Kelly Berg, Unknown Horizon Craig Krull Gallery Through May 26 By Jody Zellen Kelly Berg’s mixed media works occupy the territory between paintings and sculpture. She uses unconventional materials to build up surfaces that flow like lava, framing the delicately drawn centers of her compositions. Berg is interested in depicting all things geological, especially natural phenomena…
Katherine Sherwood: The Interior of the Yelling Clinic Walter Maciel Gallery March 3 – 28 April 28, 2018 By Jody Zellen Katherine Sherwood is a well known and respected Bay Area artist and educator. She was a professor of Art Practice at University of California Berkeley for 30 years and is now a Professor Emeritus.…
Practice, Practice Every (ongoing) Day through April 14th Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica By Eve Wood Jody Zellen and Pam Posey have curated a fascinating exhibition that looks at process-based artworks made over extended periods of time. The idea of making an artwork to delineate or mark a history or a passage in time is a…
Recent Photographs by Richard Misrach through March 31 Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills By Jody Zellen Throughout his long career, Richard Misrach has made color photographs of the American West, capturing the night sky as well as the detritus left in the desert. He has documented the effects of Hurricane Katrina that devastated New…
Peripheral thought, house photo word movie paint singular color through February 17 Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica By Jody Zellen The Haiku as title — “Peripheral thought, house photo word movie paint, singular color” — of Tom Krumpak’s exhibition at Lora Schlesinger Gallery sums up the myriad sources he brings together on canvas and paper. Krumpak…
Judy Fiskin’s Video Installation, I Was an iPhone Addict through February 13 Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles By Jody Zellen For many years Judy Fiskin documented Los Angeles’ surroundings by making small-scale black and white photographs. These images of dingbat style apartment buildings, desert plants, military architecture and works of art were often shot in…
The Crime of Art (Hollywood Edition) by Kota Ezawa through March 10 Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica By Jody Zellen “The Crime of Art (Hollywood Edition)” is in many ways a sequel to “Gardner Museum Revisited,” Kota Ezawa’s 2016 exhibition at Christopher Grimes Gallery. In “Gardner Museum Revisited,” Ezawa recreated the 13 works stolen from…
