Despite Greenberg’s kown disdain for patriarchal constructs, ‘Commentary & Dissent’ is a tongue-in-cheek reference to Jill Greenberg’s patrillineal history. Her husband’s grandmother was the managing editor of ‘Commentary’ during its progressive days, and her father-in-law was a contributor to ‘Dissent’. The images in this exhibition aggressively reassert the power of the image to confront and [...]
There’s still a few more days to catch Peter Gronquist’s The Evolution Will Be Fabulous at Gallery 1988. Expanding upon his themes of consumerism and war, Gronquist blings out Wildebeest, Buffalo, Kudo (and other exotic creatures) with gilded machinery and designer logos. These taxidermy sculptures reflect upon a generation divided between self entitlement and combat [...]
Cluster Mess refers to Gosha’s approach to the urban landscape, something that has always intrigued him. His work often strives to capture the aging of a building through the effects of time or use, and how people live among the dense clutter of the city and make it work, while still maintaining an underlying sense [...]
On display at Copro Gallery is Rob Sato’s second solo exhibit with the gallery entitled The Open End, which features a full body of work with large and small paintings, drawings as well as prints. The exhibit displays Sato’s intricately detailed imagery of a dystopian universe where no path or plan leads but where you end up anyway. [...]
On display at Jonathan LeVine Gallery is Dan Witz’s first solo exhibit with the gallery entitled Mosh Pits, Humans and Otherwise. The exhibit features large-scale oil paintings on canvas from Witz’s celebrated Mosh Pit series—produced over the past ten years—marking the first time works in this series have be exhibited together. Influenced by his background as [...]
On display at Michael Kohn Gallery is Ryan McGinness’ first solo exhibit with the gallery entitled Recent Paintings, which includes vital pieces from various bodies of work along with new paintings. The exhibit displays an array of the artist’s day-glo psychedelic and ”slick” works that layer contemporary iconography to underscore McGinness’ commentary on language, history, and symbolism. It’s hard not to argue that Ryan McGinness has taken [...]
Pushing the human figure to extremes is the basis of artist Van Arno’s intense aesthetic, and his latest exhibit at Jonathan LeVine Gallery tests the limits of contemporary art itself by emphasizing that more is always better. The Minstrel Cycle features a series of seven large multi-figure oil paintings of twisted (often nude) muscular bodies, presented via themes of African-American history, pop [...]
Chaos and ruin. Technological trends corrupting. Deformation, anatomical abnormalities, degradation and displacement. Whether related to the human body and spirit or the human environment, it is the ‘anti’ utopia. A few weeks ago, Copro Gallery and beinArt Surreal Collective presented Dystopia where each artist presented their own interpretation of human misery and despair. Whether figuratively [...]
If you’re one of the few people who hasn’t checked out James Jean’s latest exhibit at Martha Otero Gallery, then get in your car and drive to West Hollywood ASAP to see Rebus, an awe-inspiring collection of large-scale paintings depicting romantic deities in a colorful decaying setting. The feeling is antiquity meets contemporary as James brilliantly blends art history with his unique style [...]
Inspired by an adventurous cross country move from Oregon back to his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, here Andy Kehoe shares some insight into his latest body of work: Strange Wanderings. It was equally inspiring and intimidating seeing nature in that grand of scale. A lot of my work for this show has a sense of [...]






