Lauren Halsey: New Works Embodying Social Consciousness
Lauren Halsey: New Works David Kordansky Gallery January 25 - March 14, 2020Walking into Lauren Halsey’s latest exhibition at David Kordansky is like being transported to an electric – and simultaneously nostalgic and futuristic - maze. A Los Angeles-born contemporary...
Mark Dean Veca & Mark Steven Greenfield: ‘Graphic Subversion’ The Power of the Mark
Mark Dean Veca & Mark Steven Greenfield Graphic Subversion California State University Northridge (CSUN) Main Gallery February 1 - March 14, 2020 To make one’s mark is an ancient impulse. Indeed, the earliest known design made by humans to communicate this...
Karl Haendel: ‘Double Dominant’ Subjective and Personal Images of the Body
Karl Haendel Double Domination Vielmetter Los Angeles January 25 - March 7, 2020 Many years ago, in a ranging wind storm, Karl Haendel and I played tennis. A few years later, I asked him about his tennis game and he replied that sadly he had to give it up as he...
Nick McPhail: ‘Windows’ Light and Color Filtered Through Architecture
Nick McPhail Windows Ochi Projects January 11 - February 15, 2020 Nick McPhail's paintings present aspects of the vernacular Los Angeles landscape that are often overlooked, focusing on moments and places that pass by unnoticed. Though the final works are paintings,...
Julie Mehretu Resonating Beyond Formal Qualities
Julie Mehretu Los Angeles County Museum of Art November 3, 2019 - March 22, 2020 While Julie Mehretu‘s works appear to be geometric abstractions, they are rooted in representation. Mehretu culls through the media and often uses news imagery as the basis of her...
“What the Constitution Means To Me” Schooled By Heidi Schreck
What the Constitution Means to Me Mark Taper Forum January 12 - February 28, 2020 Who knew the Constitution could be such a laugh riot? Okay, so if it’s not exactly a guffaw-inducing extravaganza, it does provide an evening of theater that is particularly relevant...
Kathleen Henderson: ‘Watch Me Make You Disappear’ Expressing the Dire State of Our World
Kathleen Henderson Watch Me Make You Disappear Track 16 January 4 - February 1, 2020 Kathleen Henderson has a facile hand and a keen wit. She mines the news media for content and rather than make didactic and preachy work about the state of the world, she offers...
Shirin Neshat: ‘I Will Greet the Sun Again’ A Testament to a Sustained Celebration of Culture
Shirin Neshat I Will Greet the Sun Again The Broad October 19 2019 - February 16 2020On current display at The Broad Museum is a survey exhibition of the works of Iranian contemporary artist Shirin Neshat. A ticketed event, the show stands out: Neshat’s often...
Linda Besemer: ‘An Abundance of Errors’ Images of Graphical Chaos and Disorder
Linda Besemer An Abundance of Errors Vielmetter Los Angeles November 2 - December 21, 2019 It has been five years since her last solo exhibition, and during this time Linda Besemer has been experimenting. Her new works in An Abundance of Errors are...
Octavio Abúndez: ‘Facts, contradictions, puzzles, an explanation and a few lies Expansive and Amorphous Utopian Ideals
Octavio Abúndez Facts, contradictions, puzzles, an explanation and a few lies Kohn Gallery November 9 - January 18, 2020 In Facts, contradictions, puzzles, an explanation and a few lies, Guadalajara-based, mixed media artist Octavio Abúndez presents large brightly...
Russell Crotty: ‘Paintings Distant and Perilous’ Whimsical, Magical, Haunting
Russell Crotty Paintings Distant and Perilous Shoshana Wayne Gallery October 20 - January 25, 2020 Russell Crotty is an astute observer. He has spent endless hours drawing surfers and surf spots along the California coast, as well as looking up into the night sky...
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 suggesting gaps in...
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...
