Bill Bush

Alex Schaefer: Irrational Exuberance | Investigating issues of excess, criminality, and history, Schaefer's paintings work together as expressive and documentary evidence of the current financial crisis, its sources and place in history. Very recently, he gained notoriety for his plein air paintings of various...

Edward Walton Wilcox: Though You Slay Me | This exhibition serves to reaffirm that Wilcox represents the continuation, if not evolution of the multi-talented Renaissance man, achieving an absolute mastery of craftsmanship across a vast swathe of mediums and disciplines. Though his Gothic and...

Jess, Mask for all Souls, c. 1969, Paper collage, stuffed bird mounted on vintage photograph encased in lucite box. Note: Exhibition catalogue included all copies of correspondence between the artist and LACMA regarding the Outsiders Mask Ball, which featured masks by Jess. Image:...

French Invasion | This is the first exhibition in Los Angeles dedicated to the work of France's leading street artists today: JonOne, Nasty, Rero, Speedy Graphito, and Tilt. Paris has always been an important source of creative inspiration for artists across the globe, giving...

Daniel Aksten: Support, Edge, Variation | Best known for his fastidious paintings of geometric solids composed by chance through a system involving the roll of a die, Daniel Aksten's work in Support, Edge, Variation continues to stress the conceptual end of painting, as...

Ned Evans: Recent Paintings | A master of color and texture, Evans effortlessly integrates fabric, acrylic paints, and differing surface finishes to create complex compositional structures. The subtle tonal and spatial variations splinter the picture plane with light-infused color. Incorporating both high art &...

This weekend art critic, publisher of Coagula, and Huffington Post blogger, Mat Gleason will cut the ribbon on another art world venture -- Chinatown's newest gallery, Coagula Curatorial. We pinned Mat down to find out what it was that drew him to the other side.

Bill Bush: Mat, it's been...

Shay Bredimus: Kotomi | Renowned tattoo artist Bredimus employs languid and gestural marks using tattoo ink on drafting film to portray spontaneous and personal moments of his models. His classical training in portraiture is evident, to which he has added aesthetic influences from Japanese...

Michele Mikesell: Hugo, Oklahoma | Mikesell's latest circus-inspired exhibition entitled, Hugo, Oklahoma, is an homage to a literal town established in 1901 in Southeast Oklahoma and is a return to her favorite subject: The Circus. Because of the flat landscape, warm weather, and green...

Charlotta Westergren: SERE | SERE is an acronym for Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape, a military program that was supposed to provide soldiers with training in evading capture and survival skills. The techniques used in SERE training soldiers to resist interrogation were turned around...

Frederick Hammersley, Betwain, #1 1973 oil on linen, 44 x 44 in. (111.8 x 111.8 cm). Courtesy of L.A. Louver, Venice, CA

Frederick Hammersley | Hammersley's paintings are abstract, richly colored and possess a quietly resolute determination. They do not represent anything...

Camille Rose Garcia: Snow White The Complete Works on Paper | Garcia's wholly original interpretation of the classic tale of Snow White is underscored by her dark and whimsical style. With a stylistic nod to the water-colored animation backgrounds of early Disney movies, Garcia...

Un-Natural | Un-Natural explores the work of Lisa Adams, Fatemeh Burnes, Marion Estes, and Constance Mallinson, four very different contemporary artists who use the world around us to foster a sense of place, explore natural phenomena and its energetic connection to modern life,...

James Welling: Geometric Abstraction | This exhibition will present a selection from two recent bodies of work: Geometric Abstraction (2008) and Maison de Verre (2009), which examine the dialogue between photographic representation and visual experience that is at the core of Welling's work.

The Total Look: The Creative Collaboration Between Rudi Gernreich, Peggy Moffitt, and William Claxton | Gernreich, Moffitt, and Claxton were central figures in the Los Angeles art community in the 1960s and '70s, known...

Palm Springs Fine Art Fair | The inaugural Palm Springs Fine Art Fair brings Post-War and Contemporary art to America's mid-century cultural capital. Palm Springs has long been...

Pasadena to Santa Barbara: A Selected History of Art in Southern California, 1951 - 1969 | Pasadena to Santa Barbara focuses on the legacy of two of Southern California's leading venues for contemporary art since the 1940s: the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA)...

Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas, 1963, Ed Ruscha. Oil on canvas. 64 1/2 x 121 3/4 in. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; gift of James Meeker, Class of 1958, in memory of Lee English, Class of 1958, scholar, poet, athlete...

Jim Morphesis: Time And Desire | Central to this exhibition is a single recurring subject -- the rose -- through which the artist envisions the title, Time And Desire, as a conceptual wellspring. Morphesis explains: "When we consider the clock, we deal with both...

JOHN MASON, Blue Wall, 1959, Ceramic, 84 x 252 x 5 inches, Collection of the artist

Clay's Tectonic Shift: John Mason, Ken Price, and Peter Voulkos, 1956-1968 | This exhibition focuses on three of the most innovative and dynamic artists of the era,...