Everything Must Go Don Porcella’s Solo Show at Noysky Projects By Patrick Quinn Through July 1st The corner of Hollywood and Las Palmas is a perfect storm of everything that Hollywood Boulevard has to offer. Tacky gift shops and greasy pizza joints share the sidewalk with a Scientology testing center, a school for heavy-metal…
Mai-Thu Perret Féminaire David Kordansky Gallery By Jody Zellen Through July 1, 2017 Mai-Thu Perret is a Geneva based artist who creates politically and socially astute, albeit often bombastic works that deploy a feminist agenda. In her installation entitled, Féminaire she presents Les guérillères— an elevated white plinth dotted with nine figurative sculptures depicting…
Trip the Light Fantastic: Marion Lane and Rochelle Botello By Lorraine Heitzman Now through June 24, Groundspace Project is hosting a lively dialogue between painter, Marion Lane, and sculptor, Rochelle Botello. Each artist further explores territory they have traversed before as they continue their ongoing conversation. Lane and Botello have shown together in the…
Modern Angelenos: Thoroughly Modern Art by Genie Davis Recently closed at The Montalban Theater, Modern Angelenos represents a tour de force of modern artwork as well as its place in representing social issues. This is not an easy subject to take on, but it succeeds here: combining work that is unique, cutting-edge, and socially…
Sabrina Gschwandtner’s “Hands at Work” at Shoshana Wayne Gallery By Sydney Walters Through July 15th This month, Shoshana Wayne Gallery presents “Hands at Work,” a solo show by multi-medium artist Sabrina Gschwandtner who literally dissects films to comment on the evolution of maker and renegotiates historic women’s craft as liberating rather than divisive. In…
Eve Wood and Alexandra Grant, The Artists’ Prison Ochi Projects By Jody Zellen Through July 2nd The Artists’ Prison is a book of fiction written by Alexandra Grant and illustrated by Eve Wood that describes the imagined crimes and punishments of over forty prisoners housed in a Kafka-esque environment as told to a nameless Commander…
Dean Byington’s The Theory of Machines Kohn Gallery By Genie Davis Through June 30th With Dean Byington’s first solo show at the Kohn Gallery, The Theory of Machines, viewers will enter a dystopian world that’s as detailed and absorbing as it is somehow disturbingly familiar. This is an artist’s take on our current world,…
