Reviews & Articles

2024

“Asian-American Art Is Plagued by Generational Amnesia” Hyperallergic

2023

“In the Mix: Some Thoughts on Japanese Pop Culture and Contemporary Art,” See You Space Cowboy…From Hokusai to Hiphop (catalog), San Francisco State Fine Arts Gallery, September 23 – October 20, 2023

Dialogue between J P 제피 and Sharon Mizota on the role of spirituality in contemporary art

“Sculptor Kenzi Shiokava was a distinctly L.A. artist. A posthumous exhibit shows why” Los Angeles Times

“Appreciation: Beloved artist and professor Jim Melchert taught us the value of paying attention” Los Angeles Times

“At the Japanese American National Museum, a Book Becomes a Monument” Hyperallergic

2022

Reviews

“Fugitive Practice: Troy Montes-Michie’s Rock of Eye Reviewed,” Bomb, March 16, 2022

Features

“How L.A. artist Kelly Akashi’s work evokes tangled feelings about impermanence” Los Angeles Times

“L.A. artists offer personal lens on Asian American diaspora in new ‘Off Kilter’ show” Los Angeles Times

2020

Reviews

“‘Womxn in Windows,’ a Chinatown video art show made for this moment” Los Angeles Times

“The new AR app that puts you in the room with Cate Blanchett” (Marco Brambilla) Los Angeles Times

“Kielbasa-shaped glass sculpture and other provocations from the late Miyoshi Barosh” Los Angeles Times

“Hank Willis Thomas, Tomashi Jackson and a different kind of color theory” Los Angeles Times

Features

USC Pacific Asia Museum Decolonizes Its Collections, Artbound, KCET

How Artists Are Nurturing Their Creativity Under Lockdown, Artbound, KCET

COVID-19 and Anti-Racism Movements Create New Urgency for Working Artists, Artbound, KCET

Forced to Close Their Doors, Art Galleries Embrace Online Exhibitions, Artbound, KCET

2019

“Art-hopping in L.A.’s Arlington Heights: A guide to a less-beaten gallery path” (Karolina Maszkiewicz, John Zappas, “California Winter,” Rodney McMillian) Los Angeles Times

Theaster Gates, Los Angeles Times

Jebila Okongwu, Los Angeles Times

Shikeith, Los Angeles Times

“Bad Ass Bitches of the Getty” Los Angeles Times

“A walker’s guide to gallery hopping along Highland Avenue” (Robin F. Williams, Francisco Rodriguez, Rebecca Shippee, Jon Key, Julian Stanczak) Los Angeles Times

Club Scum, Los Angeles Times

Susan Mogul, Los Angeles Times

“Please Recall to Me Everything You Have Thought of” Los Angeles Times

Brandon Landers, Los Angeles Times

“Narrative Painting in Los Angeles” Los Angeles Times

“Where the Sea Remembers” Los Angeles Times

Hanna Hur, Los Angeles Times

Francesca Longhini, Los Angeles Times

Gabriella Sanchez, Los Angeles Times

Maria Berrio, Los Angeles Times

David Hammons, Los Angeles Times

Fahamu Pecou, Los Angeles Times

Joanne Greenbaum, Los Angeles Times

Graciela Iturbide, Los Angeles Times

Laura Lancaster, Los Angeles Times

Human Archipelago (book review) Los Angeles Times

Cayetano Ferrer, Los Angeles Times

“People” Los Angeles Times

Lisa Solomon, Los Angeles Times

Sara Kathryn Arledge, Los Angeles Times

“Parergon: Japanese Art of the 1980s and 1990s” (Tsuyoshi Ozawa) Los Angeles Times

Rona Pondick, Los Angeles Times

Sun Seekers: The Cure of California (book review) Los Angeles Times

Farrah Karapetian, Los Angeles Times

Amoako Boafo, Los Angeles Times

Lee Quinones, Los Angeles Times

2018

Hannah Epstein, Los Angeles Times

Catherine Opie, Los Angeles Times

Judith Linhares, Los Angeles Times

“Sweat lodge, Audre Lorde, magical holograms: Three stellar art shows that pull you to another place” (Martin Soto Climent, Michèle Pearson Clarke, Simone Forti) Los Angeles Times

Nicole Eisenman, Los Angeles Times

Katherine Sherwood, Los Angeles Times

Brie Ruais, Los Angeles Times

“The Feminine Sublime” Los Angeles Times

Junghwa Hong, Los Angeles Times

Michael Gittes, Los Angeles Times

Ken Okiishi, Los Angeles Times

Deborah Roberts, Los Angeles Times

Mimi Lauter, Los Angeles Times

Daniel Silva, Los Angeles Times

Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Los Angeles Times

Kirsten Tradowsky, Los Angeles Times

Todd Gray, Los Angeles Times

Forrest Kirk, Los Angeles Times

Young Joo Lee, Los Angeles Times

“Remote Castration” Los Angeles Times

Jonny Negron, Los Angeles Times

Kazuo Kadonaga, Los Angeles Times

Hayv Kahraman, Los Angeles Times

Alex Jackson, Los Angeles Times

Klea McKenna, Los Angeles Times

Eleanor Swordy, Los Angeles Times

Laub, Los Angeles Times

Channa Horwitz, Los Angeles Times

Raúl de Nieves, Los Angeles Times

Jemima Wyman, Los Angeles Times

Buckminster Fuller, Los Angeles Times

George Rouy, Los Angeles Times

“Exhibitions by Kwame Brathwaite, Deana Lawson and Meleko Mokgosi challenge how blackness is represented” Los Angeles Times

Ravens & Red Lipstick: Japanese Photography Since 1945(book review) Los Angeles Times

2017

Reviews

Zarouhie Abdalian, Los Angeles Times

Ryosuke Yazaki, Los Angeles Times

Farah Atassi, Los Angeles Times

Andy Kolar, Los Angeles Times

Edgar Arceneaux, Los Angeles Times

Anna Fasshauer, Los Angeles Times

Benjamin Weissman, Los Angeles Times

Cindy Bernard, Los Angeles Times

Lezley Saar, Los Angeles Times

Heather Rasmussen, Los Angeles Times

14th Factory, Los Angeles Times

Lia Halloran, Los Angeles Times

Stanya Kahn, Los Angeles Times

Klara Liden, Los Angeles Times

Kevin Appel, Los Angeles Times

York Chang and Justin Cole, Los Angeles Times

Chadwick Rantanen, Los Angeles Times

Jason Rhoades, Los Angeles Times

Olga Balema, Los Angeles Times

Iris Hu, Los Angeles Times

Taravat Talepasand, Los Angeles Times

Antonia Wright, Los Angeles Times

Letters to Andy Warhol, Los Angeles Times

Features

Ghost Towns, Rodrigo Valenzuela: Journeyman (catalog)

2016

Reviews

Kelly Akashi, Los Angeles Times

Yong Soon Min, Los Angeles Times

Mickalene Thomas, Los Angeles Times

“Radio Imagination: Artists in the Archive of Octavia E. Butler” Los Angeles Times

Thomas Hirschhorn, Los Angeles Times

Elana Mann, Los Angeles Times

Lari Pittman, Los Angeles Times

Andrea Buttner, Los Angeles Times

Srijon Chowdhury, Los Angeles Times

Rodney McMillian, Los Angeles Times

Ry Rocklen, Los Angeles Times

3 Women, Los Angeles Times

“Photography and Language” Los Angeles Times

“Please Have Enough Acid in the Dish!” Los Angeles Times

Kenneth Tam, Los Angeles Times

Francoise Grossen, Los Angeles Times

Alexis Smith, Los Angeles Times

Betty Tompkins, Los Angeles Times

“Eternal” Los Angeles Times

Features

Ten sentences about the work of Daniel Joseph Martinez, Wasteland (catalog)

2015

Reviews

At the Broad Museum, All is Vanity, The New Republic, September 30, 2015

Ginny Bishton, Los Angeles Times

Gyung Jin Shin, Los Angeles Times

David Haxton, Los Angeles Times

Diana Al-Hadid, Los Angeles Times

Ginger Wolfe-Suarez, Los Angeles Times

Mernet Larsen, Los Angeles Times

Sergei Tcherepnin, Los Angeles Times

James O. Clark, Los Angeles Times

Betty Woodman, Los Angeles Times

Vivian Suter, Los Angeles Times

Hung Liu, Los Angeles Times

Devin Kenny, Los Angeles Times

Kon Trubkovich, Los Angeles Times

Renee Green, Los Angeles Times

Laura Krifka, Los Angeles Times

Micah Ganske, Los Angeles Times

2014

Charles Ray, Los Angeles Times

Amy Adler, Los Angeles Times

Paul Pescador, Los Angeles Times

Howard Friedman, Los Angeles Times

Mie Olise, Los Angeles Times

Rafaël Rozendaal, Los Angeles Times

Canan Tolon, Los Angeles Times

Robert Heinecken, Los Angeles Times

Penelope Umbrico, Los Angeles Times

Bruce Richards, Los Angeles Times

Erin Besler, Los Angeles Times

Jennifer Boysen, Los Angeles Times

Matthew Ronay, Los Angeles Times

Edgar Arceneaux, Los Angeles Times

Stan VanDerBeek, Los Angeles Times

“Soft Target” Los Angeles Times

Marcus Herse, Los Angeles Times

Ray Johnson (book review) Los Angeles Times

Allora & Calzadilla, Los Angeles Times

Daniel von Sturmer, Los Angeles Times

Tony Greene, Los Angeles Times

Robert Swain, Los Angeles Times

Chris Engman, Los Angeles Times

Megan Cotts, Los Angeles Times

2013

Reviews

My Barbarian, Artforum.com

Los Angeles Times

Features

Everything is Illuminated: Extra-Illustrated Books at The Huntington, Artbound, KCET, July 22, 2013

Sam Durant’s Social Media Movement: What #isamuseum?, Artbound, KCET, July 11, 2013

Community’s the Thing: Susan Silton Examines the Power of Names, Artbound, KCET, May 30, 2013

Once More, With Feeling: Stephen Prina’s History Paintings, Artbound, KCET, April 25, 2013

Trisha Brown: Dance in the Museum, Artbound, KCET, March 28, 2013

Costume Drama: Rubens and Korea, ARTNews, March 6, 2013

Catherine Opie: From the Outside In, Artbound, KCET, February 24, 2013

Art Meets Literature in L.A.’s Indie Presses, Artbound, KCET, January 30, 2013

2012

Reviews

Kelly Poe, Artforum.com

Art Therapy (Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama by Yayoi Kusama), Los Angeles Review of Books, January 25, 2012

Los Angeles Times

Andra Ursuta

Danny Lyon

Mark Swope

Facing the Sublime in Water, CA

Charles Christopher Hill

Alejandro Cartagena

“Acirema”

“Interruption”

Ricky Allman

Roger Hiorns

“Synesthesia”

Antonio Vega Macotela

Brian O’Connell

PST, A to Z, 2011-2012

“Pacific Standard Time” was a 6-month program of 69 museum and gallery exhibitions sponsored by the Getty to explore the history of art in Los Angeles between 1945 and 1980. In the series “PST, A to Z” I visited and wrote about all of them for the Los Angeles Times.

One person’s quest to see it all

‘Asco’ and ‘Edward Kienholz’ at LACMA

Maria Nordman, ‘Film Room: Smoke’ at LACMA

‘Beatrice Wood: Career Woman’ at Santa Monica museum

John Outterbridge at LAXART

“California Art” at the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art

“MEX/LA” at the Museum of Latin American Art

‘Peace Press Graphics 1967-1987’ at UAM CSULB

De Wain Valentine’s ‘Gray Column’ at the Getty Center

‘Golden’ and ‘June’ at Craft and Folk Art Museum (June Schwarz)

‘Los Angeles Goes Live’ at LACE

‘Icons of the Invisible: Oscar Castillo,’ Fowler Museum