Carol Cheh

Gregory Michael Hernandez, who has a mind-blowing new show called "Flatland: A Collision of Architectures" at Emma Gray HQ, has the mind of physicist who can spatially reconfigure complex matter at will. For his 2010 solo show at LAXART, the artist came up with an ingenious answer to the perennial......

Talk of "Chain Letter" started bubbling through the art community about a month ago, after curators Christian Cummings and (former LA Weekly critic) Doug Harvey sent out the first two email invitations asking 10 artists they each admire to participate in a free-for-all group exhibition at Shoshana Wayne Gallery in......

In a contemporary art scene that's come to be dominated by interactive social practices and the ephemerality of performance and site-specific installation, it's become fashionable in certain circles to dismiss painting -- the ultimate manifestation of the old-school preoccupation with static, venerated objects -- as irrelevant and out of place......

Just as Topanga Canyon lies on the outskirts of Los Angeles, the art that is shown there tends to exist outside of the dominant art dialogue that takes place in the city's museums, art spaces and galleries. This leads many in "the LA Art World" to dismiss the annual Topanga......

Saturday night was the grand re-opening of Human Resources, an eclectic collective of artists, musicians and aficionados who organize one of the few spaces in L.A. dedicated to showcasing performative art practices (they also show exhibitions of visual art). After a brief hiatus during which they were without a space,......