Dan Nadel

Clean Lines, Messy Lives

“The Hernandez brothers’ recurring characters have aged and sprawled out into baroque, visionary stories that alternate between near-anthropologic detail, fantastical pulp, and sexual fetishes.”

Viola Frey: Sculptor of the Anthropocene

Viola Frey helped to change notions that ceramics was inherently a medium for craft, not art. “Center Stage” is the artist’s first major museum survey on the West Coast since 1981.

Steve DiBenedetto: A Denatured Humanism

Steve DiBenedetto encodes his works with ideas about paint as if to answer the question, What should a painting look like, in all its confusing, diffuse, and oddball glory, in order to make us feel that we’re human?

Tigers, Horses, and Stripes

Ellen Berkenblit’s striking new paintings at Anton Kern Gallery are a riot of luminous colors.