Los Angeles Times critic David Pagel reviews Rogue Wave 2013 in today’s Los Angeles Times ‘Around the Galleries’ section. See excerpt below. 

Remember we are closed over the weekend for our summer hours but we look forward to seeing you in the gallery on Monday!

 Over the last 15 years, biennial exhibitions have gone from being must-see displays of the latest trends to the art world equivalent of Facebook friends: too numerous to care about deeply but too ubiquitous to ignore completely. 

Over a slightly shorter span L.A. Louver presents “Rogue Wave,” a sort of micro-biennial that delivers the benefits of old-school biennials (exciting art) while avoiding the pitfalls (far fetched explanations meant to distinguish one biennial from another). 

Aside from size, the biggest difference between the series of summer exhibitions known as “Rogue Wave” and conventional biennials is that the former is organized by a commercial gallery and the latter are mounted by public institutions. 

Each type of venue has its pluses and minuses, but “Rogue Wave 2013: 15 Artists from Los Angeles” suggests that untested art is best served by institutions unencumbered by the idea that everything they present must make sense – the more authoritatively, the better. 

Prepackaged insights and overcooked explanations are nowhere to be found in the jampacked show, which fills both floors of the gallery…