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2008 Stories by Peter Frank

• Peter Frank Has Left the [Weekly] Building

  published July 10, 2008

  So many shows, so little time; always the problem in this compact column, but as this one’s my last, which to choose? Nathan Slate... More >>

• Figures of Authority: Jean Conner, Jerome Witkin

  published July 3, 2008

  Jean Conner has long labored in the shadow of famed husband Bruce, but while she’s not the multimedial innovator he is, her intimate... More >>

• The "It" Parade

  published June 26, 2008

  Two local “It” girls of contemporary art recapitulate the skills, smarts and delights that have kept them in the international... More >>

• Designer Enzo Mari Turns Useful Into Artful

  published June 19, 2008

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• Artists From All Parts on View at "DREAM(land)" and "It's the Money, Stupid!"

  published June 12, 2008

  Bringing together 12 artists from Reykjavik, Seoul, Tallahassee and other likely places, the “DREAM(land)” show at Jail gallery takes... More >>

• The Radiant Mind, the Body Politic

  published June 5, 2008

  Without compromising his unique vision or distinctive style, Lee Mullican was able to embrace many of the attitudes and tendencies of his time... More >>

• Wild Brushfire Set by Gary Edward Blum, Barbara Kerwin, Dennis Hollingsworth

  published May 29, 2008

  Gary Edward Blum and Barbara Kerwin concur on the hows and whys of laying down paint. In his canvases Oakland-based Blum accrues layers of... More >>

• Kansas City in L.A.: Four Abstract Painters

  published May 22, 2008

  Judging by this selection of eight artists at Milo Gallery, everything is up to date in Kansas City — and beyond. Ricky Allman’s... More >>

• Jim Lutes' Visual Rants, Laddie John Dill's Monumental Materialism

  published May 15, 2008

  Gloriously elaborate and hermetic, Jim Lutes’ invariably small paintings — currently rendered in that most... More >>

• Dan Corson and Catherine Wagner's Illuminating Ideas

  published May 8, 2008

  “Neon in daylight is a great pleasure,” Frank O’Hara wrote (attributing it to his friend Edwin Denby), “as are light... More >>

• Shape Shifters

  published May 1, 2008

  Everybody loves Sam Francis’ work for its riotous, flowers-abloom palette. But Francis, steeped in Zen as well as painting, knew that... More >>

• The End Tomes

  published April 24, 2008

  Anselm Kiefer’s vast, bleak vision requires the scale of architecture or opera; the German artist’s gigantism indulges not a sense... More >>

• Lothar Schmitz, Lauren Bon

  published April 17, 2008

  When Lothar Schmitz, a research physicist at UCLA, enters the studio, he doesn’t escape his day job. Rather, Schmitz’s art... More >>

• Falling Together

  published April 10, 2008

  Renée Lotenero’s sculpture, drawing and painting may not be strictly site specific, but they blend in quite specifically at their... More >>

• Figuratively Seeing

  published April 3, 2008

  Nathan Mabry’s much-vaunted send-ups of cultural artifacture are as snarky as anything conjured by the mid-’80s appropriationists,... More >>

• Hard Edges, Soft Touches

  published March 27, 2008

  The “little sister” of Los Angeles hard-edge painting, June Harwood has evolved from hard to soft edges since the 1960s. Now she... More >>

• Ed Ruscha's Political Landscapes

  published March 20, 2008

  Political art, very hip two decades ago, is so unhip it’s hip again, partly thanks to the politicized climate (thank you, Dubya). But t... More >>

• Ambition Accomplished: Julian Schnabel at Gagosian

  published March 13, 2008

  Julian Schnabel the artist has learned a lot from Julian Schnabel the filmmaker. With regard to this latest series of paintings —... More >>

• Animal Spirits

  published March 6, 2008

  An exhibition pointing at the disappearance of numerous fauna doesn't simply preach to the converted; it can prompt the converted to action... More >>

• Square Roots

  published February 28, 2008

  Marrying high-concept New York minimalism to aw-shucks Northern California funk, Bruce Nauman introduced a kind of slacker enigma into the art... More >>

• Organic Matters

  published February 21, 2008

  Swiss-born photographer Corina Gamma displays a foreigner's wonder in her photographs of Los Angeles, delighting not in the... More >>

• Gifford Myers; Tom Eatherton

  published February 14, 2008

  Given his fertile mind (not to mention sure hand), Gifford Myers doesn't show enough in Los Angeles. The works in his latest sculptural series... More >>

• Playing Scales

  published February 7, 2008

  Ronn Davis hurtles through numerous disciplines (paint­ing, sculpture, collage, as­sem­blage), subjects (water, insects, figures)... More >>

• Artifact and Fiction

  published January 31, 2008

  Ron Griffin's work relates to several now-classic tendencies in local art, from Finish Fetish to the oblique Pop of Joe Goode and Ed Ruscha... More >>

• Shadows and Fog

  published January 24, 2008

  A young Polish artist working at the famed Dusseldorf Kunstakademie, Angelika Trojnarski infuses her paintings with a hefty dollop of... More >>