Our Writers Name Their Top 5 Exhibitions of 2017
From Kerry James Marshall to Kim Abeles, Shoshana Wayne to MOAH, women, immigrants and the resistance, Art and Cake asked our art critics to name their favorite 5 shows of 2017. Here is what they had to say:
Lorraine Heitzman
- Kerry James Marshall: Mastry, MOCA
- Chagall: Fantasies for the Stage, LACMA
- Martin Ramirez: His Life in Pictures, Another Interpretation, ICA,LA
- Signifying Form, The Landing
- Mike Kelley: Kandors 1999-2011, Hauser & Wirth
Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles
Gary Brewer
- Belkis Ayón; NKAME A retrospective of the Cuban Printmaker Belkis Ayón, UCLA, Fowler Museum
- Simphiwe Ndzube; Bhabharosi, Nicodim /Gallery
- Jeremy Anderson, Taking the World Apart is Easy, it is Getting it Back Together in an Acceptable From that is Difficult , the Landing
- Signifying Form, the Landing
- Paul McCarthy; WS Spinoffs-Wood Statues-Brown Rothkos, Hauser and Wirth
Anna Garner
- Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960 – 1985, Hammer Museum
- We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965 – 1985, California African American Museum
- Takesada Matsutani, Hauser & Wirth
- Yoshie Sakai, Koko’s Love, Groundspace Project
- Aliens with Extraordinary Abilities, Fellows of Contemporary Art
Mario Vasquez
- Kerry James Marshall Mastry at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
- Women of Abstract Expressionism at Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California
- Analia Saban Folds and Faults at Spruth Magers, Los Angeles, California
- Genevieve Gaignard: The Powder Room at Shulamit Nazarian
- Theaster Gates at Regen Projects
Jody Zellen
- Joseph Dumbacher and John Dumbacher, Line-of-site, Santa Monica College Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery
- Fran Siegel, Lineage Through Landscape: Tracing Egun in Brazil, Fowler Museum at UCLA
- Zadok Ben-David, People I Saw but Never Met, Shoshana Wayne Gallery
- Gary Simmons, Fade To Black, California African American Museum
- Ken Gonzales-Day Surface Tension: Murals, Signs, and Mark-Making in LA, Skirball Cultural Center
Shana Nys Dambrot
- Jeffrey Gibson at Roberts & Tilton
- Ellen Gallagher at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles
- Cathy Ward at The Good Luck Gallery
- Amir H. Fallah at Shulamit Nazarian
- Kimberly Brooks at Zevitas Marcus
Shulamit Nazarian
Jennifer Susan Jones
- Afterfear Dani Dodge at H.B. Punto Experimental, San Diego
- Article 16: Selected works by Lisa Schulte at Porch Gallery, Ojai
- Birds of America: Explorations of Audubon: The Paintings of Larry Rivers and others, at 101/Exhibit, Los Angeles
- Terry Arena: Not Just Bees Carnegie Art Museum Studio Gallery
- WALLS: A Quest for Immersive Space. Produce Haus
Nancy Kaye Turner
- Marc Chagall at LACMA
- Carlos Almaraz at LACMA
- Betye Saar at CAFAM
- Mike Kelly at Hauser Wirth
- Belkis Ayón at Fowler Museum
Genie Davis
- Made in the Mojave at MOAH
- Reality of Nature at Launch Gallery
- Going Native, Durden and Ray
- Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia, Vida, pasión y muerte – Life, Passion, and Death at CB1
- Dani Dodge, Personal Territories at MOAH
Betty Brown
- Carlos Almaraz at LACMA
- Lezley Saar, Salon des Refuses, California African American Museum
- Judithe Hernandez & Patssi Valdez at the Millard Sheets Art Center
- ONE YEAR: The Art of Politics in Los Angeles at the Brand Library
- Art Moura at Good Luck Gallery
Kristine Schomaker
- Kim Abeles, terə f3:mə at Orange Coast College
- Simphiwe Ndzube; Bhabharosi, Nicodim /Gallery
- Conceptual Craft at DENK
- Ruth Root at 356 Mission
- Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 at UCLA Hammer
