Rema Gholoum’s paintings in her new solo show, Atmospheres, are just that. Many are titled after natural phenomena — Deep Sea, Sunshine, Facade (Dusk), Still Morning — and each abstract work is a deep field of hazy color that optically blends on the canvas to create atmospheric effects, almost as if they each possessed their […]
“Paseo,” the title of Sung Jik Yang’s exhibition at Philip Martin, comes from the Spanish verb, “to promenade.” More specifically, it refers to the outdoor shopping complex in Pasadena of the same name, where Yang meets a number of his portrait subjects. He approaches shoppers from Pasadena, the San Gabriel Valley, and the Inland Empire, […]
Katy Cowan’s vibrant sculptures and wall works in her new solo show use rope to unexpected effect. The material, often cast in aluminum, tactically becomes a stand-in for the artist’s own mark-making. The works begin with humble compositions of rope stapled or pinned to a wooden backing. After being cast in aluminum, Cowan then floods […]
From KCRW's Art Insider Lindsay Preston Zappas: At Philip Martin Gallery, Daniel Dove’s paintings feel both old and new. An Eames chair or Brancusi sculpture would not feel out of place in these painted environments, yet the scenes depicted feel like traumatic aftermaths in some imagined augmented reality. For instance, in “Under Construction,” an abstract […]
On view: January 11–February 22, 2020 Kristy Luck is interested in melancholy. “I’m interested in how these emotional experiences have been dismissed or devalued when associated with the ‘feminine mind,’” she explains in the press release for her exhibition at Phillip Martin in Culver City. Luck’s sensuous paintings merge colorful abstractions with illusions to the […]
