Finesse comes to mind with the quietly placed, tucked away from the exhibition itself, pretending to be an afterthought in curation; not another abstraction; Tray Laughter by the artist Benjamin L. Turner; at Babst Gallery in Los Angeles. Where is the adoration for gentle yet precise? 'Tray Laughter'(2020). Benjamin L. Turner. Pencil, chalk pastels, acrylic paint, watercolor onpaper in....

Class A, prime rib eye, cheek. What a stupendous bravado! 'Untitled' (2024). Valiente Pastel. Signed on verso acrylic on magazine clipping 8 3/8" x 8" image 7 3/4" x 10 1/4" framed. Courtesy of the artist and Craig Krull Gallery. Copyright All Rights Reserved. 'Untitled', (2020). Valiente Pastel. Signed on recto acrylic on magazine clipping 11 x 8 1/8" image 13 7/8" x 10 3/4" framed.....

In an impressive extension of original technique, the form of the media captured titilates the otherwise bromidic acrylic shapes. There is, in other words, a reflectance which is wholly novel in what is photographed; with the appropriate “holographic” in beautiful realization. The colors are exquisite. I affirm the ungraspable dynamos contained through the photographic process. It appears....