James Busby shines at representing finery, of creating the instance of refined in his artful compositions eloquently exhibited in his ‘Suspirium’ opening at Lowell Ryan Projects. His graphite completeness breathes a new idea to stencil formation in the visual arts. A confidence in extension with such delicate ornamentations of gentle completion. We have the human […]

Ms. Kiara Aileen Machado triumphs in a colorful representation – indeed celebration – of indigenous Central American life with a mysteriously subtle glee in all of her jungle ideas with her Refugio en Las Flores opening at Launch LA presented by Luna Anaïs Gallery. I say glee because of the playful suggestion which is subtlety […]

What is the impetus of the creative burst if not to add to life? And what a simplistic statement in achieving such an extension that we have with the new editions of Bedri Baykam’s work at Gloria Delson Contemporary Art. The eloquent statements of beauty provide that staunch confidence yet without a sense of pretentiousness […]

Mr. Bryan Ida gives us a beautiful meditation on human intervention in natural forces with his Deep opening at Billis Willliams Gallery. The prima facie cryptic ideal which involves precious wildlife and terraneous forms imposed with geometrical rectilineal forms is best understood as the rational extension of the human mind onto a world which forever […]

Hyun Ae Kang introduces to us novelty in the concept of texture with her Voice of The Sacred exhibition at Shatto Gallery. Her abundance of styles provides a satisfaction with not simply the licks off the canvas, but of smears, of glistens, of intensities in simplicity as well as in ornamentation. Hers is a delicious […]

What does it mean to harvest? To reap what one has sowed. In this necessarily positive fulfillment, Mr. David Hicks brings to market a delectable offering of pious meditation on the herbage fulfilled in his Central Coastal California nativity at Diane Rosenstein Gallery. It is in this honest toil towards producing what is necessary for […]

The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City provides a wonderful demonstration of the availability of good taste across the United States. The museum’s permanent collection gives us strong concepts of beauty, particularly of the geometrical variety, which transcend the more generic intuition of what is a beautiful image as we receive it from […]

Paul Cezanne’s retrospective at The Art Institute of Chicago displays many of his later yearly works. These works demonstrate a noteworthy transition in the continuity of the Western Fine Arts Tradition, away from scenes of intense and vivid religiosity towards the mundane and bromidic. His artworks seldom strain to make efforts at capturing something forcefully […]

Ms. Sarah Gilfillan introduces us to an extension of surreal self-reliance with her abstract forms with her ‘Echoes’ opening at Sarah Brook Gallery. Her ideas are emblematic of her time in the desert meditation on the “rude”-as Thomas Carlyle would describe the desert – or crude simplicity in form. The simple and base tones, in […]

Mr. Jonathan Edelhuber at Over the Influence Gallery in downtown Los Angeles poses an assertive stance of fun with the concept of skull form to help us bring a new idea of beauty with endless permutations. The real fun is in how the artist makes use of what is typically reminiscent of boneyards, despotic totalitarian […]