Multi-talented artist Donald Urquhart is currently showing stylized paintings, drawings and mixed media at Jack Hanley Gallery in LA. Urquhart devised the exhibition, titled The End, to be a farewell to the past and the included work feels like a montage of 20th Century iconography. Urquhart, who fell in with the infamous performer Leigh Bowery in the 1980s, became an intricate part of London’s campy[…..]
In her tender novella Tumble Home, Amy Hempel wonders what drives us to preserve parts of our lives. She recounts a disturbing yet endearing news clip, a clip that has an uncanny resemblance to the exhibitions currently hanging in Gagosian’s Beverly Hills Gallery: “A woman in West Virginia carried her unborn baby for more than forty years. It calcified outside the uterine wall. When questioned[…..]
Fette’s Gallery in Los Angeles’ Culver City asked artists to take a new approach to self-portraiture. Fette’s has invited 25 artists to use a self-portrait to represent someone else. The quirky and provocative results of the project will be exhibited from January 11th through February 8th. The exhibition, titled u=____, includes the work of an impressive span of internationally acclaimed artists. French photographer Raphael Neal,[…..]
The American Typologies, an exhibition of found vintage photographs, opens January 5th at D3 Projects in Santa Monica, CA. Artists and collectors Gail Pine and Jacqueline Woods have been working collaboratively for the past decade, composing thematic “typologies” of 20th Century America. Pine and Woods have exhibited in Close to Home at The Getty and their work also belongs to corporate collections. Since D3 Projects,[…..]
High Energy Constructs in Los Angeles’ Chinatown currently features a compelling exhibition of work by three young LA artists. You are not here, you are still there and think you are here is a persuasive hybrid of futuristic optimism and intensely felt ennui. The competent craftsmanship of Christian Cummings, Michael Decker and Marie Johnston is contrasted by the artists’ psychedelic color schemes and faux-kitsch materials,[…..]
Artist Andrea Zittel held a holiday smock sale in Los Angeles last weekend. Her handmade, double wrap-around garments were available at Regen Projects on December 15th and at Young Art on December 16th. The smocks, meant to be attractive, utilitarian, and economical, are designed by Zittel but hand-sewn by collaborating artists. Zittel, who enterprises the A-Z Institute for Daily Living, has spent the last decade[…..]
M+B Gallery in West Hollywood is currently presenting Alison Jackson: Confidential. Alison Jackson, known for her unnerving depictions of celebrity look-alikes, has never before shown in the Los Angeles area. Confidential features charged photographs of public figures, often politicians or pop-culture icons depicted in less-than-flattering poses. Though Jackson uses ‘look-alikes’ rather than real-life celebrities, her photographic fictions closely resemble the figures they satirize. At first[…..]
