Gallery Name September 15 - October 27, 2018 Lari Pittman's works are a complex entanglement of abstract and representational elements carefully composed on the picture plane using a...
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David Lynch: ‘I Was a Teenage Insect’ Master of the Macabre
David Lynch I Was a Teenage Insect Kayne Griffin Corcoran September 8 - November 3, 2018 David Lynch is best known as a filmmaker and the director of Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks. That he is also trained as a...
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Willard Hill "Now I'm Somebody"
Willard Hill The Good Luck Gallery September 8 - October 14, 2018 Willard Hill, at 84 years old, is only beginning to get national and international recognition for his art, which some might describe as unconventional. Indeed, Hill’s surprising journey...
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Various Artists: ‘ONE SHOT’ An Explosion of Color Field Works
Various Artists ONE SHOT UTA Artist Space July 12 - August 18, 2018 The latest show at UTA Artist Space is the gallery’s first to take place at the new Ai Weiwei-designed Beverly Hills location. Highlighting Color Field artists, including Helen...
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Mary Heilmann: ‘Memory Remix’ A Journey Through Color Relationships
Mary Heilmann "Memory Remix" Hauser & Wirth June 23 - September 23, 2018 Mary Heilmann loves color, shapes, abstract forms and ocean waves. The exhibition, Memory Remix, is a voyage through twenty years of her work, showcasing paintings and ceramics, as...
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