Los Angeles Art Gallery Tours’ Blog
Ken Gonzales-Day Shines Light on Forgotten Horror
Ken Gonzales-Day, RUN UP, 2007, LIGHTJET MOUNTED ON ALUMINUM, EDITION OF 5 Does knowing some background information about artwork really matter? Or, should everything you need to know about an image just be sitting there, exposed and open for scrutiny? Ken...
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Christopher Pate’s Image at Latned Atsär
Christopher Pate, Eyes on Farrah 2012, acrylic, graphite, colored pencil, found poster, and collage on paper, 29-3/4 x 22 in. I couldn't help but share this image with you. I received it as part of an invitation to a three person exhibition entitled Drown Me in...
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Sharing, Canadian Style: Marc Hundley and Jon Rafman
Jon Rafman, Sea Point, Cape Town, South Africa, 2011, Archival C Print, 57.5 x 92 inches, 1/1 AP If you boiled the artist/viewer relationship down, the simple act of sharing might turn out to be its purest essence. That isolated gesture is more than enough to generate...
read moreJonas Wood at David Kordansky Inspires More Than a Few German Words
Jonas Wood really knows how to paint. In his most recent exhibition at David Kordansky Gallery, the Boston-born, Los Angeles resident delivers an oddly sincere art historical cocktail generously spiked with sizeable shot of himself. He also provided me with the...
read moreSarah Braman’s “These Days” at International Art Objects
These days are crammed with pathological tension. Exhausted men and women wearily share revealing tales of near all-nighters, dedicated to Sisyphean work tasks or simply lost to reflux, nerves and unrelenting panicked stress. The new normal is hyper-competitive,...
read moreOde on a Japanese Urn
Okay, I'm a little late sharing this - the show is over and done, but... I had an epiphany while visiting the Sugimoto Sadamitsu exhibition, Shigaraki and Iga, at Frank Lloyd Gallery, in Santa Monica’s Bergamot Station - one of those infrequent, marvelous,...
read moreThe Double Life of Kelli Connell’s Photographs
Kelli Connell, Carnival, 2006, digital photograph, 40 x 30 inches Sometimes stories are so believable that you accept them as fact. Such is the case with photographer Kelli Connell's work at Kopeikin Gallery in Culver City. The Oklahoma-born, Texas-educated, Chicago...
read moreWinter’s Tales at the Culver City Galleries
In the Making" group exhibition at Roberts & Tilton Last Saturday night was a cool, cloudless Southern California winter evening. And, throughout the corridors of Culver City's acoustically-challenged art spaces, the rattle and squeak of shoes on cement...
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