Chris Fallon’s paintings pull you in with their colorful palette and array of painted styles—the figures and objects in his bizarre scenes range from cartoonish to hyper-realistic. His figures often are painted simply with squares for noses, small black dashes for eyes, and graphic blue, purple, or pink skin, while the scenes they are set […]
The title of the bustling group exhibition at the Landing, Thaw, is a cheeky riff on Frieze, the LA art fair that took place the weekend the exhibition opened in February. It’s also a nod to the chill of winter that opens up into spring. As the exhibition has remained on view well past the […]
Johnathan Ryan’s new exhibition at the Landing, “Earthbound,” is aptly named. The artist mixes sands and gravel with paint to create unique textural surfaces. In previous shows, Ryan’s work took on an architectural aura, like stepped pyramidal formations viewed from an aerial perspective. But the forms here feel much more rooted in the body. than […]
At the Landing in West Adams, Matt Phillips’ quiet abstract paintings span the large space, each one a unique portal into form, color, and light. In each work, geometric shapes are fragmented and reassembled; the slight fissures where they don’t quite line up creates an odd sensation, as if we are able to see multiple […]
In “I Sit by the Window” at the Landing Gallery, Yevgeniya Baras has presented dozens of new paintings. Each one is a sculptural puzzle. Built up on burlap fabric, the artist embeds rope, paper pulp, wood, and other mixed material to create idiosyncratic and textural surfaces that she then layers on top of with gloopy paint. […]
In the small back gallery at the Landing, artist Martín Nuñez unfolds a mystical surrealist world in which fantastic creatures commune with humans in a technicolored dream space. The exhibit is titled “Across the Paradise” and is curated by Michael Slenske. The exhibition is an interspecies romp in which amphibians, aliens, humans, and animals become […]
On View through November 2nd. Artist Jonathan Ryan has been busy. All 20 works in his solo show at the Landing gallery (save one) were made in 2019. As such, the paintings, made using oil paint and sand, feel like a tight and intimate group, all picking away at a similar concern. Despite their strong […]
