New York-based artist Valerie Snobeck's solo show opened at Thomas Duncan Gallery in Los Angeles at the unconventional hour of 7:30 PM [through May 26]. The pitch darkness outside ensured that the o…
The title of Rachel Foullon's latest exhibition, "Ruminant Recombinant" [through May 26 at ltd los angeles], refers to the four-compartment stomachs of cows, goats and sheep. By chewing, swallowing…
Over the course of a more than two decade-long career, Jacqueline Humphries has approached every canvas with the intent to mess it up. She sees its blank white form as the perfect last painting…
The group show "B. Wurtz and Co." at Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, announces itself plainly [on view through April 21]. Engraved onto an office placard, the title, adapted from a 2001 MoMA e…
For over thirty years, Daniel Joseph Martinez has explored physical bodies as political instruments. In his current exhibition, "I want to go to Detroit: Cheerleaders CHEER," at LAXART [through…
Matthew Marks opened the fifth location of his gallery (he has 4 in New York) last week on the east side of West Hollywood. Located just south of Santa Monica Boulevard, the building features a perm…
The crowd gathered outside of Santa Monica's Barker Hanger last Thursday for the preview of Art Los Angeles Contemporary (ALAC) was heavy on volunteers. Dressed in matching white workman jumpsuits, …
Asher Penn tends to upload images of his new bodies of work to the Web like leaked tracks of a pop singer's forthcoming album, publishing them on his own site sometimes more than a month before the …
The title of Matt Saunders's current show, "China in Nixon" [through Dec. 22 at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles] turns the title of John Adams's 1972 opera into abstract absurdity. The title's inverted plac…
For her most recent exhibition at Overduin and Kite in Los Angeles, Kaari Upson has created works in charcoal and smoke—materials with residue. Memory is the impetus for "The Larry Project" (2007–), …