Jordan Riefe

Flutter: Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger; Credit: Jordan Riefe

Flutter’s Fine Art Funhouse

Flutter is a funhouse, a 15-room installation gallery sharing a common theme called “play-date,” with artists using media ranging from VR, painting and sculptur...
George Condo

George Condo Gets to the Point at His New Los Angeles Exhibition

Artist George Condo counts numerous celebrities among his collectors, including Jay-Z and Beyoncé as well as Kanye West, for whom he designed the controversial 2010 album cover My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Back in 2016, Lady Gaga and Jessica Chastain turned out for Condo's Entrance to the Void show at Sprüth Magers, and last weekend filmmaker Gus Van Sant Jr. and Sylvester Stallone were spotted at the same gallery for the opening of his latest show, "What’s the Point?," which is on view through June 1....
Robert Gunderman at Desert Center Los Angeles; Credit: Sam Frost

Spiders, Mollusks and Memories in Robert Gunderman’s New Paintings at Desert Center Los Angeles

Gunderman is perhaps best known as co-founder of contemporary art gallery ACME, which opened in 1992 and closed in 2017 after having made a profound impact on the L.A. art scene across a transformational generation. Since then, he and his wife, interior designer Sarah Walker, have moved from the Hollywood Hills to the ranch where he paints as much as he can, which explains his prolific output over the past eight months....
Philip Colbert at Unit London's Beverly Boulevard pop-up; Credit: Jordan Riefe

Philip Colbert: A Lobster Pops Up Over Beverly

There’s no renter yet for the former Taschen gallery store on Beverly Boulevard, so Saatchi’s Unit London has taken over the space until at least April 15 — as the giant cartoonish lobster on the roof might have tipped you. That’s the alter ego of artist Philip Colbert, whose eponymous neo-pop surrealist brand is London’s epitome of cheeky hip....
Karon Davis at Frieze Projects with Wilding Cran Gallery; Credit: Shana Nys Dambrot

Frieze Los Angeles Heats Up the Local Art Market

"Fundamentally, at the heart of a fair there needs to be commercial success," says Victoria Siddall, director of Frieze Fairs, summing up her winning formula. "So, galleries need to sell art. So, we need to bring collectors, and museum directors need the galleries to bring fantastic work."...
Gajin Fujita

Gajin Fujita’s Ghost Ride Into Frieze Los Angeles

L.A. is uniquely positioned on the Pacific Rim, a forum for artists from North, South and Central America as well as the Far East and South Pacific. And no one synthesizes this variety of influences better than Gajin Fujita, whose massive Ghost Rider is just one of five new works on display at L.A. Louver’s booth at Frieze Los Angeles....