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15Apr

Shattered Glass: An Exhibition of 40 Artists of Color Ushers in a New Era of Inclusivity at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery Los Angeles

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Whitehot magazine of Contemporary Art, April, 2021. Shattered Glass, an exhibition of 40 artists of color, ushers in a new era of incusivity. Art is back- with different faces of color. Link: https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/jeffrey-deitch-gallery-los-angeles/4936...

31Mar

Hayv Kahraman’s The touch of Otherness at Vielmetter Los Angeles

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Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary, March, 2021. Hayv Kahraman immediately captivated the artworld in 2006 with her hybrid female figure, “She” who appears alone and replicated in armies, to symbolize a feminine collective overcoming a history of trauma and oppression. She is an amalgam of cross cultural ideals of feminine beauty: part Geisha, part Harem concubine,...

20Nov

Envisioning a Gilded Vengence in Mark Steven Greenfield’s Black Madonna

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Riot Material November 17, 2020. A review of Mark Steven Greenfield’s powerful exhibition of Black Madonna paintings at William Turner Gallery , which reclaims ancient images to redefine Blackness for our times. These deeply contemplative paintings allow us to mediate on where we have been, where we are now, and where we could move forward. LINK...

26Mar

The Dystopian Aesthetic in Lisa Adams’ and Kelly McLane’s Paintings

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Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, March 2020. This joint exhibition draws parallels between Lisa Adams’ and Kelly McLane’s darkly whimsical paintings of discombobulated worlds. Nothing is quite what it appears to be in their fictitious worlds, leaving the viewer to question what has gone wrong. Adams and McLane walk their own path and clearly enjoy...

19Feb

Alison Saar: Defiant Female Warriors

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Riot Material February 19, 2020. Review of Alison Saar’s defiant female warriors at Frieze Los Angeles and L.A Louver. Saar’s work has the raw power of tribal art combined with the postmodern sophistication of complex cultural subtexts. Her work is made in a near devotional way, which infuses a rare emotional intensity into her new...

12Jan

Jeffrey Vallance Interview: The Story Behind Blinky

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Riot Material January 12, 2020. Interview with Jeffrey Vallance about the backstory behind his creation of Blinky, The Friendly Chicken. Since high school Vallance has loved pranks but it did not occur to him that they could be called “performance art” until he went to art school. Since then he has continued to do what...

23Dec

Sites Of Love and Desire in Lari Pittman: Declaration of Independence

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Riot Material December 22, 2019. Lari Pittman’s momentous retrospective at Hammer Museum, is not ony the most ambitious exhibition organized by the museum but arguably the most important exhibition anywhere in the country – or perhaps the world, today. This career-spanning exhibition of 80 densely layered monumental paintings and 50 vibrant works on paper ends...

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