In Vanessa Prager’s “Static” at Diane Rosenstein in Hollywood, paint is applied in gloopy and textural layers that create shag rug-type surfaces. This creates a staticky effect on each work—figures or still lifes are obscured beneath layers of thick oils, making them appear stuck like ambered fossils. “This idea of ‘static’ really seemed right because […]
In Hollywood, Dani Tull’s new exhibition of paintings mine the personal and the cosmic. In each work, thin lines of color grouped together in bands, which the artist calls “streams,” flow across the canvas in delicate arcs before trailing off in little tendrils. Within each band, the color shifts from earthy browns to hot pinks—some […]
At Diane Rosenstein in Hollywood, Ilona Szwarc’s “Virgin Soap” is a mixed media exhibition that aestheticizes and sensualizes the artist’s process while blurring the boundaries between maker, model, object, and subject. The show includes photographs that picture the artist in a stylized blue space making a lifecast of a female model’s torso and mouth. Yet […]
