Tag: Los Angeles
From the Ragged to the Glazed, the Distilled to the Distressed: A Survey of Ceramics in LA
“Melting Point” at the Craft & Folk Art Museum
Making Glorious Something Slight: Paul Lee at Maccarone, Los Angeles
Lee’s abstract sculpture and painting reveal technological, social, and art historical allusions.
The Common Methods of Commonwealths: An Exhibition by Alice Könitz
Interaction and collaboration build and use community at LA’s artist-run spaces.
The Veil and Vault: The Broad Museum in Los Angeles
A report on its architecture and its inaugural exhibition.
Women’s Work: Considering Feminist Art Through Three Recent Shows
Concurrent exhibitions in Los Angeles provide a lens for thinking about successive generations of feminism in art.
Show and Tell: John Currin at Gagosian Beverly Hills
The realist painter eschews explicit sex in a new solo show, but refers backwards to earlier tropes of subordination.
In Colors: Farrah Karapetian at Von Lintel
In a solo exhibition at Von Lintel, the artist explores the interrelation of vision, music, and color.
Multiple Layers of Significance: Mike Kelley at LA MoCA
The final stage of a two year retrospective is a prodigious homecoming.
Mapping the City: Fran Siegel at Lesley Heller Workspace
Glimpses of anonymous buildings, vacant lots, parking lots, and the distant mountains
Julian Hoeber: All That is Solid Melts into Air at Blum & Poe
Collectively, these sculptures look like death masks cast from Aztec sacrifices. Each embodies the magical absurd-beyond-belief-because-it’s-so-true realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.