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Leon Kossoff created his etching in response to The Holy Family on the Steps, 1648 by Nicolas Poussin, owned by the Cleveland Museum of Art. When included in the 1996 Poussin exhibition at the Royal Academy, …
โAmerica made me great.โ So says artist Rina Banerjee, reflecting on her immigrant upbringing in New York and Philadelphiaโs Fox Chase neighborhood, in an interview for the catalog of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine …
RICHARD DEACON & SUI JIANGUO 6 September โ 20 October 2018 Reception for the artists: Thursday, 6 September, 6-8pm L.A. Louver is pleased to present a two-person exhibition with British artist Richard Deacon and Chinese …
MY LA INTERVIEW SERIES with BIG SLEEPS/DAVID CAVAZOS Where did you grow up in LA? Iwas born and raised in Los Angeles in the Pico Union District/Downtown. What is your favorite thing about Los Angeles? …
โKienholz does not tend to sublimate the lowness and tragedy of life, the conditions of solitude and triviality, but rather uses them as tools that can highlight the low, popular universe, a place where the …
Where did you grow up in LA? I grew up in Boyle Heights, although as a kid โ I traveled all over the city. I also moved around a lot so I lived in various …
Heather Gwen Martinโs vividly colored abstract paintings stem from a controlled fluidity, dictated by a transference of energy directly onto the canvas. Martin begins by making a series of preparatory sketches with pencil on paper, …
During visits to Californiaโs Yosemite Valley in 2010 and 2011, David Hockney sought to capture its resplendent landscape. Working in situ, the artist rendered the scenery using a drawing application on his iPad. With the …
Alison Saar In Print on view June 10โOctober 2, 2016 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. Alison Saarโs compelling prints are inspired by the artistโs deep interest in history, identity, …
Here, we get a look into Alison Saarโs 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 a new …
Pairing sculpture with painting, [Jason] Martin has effectively created works that one canโt help but get right up next to. Nose-to-drip with the cloth-covered aluminum panels, part of the workโs appeal comes in the (almost …
Itโs 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 her side, …
Weโre thrilled to be showing new work by Alison Saar in May 2016. In this new body of work, sheโs taken inspiration from Cab Callowayโs 1934 song โ Call of the Jitter Bug.โ If youโd like …
Weโll be presenting an exhibition of new works by Jason Martin. The artist has titled the exhibition Counterfeit, โto express the duplication of a subject.โ In over a dozen new works on view, the artist …
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 sporting the …
โI 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 spirits of …
Looking for new and out of print art books to add to your library? Printed Matterโs L.A. Art Book Fair is the place to be! Weโll be there with a selection of books on our …
Computer art that pre-dates MacBooks and Photoshop by decades โ In 1969, Frederick Hammersley produced an extensive series of โComputer Drawingsโ which he programmed and printed from an IBM mainframe computer, a mammoth machine that would have …
Beijing, China (CNN) โ As China becomes increasingly important in the world of fashion, one photographer is leading the scene โ 35-year-old Beijing native Chen Man. Firmly established as the countryโs go-to fashion photographer, her …
Enter a chance to win a copy of Charles Garabedian: Sacrifice for the Fleet by creating a witty meme based on one of the artistโs works. The top five memes that generate the most likes will …
Over the past decade, Wudl has taken inspiration from the Avatamsaka Sutra (The Flower Ornament Scripture) to create an ongoing series of intricately rendered paintings, drawings and prints in response to the evocative and profound …
Weโre less than two weeks away from the opening of Charles Garabedian: Sacrifice for the Fleet. Produced over the last two years, the exhibition will include 18 large-scale paintings and drawings inspired by Greek tragedies. …
Over the past decade, world-renowned artist and celebrated teacher Enrique Martรญnez Celaya has taught a series of workshops at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado. His lectures encompass broader implementations not just for …
Enrique Martinez-Celayaโs sculpture โThe Fight for Airโ will be part of El Segundo Museum of Artโs upcoming exhibition โExperience 19: TOUCHโ alongside works of Alison Saar, Gajin Fujita, Peter Shelton and many more. Exhibition will be …
THIS THURSDAYโ L.A. Louver is happy to announce the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, exhibition FIRST LOOKโ COLLECTING CONTEMPORARY AT THE ASIAN, featuring works by Chen Man. Join us for an artist talk with artists …
This weekโs Art Talk features KCRWโs Edward Goldman visiting studios of local Los Angeles sculptors. Strolling though Peter Sheltonโs industrial, factory-like studio in downtown Los Angeles, Ed is strike by the bodily relationship between him and …
Ed and Nancy Kienholz at The Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire: COLLECTING AND SHARING. (Runs through August 22 - December 6, 2015) Alison Saar at the Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburg, Philadelphia: MINDFUL: …
Tom Wudl invited us into his Downtown Los Angeles studio for a preview of the works in his upcoming exhibition at L.A. Louver. Opening in October 2015, the drawings and paintings are a continued rumination …
In his Athens, Ohio studio, Matt Wedel works closely with natureโฆHis ceramic sculptures converge harmoniously with the forces of nature, creating a picturesque scene in which his sculptures quietly stares back at youโฆAnd sometimes, he …
Strewn about are flowers of beautiful mines of jewelsResting in the sky through the power of ancient vows.Over an ocean of various adornments, stable and strong.Clouds of light spread, filling the ten directions. In all …
Gajin Fujita portrays the Japanese mythological figure Shoki in his painting Demon Slayer (pictured top). A vanquisher of demons and ghosts, Shoki actually derives from 7th century Chinese folklore, widely known as Zhong Kui. In …
Update to our upcoming artist conversation event! In addition to Gajin Fujita and writer/filmmaker Rodrigo Ribera dโEbre, David Brafman (Rare Books Curator, Getty Research Institute) will also participate in the lively discussion. The conversation will …
Ben Jackel makes his Venice Biennale debut in the exhibition We Must Risk Delight: Twenty Artists from Los Angeles. The ceramic helmet sculpture on display was first shown in Jackelโs L.A. Louver 2015 exhibition American …