Patty Carroll: ‘Anonymous Women’ Plunging into Vivid, Lush and Elaborate Atmospheres
Patty Carroll Anonymous Women Gallery XII March 5 - June 1, 2022 Dramatic drapes, retro accoutrements, and hapless, faceless women: These are the recurring themes in Anonymous Women, a splashy visual escapade by award-winning photographer Patty Carroll. In what may...
Evita Tezeno: ‘My Life, My Story’ Celebrating Family and Relationships
Evita Tezeno My Life, My Story Luis De Jesus Los Angeles April 16 - May 28, 2022 Evita Tezeno is a Dallas-based artist whose folksy, mixed media collages combine paint, colorfully patterned paper and occasional objects like buttons to depict a range of characters....
Tom Eckert: ‘Illusions and Deceptions’ Ambiguous Narratives
Tom Eckert Illusions and Deceptions Lois Lambert Gallery March 19 - May 7, 2022 In Illusions and Deceptions, we can’t help but ask what really lies behind the veil in Tom Eckert's enigmatic show at Lois Lambert Gallery. The title seems relevant, as the objects are...
Anthony Lepore: ‘Time’s A Taker’ Investigating Boundaries Between the Actual and the Manipulated
Anthony Lepore Time's A Taker Moskowitz Bayse March 26 - May 7, 2022 In some ways, the history of photography can be thought of as a trajectory of invention and amazements. The first images (almost 200 years ago) were created with box cameras and had long exposure...
Brighton Smith: ‘Paradise Garden’ A Blend of Fragility and Fierceness
Brighton Smith Paradise Garden Skidmore Contemporary Art March 19 - April 23, 2022 As critters begin to emerge from their sleepy burrows and honeybees depart their hives in search of freshly produced pollen, it’s the perfect time to enjoy new blossoms that Spring...
Gary Simmons: ‘Remembering Tomorrow’ Calling Attention to Stereotypes
Gary Simmons Remembering Tomorrow Hauser & Wirth February 22 - May 22, 2022 In his first exhibition at Hauser & Wirth, Gary Simmons fills the gallery with a video, small drawings, large paintings, expansive wall drawings, as well as a new sculptural...
Robert Levine: ‘Work’ True-To-Life Narratives
Robert Levine Work Rory Devine Fine Art March 12 - April 16, 2022 To support himself Robert Levine, like many artists, has worked as an installer for numerous Los Angeles galleries. In his current exhibition Work, Levine channels these experiences into his paintings...
Jemima Wyman: ‘A Haze Descends’ Speaking to the Moment
Jemima Wyman A Haze Descends Commonwealth and Council March 3 - April 2, 2022 In the age of digital montaging, assembling collages by hand is something of an anomaly. Elliott Hundley is an artist known for pinning thousands of cutouts to the surface of his paintings....
Samara Golden: ‘Guts’ Speaking to Our Fears, Desires and Dreams
Samara Golden Guts Night Gallery January 21 - March 26, 2022 Guts are internal, as well as external. Internally, they are the organs in the stomach or belly. Externally, guts is more of an emotional state— empowered, as in it takes guts… or instinctual, as in a...
Miles Aldridge: ‘High-Gloss’ Narratives of Fractured Beauty
Miles Aldridge High-Gloss Fahey Klein Gallery January 27 - March 19, 2022 Glamour meets ennui: In High-Gloss, on view at Fahey Klein Gallery, photographer Miles Aldridge lures us with sumptuous female subjects in vibrant candied colors. Discontented expressions,...
Michael Childers: ‘Emergence’ Capturing the Essence of the Human Spirit
Michael Childers Emergence Joshua Tree Gallery of Contemporary Art January 1 - April 24, 2022 At the mere click of a button on any search engine, a sweeping world of celebrity culture portraits can unfurl, popping up with untold amounts of unique characters. One can...
Jonas Wood: ‘Plants and Animals’ Submerged Into an Atmospheric Potpourri
Jonas Wood Plants and Animals David Kordansky Gallery January 22 - March 5, 2022 In Plants and Animals, on view at David Kordansky Gallery, the viewer may find their retinas' photoreceptors having a little dance with the lighting shifts and vibrant colors spanning...
Ed Templeton: ‘The Spring Cycle’ Presenting the World with Matter-of-Factness Amid Irony
Ed Templeton The Spring Cycle Roberts Projects January 22 - March 5, 2022 Ed Templeton's artworks reflect the people and places that surround him. He looks closely at the inhabitants and sprawl-scape of Orange County, CA making note of the many inherent...
Sam Messer: ‘Go to it laughing’ Amalgamations of Styles and Attitudes
Sam Messer Go to it laughing M+B Gallery January 29 - February 26, 2022 For some, a typewriter is an antiquated piece of machinery, akin to a rotary telephone. It predates digital technologies and relies on forcefully tapping the keys. Writing on a typewriter is...
Mel Bochner: ‘DO I HAVE TO DRAW YOU A PICTURE?’ A Conceptualist at Heart
Mel Bochner Do I Have to Draw You a Picture? Marc Selwyn Fine Art January 15 - February 26, 2022 I was first introduced to Mel Bochner's work as a student while studying conceptual art and working on an exhibition from the collection of Sol LeWitt. Each student...
Jane Margarette: ‘A Honey of a Tangle’ Oxymoronic Assemblages
Jane Margarette A Honey of a Tangle Anat Ebgi January 8 - February 19, 2022 Chains, locks and hinges made of clay are, in many ways, antithetical to their purpose. How can something designed for sturdiness and security also be fashioned from fragile material? Add in...
Helen Frankenthaler: Late Works 1990-2003 An Intimate Dance with Color
Helen Frankenthaler Late Works 1990-2003 Palm Springs Art Museum October 14, 2021 - February 27, 2022 Having made her mark as one of the great American artists of the 20th century, second-generation postwar abstract painter Helen Frankenthaler continues to stimulate...
Narsiso Martinez: ‘Tender Leaves’ Peering Through the Lens of Immigrant Farmworkers
Narsiso Martinez Tender Leaves Charlie James Gallery December 11, 2021 - January 22, 2022 While treasured produce goods like fresh-squeezed orange juice and leafy spinach plants consistently greet us in the aisles with cheery branding, their contents come with a...
