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Richard Diebenkorn, "Ocean Park #27"
February 26 - May 27, 2012, Orange County Museum of Art [OCMA], Orange County
by Liz Goldner
Many regular visitors to OCMA have long been enamored with this venue’s "Ocean Park #36" (197...
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Michael Krebs, "Surplus 5"
March 3 - April 14, 2012, dnj Gallery, Santa Monica
The declared premise underlying Vienna-based Michael Kreb’s series of large, staged photographs titled “Surplus” — that consumers are victims of...
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John M. White, "Artificial Hatch V-1," 2004, acrylic on handmade paper, 70 x 40".
March 4 - April 15, 2012, Offramp Gallery, Pasadena
by Ray Zone
In 1971 on a Saturday morning I wandered into the Gladys K. Montgomery Gallery i...
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Kimiko Miyoshi, "Objects: Black Paint (Gertrude Stain series)"
February 20 - March 15, 2012, La Sierra University, Brandstater Gallery, Riverside
by Scarlet Cheng
Printmaking is a studied art. There’s much deliberateness and...
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Louise Nevelson, "Untitled"
Through April 2, 2012, Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena
by Jeanne Willette
When the entirety of the Pacific Standard Time (PST) exhibitions are assessed, it will probably be concluded that the small...
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Judithe Hernandez, "The Birth of Eve," 2010, pastel on paper, 44 x 30".
"Breaking in Two: A Provocative Vision of Motherhood," curated by Bruria Finkel, is an expansive exhibition that features the work of over forty women and collectives for w...
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Liz Glynn, “Trojan Surrogate (Neues Museum Case)”
January 21, - March 23, 2012 at Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont
by Michael Shaw
As an aficionado of antiquities and all their respective baggage, in particular the museum artifact,...
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Our current Previews feature our editors' and contributing writers' evaluations of exhibition that open or continue into the current month, so as to provide you with the opportunity to view those that are of interest to you.
To look up past a...
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Tim Ebner with new works in progress
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, February 11 - March 10, 2012, Santa Monica
by Diane Calder
Readers intent on utilizing this preview as a kind of Goggle map, complete with titles, dimensions, placement...
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Flavio Garciandia, "Untitled"
Couturier Gallery, January 14 - February 25, 2012, Miracle Mile
by Betty Ann Brown
Flavio Garciandia’s current paintings are equal parts de Kooning, Twombly, and Cuba. That’s de Kooning’s pink and g...
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Sean Cheetham, "Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams," 2011, oil on Arches paper and linen.
Katherine Cone Gallery, February 11 - March 12, 2012, Culver City
by A. Moret
Robin Leach coined the catchphrase that toasted viewers to “Cham...
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Ellsworth Kelly, "Colors on a Grid"
Los Angeles County Museum of Art [LACMA], January 21 - April 22, 2012, Miracle Mile
by Marlena Donohue
The work of Ellsworth Kelly somehow fights with the rhetorical framework of a written review. ...
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Andy Goldsworthy, "Leaf Horn," 1996, sweet chestnut leaves and thorns, 11 3/4 x 13 1/2 x 5 1/2".
© Andy Goldsworthy. Photo courtesy Leanne Hull Fine Art, LLC
Andy Goldsworthy’s exquisite “Leaf Horn” (1996) represents one approach...
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Our current Previews feature our editors' and contributing writers' evaluations of exhibition that open or continue into the current month, so as to provide you with the opportunity to view those that are of interest to you.
To look up past a...
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Don Antón, “Little Prayer Before the Journey”
January 11 - April 7, 2012 at USC Fisher Museum of Art, Downtown
by Jody Zellen
While many art institutions under the auspices of Pacific Standard Time are investigating how different communi...
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Moshe Elimelech, "Untitled #7"
January 7 - February 11, 2012 at L2kontemporary, Chinatown
by Bill Lasarow
Much contemporary art strives for high seriousness, compressing art historical source references and philosophical musings into coy obje...
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Robert Kingston, “Skirmish”
January 14 - February 25, 2012 at Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica
by Andy Brumer
If painter Robert Kingston were a poet, readers might associate his work less with the cerebral machinations of a T.S. Eliot, ...
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Roger Kuntz, “Blimp on Target”
January 7 - February 18, 2012 at Louis Stern Fine Art, West Hollywood
by Margarita Nieto
From 1959 to 1962 Roger Kuntz produced a series of Southern California landscape paintings that pulled back the image of...
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Helen Lundeberg, “Blue Planet“
Through February 5, 2012 at J. Paul Getty Museum, West Los Angeles
by Liz Goldner
To combine breakthrough 1950’s era hard-edge paintings with ingeniously constructed ceramics is a bold curatorial statement. ...
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Suda House, “Defleurir de chemise cagoule,” color Xerox on chiffon and satin with applied stitching/stuffing, 14 x 8 1/2”.
”Then and Now” presents examples of the work of eight Southern California artists who pioneered photo-based media art...
