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“I am a mocking bird in a painter’s space”: Peter Shelton discusses his love of making improbable sculptures

Published in Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, June 2023. For over fifty years Peter Shelton has explored contradictions which come alive in improbable forms: stomachs that turn inside out, bloated pouches, distended limbs and clusters of testicles. LINK: https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/his-love-making-improbable-sculptures/5879...
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Kehinde Wiley: The Power of Art to Change Thinking

Published in Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, March 21, 2023. Kehinde did not resort to criticizing or blaming the art world for ignoring people of color as subjects for portraits on museum walls. Instead, he just showed up, with an inimitable style of portraiture  that fuses art-historical references and classical visual rhetoric with current vernaculars...
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Highlights of Frieze L.A

Published in Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art , February 20, 2023. The fourth edition of Frieze Los Angeles at Santa Monica airport  attracted a huge crowd of collectors, curators, critics, artists, celebrities and art devotees, who traveled from around the world to view the celebrated art fair’s international mix of superstar artists and the most dynamic...
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Jim Shaw: Thinking the Unthinkable at Gagosian, Beverly Hills

Published in Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, February 2023. Jim Shaw’s absurd, off-kilter, edgy paintings and sculptures synthesize an unexpected range of artistic styles – surrealism and pop art, DC comics, political cartoons, movie posters, cult religious iconography, thrift store art and classsical mythology – to create complex visual puns that rhyme in an uncanny...
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Marc Dennis: Dances with Old Master Paintings at Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles

Published in Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, January, 2023. Marc Dennis’ hyperreal paintings pay homage to the still life genre, by acknowledging its past while simultaneously updating it. This recalls Shakespeare’s oft-quoted phrase from The Tempest, “what’s past is prologue: what to come, in yours and my discharge. Dennis’ spectacular exhibition dances with this idea...
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Sharon Ellis’ Romantic Paintings of Summer Nights in the Mojave Desert at Kohn Gallery

Published in Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, October, 2022. Ellis’ jewel-like, imaginary desertscapes take from two months to a year to complete. She works incrementally, using multiple transparent layers of thinned alkyd, to build up a film that makes her hyper-saturated colors more vibrant – creating the glowing quality of old master paintings. Her hot...
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Jonas Wood’s Monumental Still Lifes of Pots, Plants and Pooches at David Kordanasky Gallery

Published in Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, February 2022. Jonas Wood’s still lifes are like David Hockney paintings on steroids. His paintings pay homage to his venerated predecessor while amping up the bright saturated Color hues, raising the viscosity of the paint medium and enlarging the scale of the canvases to give his luminous still...
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