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2009 Stories by Christopher Miles

• Franz West, To Build a House You Start With the Roof: Work, 1972-2008 at LACMA

  published May 21, 2009

  Franz West is known for his interactive, body-extending “Adaptives” sculptures, and his show now near the end of its run at LACMA... More >>

• Jim Isermann at Richard Telles Fine Art

  published May 14, 2009

  Based upon the geometric system of one of his recent vacuum-formed wall installations, Jim Isermann’s new works in acrylic latex on... More >>

• Living History II: Asad Faulwell & Matt Lipps at Marc Selwyn Fine Art

  published May 7, 2009

  In this odd pairing, one finds a lesson in how artists make use of the permissions and precedents opened up by prior groups or movements. Asad... More >>

• Kim McCarty at Kim Light Gallery

  published April 30, 2009

  Everything you see in a Kim McCarty painting is the result, literally, of things having settled out — things in this case being particles... More >>

• Thomas Hirschhorn, Andrew Lord, and Lari Pittman at Regen Projects

  published April 16, 2009

  A sense of a new and rewarding whole — a sum that both surpasses and reinvigorates the parts — is palpable here. The show is not... More >>

• State of Play: Elias Sime at Santa Monica Museum of Art

  published April 9, 2009

  There are some things to forgive in the first U.S. survey of work by Ethiopian artist Elias Sime, like Peter Sellars... More >>

• All That Was, Is at the Happy Lion

  published April 2, 2009

  Strategies of appropriation and plays with found objects and images push into cultural conflation, convergence and cannibalism in this sleeper... More >>

• Joan Snyder at SolwayJones Gallery

  published March 26, 2009

  An artist whose practice was forged among latter-day abstract expressionism, postminimalism’s hybrid and experimental approaches to... More >>

• Elliott Hundley at Regen Projects II

  published March 19, 2009

  As much a master of assemblage as of theatrical showmanship, Elliott Hundley flexes his chops in his first solo show with Regen Projects by... More >>

• Brad Eberhard at Thomas Solomon Gallery @ Cottage Home

  published March 12, 2009

  Brad Eberhard pits his practice, and the feeling you get from his paintings, between flux and control — laying down paint in washes,... More >>

• Tomory Dodge at Acme.

  published March 5, 2009

  Jackson Pollock believed technique must suit its age; his own technique, he said, was fit for the age of the “airplane, the atom bomb,... More >>

• Richard Prince, Wallace Berman and Their Women

  published February 26, 2009

  A first round of press releases announced the lineup for this show, guest-curated by Kristine McKenna, as a trio to include... More >>

• Flagging Interest: Renée Petropoulos at Rosamund Felsen Gallery

  published February 26, 2009

  At a moment when so much of the interaction between cultures and nations gets described with terms like “clash” or... More >>

• Dangerous Geometry: Patrick Hill at David Kordansky Gallery

  published February 19, 2009

  A sculptor I know, who came out of art school at the height of minimalism in the late 1960s, once told me how a next generation of artists... More >>

• Elisabeth Higgins O'Connor at David Salow Gallery

  published February 12, 2009

  Imagine an alternate ending in which Little Red Riding Hood, Grandma, the Woodsman and the Big Bad Wolf join forces in a sewing circle to... More >>

• Maaike Schoorel at Marc Foxx

  published February 5, 2009

  You might mistake the first painting in Maaike Schoorel’s show for a blank canvas that picked up smudges while bumping around the Dutch... More >>

• Constance Mallinson at Angles Gallery

  published January 29, 2009

  Over the past couple of decades, Constance Mallinson has deployed a bag of tricks borrowed from the antics and tactics of old masters,... More >>

• Valerie Favre at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

  published January 22, 2009

  Imagine if Goya, chronicler of the excess, decrepitude and depravity that brought brutal irony to the end of the “age of... More >>

• Dance Witches Dance: Sculptural Comedy with My Barbarian

  published January 22, 2009

  Fuck, yeah! That’s a phrase I’ve never before used (and never much imagined I would) in an art review, but... More >>

• Raymond Pettibon at Regen Projects II

  published January 15, 2009

  If you’ve been watching the contemporary-art horizon for the past 20-plus years, the passage of another Raymond Pettibon show might seem... More >>

• Art Around Town

  published January 8, 2009

  There’s a relentlessness that defines Robert Longo’s oeuvre, and his imagery —... More >>

• Art Around Town: Paul P. at Marc Selwyn Fine Art

  published January 1, 2009

  Aptly titled Venice, Venice, Paris-based artist Paul P.’s current offering at Marc Selwyn is something... More >>