Christopher Miles

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 knitting performances at locations around Pasadena as part of the Armory Center’s “Installations Inside/Out” exhibition, has received a list of accolades that would be enviable......

Susan Mogul is better known these days as a video artist/alternative filmmaker who has spent a career finding ways to spin the specifics of her own background — never married, childless, Jewess in the age of feminism and assimilation — into works that function as both a kind of autobiography......

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 like a cross between the lines of a motivational speaker and an excerpt from a New-Age sex-education manual: “The gesture that you end up......

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 through in his work while he constantly changed things up, so much so that his midcareer work feels as fresh and different as the work he......

The title of this exhibition is a cheat that makes for a double treat. Brown’s solo shows thus far, and other outings in group shows, have shored up her position as a talented young painter, given to shifts between geometric abstraction, figuration and pattern painting. But she’s also invested in......

Robin Mitchell’s latest exhibition offers a rare case study in how humble and subtle works (in this case a collection of modestly sized works in gouache on paper) can deliver an experience that is compelling, rich, intelligent and engaged with the array of traditions from which it descends and advances......

It’s hard to imagine how an artist could possibly be more simultaneously devoted to the crafting that comes from the hand, and variously put off, puzzled, inspired and overall utterly preoccupied by machines, than Kiel Johnson. Making drawings born of a unity of hand, eye and imagination, which no CAD......

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 multiple photographs (all with minimal but custom, often color-coordinated frames) and a projected film, are presented within the same modest size range. It’s because it’s hard to pick......

It’s been a good season opener for ceramics, with an impressive half-century survey of work by 95-year-old Southern California modernist ceramic artist, designer and innovator Harrison Macintosh at the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona (on view through January 9); a tour de force exhibition by Tony Marsh at......

Francesca Gabbiani’s elaborate compositions in meticulously cut, colored paper, variously highlighted, shaded and patterned with additional line and brush work in gouache and acrylic, are the oddest of exercises in a kind of decadent folksiness. (They’re as likely to inspire you to go home and curl up with an Aubrey......