Rebecca Farr in Riot Material 5.30.19
Into The Mythic With Rebecca Farr’s Animal Love Thyself
MAY 30, 2019
BY ELLEN C. CALDWELL
at Klowden Mann (through June 15)
When I wrote about Rebecca Farr’s fourth solo exhibit in November of 2016, I said it was everything. I saw the show immediately following the 2016 presidential election and Farr’s show created a nurturing embrace and a place for soul-and nation-searching. In her fifth solo exhibit at Klowden Mann, Animal Love Thyself, Farr’s exhibition again feels like ... (read more)
George Melrod reviews David Lloyd’s 365 A Year of Drawing 5.18.19
DISPATCH FROM LOS ANGELES
“365 A Year of Drawing:” A Diary of Aesthetic Discovery
By George Melrod
David Lloyd at Klowden Mann
January 5 – February 9, 2019
6023 Washington Boulevard
Culver City, CA, 90232
http://klowdenmann.com/
Los Angeles painter David Lloyd has described his work as examining the ridiculous and the sublime in equal measure, and over the course of his 30-plus-year career his work has never shied away from that improbable balancing act. Never one to fit neatly within any easy label, ... (read more)
Morgan Mandalay in Art Viewer 5.4.19
Morgan Mandalay at Klowden Mann
May 4, 2019
Artist: Morgan Mandalay
Exhibition title: Bad Sin Frutas
Venue: Klowden Mann, Culver City, Los Angeles, California, US
Date: March 29 – May 11, 2019
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Klowden Mann, Culver City
Klowden Mann is proud to present Chicago-based artist Morgan Mandalay’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Bad Sin Frutas. The show will be on view from March 30th to May 4th, 2019, with an opening reception on ... (read more)
Morgan Mandalay in Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles 5.1.19
Morgan Mandalay at Klowden Mann
May 1, 2019
Text by Matt Stromberg
Bad Sin Frutas, Morgan Mandalay’s first L.A. solo show at Klowden Mann, suggests trouble in paradise. Across several canvases that combine elements of still life and landscape, Mandalay portrays a once Edenic garden as a tortured, contested space. In And forgive us our trespasses (2019), flames lick the gnarled branches of a tree, while lemons and two freshly-caught trout hang from it’s limbs. Meanwhile, a ghostly hand reaches ... (read more)
Morgan Mandalay in Artillery 4.24.19
MORGAN MANDALAY
by Annabel Osberg ·
April 24, 2019 · in
Morgan Mandalay's paintings of tainted jungle paradises are radiant with color and lush verdure, yet they bloom with inklings of mortality. Dead fishes hang amid the umbrage of burning orchards where cadaverous human arms emerge from lurid thickets. Figs and oranges putrefy on snake-inhabited trees thronged by swarms of insects. In Rotten Core (2019, pictured above), ruffled ravens querulously caw in apparent protest of some unseen interloper having just killed the man whose lifeless feet ... (read more)
Morgan Mandalay in LA Times 4.23.19
Morgan Mandalay, "And forgive us our trespasses (detail)," 2019, oil on canvas. (Klowden Mann Gallery)
Review: In Morgan Mandalay’s new paintings, life carries on as Eden burns
By CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT | ART CRITIC | APR 23, 2019 | 7:30 AM
Nature is doing surprisingly well in 11 new paintings by Morgan Mandalay. Humanity? Not so much.
At Klowden Mann Gallery, the Chicago-based artist’s solo L.A. debut has trees aflame in dark and coagulated landscapes. Fish rot, boughs decay, hanging fruit glows ... (read more)
Morgan Mandalay featured in Wall Street International 4.19.19
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Morgan Mandalay in Autre 4.19.19
BAD SIN FRUTAS: AN INTERVIEW WITH PAINTER MORGAN MANDALAY
text and photographs by Summer Bowie
April 19, 2019
Are you staring directly into the mouth of the beast, or are you indeed sitting inside said mouth, observing the surreal landscape below? This is just one of the many visual homonyms that are ever-present in the works of Morgan Mandalay. For his first solo exhibition at Klowden Mann in Los Angeles, the Chicago-based artist has painted worlds that are rife with reference to ... (read more)
Bettina Hubby in Art and Cake 3.3.19
Bettina Hubby is Positively Earnest at Klowden Mann
MARCH 3, 2019 AUTHOR
Bettina Hubby: Positively Earnest
through March 23, 2019
Klowden Mann, Culver City
By Shana Nys Dambrot
It’s a mantra, it’s a safe word, it’s a daily affirmation, it’s a compulsion. Whether all of this and more, Bettina Hubby’s bright neon beacon reading “Positively Earnest” is a signal of the artist’s intention to make you feel better — even if that’s not always what you expect ... (read more)