Erasure and Persistence
Harold Mendez's installations, audio works, and altered photographs evoke the partial wearing away of personal and cultural memory.
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Hang Ten
Anchored by drawings of the ocean, Raymond Pettibon's show "Pacific Ocean Pop" hinted at looming catastrophes.
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Pandemic Time
David Horvitz's show "oceaean" explored the strange temporal experience of lockdown.
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Lauren Halsey’s Psychedelic Homage to South Central
Lauren Halsey's exhibition at David Kordansky, her first at the gallery, took the form of a clamoring, abstracted cityscape: a funk apotheosis of South Central—or, as the city and its real estate…
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Ken Ehrlich’s “Dysfunctional” Furniture Disrupts the Experience of Domestic Space
Titled "Dysfunctional Furniture"—a phrase that could qualify as an irreverent definition of sculpture—Ken Ehrlich's exhibition at Human Resources welcomed a categorical fuzziness around form and…
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An Exhibition Revises MoMA’s 1959 “New Images of Man” with Newer Images of Men—and Women
Dave Muller's wall-size painting Dust Jacket #1 (NIM Strand), 2020, depicts a worn copy of the catalogue for a 1959 Museum of Modern Art exhibition curated by Peter Selz, "New Images of Man." Muller…
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Fake Kardashians and CGI Porn Stars: Heji Shin’s “Angel Energy”
Heji Shin's exhibition at gaga & Reena Spaulings Los Angeles, "Angel Energy," pushed deeper into the themes of birth, beauty, and celebrity that she explored in her controversial mural-size portraits…
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Internal and External Worlds Merge in Kristy Luck’s Atmospheric Paintings
Nature, the body, and the psyche seem to be one in Kristy Luck's paintings, but there is nothing saccharine or overtly mystical about her unifying vision. The Los Angeles–based artist depicts fields…
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Did Sturtevant Invent the Meme?
Freedman Fitzpatrick's recent exhibition of Sturtevant's rarely seen videos framed the works anachronistically as 'memes'—a term whose association with digital imagery had barely begun at the time…
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Hugo Crosthwaite’s Riotous Work Portrays Life and Death in Tijuana
Over nearly two decades, Hugo Crosthwaite has applied portraiture's concentrated attention not only to individuals but even more avidly to place.
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