Fin Simonetti: ‘My Volition’ Transforming the Ordinary Into the Exquisite
Fin Simonetti My Volition Matthew Brown Gallery March 25 - May 6, 2021 In My Volition, Fin Simonetti has installed a wide, flat metal railing that zig-zags through the gallery. While this waist-high barrier disrupts the normal flow into and through the space, it...
Paco Pomet: ‘Beginnings’ Cutting Commentaries on Today's Society
Paco Pomet Beginnings Richard Heller Gallery April 3 - May 8, 2021 Paco Pomet's paintings are a strange mix of the real and the surreal. In his exhibition Beginnings, he inserts small, brightly colored painted elements into monochrome representations that appear to...
Cindy Sherman: ‘Tapestries’ Favoring the Surreal In Favor of the Real
Cindy Sherman Tapestries Sprueth Magers February 16 - May 1, 2021 Cindy Sherman has been creating self-portraits since the 1970s. At first these were small black and white images in which she embodied stereotypical roles culled from film stills. She later posed for...
Stephen Neidich: ‘Five More Minutes’ Moving Beyond the Confines of Self-Imposed Barriers
Stephen Neidich Five More Minutes Wilding Cran Gallery February 13 - April 3, 2021 Upon entry to the gallery, a sensor is triggered that begins an eight-minute sequence of subtle movements of hand-crafted Venetian blinds. Soft, whirling clanging mechanical sounds...
Petra Cortright: ‘Predator Swamping’ Digital Paintings Based on Appropriated Photographs
Petra Cortright Predator Swamping 1301 PE February 13 - March 27, 2021 Petra Cortright is a master at manipulating digital files and incorporating stock digital effects. She seamlessly moves back and forth between creating animated and printed images and is as adept...
Simphiwe Ndzube: ‘Like the Snake that Fed the Chameleon’ Reimagining Black Characters as Mythological Ones
Simphiwe Ndzube Like the Snake that Fed the Chameleon Nicodim Gallery February 13 - March 20, 2021 Artist Simphiwe Ndzube showcases his latest work in his third solo exhibit at Nicodim Gallery with Like the Snake that Fed the Chameleon. The South African maker uses a...
Doug Aitken: ‘ Flags and Debris’ Coming to Terms with Pandemic-Induced Isolation and Distancing
Doug Aitken Flags and Debris Quint Projects Regen Projects January 16 - March 13, 2021 Banners are defined as a long strip of cloth bearing a slogan or design, hung in a public place or carried in a demonstration or procession, whereas debris is defined as scattered...
Cammie Staros: ‘What Will Have Being’ Bridges Between Past and Present
Cammie Starts What Will Have Being Shulamit Nazarian January 16 - March 6, 2021 The small multicolored fish swimming within Cammie Staros' sculptures, Figlinum aquticum, Futurum fluidum and Sculptura liqeffacta (2021) interact with different types of plants and...
David Hicks: ‘Seed’ Suggesting Possibilities and A Way of Moving Forward
David Hicks Seed Diane Rosenstein Gallery January 9 - February 13, 2021 David Hicks has filled Diane Rosenstein's spacious gallery with works on paper, as well as large-scale and intimately sized ceramic pieces. Hicks is an extremely prolific artist and his floral...
An Exhibition of Creative AI and Generative Art: ‘Thin as Thorns In These Thoughts in Us’ Bringing Together Works From the Past and Present
Group Show Thin as Thorns, In These Thoughts in Us: An Exhibition of Creative AI and Generative Art Honor Fraser Gallery September 8, 2020 - February 20, 2021 What is AI? Artificial Intelligence, or AI relates to "the theory and development of computer systems able...
Aryo Toh Djojo: ‘Transmission’ Capturing a Moment Both Familiar and Foreign
Aryo Toh Djojo Transmission Wilding Can Gallery January 9 - January 30, 2021 Aryo Toh Djojo's quasi-narrative sequence of paintings are hung in clusters that extend across two adjacent gallery walls and suggest a science fiction film. Each modest sized acrylic...
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 27, 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 27, 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...
