Tracey Harnish

Lauren Luloff received her BFA from Pennsylvania State University and her MFA from Bard College; Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. She received the Edwin...

Analia Saban was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Following undergraduate studies at Loyola University, New Orleans, La. (2001), Saban attended the University of California, Los Angeles where she earned her MFA in New Genres (2005). Her first solo exhibition was the same year while her success was solidified by subsequent...

Olek, a Polish immigrant living in New York since 2003, takes common objects, text messages, public sculpture, construction equipment, and in fact anything that is a reflection of daily life, and transforms it with a covering...

Part of the Not Dead Yet series, below are 10 Questions for artist Keltie Ferris

Keltie Ferris (born in 1977, Louisville, KY)...

While the name of the show is Landscape and Architecture, it's Lisa Adams' painting Privilege Entails Responsibility, that best sums up another show curated with excellence by Carl Berg. Along with the recently closed Death and Life of an Object at Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Berg once again rounds...

Allison Miller lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from the University of California,...

Devin Troy Strother got his BFA at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena and had his...

This week Ali Smith takes on the Q & A while having her second solo at Mark Moore Gallery.

Why do you use these particular materials?

Oil paint...

Actual/Virtual, acrylic, Flashe, oil enamel, spray paint, and oil on canvas, 80" x 77", 2011, Courtesy Mike Weiss Gallery.

This week I start a Q & A series for painters. Art world people have been saying painting is dead since the '80s....

Now is Enough, James Gobel, 2011. Felt, yarn, acrylic and rhinestones on canvas. Courtesy Steve Turner Contemporary

My first impression of James Gobel's work? Cartoons about gay men. Wait, are those bears? Is that intentional? By the time I got to "Now is Enough"...

Georgi Tushev's paintings push up and away from their surface. Erupting from a flat plane, geographical land shifts and formations occur in their primal state. Here we are watching a petri dish ferment, where mere paint is transformed into not just a visual reproduction, but an alchemical part of the...

An elaborate paper fight meets you upon entering the gallery space. The first wave of impressions is one of...

Thomas Doyle explores scenes of devastation in miniature. Detailed scenarios display fragments of earth and home destroyed by some unnameable horror. Gaping holes, half destroyed houses, houses suspended magically above ground,...

Lori La Mont's brilliantly colored large format watercolors are meditations on social identity and how appropriating animal imagery intersects with the collision of advertising in the wide...

In this series of paintings by Mara De Luca, a combination of nebulous skies and vistas merge with luminous and lunar light plays....

Bonita Helmer is a long-standing artist based in LA, who has been exhibiting her work for the past 20 years. Just last...

Kelly Reemtsen, Holding Your Attention, 2011, Oil on panel, 36" x 36" Courtesy of Skidmore Gallery

Kelly Reemtsen mixes it up with 50's glam and hints of the macabre. Heroines are wielding an axe, shears, a hose or rubber gloves. These women dolled up...

Courtney Reid's new paintings are thick saturations of color. The heavy impasto is an intriguing contrast to the skeletal figures she paints. Half vaporizing these ghostly images are almost frightening with their darkened eyes and...

Fred Eversley's pieces in cast polyester resin, are brilliant because as the artist says, they are "kinetic." The work is all about movement and light, yet they do not move. It's the viewer who...

David Jien's drawings/paintings are depictions of life in another world. It's a world of war, religion, science and sex. Rituals...