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

1. Kerry James Marshall: Mastry, MOCA

2. Chagall: Fantasies for the Stage, LACMA

3. Martin Ramirez: His Life in Pictures, Another Interpretation, ICA,LA

4. Signifying Form, The Landing

5. Mike Kelley: Kandors 1999-2011, Hauser & Wirth

‘Mike Kelley: Kandors 1999 – 2011’ Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles

Gary Brewer

1. Belkis Ayón; NKAME A retrospective of the Cuban Printmaker Belkis Ayón, UCLA, Fowler Museum

2. Simphiwe Ndzube; Bhabharosi, Nicodim /Gallery

3. Jeremy Anderson, Taking the World Apart is Easy, it is Getting it Back Together in an Acceptable From that is Difficult , the Landing

4. Signifying Form, the Landing

5. Paul McCarthy; WS Spinoffs-Wood Statues-Brown Rothkos, Hauser and Wirth

Simphiwe Ndzube. Nicodim. Photo Credit Kristine Schomaker

Anna Garner

1. Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960 – 1985, Hammer Museum

2. We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965 – 1985, California African American Museum

3. Takesada Matsutani, Hauser & Wirth

4. Yoshie Sakai, Koko’s Love, Groundspace Project

5. Aliens with Extraordinary Abilities, Fellows of Contemporary Art

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

Mario Vasquez

1. Kerry James Marshall Mastry at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

2. Women of Abstract Expressionism at Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California

3. Analia Saban Folds and Faults at Spruth Magers, Los Angeles, California

4. Genevieve Gaignard: The Powder Room at Shulamit Nazarian

5. Theaster Gates at Regen Projects

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

Jody Zellen

1. Joseph Dumbacher and John Dumbacher, Line-of-site, Santa Monica College Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery

2. Fran Siegel, Lineage Through Landscape: Tracing Egun in Brazil, Fowler Museum at UCLA

3. Zadok Ben-David, People I Saw but Never Met, Shoshana Wayne Gallery

4. Gary Simmons, Fade To Black, California African American Museum

5. 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

1. Jeffrey Gibson at Roberts & Tilton

2. Ellen Gallagher at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles

3. Cathy Ward at The Good Luck Gallery

4. Amir H. Fallah at Shulamit Nazarian

5. Kimberly Brooks at Zevitas Marcus

Amir H. Fallah “A Stranger In Your Home” Shulamit Nazarian

Jennifer Susan Jones

1. Afterfear Dani Dodge at H.B. Punto Experimental, San Diego

2. Article 16: Selected works by Lisa Schulte at Porch Gallery, Ojai

3. Birds of America: Explorations of Audubon: The Paintings of Larry Rivers and others, at 101/Exhibit, Los Angeles

4. Terry Arena: Not Just Bees Carnegie Art Museum Studio Gallery

5. 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

1. Marc Chagall at LACMA

2. Carlos Almaraz at LACMA

3. Betye Saar at CAFAM

4. Mike Kelly at Hauser Wirth

5. Belkis Ayón at Fowler Museum

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

Genie Davis

1. Made in the Mojave at MOAH

2. Reality of Nature at Launch Gallery

3. Going Native, Durden and Ray

4. Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia, Vida, pasión y muerte – Life, Passion, and Death at CB1

5. Dani Dodge, Personal Territories at MOAH

Dani Dodge. Personal Territories. MOAH. Photo Credit Kristine Schomaker

Betty Brown

1. Carlos Almaraz at LACMA

2. Lezley Saar, Salon des Refuses, California African American Museum

3. Judithe Hernandez & Patssi Valdez at the Millard Sheets Art Center

4. ONE YEAR: The Art of Politics in Los Angeles at the Brand Library

5. Art Moura at Good Luck Gallery

Art Moura. Good Luck Gallery. Photo Credit: Betty Brown

Kristine Schomaker

1. Kim Abeles, terə f3:mə at Orange Coast College

2. Simphiwe Ndzube; Bhabharosi, Nicodim /Gallery

3. Conceptual Craft at DENK

4. Ruth Root at 356 Mission

5. Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 at UCLA Hammer

Kim Abeles: “ˌterəˈf3:mə.” Orange Coast College. Photo Credit Kristine Schomaker

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