Journal
Alison Saar In Print on view June 10–October 2, 2016 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. Alison Saar’s compelling prints are inspired by the artist’s deep interest in …
Over his 45 year career as an artist, Don Suggs has often returned to the vividly colored concentric circles that continue to remain at the core of his work. This ongoing fascination with …
Kienholz: Five Car Stud opened at the Fondazione Prada in Milan to a packed crowd eager to get a first glimpse of historic and seminal works by Edward and Nancy Kienholz. Among the …
Here, we get a look into Alison Saar’s studio as she prepares for her upcoming L.A. Louver exhibition Silt, Soot and Smut. Utilizing a wide range of materials and mediums, Alison Saar has created …
Pairing sculpture with painting, [Jason] Martin has effectively created works that one can’t help but get right up next to. Nose-to-drip with the cloth-covered aluminum panels, part of the work’s appeal comes in …
ARTFORUM: MAY 2016 “Kienholz: Five Car Stud” FONDAZIONE PRADA | MILAN May 19 – December 31 2016 Curated by Germano Celant The work of Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz is by now so deeply …
A well-established painter and near octogenarian, David Hockney isn’t the likeliest candidate for making iPad art, but that doesn’t mean he approaches the medium with any less zeal. Like his previous renderings with …
It’s been about a year since the Fondazione Prada officially opened its doors to the public in May 2015. With fashion icon Miuccia Prada at the helm, and head curator Germano Celant by …
In Peach Boy (2016) Gajin Fujita draws his primary inspiration from Toyohara Kunichika, a Japanese woodblock print artist. Kunichika is one of Gajin’s favorite artists and is known for depicting theatre actors. The …
With the installation of Richard Deacon’s stainless steel sculpture Siamese Metal #6 in the Skyroom, we’re taking a look back at some of his earlier installations in our unique open air space. Well know for …
One of the most distinguishable shifts in Jason Martin’s new body of work is his use of color. Whereas previous paintings featured monochromatic applications, these new works embrace a variety of palettes and …
We’re thrilled to be showing new work by Alison Saar in May 2016. In this new body of work, she’s taken inspiration from Cab Calloway’s 1934 song “ Call of the Jitter Bug.” If …
We’ll be presenting an exhibition of new works by Jason Martin. The artist has titled the exhibition Counterfeit, “to express the duplication of a subject.” In over a dozen new works on view, …
Five years ago today, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art mounted an unprecedented retrospective of work by Charles Garabedian, that spanned over 40 years of his career as an artist. Garabedian, who passed …
An air of everyday horror pervades, as in the collaborative assemblage Queen Anne, 1980, which emanates a low-level buzz from a jerrican-as-television sharing the surface of a cheap demilune table with an ashtray …
John Cage first met Marcel Duchamp in the 1940s. Duchamp asked Cage to write music for his part in Hans Richter’s film Dreams that Money Can Buy (1946). But it took twenty more …
In creating his latest painting Crush (2016), Gajin Fujita referenced Tsukioka Yoshitoshi’s woodblock print “Sagami Jiro and Taira no Masakado Attacking an Opponent on Horseback,” 1883 December 7. Fujita was drawn to the movement …
Listen to a recent radio interview with sculptor Peter Shelton and David Colosi, host of the Clocktower radio show. (Click here for the audio). As a visual supplement to the interview, we’ve gathered …
Over the past two years, Jason Martin has diverged from his monochromatic approach to making paintings, and has introduced a colorful range of rich hues into his latest body of work. Wether slight …
Read a fantastic profile on Rebecca Campbell in the current issue of Art LTD. The article covers three bodies of works which Campbell has been developing over the past few years – all …
The Laguna Art Museum has organized an exhibition of works on paper by Frederick Hammerlsey. Although primarily known for his colorful abstract hard-edge paintings, Hammersley maintained an active studio practice that included making …
Famed ceramic artist and “Mama of Dada,” Beatrice Wood was born on this day in 1893. She shared a special relationship with Marcel Duchamp, whom along with Henri-Pierre Roche, founded The Blind Man Magazine …
There’s no doubt that Marcel Duchamp is one of art history’s most influential artists, and the 97 objects by Duchamp on view in the gallery, are a testament to his enduring influence. Often …
“I started off this review by saying that Joan Brown and Charles Garabedian are the presiding spirits of the show Painting Forward at Thomas Erben. They could also be described as the presiding …
Ed and Nancy Kienholz’s Bout Round Eleven is a largest work by the couple on view in our current exhibition Kienholz Televisions. Created in 1982, the tableau features two life-size figures: A man sits …
We are sad to convey the news that artist Charles Garabedian died on February 11, 2016 at the age of 92. The cause of death was prostate cancer. A lover of literature, opera, …
Looking for new and out of print art books to add to your library? Printed Matter’s L.A. Art Book Fair is the place to be! We’ll be there with a selection of books …
The story behind what inspired the name L.A. Louver and the gallery’s original 1976 logo as told by Peter Goulds: “A Rose by any other name Peter Goulds on L.A. Louver” In 1920, …
World-renowned artists Sui Jianguo and Richard Deacon share an immense admiration for each other’s work, as well as each other. They were recently profiled in a recent Chinese publication, in which they discuss …
Computer art that pre-dates MacBooks and Photoshop by decades – In 1969, Frederick Hammersley produced an extensive series of “Computer Drawings” which he programmed and printed from an IBM mainframe computer, a mammoth machine that …
Throughout the course of Ed and Nancy Kienholz’s careers and collaborations, the television found its way into many of their works and became a recurring theme. In February 2016, we’ll be presenting an …
Enrique Martínez Celaya: Small Paintings 1974-2015 is scheduled to open at the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, University of Alabama on Friday, January 22, 2016. The exhibition will feature more than 45 small …
One of the newer works on view in Michael C. McMillen’s solo exhibition OUTPOST, includes this wall piece also titled OUTPOST. In this work, the artist depicts a miniaturized industrial compound that stands …