Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer
2013 California-Pacific Triennial
May 2013
Curated by Dan Cameron Replacing the California Biennial (rendered redundant by the Hammer Museum’s “Made in LA” series), the Orange County Museum of Art’s new triennial organizes itself around the vast, rising, tsunami-prone waters… READ ON
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Cameron Jamie
May 2013
Curated by Beatrix Ruf Taking on the major cultural stakes of vernacular social phenomena, Cameron Jamie locates the convergence of spectacle, performance art, and ethnography in order to air the seriously unheimlich in working-class suburbia.… READ ON
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Dan Finsel
Richard Telles Fine Art
April 2013
“Meeting Your Dark Self”; “Meeting the Inner Other in Paint”; “Contacting the Inner Man in Every Woman/the Inner Woman in Every Man”—these chapters of Margaret Frings Keyes’s 1974 self-help primer The Inward Journey: Art as … READ ON
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OPTICAL DRIVE
Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer talks with Laura Owens
March 2013
“THE EIGHTIES CALLED, They Want Their Painting Back”: This was one of LAURA OWENS’s nicknames for a recent work, whose acid neons and dragged filigrees certainly suggest a gleeful bout with MacPaint circa 1984. But then again, the … READ ON
IN PRINT March 2013 [TOC]
“Richard Jackson: Ain’t Painting a Pain”
January 2013
For more than forty years, Richard Jackson has taken the piss out of painting, only to shoot it back with such manic energy and monumental ingenuity as to jolt the medium into sublime toxic shock.… READ ON
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Eli Langer
Wharton + Espinosa
October 2012
Having established himself over the past decade as a semiunderground mainstay of the LA scene, Canadian-born painter Eli Langer has only recently hit upon a new way of working that could be called indigenous to his life here. Departing … READ ON
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Sharon Lockhart and Noa Eshkol
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
July 2012
Known for a photographic and film practice based on immersive personal relationships she forges with the communities that are her subjects, Sharon Lockhart has moved her collaborative strategy in an affecting new direction with her latest … READ ON
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Phil Chang
June 2012
Straightforward depiction simply doesn’t cut it for a photographer like Phil Chang. Not today, not this deep into the digital-imaging revolution unleashed by Google, Instagram, iPhones, and all the other democratizing platforms, apps, and… READ ON
IN PRINT Summer 2012 [TOC]
Made in L.A. 2012
May 2012
Curated by Anne Ellegood, Lauri Firstenberg, Malik Gaines, Cesar Garcia, and Ali Subotnick If you thought the biennial map had reached its saturation point, think again. This summer, the Hammer Museum, in collaboration with nonprofit powerhouse… READ ON
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Last Picture Show
Elad Lassry’s Untitled (Presence 2005)
March 2012 LOS ANGELES
DON’T BE FOOLED: dance is just the most divine distraction. Elad Lassry’s first major foray into live performance last Friday was—like all of his rapidly expanding practice—emphatically and ecstatically a work about pictures. His much… READ ON