Hello friends, I have permanently relocated to Carlsbad, California. We have a new home, new decor, new studio, and a new outlook. I will continue writing my monthly column with the focus on women artists exhibiting in So. California. Love to hear from you.
IN THE GALLERIESDon’t miss the current exhibit at Hauser & Wirth in the arts district. These exquisite paintings by British artist Flora Yukhnovich take their inspiration from art historical genres ranging from French rococo and Italian baroque to abstract expressionism. Yukhnovich creates paintings that celebrate materiality and process through shifting, chimerical forms, while seducing the viewer with elusive glints of content and meaning. This is a new series of large-scale canvases prompted by the centuries old theme of Bacchanalia. In these canvases, lush, swirling brushstrokes evoke the dynamism and intense corporality of both ancient and contemporary hedonism, a past of satyric excesses and a present of consumerism and popular culture glut. Thru January 18, 2026. California Dreaming is the title of an exhibit of works by Jennifer Guidi at David Kordansky gallery. The paintings in California Dreaming find Guidi foregrounding images and ideas of landscape in newly expansive ways. Filled with immersive layers of detail, and keyed to emotional as well as visual categories of experience, they are defined by the palpable material presence that has defined the artist’s project over the last fifteen years, as well as a searching, dreamlike quality that constitutes a powerful new addition to her vocabulary. Underscoring this development, all works on view are horizontal in format. Their sizes vary and include large-scale canvases, medium-format pictures, and a single, highly condensed small-scale work…(DK) Thru December 13, 2025.
Continuing at Craig Krull Gallery are solo exhibits of the artists, Phranc, Astrid Preston, and Michon Weeks. Thu November 22, 2025.  Astrid Preston
IN THE MUSEUMSHow to be a Guerrilla Girl opens later this month at the Getty Museum. The exhibition explores the steps the group took to create their eye-catching and humorous public interventions. The exhibition places the Guerrilla Girls’ well-known posters in the broader context of their data research, protest actions, culture jamming, and distribution methods. Coinciding with the Guerrilla Girls’ 40th anniversary, the exhibition tells the story of their collaborative process and longstanding commitment to call for equity for women and artists of color in the art world. Opens November 18, 2025.
Los Angles County Museum of Art presents Grounded, an exhibit that invites visitors to see land not just as terrain, but as a foundation for exploring ecology, sovereignty, memory, and home. Featuring 35 artists based in the Americas and the Pacific, the exhibition showcases 40 works, spanning the 1970s to today, with many on view for the first time. Artists include: Lisa Reihana, Clarissa Tossin, Laura Aguilar, Ana Mendieta, Courtney M. Leonard, Rose B. Simpson, Leslie Martinez and more. Thru June 21,2026. |
Comments
Karen, I’m glad to hear that you’ve found a new home and are settling in. However, the loss of your beautiful Palisades home is so stark and sad. I hope this new place will bring you joy and loving people around you.
Best always,
Merrilyn