Camilla D’Errico: Sky, Tarntara Sudadung: Behind the Mythic Veil, Erika Sanada: Meet Me Halfway, Alessia Iannetti: Aurora Consurgens and Dosshaus: Paper-thin Hotel Corey Helford Gallery Through May 5th By Sara Fortson Since the move to the Downtown location from their previous Culver City home, Corey Helford has been able to redefine what it means to…
BioPerversity at Nicodim Gallery through April 28, 2018 By Shana Nys Dambrot We tend to use anthropomorphized animals as proxies in metaphors and morality plays, fairy tales and Freudian projections, tattoos and illuminated manuscripts. Old myths are full of half human, half animal creatures, often gods or at least demigods. Minotaur, mermaid, centaur, Anubis, wood…
Catherine Opie’s “The Modernist” through February 17 Regen Projects, Los Angeles By Mario Vasquez A “flaneur” is defined in the dictionary as “an idle man about town.” In the context of modernism, the flaneur is a wanderer of the city, who seeks to connect with the experiences of modernity and modern life. What happens when the…
Debra Scacco: The Narrows through February 17 Klowden Mann, Culver City By Shana Nys Dambrot Debra Scacco is a rare presence in contemporary art — a mindfully reductive conceptualist with the emotional soul of a storyteller. As schematic abstraction goes, Scacco’s work is warm, evocative, and unusually lyrical. Her previous work has often included…
Rebecca Chernow: The Power of the #superbloom through January 14th Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana By Evan Senn Walking around the stone buildings and glass display windows of the many different businesses and venues of downtown Santa Ana, it’s easy to get swept up in the hustle and bustle of the fantastic restaurants, vibrant culture,…
Leonard Greco’s Sculptural and Theatrical Embodied Currently in residence, reception on January 13th Shoebox Projects, Brewery Arts Complex, Los Angeles By Genie Davis In progress now, with a reception set for January 13th, Leonard Greco takes over Shoebox Projects’ gallery space with a new installation, Embodied: St. Anthony & the Desert of Tears. This new body of work…
Hypoxia by James Peterson On view through December 31, 2017 Montclair Place, Montclair By Jacqueline Bell Johnson At the far end of the new food court in Montclair Place sitting a walled-off area emitting a glowing green light. It’s the type of green associated with alien abduction or toxic nuclear waste. Entering means walking into a foreign…
