At Odd Ark in Highland Park, Nick Taggart’s “LA Stories: Paintings and Drawings from 1980s” is just that. The artist moved to LA from London in 1977, and became immersed in a small but vibrant scene of artists and musicians that Taggart documented through his paintings and sketches. Working from source images that he would […]
Brian Randolph’s drawings, on view at Odd Ark in his solo show “The Septum,” contain palpable energy. The artist begins by drawing grids onto white paper that he then fills with serpentine filigrees that wind and overlap in methodical columns. The deeply-hued colors backgrounding his linework are applied corner to corner with colored pencils, which the […]
On view: November 9–December 15, 2019 As both an artist and art critic, I am well aware of stigmas that exist around artists moonlighting in other fields, even if those disciplines relate closely to art: writing, design, fashion, or functional ceramics, for example. Luckily, the category of artist seems to be expanding, and it is more commonplace […]
