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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Dennis Koch & Nathan Gluck Gobsmacked By Collaging
Nathan Gluck; Dennis Koch "Something Else: The Collages of Nathan Gluck" "Beyond the Funny Farm! Crypto-K, Cutups, Copies, Mirrors, Membranes and Temporal Algorithms" Luis De Jesus Los Angeles June 23 - July 28, 2018Dates Although many artists and...
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Ed Ruscha: ‘Prints & Ephemera’ The Ontological Nature of Words
Ed Ruscha Prints & Ephemera Honor Fraser June 19 - September 29, 2018 On view at Honor Fraser is an exhibit of Ed Ruscha’s work, though perhaps not in the sense that one would expect. The apt title points to the plethora of works both small and large that...
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Joakim Ojanen: ‘Year of the Dog’ High Art That Makes You Smile
Joakim Ojanen Year of the Dog Richard Heller Gallery June 16 - August 11, 2018 Joakim Ojanen is a Swedish artist based in Stockholm. He spent the last few months working in the ceramic studio at Long Beach City College to create many of the pieces in his...
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MOCA’s ‘Give and Take: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions’ Conceptual Dialogues Between Objects
Various Artists Give and Take: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art March 4 - September 3, 2018 Curated by Anna Katz, MOCA’s Give and Take: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, features artwork brought into the permanent...
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Katy Ann Gilmore: ‘Visual Field’ Fabricating Architectural Interventions
Katy Ann Gilmore Visual Field DENK Gallery June 2 - July 7, 2018 In Visual Field, Katy Ann Gilmore presents painted objects that conflate two-and-three-dimensional space. Having studied both art and mathematics, her works are carefully considered and...
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Valerie Green: ‘Gray Area’ Rooted In The Digital Ethos Of Our Time
Valerie Green Gray Area Moskowitz Bayse May 5 - June 16, 2018 Before the invention of Photoshop, photographic illusions were painstakingly created by arranging objects to align in intriguing ways within the lens of a camera. They required complex...
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Goodbye, Philip Roth Prolific, Protean, Phenomenal
Although I’ve been the recipient of fan letters myself, I had never written one, until, that is, I scribbled one to Philip Roth. This was after I read I Married a Communist (the second of his brilliant 1990s trilogy, American Pastoral being the first which...
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Kelly Berg: ‘Unknown Horizon’ Fantastical, Neo-Intergalactic Works
Kelly Berg Unknown Horizon Craig Krull Gallery April 14 - May 26, 2018 Kelly Berg’s debut show at Craig Krull Gallery is a shimmering, tactile teleportation into a land both reminiscent of and alien from our own. Hard is juxtaposed with soft, past is...
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Larissa Gerszke A Terpsichorean Goddess
There are angels in America, and not only in Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name. Indeed, in the world of dance, these cherubic creatures may seem to be walking among us mere mortals, but in (their) reality, they float, glide, twirl...
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Ai Weiwei: ‘Humanity’ The Power of Words
Anyone familiar with Ai Weiwei’s art – the 60-year old has been hailed by ArtReview as the most powerful artist in the world and whose works includes sculpture, installation, photography, performance, filmmaking and architecture – understands that his...
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Francesca Gabbiani: ‘Vague Terrains/Urban Fuckups’ Abstracting the Observable World
Francesca Gabbiani Vague Terrains/Urban Fuckups Gavlak Gallery April 13 - June 9, 2018 In her breathtaking works, Francesca Gabbiani depicts the urban as well as the natural landscape as a collage of ink, gouache and cut colored paper. Her mixed media...
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Jasper Johns: ‘Something Resembling Truth’ Things the Mind Already Knows
Jasper Johns Something Resembling Truth The Broad February 10 - May 13, 2018 The Broad’s latest special exhibition features the work of Jasper Johns, who, at 87, is considered one of America’s greatest living artists. Something Resembling Truth is a...
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Mark Innerst: New Paintings Meditations On Light, Texture, Shape & Color
Mark Innerst New Paintings Kohn Gallery April 6 - May 23, 2018 In many ways, painter Mark Innerst could be considered a contemporary modernist. His works align with American painters like Charles Sheeler and Joseph Stella that were active in the late 19th...
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David McDonald: ‘Common Knowledge’ Embracing A Controlled Entropy
David McDonald Common Knowledge Five Car Garage March 24 - May 9, 2018 Common knowledge refers to that which is known by most people, something basic that is universally understood. In choosing to title his exhibition Common Knowledge, David McDonald set...
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Stephan Balleux: ‘Oh You Pretty Things’ Disturbing and Haunting Surreal Narratives
Stephan Balleux Oh You Pretty Things Patrick Painter March 31 - May 12, 2018 Oh You Pretty Things is an ironic title. While Stephan Balleux's paintings could be construed as pretty, it is more a reference to the women who populate the compositions than to...
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