Lauren Powell Projects

At Lauren Powell in East Hollywood, artist JD Raenbeau has created a garden of delights. His paintings — some on wood panels, others on paper — portray lush and whimsical foliage, in which he and his partner engage in tender intimacy. The compositions privilege neither the flora nor the lovers, instead swirling them together into ecstatic and fluid forms — a black-eyed Susan may creep into frame from the left, and bare flesh in turn from the right.  The rendering…