ArtReview | “Pictures Girls Make”: A Genre of Appearance
November 15, 2023
An exhibition at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles makes in portraiture an argument for an expansive, humanistic feminism...
The Face | Linder Sterling: “Each Generation Has to Look Out for Itself”
November 10, 2023
The natural-born rebel discusses making art to shock, performing seances in school toilets and her part in the Tate’s new Women in Revolt exhibition...
Flaunt | BLUM Gallery: Tom Anholt, Simphiwe Ndzube, and Sam Moyer
November 9, 2023
Three exhibitions run concurrently at BLUM in Los Angeles through December 16th...
Los Angeles Times | Weekly Countdown
November 8, 2023
From BLUM Gallery to the Huntington, exciting new art exhibits are all over L.A...
Artillery | Pick of the Week: Simphiwe Ndzube
November 8, 2023
“Have I ever felt strange suddenly being myself?” I thought after leaving Simphiwe Ndzube’s exhibition, “Chorus” at BLUM...
LA Weekly | Fall Back: Arts Calendar November 2–8
November 1, 2023
Expanding the reaches of his surrealist Mine Moon universe—the fictional location that has long functioned as the setting for the artist’s otherworldly vignettes—Ndzube perfects his use of oil paint...
Art Basel | Lonnie Holley on Making Treasures from Trash
October 14, 2023
The ‘insider’s outsider artist’ builds worlds from found objects and a rich personal history...
Numéro | Who Is Mohamed Bourouissa, One of the Greatest Artists of His Generation Featured on the Cover of Numéro Art 13?
October 13, 2023
One of the most respected artists of his generation, the Franco-Algerian is honoured this season with two shows programmed back to back, the first at LaM, near Lille, and the second at Paris’s Palais de Tokyo...
T Magazine: Eddie Martinez Defers to the Desires of His Paints
October 6, 2023
At his studio in Queens, the artist’s routine includes turkey meatballs, cut-up Crocs and the patience to let his materials set his pace...
Artillery: “Pictures Girls Make”: Portraitures – Curated by Alison M. Gingeras – Blum & Poe
October 5, 2023
The pictures people make of their lives...
Hyperallergic: 10 Shows to See in Los Angeles in October
October 4, 2023
Alison M. Gingeras has curated a diverse, revisionist survey of portraiture at Blum & Poe...
Curate LA: Beyond Boys Who Scribble: Celebrating Portraiture in ‘Pictures Girls Make’ at Blum & Poe
October 4, 2023
Curated by Alison M. Gingeras at Blum & Poe in Culver City, Pictures Girls Make: Portraitures, takes its titular reference from the famed quote by Elaine de Kooning describing her husband Willem’s derisive attitude towards portraits as “pictures girls make”...
Artsy: Fast Rising British Artist Danny Fox on the Five Artists Inspiring Him Right Now
September 28, 2023
"I first saw Eddie Martinez’s work in a zine of some kind in San Francisco in 2012. I was living in a van with my ex-wife and making little oil still lifes..."
Autre: Pictures Girls Make Inverts Archaic Norms through Portraiture @ Blum & Poe in Los Angeles
September 27, 2023
Blum & Poe presents "Pictures Girls Make": Portraitures, an exhibition bringing together over fifty artists from around the world, spanning the early nineteenth century until today...
Ocula: Mohamed Bourouissa Won’t Take a Single Position
September 20, 2023
Organized with Palais de Tokyo and curated by Marie-Amélie Senot, Mohamed Bourouissa's latest exhibition at Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary, and Outsider Art (LaM), which opens on 29 September, marks a return to the heart of the artist's practice...
Los Angeles Times: On My Mind
September 13, 2023
On Friday, I started my day by checking out Blum & Poe’s new exhibition, "Pictures Girls Make": Portraitures. The exhibition curated by Alison M. Gingeras gathers work from more than 50 artists from around the world, from the early 19th century to today...
KCRW: “Pictures Girls Make”: Portraitures at Blum & Poe
September 12, 2023
Figuration has been en vogue in recent years in the art world, but Blum & Poe’s ambitious new exhibition, curated by Alison M. Gingeras, focuses specifically on portraiture, and the vast history of the genre...
Art Basel: Editors’ Picks: Eight Shows to See in September
September 4, 2023
The ingredients of this expansive exhibition are beguiling: A fearless curator (Alison M. Gingeras), an infinitely rich topic (portraiture), and 59 fascinating artists spanning more than a century (including Joan Brown, Elaine de Kooning, and Yannis Tsarouchis)...
Cultured: This Week in Culture: August 28–September 3
August 28, 2023
In this week's exhibitions, MoMA takes on sustainable design, Rodney McMillian and Josh Smith offer odes to the color red, Umar Rashid presents another chapter in his durational historical fiction project, and more from around the world...
Juxtapoz: Umar Rashid’s Historical “Kagetora’s dream in the time of Sakoku. (Reds and Blues). Part 1” Kicks off the Fall
August 23, 2023
Good friend Umar Rashid's Kagetora’s dream in the time of Sakoku. (Reds and Blues). Part 1 taking place at Blum & Poe in Los Angeles...
Art Institute Chicago: What You Don’t See: Meditating on Korean Monochrome Painting
August 15, 2023
The seemingly minimalistic paintings of Dansaekhwa, or Korean monochrome painting, hold multiple layers of time, labor, and the creator’s spirit...
A brush with... Alvaro Barrington
August 15, 2023
Alvaro Barrington talks to Ben Lukeabout his influences—from writers to musicians and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work...
Frieze: Sonia Gomes Responds to Her Materials
August 9, 2023
Fernanda Brenner speaks to the artist about the way her work entangles different times, stories and locations...
Reader's Digest: 7 Contemporary Korean Artists You Need to Know
August 3, 2023
With Yun Hyong-keun's work on display for the first time at Hastings Contemporary this summer, we look at seven contemporary Korean artists you should know about...
Art in America: Lonnie Holley’s Earthen Monuments Sing in a Survey Including Fellow Black Artists from the South
July 31, 2023
In his sculptures, Lonnie Holley utilizes terraneous materials—sand, stone, iron, the detritus buried beneath them—but remains steadily inspired by water. In “I Am a Part of the Wonder,” a song on his recent album Oh Me Oh My, Holley sings about “the wonders of / a drip of water / falling from the sky...”
