Articles by Holly Myers

“Contradictions and Complexities: Contemporary Art From India,” on view at both d.e.n. Read more

“The kind of creatures I sought were quite different. Read more

Highly regarded by his peers and generally beloved of critics, especially in Los Angeles, Steve Roden is what you would call an artist’s artist. Read more

If you happened to be in Chinatown on the night of Terence Koh’s opening two weeks ago, you would have noticed something peculiar: a fine, white powder coating the shoes, pant legs, skirts and coat tails of many of those crisscrossing the neighborhood between galleries throughout the evening. Read more

It’s difficult, at first, to pinpoint just what makes a room full of Dennis Hollingsworth’s paintings so very intoxicating, but it surely has something to do with the smell of oil paint. Read more

This is the first in a series of occasional articles observing newly arrived cultural figures as they seek to get the lay of the land in Southern California. Read more

Mindy Shapero has become known in recent years for loading her works with long and feverishly didactic titles aimed at cuing viewers in to the esoteric code underlying her seemingly nonrepresentational sculptures and paintings. Read more

Ninety miles of used irrigation stripping, 33,000 pounds of corn kernels, 21 9-foot-tall bales of dried cornstalks – the material remains of Lauren Bon’s 2005 “Not a Cornfield” project, created in an abandoned rail yard just east of Chinatown, have resurfaced in the considerably tonier milieu of the Ace Gallery, recycled into autonomous works, for Bon’s first solo show since before that project began. Read more

It is a classic art-world story: A small band of young, hip, energetic dealers descends upon a forgotten corner of the city in search of reasonable real estate. Read more