July 13, 2018, 4:20pm
Cosmic Traffic Jam: Zevitas Marcus
Cosmic Traffic Jam features: Laylah Ali (Northeast #26 cover artist), John Bankston (Pacific Coast #55 and #109 cover artist), Jarvis Boyland (Midwest #137), Ashley Doggett, Mark Thomas Gibson, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Alex Jackson (Midwest #119 cover artist), Tomashi Jackson (Northeast #134), Clotilde Jiménez (Midwest #125), Yashua Klos, David Leggett (Midwest #131 cover artist), Steve Locke (Northeast #86), Lamar Peterson, Umar Rashid (Pacific Coast #73), Kenny Rivero, Jordan Seaberry, Gerald Sheffield, Devan Shimoyama (MFA #105 cover artist and Northeast #116), Alexandria Smith (Northeast #134) and Brittney Leeanne Williams.
On View: July 7 – August 25, 2018
Zevitas Marcus
2754 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Suite B Los Angeles, CA 90034
Brittney Leeanne Williams
INTERCEDING ROCK
photo courtesy of the artist
Listed under: Must-See, NAP Artists on View
Tagged as: NAP on view, Laylah Ali, John Bankston, Jarvis Boyland, Ashley Doggett, Mark Thomas Gibson, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Alex Jackson, Tomashi Jackson, Clotilde Jimenez, Yashua Shimoyama, Alexandria Smith, Brittney Leeanne Williams, Zevitas Marcus, Los Angeles, Gallery, Exhibition, On View
Dropping In on the Dropouts
MacArthur Park in the Westlake area of Los Angeles is only about 3 or 4 miles away from the University of Southern California. Driving around the streets of this dense neighborhood, the exclusive academic world of the Trojans seems very, very far away. Los Angeles is not known for being a walking city, but you wouldn't guess it by looking at modern Westlake. The sidewalks during most days are teeming with people, and vendors line the streets in front of frenetic backdrops of small-business signage and big-business advertising. Westlake had the second highest density of any LA neighborhood according to the 2000 census, over 70 percent of it Latino, making a median income of a little over $26,000 a year. Park View gallery is tucked a few blocks away from the concentration of activity around MacArthur Park, in an apartment in an older 2-story residential building. The former 2016 class of USC's Roski School of Art, referred to as the USC7, have mounted an exhibition of their works in this apartment-gallery entitled Recesses, and it is within the political context of their circumstances that this exhibition takes place. Park View, according to a report by the LA Times's Carolina Miranda in 2014, is the creation and apartment of Paul Soto, formerly of the staff of Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. Park View is one of many idiosyncratic alternative and/or artist-run initiatives in the Los Angeles area, and it is easy to guess what the appeal of the venue might be for the USC7. – Jason Ramos, Los Angeles Contributor
All photos courtesy of Park View.
Recesses installation view
Tagged as: Park View, Los Angeles, Edie Fake, Recesses, Ellesn Schafer, Sid. M. Dueñas, George Egerton-Warburton, Lauren Davis Fisher, Jason Ramos
Play, Shuffle, Repeat: Annelie McKenzie at CB1
Painting, perhaps more than any other medium, has existed as a site for reconciling the systemic biases of art history, of which a large percentage are encapsulated in painting's own history. Painting has historically referenced previous imagery – subjects of the Renaissance were aesthetic updates to earlier depictions of the myths of the Bible and ancient Greco-Roman cultures found in past sculpture, frescoes, mosaics, manuscripts, textiles, etc. Subsequent derivative idioms, such as the master's copy and homage, have lineages stretching back long before anything could have even been labeled pre-modern. Neoclassicism was an agenda-based, aesthetic do-over by definition; Modernism's brief, valiant attempt at creating a future caught its breath in the late 20th century and painting began, again, to eloquently engage in a conversation with itself about itself. Although in contemporary art this is not unique to any one medium, there is enough cultural resonance specific to painting that it justifies the reflexive nature of artists continuing to investigate its unique position in history. – Jason Ramos, Los Angeles Contributor
Annelie McKenzie, The Enthusiast. Exhibition installation images courtesy of CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles.
Tagged as: Annelie McKenzie, CB1, Los Angeles
January 15, 2014, 8:46am
Annie Lapin at Honor Fraser
You have seen Annie Lapin's (NAP #91) work in our magazine, and on our blog. See her work, in the flesh, at Honor Fraser in Los Angeles. Her exhibition, Various Peep Shows, is one of our Must-See shows for the month of January!
Check out this video we produced about her a couple of years ago with Future Shipwreck. And, below the jump, read more about her current exhibition.
Listed under: Noteworthy, Video
Tagged as: Honor Fraser, Annie Lapin, Must-See, Los Angeles
The Wonderful World of Melissa Manfull
Melissa Manfull's (NAP #85) solo show Schemata at Taylor De Cordoba is a really great visual embodiment of the artistic process, as it tangibly shows Manfull's growth and expanding mastery of mediums. Since her first pieces were shown at Taylor De Cordoba in a group show in 2007, her work has changed in subject and color, though not in the detailed, inquisitive nature of her drawings psychological musings. - Ellen C. Caldwell, Los Angeles Contributor
Melissa Manfull | Prisoner's Dilemma, 2013, Acrylic on panel, 60" x 40." Courtesy of Taylor De Cordoba.
Tagged as: Melissa Manfull, Taylor De Cordoba, Ellen C. Caldwell, Los Angeles
William Powhida Paints in Earnest
At first glance, William Powhida's new show Bill By Bill at Charlie James Gallery looks like a fairly typical survey of contemporary art. Just about all of today's most common approaches to object-driven art making are represented. There's a post-minimalist sculpture, some neo-modernist wall pieces, a hard-edged abstraction, three large digitally printed color field paintings, a neo-expressionist painting, a taxidermied animal, and a neon sign.
Tagged as: Charlie Jame Gallery, Los Angeles, Trevor Spaulding, William Powhida
Long Plays: Okay Mountain at Mark Moore Gallery
I'll start with a joke: How many artists does it take to satirize contemporary culture, democratize the collaborative process, vandalize notions of the banal while able to emphasize the importance of drawing within the practice of making?.....9. I learned that one while talking to Okay Mountain co-founder, artist, curator and overall swell guy Nathan Green.
Tagged as: Arthur Pena, Austin, Long Plays, Los Angeles, Mark Moore Gallery, Nathan Green, Okay Mountain
December 17, 2012, 8:25am
Ken Gonzales-Day at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
Ken Gonzales-Day's recent show, "Profiled | Hang Trees | Portraits," at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles is deeply rich and intellectually challenging. A well-established artist and researcher, Gonzales-Day challenges his viewers and the way in which we as a country remember.
Tagged as: Ellen C. Caldwell, Ken Gonzales-Day, Los Angeles, Luis De Jesus
David O'Brien's "My Pet Doppelganger"
Digital replicas of flying and furtive portraits of friends moving through time and space populate David O'Brien's solo photography show My Pet Doppelganger at the Richard Heller Gallery.
Tagged as: David O'Brien, Ellen C. Caldwell, Los Angeles, My Pet Doppelganger, Richard Heller Gallery
April 02, 2012, 8:15am
The Art and Artifice of Geodes: In the Studio with Elyse Graham
At once lifelike and ethereal, organic and otherworldly, Elyse Graham's geodes are captivating and mysterious. Simply put, they tell a story. But that story is not at all simplistic in style, process, or production.
Tagged as: Carmichael Gallery, CT Scans, Ellen C. Caldwell, Elyse Graham, Futero Anteriore, Los Angeles