Focus on the American West
Jim Hodges’ Give More Than You Take at the Walker is a Must SeeJoel Hagen | Apr 10, 2014
Before I go further, let’s get the recommendation out of the way. If you have a chance to see the Jim Hodges retrospective, “Give More Than You Take,” currently at the Walker Art Center, just …
Symposium-fest at SFMoMAOlivia Fales | Apr 1, 2014
For a museum that’s closed for construction, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has been very active. Their tagline says it all: “We’ve temporarily moved…everywhere.” One recent weekend SFMoMA was, indeed, all over San Francisco. …
China’s land, sea, and sky. In Search Of Home by Jiehao Su at Actual Size LAOlivia Fales | Mar 7, 2014
It’s no accident that the Roman poet Ovid began the Metamorphoses, his epic poem of change and unrest, with the creation and arrangement of land, sea, and sky—artists of all stripes are drawn to transformations, …
Colorimetry Uses Color as InstigatorKimberly Nichols | Feb 25, 2014
Four years ago, the Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) went through a major renovation with its groundbreaking new building alongside the hiring of Andi Campognone, noted Southern California curator and arts-professional, to manage …
Out of the Shadows, I See Vultures. Vivian Maier’s PhotographyJoel Hagen | Feb 20, 2014
I’m 12 feet down the hallway of the Vivian Maier exhibit and I’m trying not to cry and I’m trying to figure out a reason. I walked in with a cursory sense of the photographer. …
Books, books everywhere. LA Art Book Fair 2014Olivia Fales | Feb 17, 2014
You’d think a gathering of hip and beautiful people might verge on pretentious, but the LA Art Book Fair was a cliché-trumper. A colorful scene flooded the galleries of The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA with …
The world seen through the eye of Google Satellite: Infrastructure, an exhibition by Jenny OdellDiana Gadaldi | Feb 12, 2014
On February 5th, 2014, the Bay Area native artist Jenny Odell opened her latest solo exhibition at Intersection for the Arts, a multidisciplinary center for the arts located in San Francisco’s South of Market (SoMa) …
Karen Lofgren’s “Trajectory Object” Buried at High Desert Test SitesKimberly Nichols | Jan 31, 2014
From 2010 through 2013, artist Karen Lofgren was mentally occupied by the nature of time and the idea that we, as human beings, take it for granted as relatively concrete. Within our life spans we …
A conversation with Su-Chen Hung: resonances from the past and a look into her future projectsDiana Gadaldi | Jan 20, 2014
My first meeting with visual artist Su-Chen Hung dates back to April 2013, when her latest solo exhibition Ants in the City opened at Intersection for the Arts, a multidisciplinary center for the arts located …
There’s No Place Like Home: One Collective’s Take on Suburban SolaceEmily Kramer | Jan 14, 2014
As private site-specific dance performances go, the ones produced by Rebecca Bruno’s HomeLA are pretty special. The last installment (in Highland Park) featured six pieces showed at both dawn and dusk of the same day, …
Mix 9 Artists and What Do You Get?Joel Hagen | Jan 10, 2014
One of the goals of a well-tuned barbershop quartet is the distinct “fifth voice,” which is an acoustic phenomenon found when four rich voices sing certain chords. The harmonics align just right to create a …
Benjamin Reiss: Creating to UnderstandOlivia Fales | Jan 3, 2014
The human body is a complex machine- we know this. If a sculpture’s framework evokes the body, you can bet that it, too, is complex. Bejamin Reiss’s sculpture Automobile (2009-2012), a life-size tower of colorful …
