Joe Goode, a mercurial artist whose more than six-decade career began in the fledgling contemporary art scene of 1960s Southern California, died at his Los Angeles home at the age of 87 on Saturday, March 22, one day before his 88th birthday. The news of his passing was confirmed by Michael Kohn Gallery, which has represented the artist in LA since 2011.
Read MoreIt’s both, Joe Goode’s art answered as the 1960s began — something surely material but purely visual. And something else besides, something curious and engaging that you haven’t ever seen before. In his strongest work, the Los Angeles-based artist — who died of natural causes in his sleep on March 22, a day before his 88th birthday — held the image and the object in eccentric equipoise. The result is an uncanny sense of vivid presence.
Read MoreJoe Goode, a painter who counted as a core figure of the Los Angeles art scene of the 1960s, died on March 22 at his home in Los Angeles at 87. He would have turned 88 the following day. Michael Kohn Gallery and Zander Galerie, Goode’s representatives in LA and Cologne, respectively, announced his death this week but did not specify a cause.
Read MoreMichael Kohn’s eponymous gallery has been a fixture of the Hollywood art scene since its founding in 1985 and relocation to Highland Avenue in 2014. He opened with an exhibition of artists from New York, but has since established a broad roster, with several notable LA artists including Lita Albuquerque, Wallace Berman, Joe Goode, and Chiffon Thomas.
Read MorePioneering Land Art and Light & Space artist Lita Albuquerque, known for her work in the 1960s and ’70s, presents Turbulence, featuring a boulder coated in ultramarine blue atop decomposed granite. The piece reflects on the fleeting connection between humanity and nature, with blue serving as a link between earth and cosmos, transforming light into matter.
Read MoreEveryone loves a party, and Michael Kohn Gallery’s 40th Anniversary Exhibition is no exception. Since setting up shop at its original location on Robertson Boulevard in 1985, the cutting-edge contemporary art gallery has showcased works by artists like Richard Tuttle, Dennis Hopper, Joe Goode, Alex Katz, and Lita Albuquerque
Read MoreWhen Michael Kohn opened his eponymous gallery in West Hollywood four decades ago, his choice of location seemed far from a plausible business plan at the time. With its breezier pace and dominance of the entertainment industry, the City of Angels did not resonate with the avant-garde grunge of the downtown New York scene where the dealer cut his teeth.
Read MoreIn keeping with Frieze Los Angeles’s deep fascination with its sprawling metropolitan host, this year’s edition of Frieze Projects offers an insider’s glimpse at the city’s cultural topography.
Read MoreShiwen Wang’s painting is a refusal of clarity. Each work oscillates between the total collapse of formal and perspectival hierarchy and the unrestrained instantiation of a singular idea, often toying with the margins of representation.
Read MoreShiwen Wang finds inspiration right before nightfall, in twilight, a liminal time she sees as a moment of convergence between human and non-human life.
Read MoreOn the festive occasion of The Getty’s Pacific Standard Time (PST) project: “Art and Science Collide,” ever-inspired artist Lita Albuquerque debuts her fourth presentation with Michael Kohn Gallery.
Read MoreA matriarch of the Land Art movement that is closely associated with the American Southwest, Lita Albuquerque has engaged with the surface of Earth from the South Pole to Saudi Arabia, Peru to Paris.
Read MoreLita Albuquerque’s fourth exhibition at the Michael Kohn Gallery utilizes white color pigments to honor the experience of light-reflecting materials in nature, like salt and snow.
Read More“Progeny,” Chiffon Thomas’s exhibition here, presents three installations in which peculiar juxtapositions of body parts and architectural forms become points of departure for considering how individual and collective identities evolve.
Read MoreChiffon Thomas’s bronze, stained glass, and steel sculptures fuse the corporeal and the monumental, invoking forgotten legacies of labor, communal perseverance, and historical injustices.
Read MoreEnglish professors will tell you that Shakespeare is funny, but his jokes often elude my grasp: his complex verse can cloud the immediate comedy of his plays. A similar difficulty underscores Siji Krishnan’s solo exhibition at Michael Kohn Gallery, aptly titled ‘Liminal Spaces’.
Read MoreEvery day artist Rosa Loy rides her bicycle 10 kilometers through Leipzig from her home to the studio she has kept since 1994. “My mind clears of everything I’ve been thinking of at home,” she said during a recent conversation. “I go into the studio, have a tea, start to paint, and see what’s coming in. I wait for a tingling feeling like someone is watching me from behind. That’s where my ideas come from.”
Read MoreLike vivid flowers blooming out of damp soil and bright eyes emerging from dark wombs, German artist Rosa Loy has trekked deep through the trails of her own subconscious, lush with shaded verdure, and come to a restful pitstop within lichtung, a word she describes as “the place in the middle of a dark forest where the sun is shining.”
Read MoreMany of the near-identical subjects of William Brickel’s Was It Ever Fair. at Michael Kohn Gallery are looking down or away, as though they’ve just heard something that made them blush; their robust cheekbones are sometimes touched by a little red.
Read MoreWilliam Brickel’s elongated, sometimes contorted, often intense figures, possess an ambiguous beauty that are bluntly modern, nod to 16th-century mannerist styling, and offer a whiff of Paul Cadmus, Lucian Freud or even Egon Schiele. Mostly though they hold your eye with their strong and distinctive presence, crackling with feeling, pulling you in with their mysterious sets and clothes in colors fit for a Prada moodboard.
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