Toying with Reality

The Getty has an exhibit by German artist Sigmar Polke who experimented with photography in the 1960s and launched an art movement called Capitalist Realism with Gerhard Richter. Polke was fascinated by popular culture and in his photos, he reshaped mundane things like window displays and everyday objects from his studio into strange and [...]

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The Collector

I’ve opened my purse strings for a few art pieces recently. I’m trying to keep myself focused on photos or photo-based artwork. I bought a light box by Elise Irving from Aftermodern Gallery. Miller creates multiple transparencies of a single photo, altering different segments in each layer with PhotoShop, creating depth and [...]

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Visionary State

I spent the past weekend in LA, taking in lots of art galleries…and making a stop at the Bradbury Building. I hadn’t heard of the Bradbury until I stumbled into a show at Scott Nichols gallery in San Francisco a while back. Photos were grouped on the walls in blocs of four [...]

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Cry Me a River

People forget there’s a river that runs through Los Angeles—and you can’t blame them. What was once a major waterway that supported a rich agricultural life is now little more than a glorified drainage ditch. In a photo show at the Getty, “A Place in the Sun” John Humble documents the channel that once [...]

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