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Jim Shaw: Thinking the Unthinkable at Gagosian, Beverly Hills

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Published in Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, February 2023. Jim Shaw’s absurd, off-kilter, edgy paintings and sculptures synthesize an unexpected range of artistic styles – surrealism and pop art, DC comics, political cartoons, movie posters, cult religious iconography, thrift store art and classsical mythology – to create complex visual puns that rhyme in an uncanny...
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Marc Dennis: Dances with Old Master Paintings at Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles

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Published in Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, January, 2023. Marc Dennis’ hyperreal paintings pay homage to the still life genre, by acknowledging its past while simultaneously updating it. This recalls Shakespeare’s oft-quoted phrase from The Tempest, “what’s past is prologue: what to come, in yours and my discharge. Dennis’ spectacular exhibition dances with this idea...
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Sharon Ellis’ Romantic Paintings of Summer Nights in the Mojave Desert at Kohn Gallery

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Published in Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, October, 2022. Ellis’ jewel-like, imaginary desertscapes take from two months to a year to complete. She works incrementally, using multiple transparent layers of thinned alkyd, to build up a film that makes her hyper-saturated colors more vibrant – creating the glowing quality of old master paintings. Her hot...
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Jonas Wood’s Monumental Still Lifes of Pots, Plants and Pooches at David Kordanasky Gallery

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Published in Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, February 2022. Jonas Wood’s still lifes are like David Hockney paintings on steroids. His paintings pay homage to his venerated predecessor while amping up the bright saturated Color hues, raising the viscosity of the paint medium and enlarging the scale of the canvases to give his luminous still...
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Katherina Olschbaur uses Aesthetic Ambiguity to Reinterpret the Mythic Tale of Venus and Adonis in Live Flesh at Nicodim Gallery

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Whitehot Magazine, January 2022.  Review of Katherina Olschbaur electrifying paintings that riff off Titian’s classical paintings of Venus and Adonic. For Olschaur, this myth of unrequited love is viewed from multiple perspectives. Olschbaur creates aesthetic ambiguity by playing with contradictions that recognize the Other in ourselves in order to transition past identity politics. LINK: https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/live-flesh-at-nicodim-gallery/5272  ...
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Alison Saar’s Defiant Black Warrior Queens and Afro-Deities are Agents of Change

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  Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, November 2021.Alison Saar’s inimitable sculptures of defiant Black warrior queens and Afro-Deities embody universal feminine power which cannot be suppressed in a man0made world once women learn to seize it – and own it. Few artists can pour such voluminous feelings into labor-intensive hndmde materials ot use historically loaded...
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Larry Madrigal Injects Humor into Domestic Scenes in How Dare We Now Live at Nicodim Gallery

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Whitehot Magazine, November 2021.Larry Madrigal’s paintings capture humorous moments taken directly from his own domestic life with a candor so unpretensious, it makes the viewer feel as though they are right inside his messy living room, kitchen or bedroom  where silly accidents and slip-ups occur. Even as an American-Mexican living the suburban life in phoenix,...
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