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...
Kenny Scharf: ‘Moodz’ Impactful, Unexpected and COVID-Reflective
Kenny Scharf Moodz Jeffrey Deitch Gallery August 1 - October 31, 2020 In Kenny Scharf 's over-the-top installation MOODZ, 250 tondo-shaped paintings each depicting a different cartoon face are installed salon style across the walls of the vast gallery space. Using...
Kevin McNamee-Tweed: ‘Tableaux Vivant’ More Than Meets the Eye
Kevin McNamee-Tweed Tableaux Vivant Steve Turner Los Angeles July 25 - August 29, 2020 Charming is one of the first words that comes to mind when looking at Kevin McNamee-Tweed's seventeen glazed ceramic tableaux. Yet upon further consideration, charming might not...
Eleanor Swordy: ‘Earth Signs’ Issues of Abstraction and Representation
Eleanor Swordy Earth Signs Moskowitz Bayse July 11 - August 29, 2020 In her latest exhibition, Earth Signs, Brooklyn-based artist Eleanor Swordy continues to paint individuals and groups of abstracted, bulbous figures. Often depicted from above or straight on,...
Jackson Casady: ‘Peccadillo Soup’ Strange and Magical Images
Jackson Casady Peccadillo Soup Richard Heller Gallery July 11 - August 8, 2020 Jackson Casady is a young Los Angeles artist (just 24 years old) whose surreal and satirical paintings cull their subject matter from the entertainment industry, popular culture and the...
Jamison Carter: ‘All Season Radials’ Merging Drawn and Sculpted Elements
Jamison Carter All Season Radials Klowden Mann June 20 - July 30, 2020 In his exhibition, All Season Radials, Jamison Carter presents urethane resin works that fill the walls and floor of the gallery. These new pieces are made by combining poured urethane resin with...
Simone Leigh Exploring the Power of the Sculpted Female Figure
Simone Leigh David Kordansky Gallery May 26 - July 11, 2020 Following solo exhibitions at both the Hammer Museum (2016-17), the Guggenheim Museum (2019) and a large-scale public art project currently installed on New York's High Line, Brooklyn-based, multi-media...
Michael Tedja: ‘The Color Guide Series’ Navigating Through Disparate Images
Michael Tedja The Color Guide Series Chimento Contemporary January 18 - June 30, 2020 Because of COVID-19, many galleries went into hibernation soon after they opened their winter/spring exhibitions and therefore never took them down. Amsterdam-based Michael Tedja's...
Rachel Hayes: ‘Land Lines’ Exploring Perceptual Phenomena
Rachel Hayes Land Lines Lowell Ryan Projects May 16 - June 27, 2020 (by appointment only) Rachel Hayes' exhibition Land Lines at Lowell Ryan Projects is a formally elegant and beautiful installation consisting of twelve (150 x 120 inch) fabric banners that are...
Fran Siegel: ‘Suspended Drawings in Suspended Animation’ Creating a Coherent Whole
Seam & Transfer, an exhibition of works by Fran Siegel and Paul Scott, opened at Wilding Cran Gallery on March 20th, just as Los Angeles was ordered to shelter in place. While the gallery posted ample photo and video documentation on social media, nothing really...