Robert Colescott: The Art Of Caricature
At Blum & Poe, Los Angeles (Through April 28, 2018) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch Honoring the life and legacy of beloved American figurative artist Robert Colescott (1925 – 2009), Blum & Poe, Los...
View ArticleFay Ray: I AM THE HOUSE
At Shulamit Nazarian (Through May 26, 2016) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch Teeming with traditionally feminine objects and symbols, including eggs, diamonds, chalices, flowers, feathers, and seashells, Los...
View ArticleDavid Hockney: 82 Portraits and 1 Still-life
at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Through July 29, 2018) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch What is the value of community? For David Hockney, one of Britain’s most prominent living painters, the circle...
View ArticleRashid Johnson: The Rainbow Sign
at David Kordansky Gallery (Through May 19, 2018) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch Viscous black liquids cascade down the picture planes as scrawled drawings of agonized grimaces and anxious eyes confront...
View ArticleA Love Letter In Sprays: LA’s BEYOND THE STREETS
At Werkartz, Los Angeles (through 6 July) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch Wandering through the cavernous, labyrinthine yet thoroughly modern galleries of BEYOND THE STREETS — graffiti and street art...
View ArticleMade In L.A. Is A Tapestry Of Diversity, And A Golden One
at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch Like an intricately woven tapestry, Made in L.A. 2018 stitches together a diverse sampling of some of the most dynamic and noteworthy...
View ArticleJudy Chicago’s Birth Project: Born Again
at the Pasadena Museum of California Art through October 7 (upon which time the museum will permanently close) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch “If men had babies, there would be thousands of images of the...
View ArticlePassing Through Time, Memory, Decay: A Journey That Wasn’t
at the Broad Museum (through February 2019) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch Time. It can be both friend and foe. It eludes us, slips through our fingers and yet also seemingly extends ad infinitum. The...
View ArticleDavid Leggett and Ryan Richey: Mixed Emotions
at Various Small Fires (Through August 25, 2018) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch What is the role of humor in art? For most of human history, both fine and folk art firmly resided in the realm of the...
View ArticleSpotlight—Selections from Kehinde Wiley’s The World Stage: Israel
at Skirball Cultural Center (Through 2 September 2018) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch Replete with royal, religious, and luscious floral imagery, Los Angeles-born painter Kehinde Wiley’s Old...
View ArticleForgotten Roots: How Los Angeles Shaped Robert Rauschenberg
At LACMA (Through February 10, 2019) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch Revealing the divine in the forsaken and the sublime in the mundane, beloved late Neo-Dadaist Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) pens his...
View ArticleI Don’t Like Fiction, I Like History
at Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills (Through September 28, 2018) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch Realism is best suited to convey the frightening idiosyncrasies of our time. — Duane Hanson What is reality...
View ArticleMike Kelley’s Day Will Not Be Done
At Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills (Through September 28, 2018) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch With its brilliant flashing lights and thunderously ecstatic melodies blasting through the speakers, late...
View ArticleDavid Lynch: I Was A Teenage Insect
at Kayne Griffin Corcoran (Through November 10, 2018) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch Disturbing yet mesmerizing depictions of death, decay, and deformity bestrew beloved neo-noir director David Lynch’s...
View ArticleThe Moth Costume In Hammer Projects: Petrit Halilaj
at Hammer Museum (Through January 20, 2019) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch While butterflies dancing on a sunlit breeze may epitomize the ephemeral as well as beauty, hope, and transformation, for Kosovan...
View ArticleLari Pittman’s Portraits Of Textiles & Portraits Of Humans
at Regen Projects, Los Angeles (Through October 27, 2018) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch Legendary Los Angeles-based graphic painter Lari Pittman’s kaleidoscopic bust portraits and textile-inspired...
View ArticleSummer Wheat: Catch and Release
at Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles (Through October 27, 2018) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch Considering the disheartening, divisive nature of our current political reality, the mind often drifts, yearning...
View ArticleAi Weiwei’s Fraught And Folkloric Life Cycle
at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles (through March 3, 2019) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch “Nationality is a Western concept. It was an invention of Western European scholars, who ever since have...
View ArticleOne Day At A Time: Manny Farber And Termite Art
at The Museum of Contemporary Art (Through March 11, 2019) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch Life is messy. Art should be, too. In One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art, a sweeping group exhibition...
View ArticleAdrian Piper: Concepts And Intuitions, 1965-2016
at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (Through January 6, 2019) Reviewed by Emily Nimptsch Societal stereotypes and divisions are unfortunately ubiquitous in our culture. Which begs the question, how...
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