What immediately struck me on visiting the various outposts of “Pacific Standard Time,” a catchall label for approximately 60 shows dotted around Southern California, was the existence of artists I barely registered, or even heard of while living in LA for over a decade.
Laura Elizabeth Barone discusses the intimacy and the ambiguity of John Stezaker’s collages, at the Mildred Lane Kemper Museum through April 23rd.
Laura Elizabeth Barone explores Tommy Hartung and Uri Aran’s naturally occurring verbal and thematic exchange at their recent exhibition at White Flag Projects.
Mike Calway-Fagen engages Good Citizen’s gallery in St. Louis with an expansive sculptural installation and billboard about the displacement of things over time and giving unexpected insight to the everyday.
Kota Ezawa’s seductive work uncannily draw his viewer into already familiar images, making the work about the act of looking, rather than just recognition.
Marfa, Texas, is a sleepy little art town, but 200 miles northwest lies an alternate reality – Juarez, Mexico (often referred to as the “murder capital of the world”) and the focus of artist Bettina Langrebe’s latest installation.
Laura Elizabeth Barone explores Chicago-based Meredith Zielke and Yoni Goldstein’s painstakingly detailed three-channel video installation entitled The Jettisoned at Los Caminos Gallery.
How many recent exhibitions have you walked into and nearly stepped on a drawing done in mayonnaise of Edouard Manet’s “Olympia” on a carefully arranged grid of wonder bread on the floor in front of a fireplace painted gold? At The Joanna this encounter is only half surprising…
