Award-winning blogazine, primarily about painting
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
In the LAWeekly, Doug Harvey’s fall preview kicks off with an image of “Auditorium,” a 1987, 8′ x 12′ painting by Roger Herman(pictured above). A show of Herman’s paintings from the 1980s opens at the Jancar Gallery this Saturday. Born in 1947 in the Saarland, Germany, Herman studied at the […]
In LA Weekly, Doug Harvey reports that curating isn�t always as easy as it looks. “It�s rare to find a group of concurrent solo projects that genuinely complement one another � just because two artists happen to use images of trees or refer to cartography or have Photoshop doesn�t necessarily […]
LA Weekly art critic Doug Harvey has a show up at the Los Angeles Valley College Art Gallery this month. LAVC Dean of Arts Dennis Reed writes that Harvey�s work is lively, slyly humorous, wryly hip, and at times crude. “These works exhibit the wit of an art world insider […]
In the LA Weekly Doug Harvey reports that Thibeault was riveted by the imagery that emerged from the maelstrom of bad weather and inept government after Katrina. “As the title Keeping Things Whole suggests, Thibeault is less interested in romantic ruins than in paradigms of continuity emerging from the wreckage […]
“Some Paintings: 2007 LA Weekly Annual Biennial,” curated by Doug Harvey. Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. Through Feb.16. In the LA Times, Christopher Knight reports that the only thing missing from the exhibition is an exclamation mark at the title’s end. “A whopping 81 paintings by 80 artists, most […]
“Some Paintings: 2007 LA Weekly Annual Biennial,” curated by Doug Harvey. Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. Through Feb.16. Artists include Lisa Adams, David Amico, Michael Arata, Josh Aster, Hilary Baker, Lynne Berman, Sandow Birk, William Brice, Heather Brown, Kristin Calabrese, Steve Canaday, Carol Caroompas, Karen Carson, Scott Cassidy, Mike […]
“Brad Spence: Art Therapy ,” Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA. Through Oct. 27 In LA Weekly, Doug Harvey reports: “Spence has created an installation where the viewer stands at the vanishing point of a dozen slightly indeterminate psychological perspectives, resulting in a simultaneously unnerving and amniotic sense […]
