‘Covenant’ by Allen Williams @ CoproGallery
Is it good to contemplate death? There is the presumption of its permanence to the human condition, which can be considered merely an extension of the permanently unknowable. It is a pessimism, however, to the most extreme degree to meditate on death, which can pose startling to those so accustomed to a positive outlook. And
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GR2: 15 Year Anniversary
Last Saturday night housed an eclectic array of art and media at the Giant Robot Store 15th Anniversary. Most fertile was the continuing trend of childhood nostalgia (see recent reviews here and here) as a method of tranquilizing the fear of the unknown which resonates with the ostensible contemporary tumult. Like many works in this style,
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‘Magical Thinking’ by Jasmine Becket-Griffith @ Corey Helford Gallery
Albert Einstein once said that imagination is more important than knowledge. The ability to extend the boundaries of what is real is the provenance of art, and is the central theme of the Magical Thinking opening. Ms. Jasmine Becket-Griffith is able to unravel a fantastical land which covertly is connected with our own reality to
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Patssi Valdez @ Castelli Art Space
At the Sanguine Gallery Launch Party & Inaugural Exhibition, Ms. Patssi Valdez provides a good demonstration on understanding the importance of originality and novelty in artwork. If the aim of art is to elevate the soul through the appearance of the transcendent encapsulated by the artwork itself, providing a spiritual exercise for the subjective viewer,
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‘Cosmic Traffic Jam’ @ Zevitas Marcus Gallery
The opening of Cosmic Traffic Jam was blinded by a disappointing, persistent blight of social anxieties of sexuality, gender, and race being perceived as artistic truth. As I repeatedly recount, the aim of art ought to be toward purity, toward an act of authenticating a subjective viewer through the interaction of an inconceivable creative expression, thereby
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Camilla Taylor & ‘Diverted Destruction’ @ The Loft at Liz’s
Diverted Destruction from The Loft at Liz’s presents an assortment of artwork that most politely is described as “recycled”. While that is a worthy creative effort in its own right, for the sake of art we ought to expect goodness to be represented aesthetically. What else would the purpose of raising one person’s trash be if
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‘The Fashion Show’ @ Peter Fetterman Gallery
Peter Fetterman Gallery’s The Fashion Show opening represents that rare nexus of art and commerce, wherein commercial enterprises lead to transforming the concept of marketing into something – though not always – transcendent. The ideal of art, after all, is to elevate and reverberate a sense of the sacred. Brute mass marketing hardly accomplishes this
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Jordi Alcaraz – ‘Defying Boundaries’ @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts presents an overwhelming, if not monumental, installment of work by the Catalan artist Jordi Alcaraz in what can simply be described as a paragon of contemporary high art. We can gather from the works that Mr. Alcaraz dances effortlessly in his exploration of our conception of space yet is successful with
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Toby Salkin @ Topanga Canyon Art Studio Tour 2018
Amidst a glorious Saturday Afternoon in the 2018 Topanga Canyon Studio Tour, Toby Salkin proudly reflected the sunshine and cheerfulness of Southern California living with her art. Aside from the staunchly confident use of color – and a noticeably effortless use of oranges and reds – there is the playfulness with her use of lines
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‘The Escape Artist’ by CRAOLA @ KP Projects Art Review
The Escape Artist at KP Projects is an opening which solidifies a formidable artistic direction, if not movement, of contemporary artists recalling a possession of innocence within their imagination. Possibly because of the tumult of the 21st century and its violent cacophony amplified by information technology, many artists are returning to the drawing board to almost
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