In an impressive collection of artwork, Craft Contemporary introduces to us an exquisite representation of the use of textured media in their Strings of Desire opening. In no way contesting each other, Erick Medel and Miguel Osuna each introduce us to the wonderful idea of embroidery to fine artwork. Moving past paints to introduce us with not simply color, but a prudential application of....

The madness of being born on a continent not out of one’s own choice but out of a history of forced removal and labor – to make it convenient to reap cotton and tobacco incomes – has an understandably irritating, infuriating, and taxing confusing stress induced upon the soul of the African-blooded. Uproot by Alison Saar at LA Louver presents a thoroughly cohesive statement using confident....

In a medley of artwork which ranges from the plastically colorful to the ornament of plastic, Launch LA moves us towards an appreciation of fine artistry without a necessary academic pretension. Yet with the works by Ms. Monica Wyatt, Raghubir Kintisch and Lorraine Hetizman, what does this pretension imply? That there is a formality to the presentation of work which requires a higher mandate....