PhotoGRAPHIC Rose Gallery By Jody Zellen Through October 21st Graciela Iturbide (b. Mexico City, 1942) has been making photographs of people and places in Mexico and abroad since she first picked up a camera in the late 1960s and today she is considered one of Mexico’s most noted photographers. To celebrate her life and…
Kimberly Brooks: Brazen Zevitas Marcus, Los Angeles By Shana Nys Dambrot Through October 28th Choreographing abstraction and figuration to operate within a single image is always really a balancing act. A purportedly non-figurative composition can, by design or by neurological/optic impulse, seem to be tugging at, or flirting with imagery, like a mystery wanting…
Ruben Ochoa Sampled y Surveyed Art + Practice By Jody Zellen Through January 27, 2018 Three photographs installed low to the ground in a corner of the gallery, provide a key to understanding Ruben Ochoa’s evocative installation, Sampled y Surveyed, which in numerous ways brings the outside in. These images: Overlapped in the 90063,…
From Mexico City to LA at Mixografia, Los Angeles By Kathy Zimmerer Through October 21st Celebrating the great printmaking traditions of Mexico City and Los Angeles, the Pacific Standard Time exhibit at Mixografia delves deeply into this vibrant imagery ranging from works by Jose Guadalupe Posada to Rufino Tamayo. Jose Guadalupe Posada was the…
Striking Surreality in Beverly Hills: Curtis Weaver at Garboushian Gallery By Evan Senn Through October 13th The feet of small creatures scamper just inside the glass walls of the all-white gallery in Beverly Hills. While surrounded by money and beauty, the windows of the Garboushian Gallery act as a visual alarm clock, awakening Beverly Hills…
Process is King: Conceptual Craft @ DENK Gallery By Jacqueline Bell Johnson Through October 14th For the longest time “craft” was a dirty word in fine art. Craft refers to functional objects, often commissioned or created for profit. It refers to mindless, pretty, kitsch work made even more accessible by merchandising. Even work of…
Monique Prieto, Luster Chimento Contemporary By Anna Garner Through October 28th Abstract paintings draw viewers’ attention to the surface, gleaning content and narrative not from representation, but from the exchange between color, brushstroke, and texture. In “Luster”, Monique Prieto’s current solo exhibition at Chimento Contemporary, these essential ingredients coalesce to generate pleasing and layered…
