The Fourth World Institute for Art and Olfaction By Shana Nys Dambrot Everything is mediated. All objects, actions, impulses, and mythologies are multivalent, shape-shifting, and strange. Even the singular is a stranger to itself. Articulating interconnectivity is an imperative for truthfulness, but the contours of overlapping energetic dimensions are a bear to make into…
Beautiful Parts CSUN Art Gallery on view through October 26th by Eve Wood Attempting to scrutinize and understand what makes someone, or something, beautiful is and has always been a dangerous game that only ever leads to feelings of disappointment and self doubt. That being said, Rough Play, the collective who conceived and organized…
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…
Waking the World: Robert Montgomery’s Latest Poetic Push in Los Angeles By Evan Senn In the history of text-based art; politics and shock value reign supreme. Poetry and poetic prose are softer, but are taking the dominant stage in recent years as the public begins to yearn for more emotive gestures and less hate, anger and…
What’s Hot in L.A.? Art Events You Should Check Out UPCOMING OPENINGS (Some of the listings may not have addresses. Facebook has changed the way they are sharing events and locations so you will have to click on the Facebook event to get more information. Thank you for your understanding) October 19th Chicana Photographers…
ARC Visions at Arcadia Contemporary: A Fresh Take on Realism By Genie Davis Just closed at the Arcadia Contemporary, the group exhibition Arc Visions featured the work of winners from the 12th Annual International Art Renewal Contemporary (ARC) Salon Arcadia Contemporary Award. The ARC Salon is an international exhibition of the work of realist…
Conduction FOCA By Lorraine Heitzman Through October 27th The Fellows of Contemporary Art (widely known as FOCA) operates out of an unassuming office space in Chinatown, accessed through a quiet courtyard and tucked into a second floor storefront. Like the spy headquarters concealed behind a tailor shop in The Man from U.N.C.L.E., the pedestrian…
