Performance Art is Where Liberal Humanism Thrives
That stuff that's not really performance art is being called performance art, argues Lisa Wainwright, ignores the context of its emergence and direction over the last half century. It has from the start been an expression of the tradition of liberal humanism. More...
What I Didn’t Take Pictures of in Nepal
Leery of social media's trivializing effects he may be, but Richard Speer concedes that it has raised public awareness of the visual realm. On a recent stay in the Himalayas he found plenty of things to photograph and post, but also learned something about what not to photograph. More...
John Buck
Bold foreground figures and objects surrounded by sardonic line drawings have been a central feature in John Buck's work for decades. More...
Joseph Paul Gerges
Joseph Paul Gerges' prints of animals metaphorically express our personal life journeys, with the vulnerability and loss that it must entail. More...
Jamey Hart
More goes into the small, simple-seeming forms that Jamey Hart constructs than at first meets the eye. The forms are clear and sensual, impossible to identify though it is tempting to try. They force a surprisingly visceral response. More...
A Beautiful Mess
Moving away from the crowded galleries of a blockbuster museum show can lead to unexpected rewards, as Maria Porges recently learned. More...
Brigitte Carnochan
In her mixed media photographs Brigitte Carmochan offers her own poetic take on one of our best photographers, Emily Dickinson. More...
“Self-Help Graphics, 1983-1991”
Latino art in East L.A. was given one of it's strongest pushes forward by Self-Help Graphics through most of the 1980s, the time period this show focuses on. And SHG continues to be a major force in L.A. art to the present day. More...
Art Films
With the recent release of attention grabbing films set in or about the art world, DeWitt Cheng offers a "best of" selection of such films styled as satire, drama and documentary.. More...
Tomiko Jones
"Hatsubon" is Tomiko Jones' response to her deceased father in the form of this sober but effecting exhibition. More...
Kay Hofmann
Covering Kay Hofmann's lengthy career, "pour toujours" (for the long haul) not only displays great consistency, but a figurative sensibility of exceptional empathy. More...
Civics Lesson from a Mural
A group recently sought to have a mural located at a Los Angeles school painted out because it reminded them of the Japanese battle flag, More...
Sasha Pierce
The paintings of "Passementarie" reference fringes. Sasha Pierce forms patterns out of strands of paint rather than thread. More...
Nikki S. Lee
Nikki S. Lee photographs herself playing a variety of characters joined by men who are cropped mostly out of frame. More...
Finnbogi Pétursson
Finnbogi Petursson's "Infra-Supra 2019" begins quietly with its huge screens empty. Sounds are generated by speakers set over a pool of water with black ink; the dark surface ignites as concentric circles produced by the sounds are reflected on the screens above. More...
Cheryl Ann Thomas
The ultra-thin porcelain abstractions of Cheryl Ann Thomas constantly appear to risk breaking to pieces to achieve their beautiful forms and surfaces. More...
Ian Davenport
Materials and the art-making process are central to Ian Davenport's stripe paintings. Poured and often allowed to pool on the floor, they expand upon the paint practice of recent generations, but are by no means revolutionary. More...
Pablo Picasso
This selection of prints by Picasso are presented to allow for a personal and casual encounter that reveals the artists conflicting personal qualities. More...
Kenturah Davis
Kenturah Davis’s “Blur in the Interest of Precision” features contemplative portraiture with a complex visual vocabulary, and there's a lot to notice. The use of rubber stamps produce the blur in the service of a loose photorealism. More...
Albert Contreras
Albert Contrera's abstract and heavily impastoed paintings are juicy even as they conform to geometric patterns and shapes. More...
