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Feminist Art Trending at International Art Galleries and Museums in Los Angeles: Spruth Magers, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel and The Broad

Huffington Post August 19, 2016 . This article discusses the trending of major feminist exhibitions of heritage arists in top L.A  international galleries and museums –  raising questions about how this will effect gender inequality in the art world. Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lita-barrie/feminist-art-trending-at-_b_11599878.html   ...
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Camille Rose Garcia’s Erotic Feminine Fairy Tale Symbolism: Phantasmacabre at Corey Helford Gallery

Huffington Post,  August 5, 2016.  A post-feminist analysis of  Camille Rose Garcia’s fairy tale inspired pop surrealist work. Garcia explores feminine desire in an eclectic mix of 60s psychedelic color,  re-imagining of Disney imagery with a folk Mexican art subtext.  Her art work and illustrated children’s books have an underground following in addition to acclaim in the...
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Andrea Bowers’ Activist Aesthetics: ‘Triumph of Labor’ at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

Huffington Post July 7, 2016. Review of Andrea Bowers’ exhibition at Susanne  Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. Bowers’ work as an artist and an activist is inseparable. She looks for an aesthetic metonymic to her subject matter- which makes her work both intellectually and aesthetically compelling. Bowers is a feminist artist who has received international critical...
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George Condo’s Jazz Inspired Paintings at Spruth Magers, Los Angeles

 HuffPost , Painter’s Table – via Huffington Post June 8, 2016. Review of George Condo’s  music inspired paintings at Spruth Magers, Los Angeles. Condo arranges fragments of faces and geometrical forms in the same vein as great jazz musicians deconstruct well known meolodies by “turning them inside out.” We see iconic images referncing Picasso, Goya and Monet in...
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Hauser Wirth and Schimmel Inaugural Exhibition: All Women Sculpture

 

 

 

 

Huffington Post, March 30, 2016. Review of the new Hauser Wirth & Schimmel   inaugural exibition Revolution in the Making Exhibition - comprised of 100 outstanding works by 34 women artists – over a 70 year period. This is the first exhibition to celebrate legendary women sculptors who changed the history of sculpture and women’s art, by using hands on techniques and soft materials. This ground breaking  exhibition is co-curated by Paul Schimmel and feminist art historian Jenni Sorkin

Link:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lita-barrie/hauser-wirth-schimmel-ina_b_9570292.html?

Lita Albuquerque: The Aesthetics of Expansive Deep Space

Huffington Post, February 23, 2016. An essay on Albuquerque’s simultaneous exhibitions at Kohn Gallery and USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles. The expansiveness of Albuquerque’s perspective of deep space, skill set, grand scale and inter- generational collaborations is discussed in relation to Susan Sontag’s idea of redrawing “old maps of consciousness”, with what Albuquerque...
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Ruth Weisberg: Imaginary Space for Memories

 Huffington Post, October 5, 2015. Review of Weisberg’s retrospective at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles. An analysis of the way the formidable grand dame of figurative and feminist art created an imaginary space for memorues. Includes a video by Eric Minh Swenson Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lita-barrie/ruth-weisberg-imaginary-space-for-memories_b_8218102.html...
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David Hockney Interview: Paintings and Photography at L.A Louver, Venice, California

HuffPost and Painters Table – via Huffington Post, July 23, 2015. A rare interview with David Hockney, the most celebrated living artist, in his Hollywood Hills studio. Combined with a review of Hockney’s new paintings and digital photography drawings at L.A Louver, Venice CA.  This conversation with Hockney deals with his radical use of multiple perspective as an...
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