As one of more than 60 "Pacific Standard Time" exhibitions, "Under the Big Black Sun," organized by MOCA chief curator Paul Schimmel, sheds light on the energetic, nonhierarchical ethos of Californi…
Fusing abstract expressionistic smears and dribbles with realist painting, Kirsten Everberg depicts strange, aqueous spaces that evoke dreams more than they do their real-world referents. Teetering…
Cool and distanced irony, so popular in late 20th-centuryculture, is said to have died in the smoke of the WorldTrade Center attacks in 2001. By that time, L.A.-based Richa…
Row upon row of white marble tombs and a sprawling graveyard provided an apt setting for Marnie Weber's exhibition "Eternity Forever," sponsored by the Pasadena-based nonprofit West of Rome Public A…
The nine glazed ceramic figures and four colored cast-glass heads in Micaela Amateau Amato’s recent exhibition constituted a village of sorts, a tribe of, as the exhibition title stated, “Exiles and…
Nancy Jackson’s latest exhibition, her sixth with Felsen, was a lighthearted tour de force consisting of seven paper mobiles, at once intricate and majestic, nine works on paper and 12 sculptures. T…
Images washed over the walls like waves and sculptures dotted the floor like stalagmites, lending a surreal sensibility to Won Ju Lim’s installation Baroque Pet Shop (2010). As part of a media…
Berlin-based Veronika Kellndorfer explores California modernism and the poetics of presence, creating enigmatic prints on glass using her own photographs of homes by midcentury architects. This recent…
Globalism is often invoked in the interest of cultural branding, rather than in the service of finding authentic common ground. Song Kun’s personal and reflective work stands out against this tendency…
“Warfare is a great matter to a nation; it is the ground of death and of life; it is the way of survival and destruction, and must be examined.” Thus begins The Art of War, written by Sun Tzu more tha…