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 […]
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Tomory Dodge turns viscous brushwork into levitating clutter
Christopher Miles reports in the LA Weekly (didn’t we all have enough of New York last week?) that Tomory Dodge paints with a kind of […]
Saul, Brown, and Shaw: Invoking creative craftsmanship over formulaic novelty
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 […]
Doug Harvey’s untidy whatever
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 […]
Painting for umpteen years: Lutes and Dill in LA
In the LAWeekly, Peter Frank’s picks this week include Jim Lutes and Laddie John Dill. “Gloriously elaborate and hermetic, Jim Lutes� invariably small paintings � […]
Marie Thibeault’s extravagant wreckage in LA
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 […]
Love letter to painting in LA
“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, […]
The Takashi Murakami brand at Geffen Contemporary
“� Murakami,“curated by Paul Schimmel and organized by Mika Yoshitake. Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA. October 29- Feb. 11. Takashi Murakami, conflating the […]
Brad Spence: psychic relief via airbrush
“Brad Spence: Art Therapy ,” Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA. Through Oct. 27 In LA Weekly, Doug Harvey reports: “Spence has created […]
Pioneering modernist Helen Lundeberg’s WPA mural restored
The History of Transportation Mural Works Project Administration (WPA) Arts project, completed in 1940 and designed by Helen Lundeberg. Located in the Art Park at […]
Rewriting history: two surveys of Latin American art
“The Arts in Latin America: 1492-1820,” curated by Ilona Katzew. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA. Through Oct. 28 “La Presencia: Latin […]
At the Hammer Museum, Gary Garrels assembles a distinctly Angeleno strain of contemporary visual language
Doug Harvey in the LA Weekly: �One of the most pronounced symptoms of the wide-scale institutionalization of artistic practice has been the rise of curatorial […]
