Tomory Dodge at Cherry and Martin By Lorraine Heitzman Through January 16th Tomory Dodge has opened with a strong hand in his first show at Cherry and Martin after his former gallery, Acme, abruptly closed their doors in June. The Culver City gallery was quick to sign up an artist they had admired for…
Studio Visit: David Lloyd, The Quantum Mechanics of Painting… By Gary Brewer “I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night. Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I’m not the same, the next question is ‘Who…
Kevin Appel slip collapse then and Christopher Grimes Gallery by Jody Zellen Through April 29th At first glance the paintings in Kevin Appel’s exhibition, slip collapse then and are formal abstractions dotted with geometric shapes and photographic fragments referencing architecture and nature. In Appel’s early paintings the architecture was foregrounded. Appel became well known…
Studio visit with Mark Dutcher: The Search for a Symbolic Universe By Gary Brewer “…And so each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling Undisciplined squads of emotion…” TS Eliot, East Coker, Four Quartets Mark Dutcher’s work…
The Power of Play: Ready to See at Jason Vass By Sydney Walters Through April 15th Presented by Jason Vass on the east side of the Los Angeles arts district, Ready to See is a new art exhibit featuring the work of Dan Callis and Tina Linville. These Los Angeles based artists pair beautifully…
Andy Moses: A 30 Year Survey Santa Monica College, Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery By Shana Nys Dambrot Through March 25th The first thing you notice about the visual arc of the works assembled by curator Marian Winsryg for painter Andy Moses’ new mid-career survey is how very different the stages of his…
Chimento Contemporary: Straight Outta Bushwick By Genie Davis Through February 4th Straight OUTTA Bushwick, at Chimento Contemporary through February 4th, is less about geography than it is about the artists that geography contains. Organized by Patricia Hamilton, former curator of the Hamilton Gallery of Contemporary Art in New York, the exhibition showcases the work…
