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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.
Daniel Gerwin
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From Bullets to a Banquet, Political Works in Clay
Emily Marchand's and Lena Wolek's clay works at NowSpace are funny and grim, dystopian yet joyous.
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An Artist Reimagines His Ancestors Through Costumed Self-Portraits
What separates Ken Gonzales-Day’s exhibition Bone-Grass Boy from the mass of artwork addressing the politics of representation is its investment in intimate autobiography.
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The Futile Effort of Differentiating Fine Art from Design
The Useful and the Decorative at the Landing explores the relationship between fine art and design, and how the lines blur between them.
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Painting Cosmic Phenomena with Patterns of Subatomic Decay
Kysa Johnson represents nebula, neutron stars, and star clouds using the spiraling paths of the tiniest particles.
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Surreal Arrangements of Bare Limbs and Suggestive Fruit
In her solo show at Acme, Heather Rasmussen turns her own body into an allegory of desire.
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Landscape Art that Depicts More Than Nature
The artist’s depiction of landscape is a subjective experience of the outdoors, a cultural and psychological construct.
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Thickly Layered Paintings that Glow with Their Own Light
If painting maps the mind, then Steve DiBenedetto must be a very interesting guy to hang out with.
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Photographic Portraits of Transgender Life in the West Village
In his new body of work, Mark Seliger, who is primarily a celebrity photographer, engages with the trans people in his own neighborhood.
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The Masterful, Unsettling Work of a Female Cuban Printmaker
UCLA's Fowler Museum has organized the first solo museum show in the US for Belkis Ayón, a black Cuban artist who was a master of collography.
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Colorful Canvases that Transform Worn-Out Clichés
LOS ANGELES — Glenn Goldberg seizes worn-out clichés that would seem unable to support weight and uses them to unexpectedly launch himself into painting.
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A Deep Dive into the Legacy of LA's Surrealists
LOS ANGELES — The official Made in L.A. show is at the Hammer Museum, but a felicitous counterpoint is currently at Richard Telles in the Fairfax district.