Cannon Fodder with Canyon Castator

Painting

Cannon Fodder with Canyon Castator

With so much action going on in LA this week and weekiend, there is a solo exhibition of new paintings by Canyon Castator called Cannon Fodder, openings as an off-site installation presented during F February 21, 2025
Camilla Engström: Wondrous Place @ Make Room Los Angeles

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Camilla Engström: Wondrous Place @ Make Room Los Angeles

Camilla Engström’s paintings feel like a return—a quiet surrender to the rhythms of nature. Her dreamlike landscapes do not merely depict the land; they embody its movement, its warmth, its brea February 21, 2025
Taylor Simmons "HangTime" @ Public Gallery, London

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Taylor Simmons "HangTime" @ Public Gallery, London

Public Gallery is pleased to present HangTime, a solo exhibition of new works by Taylor Simmons, and the artist’s second presentation with the gallery. Across two floors of the gallery’s new expa February 21, 2025
Karen Seapker is "Stirring"

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Karen Seapker is "Stirring"

Plato is excited to present Karen Seapker's first solo exhibition with the gallery, Stirring. Based on Seapker’s observation of the garden outside her studio and her reflections on the current hist February 20, 2025
You Won’t Always Feel This Way: Chris RWK @ Harman Projects, NYC

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You Won’t Always Feel This Way: Chris RWK @ Harman Projects, NYC

Harman Projects is pleased to announce You Won’t Always Feel This Way, the latest solo exhibition by NYC-based artist Chris RWK. Following up on the artist's 2023 solo exhibition with Harman Projec February 20, 2025
German Tellez: Shipwreck @ Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen

Painting

German Tellez: Shipwreck @ Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen

Reality is rarely what it seems, and even less often what one expects. In an age of fake news, ever-changing circumstances, and a lack of security, confronting reality and the feeling of not fitting February 20, 2025
Cate White Turns the Beat Around @ Small Works Projects, San Francisco

Magazine

Cate White Turns the Beat Around @ Small Works Projects, San Francisco

An over-the-top quality makes Cate White's paintings endlessly entertaining and intriguingly ironic. Susan Sontag would have characterized this aesthetic sensibility as “camp.” But beyond the pla February 19, 2025
Everything That Glitters: Jasmine Monsegue @ CONTROL Gallery, Los Angeles

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Everything That Glitters: Jasmine Monsegue @ CONTROL Gallery, Los Angeles

There is a moment in Jasmine Monsegue's Everything That Glitters at CONTROL Gallery in Los Angeles that helped kick off Frieze week that was a great reminder of where she came from and where this art February 19, 2025
Issy Wood: Wet Reckless

Painting

Issy Wood: Wet Reckless

Michael Werner Gallery, Beverly Hills is pleased to present Issy Wood: Wet Reckless, an exhibition of new paintings by American-born, British painter and musician Issy Wood (b. 1993 in Durham, N February 19, 2025
Three Rising Bay Area Artists Elevate Abstraction: A Preview of To Beat Water @ Upper Market Gallery, San Francisco

Painting

Three Rising Bay Area Artists Elevate Abstraction: A Preview of To Beat Water @ Upper Market Gallery, San Francisco

It is said that “with great freedom comes great responsibility.” Over the years, this anecdote pops up whenever I am in the company of abstract art. For me, abstraction in painting, in spite of i February 18, 2025
Paul Flores "Good Morning Los Angeles, How Are You?"

Installation

Paul Flores "Good Morning Los Angeles, How Are You?"

In a sea of exhibitions proclaiming to be “love letters” to LA, glorifying the city as it is, Los Angeles native, Paul Flores, shifts the conversation to one of frustration with the constant stat February 18, 2025
Noelia Towers "An Account of Preceding Events" @ de boer, Los Angeles

Painting

Noelia Towers "An Account of Preceding Events" @ de boer, Los Angeles

As 2025 begins to take shape, it would seem that protests against power structures and prevailing limitations for challenges against power will have to come in different forms than typical activism. February 17, 2025
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