"When Mickalene Thomas was chosen to create art for the Leimert Park station of Metro’s Crenshaw/LAX line, she looked to iconic elements of the community’s landscape — including the Art Deco-era tower of what is now the Vision Theatre — then collaged them. She wanted residents to recognize the images in the piece."

By Dorany Pineda – 11 November 2019

"The prize for the best exhibition title of the season goes to Shana Lutker, whose stutter-inducing ‘An Analphabet’ draws from the artist’s ongoing research into Surrealism. In 1947, Man Ray published Analphabet, a book featuring drawings based on abstracted letters of the alphabet. The word ‘analphabet’ actually refers to someone who does not recognize letters as letters; what if, wondered Lutker, other signs and objects could be misconstrued as letters too? Lutker’s polished stainless steel and wood sculptures stretch the connections between signs, imagistic content and sounds to breaking."

By Jonathan Griffin – 09 October 2019

"Aguayo’s visual lexicon works because he productively stymies the logic of his own forms and colors before they reach a formulaic point of exhaustion by throwing in red herrings—as with the yellow arches or surprise pops of color painted onto the sides of the raw canvases. The revelation of process, the “editing” of the image made visible, eschews the self-assured heroism of the old guard of abstract painting while upholding doubt as the necessary catalyst of—perhaps the true subject of—experimentation."

By Kathryn Poindexter-Akers – 02 October 2019