Kirsten Stoltmann
Kirsten Stoltmann
Sister
Through February 14
Kirsten Stoltmann’s new group of wall-sized, pattern and decoration inflected collages are aggressive and witty takes on sex and materialism. Accompanied by a series of large sculptures, this substantial group of new work should prove to be a significant exhibition for the artist.
Maaike Schoorell
Maaike Schoorell
Marc Foxx
Through February 7
The London-based Dutch artist presents a new group of paintings that make a convincing case for the symbolic negation of portraiture.
Monique Prieto
Monique Prieto
ACME
Through February 7
Monique Prieto’s signature style of blocky, painted text in far-out candy land colours is on view in ACME’s newly remodeled galleries. The large, new works seem almost to make landscapes out of poetic syntax.
Lecia Dole-Recio
Lecia Dole-Recio
Richard Telles Fine Art
Through February 7
Taking a dramatic departure from her signature collage-based and drawing techniques, Lecia Dole-Recio surprises with a new series of acrylic-on-canvas paintings. As an extension of her practice, these paintings are nearly curiosities, but their theoretical relationship to the artist’s earlier work is worth careful consideration.
Charlotte F. Smith
Charlotte F. Smith
Cirrus Gallery
Through March 7
For this exhibition, dramatically entitled ‘The UNTITLED SCRIPT OF The Jane’s childhood semidetached suburban nuclear family home pantry under the stairs, Acts I and II’, Smith presents the text of her self-published artist book as a two-act performance with the objects in the show serving as convenient props. This sort of performative project continues Cirrus’ long held tradition of supporting experimental theater and performance art in Los Angeles.
Hildegarde Duane
HILDEGARDE DUANE – “Fierce Fashion”
DORIT CYPIS – “Teratoma”
Jancar Gallery
Through January 31
These two notable Los Angeles-based artists present series of photographs that linger around notions of femininity, fashion, violence, and mortality. While the exhibitions are separate, the two groups of works inform one another in subtle and surprising ways.
Becca Mann
Becca Mann
Roberts and Tilton
Through February 14
Becca Mann’s photorealist paintings and graphite drawings consider history and its representations by picturing the Romanov dynasty in pre-Socialist Russia. In simple portraits, Mann recreates the tints and fades of early black and white photography for a sentimental and ghostly feel.
Julia Meltzer + David Thorne
Julia Meltzer + David Thorne
Steve Turner Contemporary
Through February 7
Meltzer and Thorne have been working together in video, photography and installation for over a decade. Their most recent photo series investigates a kind of inversed surveillance and social control: these photos depict scenarios in which citizens photographing in public become subject to police interrogation.
Wallace Berman and Richard Prince
Wallace Berman and Richard Prince
Michael Kohn
Through March 7
Longtime LA-based cultural historian Kristine McKenna curates the exhibition, She, which brings together artwork by the late Los Angeles beat artist, Wallace Berman and contemporary bad boy artist, Richard Prince. Rounding out a month dominated by solo shows by women, this two-man exhibition looks at the artists’ representations of women often sketching them out in laconic and cliché forms.
Farrah Karapetian
Farrah Karapetian
Sandroni Rey
Through February 14
In her new exhibition, “Tragic Muse”, Farrah Karapetian presents a new series of photographic works that take the human form as their subject. Much like her recent series of Photograms that focused on broken bottles and jars, Karapetian pays particular attention to her sitters’ silhouettes allowing the figure to disappear leaving traces as they go.
