Email Author Christopher Miles

2009 Stories by Christopher Miles

• Kristen Morgin at Marc Selwyn Fine Art

  published December 31, 2009

  I can’t think of a better way to close this decade than to write about a show by an artist who, much to my honor, taught at the same... More >>

• Barbara T. Smith: “Old Shoes: Performance Relics 1968-1975” at The Box

  published December 17, 2009

  Thank goodness for smaller venues that pull off what larger ones should have. Barbara T. Smith, who has spent this fall enacting a series of... More >>

• SUSAN MOGUL AT JANCAR GALLERY

  published December 10, 2009

  Susan Mogul is better known these days as a video artist/alternative filmmaker who has spent a career finding ways to spin the... More >>

• Jeff Koons at Gagosian Gallery

  published November 26, 2009

  The assertion that Jeff Koons is maturing as a painter might seem hard to take given his quote posted on the Gagosian Web site, which reads... More >>

• “Bruce Conner in the 1970s” at Michael Kohn Gallery

  published November 13, 2009

  It’s hard to decide what’s coolest about the Bruce Conner of the 1970s. Is it how such a clear and unique sensibility always showed... More >>

• Robin Mitchell at Craig Krull Gallery

  published November 5, 2009

  Robin Mitchell’s latest exhibition offers a rare case study in how humble and subtle works (in this case a collection of... More >>

• Kiel Johnson at Mark Moore Gallery

  published October 29, 2009

  It’s hard to imagine how an artist could possibly be more simultaneously devoted to the crafting that comes from the... More >>

• Elad Lassry at David Kordansky Gallery

  published October 22, 2009

  If it isn’t easy to find a standout work in Elad Lassry’s current show, it isn’t just because all the works, including... More >>

• Nicole Cherubini at Santa Monica Museum of Art

  published October 15, 2009

  It’s been a good season opener for ceramics, with an impressive half-century survey of work by 95-year-old Southern California modernist... More >>

• Francesca Gabbiani at Patrick Painter

  published October 1, 2009

  Francesca Gabbiani’s elaborate compositions in meticulously cut, colored paper, variously highlighted, shaded and patterned with... More >>

• Kevin Appel at Acme

  published September 24, 2009

  Kevin Appel’s new works on paper at ACME hearken to both the refinement of the sleekly stylized paintings of modernesque architectural... More >>

• Olaf Breuning at Michael Benevento

  published September 17, 2009

  Stop in to Michael Benevento’s gallery on Sunset near the corner of Curson and you may wonder if you’ve mistakenly... More >>

• Vera Lutter at Gagosian Gallery

  published September 3, 2009

  The use of the negative photographic print as a means of evoking the uncanny, unsettling or other is a trick so often played at this point... More >>

• “Bitch Is the New Black” at Honor Fraser

  published August 27, 2009

  Though the title of this exhibition might leave one expecting some kind of curatorial polemic on bad-girl behavior, fashion, post-feminism and... More >>

• Yo Fukui at David Salow Gallery

  published August 20, 2009

  Early in his career, L.A. painter Lari Pittman produced paintings that envisioned a future place — somewhere between the physical realm... More >>

• Camilo Ontiveros: “I Want Your Washing Machine” at Steve Turner Contemporary

  published August 13, 2009

  At the Museum of Modern Art in New York hangs an early work by Donald Judd — a black-painted panel with a rectilinear metallic void in... More >>

• Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists From Korea at LACMA

  published August 6, 2009

  There’s no shortage of albums that rise to the ranks of the memorable only because of one or two catchy hits among otherwise dull tracks,... More >>

• Ruby Neri at David Kordansky Gallery

  published July 23, 2009

  Depending on which way one throws a quick glance upon walking into David Kordansky Gallery, one might toss Ruby Neri in with a... More >>

• Heather Cantrell at Kinkead Contemporary

  published July 16, 2009

  What has made Heather Cantrell such an interesting photographer over the last few years has been her ability to interrogate... More >>

• Whitney Bedford at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

  published July 2, 2009

  You have to give yourself over to Whitney Bedford’s paintings, which combine gestural brushwork with more discrete marks in what the... More >>

• Antonio Adriano Puleo at Cherry and Martin

  published June 25, 2009

  With titles like Church, Follow The Light and They Know Why They’re There, Antonio Adriano Puleo seems to... More >>

• And Swine Flu Too: Kelly McLane's Apocalyptic Visions at Angles Gallery

  published June 18, 2009

  Whether it is with images of airliners crashed in the forest; roller coasters gone amuck; whales beached among buttes; colossus statues... More >>

• Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck in Collaboration With Media Farzin at Christopher Grimes Gallery

  published June 11, 2009

  A collaboration between a conceptual artist (Balteo Yazbeck) and an art historian (Farzin) doing research on the entanglement of modernist art... More >>

• Yayoi Kusama at Gagosian Gallery

  published June 4, 2009

  A memorable 1968 photo shows Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama ringmastering a troupe of masked, naked, polka dot–painted revelers in New... More >>

• Monique van Genderen at the Happy Lion

  published May 28, 2009

  Monique van Genderen’s latest paintings are both easy and hard to look at. Easy for that part of you who knows yourself as a complicated... More >>