“SELF RELIANCE 2017” at NowSpace By Sydney Walters Through October 1st While pondering what to create, many artists consider not only what he or she wants to create, but what they know will sell. After all, artists need to make a living somehow. It is this tension between desire, practicality, value and waste that…
Richard Bruland and the Art of Bebop By Genie Davis Bebop Records is celebrating its 35th anniversary with a display of the shop and concert venue’s iconic posters. While live events are in the works for the future – spoken word and music – visiting the Highland Park shop Social Studies to see the…
Edgar Arceneaux’s Until, Until, Until… At Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects By Sydney Walters Through July 1st In his seventh solo show with Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Edgar Arceneaux’s show Until, Until, Until… recontexualizes black history and pieces together a narrative that gives voice and light to whitewashed media that has viciously misinformed…
POWER at Sprüth Magers By Anna Garner Through June 10th From post-Civil War photographs to Simone Leigh’s 2017 terracotta and porcelain sculpture, Stone (Black Mountain), POWER at Sprüth Magers presents a comprehensive overview of the ongoing history of the arts and visual culture of African American women. The line-up includes nearly every major player…
Nikki Darling The Dessert Table Five Car Garage By Genie Davis Nikki Darling is nothing if not daring. “My brain works in images, text and sound,” she’s said. “Simultaneously.” At The Dessert Table at Five Car Garage, Darling’s performance art piece involved cake – and cake decaying; love and shame; the carnage created accused…
Heros of the Past and Present Not Ready to Make Nice: Guerrilla Girls in the Art World & Beyond Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art at California State University, San Bernardino By Jacqueline Bell Johnson The Guerrilla Girls are often thought of affectionately, like a childhood hero, for artists interested in performance, activism,…
Echo Location at Eastside International Curated by Lisa C. Soto Written by Lorraine Heitzman Through March 18th Born out of a series of artist talks hosted by guest curator Lisa C. Soto, the current show at Eastside International, Echo Location is a compendium of work that is intended to relate to the concept of…
