A show featuring the photographic works of Israeli artist Michal Chelbin and California-based photographer Hugh Holland present disparate visions of childhood, athleticism, and homosocial experiences. In “Locals Only” Holland’s color photographs document skateboarding culture in the mid-seventies, specifically the days of Dogtown in Venice, California where skateboarding was an extension of surfing and not yet [...]

In her third solo show at George Billis Gallery It’s Mostly About Me and Much Less About You, Los Angeles based artist Carol Es thoughtfully meditates on memories of her fragile past and literally mends those reconstituted images together with thread directly on the canvas. Her art practice is a deeply intimate collage of memory [...]

From Culture(d) edited by Mayer Rus Twenty-five years is a long time in a town where you’re only as good as your last movie/series/concert. When Michael Kohn opened his gallery in 1985, the L.A. art world was more insular than it is in today’s era of Renzo Piano pavilions at LACMA, Jeffrey Deitch at MOCA [...]

This September, the Center for Audio and Visual Expression, more popularly known as C.A.V.E. Gallery presented “Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame,” a three-person exhibition embracing the zeitgeist of lowbrow art in the metropolitan landscape, inviting street art inside the gallery and thus making would-be ephemeral works more permanent. The works of street artist who [...]

Through the Orange Groves: Fallen Fruit’s Curatorial Investigation EATLACMA Transforms the Museum Space into a Site of Performance, Inquiry, and Solution Once the site of lush orange groves, prosperous agriculture, and vast landscapes of fertile soil, Los Angeles quickly changed from a locale rich in fruitful bounty to a concrete jungle with disparate foliage and [...]

The recent work of Raimonds Staprans continues his exploration of quotidian architecture. He abstracts those forms with explosive color choices. “Dark Still Life with Two Glasses” meditates on Staprans’ style of delineating strict order in compositions and creating multiple spaces on the canvas with thick lines. Two glasses positioned at the far left end of [...]

“Warhol and Mao” at Fabien Fryns Fine Art is the first West Coast solo show for Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi.  While it may seem to draw comparison between pop art master Andy Warhol and Fanzhi it does the very opposite.  An intimate body of work consisting of two “Warhol” and 3 “Mao” portraits, the expressive [...]

Duncan Miller Gallery has created a new pop up space in Santa Monica called Duncan Miller Projects.  I was asked to write the press release for their first show. Robert Buelteman and Daniel Wheeler “Department of Water and Power” A Dialogue of Nature as Transmitted Through Unexpected Elements Duncan Miller: Projects is pleased to announce [...]