Kelly Akashi's hand was everywhere in this ensnaring show, and not just implicitly, in that the Los Angeles–based artist made its sculptural contents, but explicitly, too.
Perched on racks near the ground-floor entrance to the Independent art fair, before the three floors higher up swell in size and welcome washes of natural light, are a series of ceramic birds by
The third iteration of the Hammer Museum’s Made in LA biennial—organized by the museum’s Aram Moshayedi and the Renaissance Society’s Hamza Walker—proposed a current art scene that is much more divers…