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2006 Stories by Peter Frank

• Skin, Kaz Oshiro and Dan Douke

  published December 28, 2006

  The three painter-draftsmen in “Skin,” on view at Klapper Gallery, address themselves to the appearance of the human body, its... More >>

• Lawrence Gipe

  published December 21, 2006

  The modes of entertainment Lawrence Gipe refers to in the title of his series “Zirkus und Varieté” were the circus and cabaret... More >>

• Coleen Sterritt, Jeff Soto

  published December 14, 2006

  Coleen Sterritt informs the macho medium of wood sculpture with a tempering humor and an almost self-parodying embrace of furniture. Enmeshing... More >>

• Manuela Friedmann, Valerie Green, Eileen Cowin

  published December 7, 2006

  Manuela Friedmann practices a kind of maximized minimalism that owes at least as much to “traditional” European geometric painting... More >>

• Pictures From the Past

  published November 30, 2006

  Though the achievements of Constable and Turner couldn’t quite be matched, they honed other English painters’ regard for the limpid... More >>

• Llyn Foulkes, Robert Dean Stockwell, Katy Stone

  published November 23, 2006

  Llyn Foulkes, curmudgeon-genius of the L.A. art scene, has burst forth with a bevy of new work in two shows, displaying contrasting aspects of... More >>

• John Stezaker, Sarah Charlesworth

  published November 16, 2006

  The collages kinda look like a cross between John Baldessari and Llyn Foulkes, with a dash of early Sherrie Levine and Richard Prince (both of... More >>

• Alternate Routes

  published November 9, 2006

  Cartography constitutes an art form in its own right — even nowadays, when mapmakers no longer depict monsters swimming at the edges of... More >>

• James Brooks, Fumiko Amano

  published November 2, 2006

  Abstract expressionism was, and is, not at all a matter of sloshing paint around in a fit of “self-expression.” The original action... More >>

• Michael Mazur, Merion Estes

  published October 26, 2006

  MOCA just exhibited Robert Rauschenberg’s suite from the ’60s. Sandow Birk showed his new in-the-hood version last spring. And now,... More >>

• Drawings, Doings

  published October 19, 2006

  The “Venice Mafia” may be getting on, but its capi are staying mighty frisky, continuing to experiment with forms, images and... More >>

• Mark Kostabi, Barbara Strasen, Hung Liu

  published October 12, 2006

  Mark Kostabi, Whittier’s second-favorite son, has been splitting his time lately between New York and Rome. The immersion in European... More >>

• Tom O'Day, Louis Hock, Fantasy Islands

  published October 5, 2006

  Spokane-based Tom O’Day has it all figured out: If you can’t show or sell it, destroy and remake it. O’Day hates the term... More >>

• A Lot of Local Abstraction

  published September 28, 2006

  Mucho buzz about abstract painting in California; here are three shows that generate their share of the excitement. Carlos Villa and the late... More >>

• Neil Wax, David E. Stone, Young Kyun Lim

  published September 21, 2006

  Neil Wax exercises an uncanny ability to emulate the graphic sensibility of the supermarket shelf to subversive but touching ends. For... More >>

• Joan Tanner

  published September 14, 2006

  No paint is apparent in Santa Barbara artist Joan Tanner’s installation “On Tenderhooks”; unfinished plywood and various... More >>

• Knock, Knock – Whose Home

  published September 7, 2006

  Does it all boil down to real estate? It sure seems to in California, and artists — always the unwitting tool of gentrification —... More >>

• All in the Family, Isis Rodriguez

  published August 31, 2006

  Artists breed artists in the bedroom as well as in the classroom, and Los Angeles boasts its own painterly dynasties. “All in the... More >>

• Leyla Cárdenas, Block Party, Works on Paper By

  published August 24, 2006

  Leyla Cárdenas isn’t just another UCLA art star, she was born, raised and still lives in Bogotá, and her MFA years up he... More >>

• Claire Falkenstein, James Turrell

  published August 17, 2006

  As elegant and prickly as their maker, the sculptures of Claire Falkenstein conflate the two dominant directions in postwar abstract art:... More >>

• Ben Patterson

  published August 10, 2006

  Fluxus artist Ben Patterson’s latest exploration, reconstituted as an installation in cast concrete and flowing water, traces a small and... More >>

• Suzan Woodruff, ernest Silva

  published July 27, 2006

  The thinned acrylic pigments Suzan Woodruff has sent coursing across her surfaces with ever more voluptuous abandon have clearly followed their... More >>

• David Reed, Eli Langer

  published July 13, 2006

  The painterly gesture plays a crucial role in David Reed’s art, even in the rough-hewn landscapes the New York painter realized early in... More >>

• Stepping Into the Light

  published July 6, 2006

  Practitioners of a supposedly superannuated aesthetic, veteran light-and-space cadets Helen Pashgian and Lita Albuquerque forge ahead with... More >>

• Steve Tobin, Hagop Hagopian

  published June 29, 2006

  Steve Tobin, a many-faceted sculptor, began his career as a ceramist, and has returned to the earth to — well, to blow it up. Tobin... More >>