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…
A Whole New World: Dani Dodge’s “Personal Territories” by Genie Davis Exhibition runs through August 5 Dani Dodge’s stunning installation at MOAH Cedar in Lancaster delves into a world of dreams and time. These Personal Territories are beyond the borders of ordinary maps, leading viewers into a constellation of memories and dreams. Dodge describes…
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…
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…
Vanessa Prager: Ultraviolet Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA By Amy Kaeser Through June 17th Vanessa Prager’s third solo show at Richard Heller Gallery is a series of impasto-abstracted self-portraits. The work in Ultraviolet delves deeper into the artist’s psyche detailing the interrelationship between the art object and the unconscious drive of the artist.…
