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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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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