In the paintings of Caitlin Cherry, black female bodies and sexually confident women in general are portrayed as self-possessed in the face of oppression and outmoded, moralizing aesthetics. Her topsy-turvy palette riots topple expectations and reveal an emboldened generation of women ready to rule this jacked-up kingdom....
California Closets has nothing on Sara Berman. The woman knew how to wrangle a walk-in. Her abilities were such that her daughter, acclaimed artist and author Maira Kalman, and her grandson, What Studio? founder Alex Kalman, saw fit to enshrine Sara's closet in a perfect new book and a small but mighty art installation that has charmed visitors in New York, now in Los Angeles, and soon enough the world over....
The Historic Core’s monthly (second Thursdays, 6-10 p.m.) Art Walk offers curious-minded and crowd-loving Angelenos a lot of art, crafts, music, food and drinks to love. But more than that, it creates a pedestrian-friendly neighborhood experience with bustling sidewalks and people actually just walking around, checking it all out....
Lost Art Los Angeles was open in plenty of time for what proved to be one of the most engaging, art-based, cafe-style party vibes among all of last month’s holiday shopping pop-ups. But much like your beautiful Christmas lights, Lost Art L.A. is still very much in place, and still feeling festive....
In "An Ingenue's Hues and How to Use Cutty Black Shoes," painter Trenton Doyle Hancock engineers a rough-edged mashup of graphics, comics and illustration styles with a juicy abstract expressionist aesthetic. This he deploys in chronicling the ongoing adventures of (mostly) fictional characters inhabiting the Moundverse — a parallel yet all-too-familiar world of the artist's own imagination....
The chair sculptures in Jane Brucker’s "Fragile Thoughts” feature elaborate stained-glass components made in collaboration with Judson Studios, now extended until February 15....
An ongoing series of Q&A’s with L.A.’s most fascinating contemporary artists, introduced in their own words. This week it’s photographer Luther Gerlach, whose old-school technical processes combine a vintage sense of the romantic, metaphysical landscape with images of natural disaster and volatile climatology. His most recent work deals with the aftermath of the Thomas fire but has gained new resonance in the wake of the more recent Woolsey fire....
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