lauren woods, American MONUMENT University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach Through December 9, 2018 By Amy Kaeser The Dallas, Texas-based conceptual artist lauren woods (lowercase per the artist) and recently ousted University Art Museum (UAM) Director, Kimberli Meyer, have transformed the UAM into a site for remembering, reflecting, and seeing. At the…
Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Institutions, 1965-2016 Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York, NY Through July 22 By Amy Kaeser The sixth floor (and a large installation on the second floor) of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York is currently dedicated to the conceptual artist, Adrian Piper. Her name is…
Jeanine Oleson: Can you feel it? Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles By Amy Kaeser Through August 19th Commonwealth and Council’s location is off the beaten path. A simple piece of paper taped to a glass front door, in an industrial neighborhood, somewhere off Wilshire Boulevard, is the only indication of the gallery’s presence. Up…
Analia Saban: Faults and Folds Sprüth Magers: Los Angeles By Amy Kaeser Through August 19th Analia Saban’s exhibition of new work now on view at Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, Folds and Faults combines the intricate sculptural techniques of a master sculptor and the attention to detail of a skilled painter. Saban’s paintings push the…
Doublespeak: Yale 2017 MFA Photography Graduates Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles Farah Al Qasimi, Bek Anderson, Lance Brewer, Harry Griffin, Mathew Leifheit, Walker Olesen, Res, Anna Shimshak, Danna Singer, and Chau Tran By Amy Kaeser Through August 5, 2017 In the last two year’s our country has at once changed dramatically but also stayed the…
Vanessa Prager: Ultraviolet Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA By Amy Kaeser Through June 17th Vanessa Prager’s third solo show at Richard Heller Gallery is a series of impasto-abstracted self-portraits. The work in Ultraviolet delves deeper into the artist’s psyche detailing the interrelationship between the art object and the unconscious drive of the artist.…
A Painter and a Performance Artist walk into a Bar… A Collaboration between Virginia Broersma and Natalie Mik Grab Bag Studio, Long Beach, CA By Amy Kaeser Through June 25th Starting something new is always exciting and nerve-racking at the same time, especially when you make that experiment public. The exhibition, “A Painter and…
