LA Times
Christopher Knight reviews the recent exhibition Petra Cortright: quack doctor violet "saltwater fish" at 1301PE, Los Angeles. Knight begins: "Cortright’s paintings wedge themselves between the celebrated history of gestural art, mostly Expressionist and abstract, and the past generation’s frantic upheaval of established visual norms generated by the emergence and now ubiquity of digital imagery."
LA Times
Christopher Knight reviews works by Luchita Hurtado recently on view at Park View Gallery, Los Angeles. Knight writes: "[Hurtado's] drawings’ loosely Surrealist forms recall dense pictographs from a variety of cultures, ancient and modern. Among them are prehistoric cave paintings, Northwest and Southwest tribal art, pre-Columbian reliefs and the abstract paintings and sculptures of Chinese-Afro-Cuban
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Christopher Knight reviews Picasso and Rivera: Conversations Across Time at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), on view through May 7, 2017. Knight writes: "In 1915, Pablo Picasso acquired a small Cubist still life painted by his casual friend and acolyte, Diego Rivera... The small painting’s admixture of traditional and avant-garde French, Spanish