Conceptual Craft II at Denk Gallery Through August 18th By Genie Davis Photos Courtesy Denk Conceptual Craft II, now at Denk Gallery, is a visual wonderment. 12 LA-based artists offer their takes on the sculptural process, intricate and graceful works that are both fully dimensional and filled with light. As the curator’s notes suggest,…
Art Share L.A. Offers Hope and Support to L.A. Artists Art Share LA, Arts District, Los Angeles By Evan Senn Every year, the greater metropolitan area of Los Angeles gains upwards of 40,000 people added to its residents. Last year, Los Angeles was the third most popular destination for those picking up and relocating. And…
Liminal Spaces: Yvette Gellis and Ty Pownall Jason Vass To April 14, 2018 by Jody Zellen What is a liminal space? Liminal refers to something transitional, as if at a boundary or threshold. In their exhibition, aptly titled Liminal Spaces, Yvette Gellis and Ty Pownall have filled both the walls and floor of the…
Petra Cortright: Cam Worls through April 7 UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles By Shana Nys Dambrot Petra Cortright belongs to a generation of video artists whose primary visual and aesthetic influences have not been cinema and performance art, but rather the internet and social media. It’s a key distinction, and the way Cortright does it…
Mark Bradford. New Works through May 20 Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles By Shana Nys Dambrot Folks are always trying to look for Mark Bradford in his work. But what they think they find is so often just a version of him, not so much inaccurate as wildly incomplete. Granted there’s a lot to embrace in a…
If Premonitions Were Tapestries: Merion Estes CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles By Sydney Walters In CB1 Gallery’s latest show, Dispatches From the Front Lines, artist Merion Estes weaves a sublime chorus of color, pattern and texture into a systematic outcry against corporate gains at the cost of the environment. Estes creates a visual symphony of senses…
Beyond Oy Too Scared to Ha-Ha New Works by Marisa Takal through Jan 13, 2018 Night Gallery, Los Angeles By Kathy Zimmerer Marisa Takal works from an aerial view, a disjointed perspective where the viewer is privy to all her random thoughts and images. Sporting titles that are poetic, very long and unwieldy, her large-scale paintings…
