Articles by David Pagel

In the late 1990s, a lot of American artists fancied themselves filmmakers. Read more

James Gobel’s big pictures of supersized guys have one foot firmly planted in the world of beefcake photography and the other in that of grandmotherly crafts – needlepoint, quilting, knitting and other hands-on activities that transform houses into homes by making a place for warm-and-fuzzy feelings. Read more

Jeff Whetstone spent a good part of 2007 underground, creeping through the caverns and passageways that form vast networks of caves in Tennessee and Alabama. Read more

There’s not a lot of space for art – especially sculpture – at Concrete Walls @ Café Back Door. Read more

In her second solo show in Los Angeles, Kristen Morgin strips away the sentimentality that made her earlier works look nostalgic – so obsessed with yesteryear that they seemed to have been made by someone with her heart set on turning the clock back. Read more

Los Angeles has long been known as one of the best places on Earth to be an artist just getting started. Read more

Juan Uslé makes the biggest little paintings around. Read more

In an upstairs hallway at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, a small show of photographs by Maria Teresa Fernandez focuses on the fence along the U.S.-Mexico border that begins a couple of hundred feet out in the Pacific and ends about 60 miles inland, near El Centro, Calif. Read more

All the world may be a stage, but Gregory Crewdson’s big color photographs manage to flatten it into a backdrop for an overproduced photo shoot. Read more