Our Writers Name Their Top 5 Exhibitions of 2017

Kerry James Marshall: Mastry. Museum of Contemporary Art. Photo Credit Kristine Schomaker.

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

‘Mike Kelley: Kandors 1999 – 2011’
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

Simphiwe Ndzube. Nicodim. Photo Credit Kristine Schomaker

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

Yoshie Sakai. Koko’s Love. Groundspace Project. Photo courtesy Groundspace Project

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

Analia Saban: Faults and Folds. Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles. Photo Courtesy of the Gallery.

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

Zadok Ben-David: People I Saw but Never Met. Shoshana Wayne Gallery. Photo Credit Jody Zellen.

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

Amir H. Fallah “A Stranger In Your Home”
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

Terry Arena. Not Just Bees. Carnegie Art Museum Studio Gallery. Photo Credit Kristine Schomaker.

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

Betye Saar: Keeping it Clean. Craft and Folk Art Museum. Photo Credit Shana Nys Dambrot.

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