At the Broad’s iteration of Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, there is scarcely a work that does not demonstrate how deeply we are struggling with the same issues that concerned Black artists a half-century ago.
Daniel Gerwin
Daniel Gerwin is an artist and writer living in Los Angeles.
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An Artist Uses Abstraction to Express the Loss of Her Sisters
Rema Ghuloum’s life-affirming response to this loss has been to make paintings whose direct and unapologetic pursuit of beauty feels rare.
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The Soulful Standouts Amid the Fanfare of Frieze LA
As usual in large commercial fairs, most of what you’ll see at Frieze quickly devolves into so much product, but there is still some soul to be found amongst the gaudy baubles.
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Remembering Sarah Cromarty’s Painted Portals and Prophets
An exhibition pays tribute to the wondrous vision of a Los Angeles-based artist who died this year at the age of 37.
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The Potent Realism of Robert Pruitt’s Black Portraiture
Pruitt unexpectedly makes draftsmanship feel relevant, even urgent.
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B. Wurtz Makes Absurd, Profound Art from Overlooked Stuff
For Wurtz, self-knowledge is not found on a psychoanalyst’s couch or a remote mountaintop, but in the things with which we surround ourselves.
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How Channa Horwitz Pushed Beyond the Precincts of Minimalism
Though her art shares common ground with Sol LeWitt, with whom she had a warm correspondence and even traded work, Horwitz was not granted even a fraction of his renown.
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An Artist Asserts Control Over the Commodification of Her Work
Carmen Argote’s exhibition at Commonwealth and Council suggests that she has no money left after participating in Made in LA, displaying work that resists any potential role as pricey art objects.
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Nicole Eisenman’s Portraits of Angry White Men
We have seen these men before; they are oafish and hapless, yet dangerous. They are Philip Guston’s Klansmen, back from the dead to ruin us.
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Mark Bradford Appropriates Comic Books and Delves Into the Sublime
Bradford’s new paintings tell us how much we don’t know.
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Two Fresh Takes on Portraying Female Bathers in Art
Katherine Bradford and Jen DeNike remind me how much more there is to water in their gem-like show at AE2.
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Entering Two Painters’ Visions of Home
In Home Work, Ann Toebbe and Sarah McEneaney posit two different visions of middle-class domestic space.