Esther Pearl Watson: ‘Safer at Home: Pandemic Paintings’ Documenting the Everyday
Esther Pearl Watson Safer at Home: Pandemic Paintings Vielmetter Los Angeles November 21, 2020 - February 6, 2021 As of this writing (12-24-2020) we have been living with Covid-19 for more than 250 days. How do we account for the time, the changes in life and...
Andy Moses: ‘Recent Works’ A Celestial and Molecular Visual Journey
Andy Moses Recent Works William Turner Gallery December 5, 2020 - February 10, 2021 In Andy Moses' recent paintings, contrasting colors flow within circular and hexagon shaped canvases to create a push/pull sensation across the surface. The works draw viewers in and...
Milo Reice: ‘The Caesar Paintings & Other Works’ The Delights of Macronic Art
Milo Reice The Caesar Paintings & Other Works Craig Krull Gallery December 5, 2020 - January 23, 2021 “Et tu, Brute? Then fall Caesar!” Such were the famed last words of Julius Caesar in Shakespeare’s telling. As early as the Renaissance, reanimating the story...
Robert Longo: ‘Storm of Hope’ Drawings Reflecting the Now
Robert Longo Storm of Hope Jeffrey Deitch November 21, 2020 - February 20, 2021 Two things immediately come to mind when thinking about Robert Longo's artwork: drawing and appropriation. Longo is an impeccable draftsman whose mural-sized works simultaneously have the...
Rodney McMillian: ‘Body Politic’ The Enduring Necessity of Memory
Rodney McMillian Body Politic Vielmetter Los Angeles September 26 - December 5, 2020 Unrecognizable body parts populate the surfaces of Rodney McMillian’s latest show at Vielmetter Los Angeles, casting dispersions into the depths of his textured, abstract works....
Brendan Lott: ‘Safer at Home’ A Time of Suspended Animation
Brendan Lott Safer at Home Walter Maciel Gallery November 7 - December 19, 2020 When the COVID-19 pandemic first encroached upon Los Angeles, many Angelenos hunkered down in their homes and apartments obeying the stay at home directive. From his downtown loft,...
Matt Bollinger: ‘Labor Day’ Canvases Suspended Between Movement and Tranquility
Matt Bollinger Labor Day M + B October 30 - November 28, 2020 Neatly tucked into the front gallery at M + B, Matt Bollinger’s Labor Day, his first solo exhibition at the gallery, confronts viewers with a scattered panoply of shapes. Each work, painted specifically...
Gregory Crewdson: ‘An Eclipse of Moths’ Grandiose Epics Existing Out of Time
Gregory Crewdson An Eclipse of Moths Gagosian Gallery September 24 - November 21, 2020 The sixteen images in Gregory Crewdson's exhibition, An Eclipse of Moths depict isolated individuals in abandoned, dystopic small town environments. Crewdson picks locations (these...
Cindy Phenix: ‘Particles of Abnormality’ Embracing Ambiguity and Indulging in the Experience of the Unknown
Cindy Phenix Particles of Abnormality Nico Mier Gallery October 17 - November 14, 2020 Particles of Abnormality is an exhibition by Chicago-based Cindy Phenix. In the main gallery space, she bombards viewers with large paintings cluttered with fragmented figures,...
Election 2020: Casting Ballots at The Music Center of Los Angeles The Intersection of Art and Democracy
If you were in Los Angeles during the 2020 election, you might have wandered over to Staples Center, Dodger Stadium or the Grand Central Market to cast your ballot. Each location has its charms––special “I Voted” stickers, Lakers’ facemasks, yoga in waiting areas. But...
Aaron Garber-Maikovska: ‘4 from 3 dancers’ Transcending Divisions Between Cognition and Perception
Aaron Garber-Maikovska 4 from 3 dancers Blum & Poe September 12 - October 24, 2020 Aaron Garber-Maikovska’s latest exhibition, 4 from 3 dancers, magnifies the scale of a contemporary infant’s very first canvas—the dreaded, flimsy 8.5-by-11 sheet of paper. By...
Matt Lipps: ‘The Body Wants to Live’ Transforming Appropriated Photographic Imagery
Matt Lipps The Body Wants to Live Marc Selwyn Fine Art September 25 - October 31, 2020 In the 1990s, fashion photographer Richard Avedon created what was then considered a cutting edge campaign for Gianni Versace posing supermodels in evocative and suggestive...
Raymond Pettibon: ‘Pacific Ocean Pop’ Capturing the Moment in a World Gone Mad
Raymond Pettibon Pacific Ocean Pop Regen Projects September 12 - October 31, 2020 Raymond Pettibon has been covering gallery walls with his drawings for more than thirty years. He combines black ink outlines with colored fills to define people, places and things....
Linda Stark: ‘Hearts’ Enigmatic Imagery
Linda Stark Hearts David Kordansky Gallery September 19 - October 24, 2020 Linda Stark paints slowly and precisely. Her oil paintings on canvas and panel have a subtle dimensionality and the raised and often textured surfaces give the works a uniqueness and allure....
Peter Williams: ‘Black Universe’ Narratives Speaking to our Urgent Need for Change
Peter Williams Black Universe Luis De Jesus Los Angeles July 9 - October 10, 2020 Peter Williams is an African-American artist whose exemplary career spans more than forty years. While teaching at the University of Delaware for fifteen years, though he is now...
Senga Nengudi Where the Poetic and Didactic Come Together
Senga Nengudi Sprüeth Magers August 18 - October 2, 2020 Two intriguing installation pieces by Senga Nengudi occupy Sprüeth Magers' vast Los Angeles first floor gallery. These pieces bookend and in some ways play off each other as opposites. Sandmining B, 2020...
Kaz Oshiro: ‘96375’ A Peaceful Oasis
Kaz Oshiro 96375 Nonaka-Hill July 11 - September 5, 2020 The spring exhibition at Nonaka-Hill was a mixed media installation by the Japanese artist Sofu Teshigahara (1900-1979). As they often do, the gallerists enhanced the space by painting the walls a vivid sky...
Cook, Herman and Isermann: ‘Soft Vibrations’ Works Resonating in New Ways
Heather Cook, Roger Herman, Jim Isermann Soft Vibrations Praz Delavallade Los Angeles May 16 - September 5, 2020 What makes a group exhibition resonate? In my opinion, a group exhibition has staying power when the relationships between the individual works offer...
