July 24, 2024
Image credit: Andrew Cranston
It’s the perfect time to dive into Los Angeles art exhibitions. For the last month of summer, sports fans and artists collide in Los Angeles over an $11-million-dollar public art collection connected to a new sports arena for a legacy basketball team. Elsewhere in the city, MOCA examines climate change through the lens of Josh Kline, while The Huntington in Pasadena explores the fragility of the earth’s ecosystem with a sculptural exhibit. Honor Fraser delves into the world of Kenny Scharf, Pace honours Gordon Parks and Fahey/Klein takes us on a photographic tour of rock heroes. Here are the best new and continuing art shows to see in Los Angeles this August.
Andrew Cranston
Scottish-born and based artist Andrew Cranston taps into emotional resonance of place and memory in his paintings with oils, distemper, and collage. Expect beautiful expressions with still lifes, landscapes, portraits, and interiors suspended between the realms of imagination and the everyday. Of his approach to art-making, Cranston explains: “Painting is an act of remembering and forgetting, covering and uncovering, tracing and retracing, getting lost and finding a way.”
