Ricardo Cabret: ‘Un Nuevo Manglar’ Reveling in Tensions Between Technology and the Natural World
Ricardo Cabret Un Nuevo Manglar Kohn Gallery May 6 - June 17, 2023Ricardo Cabret is a Puerto Rico-based interdisciplinary artist who uses painting and software to revel in the tensions between technology and the natural world. At Kohn Gallery, he unveils a new body...
Danie Cansino: ‘This Is My Blood’ Dramatic, Radiant and Poetic Portraiture
Danie Cansino This Is My Blood Charlie James Gallery May 6 - June 17, 2023 For anyone with an appreciation for classical painting, Mexican mythology, and Los Angeles culture, the paintings in This is My Blood by artist Danie Cansino, hit home on many levels. Within...
Alex Hedison: ‘A Brief Infinity’ Complex and Evocative Experiments
Alex Hedison A Brief Infinity Von Lintel Gallery April 22 - June 10, 2023 During the pandemic when people were confined to their homes, photographer Alex Hedison began to experiment with "chemigram" works that explore the interactions of chemicals and light on black...
Pam Posey: ‘Thereabout’ Exploring Conflict and Resolve
Pam Posey Thereabout Praz-Delavallade April 15 - May 13, 2023 Observing: the trees that line the path during a walk in the woods; the distant view of a mountain through clouds; the light on a branch arched over a pond. These are the kinds of things Pam Posey...
Jay Mark Johnson: ‘Íslenskir Fossar’ Capturing and Transforming the Atmosphere and Landscape
Jay Mark Johnson Islenskir Fossar William Turner Gallery April 8 - May 27, 2023 Many of the ten large scale color photographs that make up Jay Mark Johnson's current exhibition Íslenskir Fossar depict Iceland's volcanic landscape, specifically raging waterfalls and...
Foroozan Shirghani: ‘Alienation’ A Testament to Resilience
Foroozan Shirghani Alienation Advocartsy March 30 - April 29, 2023 West Hollywood’s Advocartsy focuses exclusively on Iranian artists. In light of the Women Life Freedom Movement, they are especially campaigning for strong, impassioned voices of female Iranian...
Hannah Morris: ‘Acting Ordinary’ Collapsing Space and Time
Hannah Morris Acting Ordinary Steve Turner Gallery March 25 - April 22, 2023 Hannah Morris is a painter based in Barre, Vermont, whose narrative works incorporate images culled from stories and advertisements in American magazines from the 1940s-1970s. Morris...
Sung Jik Yang: ‘Paseo’ Locking in Emotions From Subject to Artist
Sung Jik Yang Paseo Philip Martin Gallery March 18 - April 29, 2023 In an urban environment bustling with countless, transient faces, what better way to get to know the inhabitants of our city than through the eyes of a portrait artist? At Philip Martin Gallery,...
Urs Fischer: ‘Ice Cream Truck Democracy’ Capturing the Nuances of Los Angeles
Urs Fischer Ice Cream Truck Democracy Gagosian Gallery March 9 - April 22, 2023 As an artist, Urs Fischer is unpredictable and full of surprises. For his 2022 exhibition at the Marciano Art Foundation (another Gagosian space), he presented Chaos #1-#500. The front...
Clayton Schiff: ‘Close Quarters’ Cinematic and Dreamlike Fragmentations Suggest an Unknown Journey Into the Unconscious
Clayton Schiff Close Quarters Harkawik February 11 - March 25, 2023 Clayton Schiff's paintings metaphorically depict psychological states and emotions that everyone can relate to. While his characters have some realistic qualities, they are for the most part...
William Kentridge: ‘In Praise of Shadows’ Exploring Past and Present Injustices
William Kentridge In Praise of Shadows The Broad November 12, 2022 - April 9, 2023 The first work I saw by the South African-based artist William Kentridge was in Germany at Documenta X in 1997. On view was the mesmerizing, just under nine-minute animation Felix in...
Intersect Palm Springs An Annual Celebration of Visual Art and Design
Intersect Palm Springs An Annual Art & Design Fair Various Galleries & Makers February 8 - 12, 2023 In the Coachella Valley, a recent explosion of art was both ignited and relished by gallerists, art lovers, and makers alike. Swarms of guests strutted their...
Mungo Thomson: ‘Time Life’ Drawing Viewers In and Holding Their Attention
Mungo Thomson Time Life Karma, Los Angeles January 14 - March 4, 2023 Time Life is an installation by Mungo Thomson consisting of eight short stop motion animations that cycle through pages of books accompanied by soundtracks composed by Andrea Centazzo and Pierre...
Calder/Tuttle: ‘Tentative’ Relationships and Conversations Between Two Exhibitions
Calder/Tuttle Tentative Pace Gallery/Kordansky Gallery; Richard Tuttle/Alexander Calder/Tuttle January 21 - February 25, 2023 To fully experience Calder/Tuttle: Tentative one must cross La Brea Avenue and visit both David Kordansky and Pace Galleries. On view at...
Velma Rosai: ‘The Ways of My Serpent Mother are Strange’ Speaking to the Hidden, Inner Landscape of Humanity
Velma Rosai The Ways of My Serpent Mother are Strange Sarah Brook Gallery January 7 - February 4, 2023 In an array of fervent, stream of consciousness abstracts, serpents appear as a recurring theme which meander their way throughout a series titled The Ways of My...
Christopher Murphy: ‘Tangle’ Combining Abstraction and Representation
Christopher Murphy Tangle Billis Williams Gallery January 7 - February 18, 2023 Since his first exhibitions in the early 2000s, Christopher Murphy has presented paintings and works on paper, often derived from found photographs. Murphy looks closely at both people...
Uta Barth: ‘Peripheral Vision’ Perception and the Act of Looking
Uta Barth Peripheral Vision Getty Center November 15 - February 19, 2023 Uta Barth has been exploring the way light interacts with walls, surfaces and spaces throughout her career. The work is often minimal, showing empty areas or flattened planes and it relies on...
Alia Ahmad: ‘A Meadow…from a dream’ Emotionally Charged, Elusive Landscapes
Alia Ahmad A Meadow...from a dream Kohn Gallery November 5, 2022 - January 14, 2023 At Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles, Saudi Arabian artist Alia Ahmad makes her debut in the United States with a solo show of emotionally charged, elusive landscapes. As the show’s title...