Christopher Miles

With titles like Church, Follow The Light and They Know Why They’re There, Antonio Adriano Puleo seems to suggest that his latest paintings and sculptures deal in a relationship with spirituality, which is both searching and sardonic. But the titles only reiterate, in a play of specificity and vagueness, what......

Whether it is with images of airliners crashed in the forest; roller coasters gone amuck; whales beached among buttes; colossus statues crumbling; ships run aground in the desert; or trashy trailers in the middle of nowhere, Kelly McLane has for years been crafting a view of a world — and......

A collaboration between a conceptual artist (Balteo Yazbeck) and an art historian (Farzin) doing research on the entanglement of modernist art with Cold War-era geopolitics and corporate maneuvers might sound like a promise of boredom — a seminar in picture frames hung on a wall. But this exhibition, which borrows......

A memorable 1968 photo shows Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama ringmastering a troupe of masked, naked, polka dot–painted revelers in New York’s Central Park surrounding José de Creeft’s 1959 Alice in Wonderland bronze sculpture, which, in larger-than-life scale, and in a style reminiscent of John Tenniel’s illustrations for the first edition......

Monique van Genderen’s latest paintings are both easy and hard to look at. Easy for that part of you who knows yourself as a complicated being and knows of existence as a moody and multifaceted endeavor. Looking at van Genderen’s paintings, you feel like you’ve just met a group of......

Franz West is known for his interactive, body-extending “Adaptives” sculptures, and his show now near the end of its run at LACMA is somewhat dominated by them, but perhaps the defining work of the Viennese artist’s first full U.S. survey is for eyes only. In multiple visits (which this show......

Based upon the geometric system of one of his recent vacuum-formed wall installations, Jim Isermann’s new works in acrylic latex on canvas are from the first body of paintings the Palm Springs–based artist has produced in 20 years, as his interests in overlaps between art and design, form and function,......

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 Faulwell’s intricate mixed-media works, which intertwine digitally manipulated photographs of historical figures from the Middle East among floral and geometric patterning reminiscent of that......

Everything you see in a Kim McCarty painting is the result, literally, of things having settled out — things in this case being particles of pigment that, as the results of fluid dynamics, deposit dispersals, puddles and halos of color as McCarty paints “wet-in-wet” with watercolors on soaked paper. Once......

A sense of a new and rewarding whole — a sum that both surpasses and reinvigorates the parts — is palpable here. The show is not unlike an exquisite corpse, a process/project in which individual artists contribute, with limited knowledge of the others’ contributions, to a surprising final work. Lord’s......