Peter Frank

All three painters showing (appropriately) downtown belong to the dystopian wing of the “newbrow” aesthetic, conflating surrealism, classicism, Pop, movie-poster illustration, and a skin-crawly kind of humor into an ecstatic apocalypse. This is least apparent in Scott Siedman’s knowingly overblown renditions of overly attractive people — ancient Romans, apparently —......

Ruth Weisberg’s recent series of mixed-media paintings on unstretched canvas elaborate on images of people on boats, floating toward a new life with hope and trepidation written across their faces. If you know your Exodus, book or movie, you’ll recognize the faces, the clothing and the drama, but Weisberg has......

Most of “The Art of Time” is crammed into a hallway, the rest into a forecorner of a typically loud and busy children’s museum, but go see it anyway — and not just because it’s for a good cause. Some 70-odd artists — artists for a day or for a......

Raul Guerrero speaks through both sides of the border. A microspective of Guerrero’s paintings and objects brims with a gently caustic wit, a willingness to lampoon Us, Them and the whole identity thing by aping the look of both Euro-American realism and Mexican folk art. Guerrero’s latest painting series is......

It hasn’t always been sexy to be a non-objective painter in Los Angeles, but L.A. has always had sexy non-objectivists, painters just as tough, smart and skilled as their New York and San Francisco counterparts but undersung at home. Don Sorenson was one such artist, compiling a stunning body of......

Every one of the eight or so objects in “Symmetry” manifests the idea of symmetry in a different, yet easily perceived, manner. Ramifications and details may emerge slowly, but the fact that you get the basic reason why each object is here allows you to get to those more elusive......