Hannah Kay

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Torey Akers |Elena Goukassian |Hannah Kay

In an episode of the PBS documentary series American Masters, the musician Ry Cooder described the painter Vincent Valdez as “the Albrecht Dürer of Chicano artists”. This sobriquet is appropriate, given the virtuosic detail of his images, but the pathos and cinematic intensity that defines Valdez’s work feels fiercer than that comparison implies.

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Torey Akers |Elena Goukassian |Hannah Kay

The Los Angeles-based Taiwanese artist Su Yu-Xin creates ethereal landscapes in her paintings using natural pigments collected from sites around the world. Her first solo exhibition in the US, Searching the Sky for Gold at the Orange County Museum of Art, features a series of recent paintings that visualise natural phenomena—rain, fire and clouds—that are features of the California coastline and other landscapes she encounters in her travels. Yu-Xin was born in Hualien in 1991.

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Hannah Kay |Jori Finkel |Torey Akers |Tim Schneider

EarthshakerDel Vaz ProjectsUntil 18 AprilThe sky turned orange last month in Los Angeles. Like in the late artist Derek Jarman’s short film, Journey to Avebury (1971), it was as if a coloured gel had been placed over our eyes. “Was the glow in Jarman’s video evocative of the gilded hue of Elizabethan England?” asks Jay Ezra Nayssan, the founder of Del Vaz Projects in Santa Monica.

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Torey Akers |Elena Goukassian |Hannah Kay

The Mexico City-based artist Ana Segovia’s winking, neon reinterpretations of the Mexican cowboy (or charro) archetype bend and break preconceived notions of normative machismo, translating film stills from Mexico’s cinematic Golden Age into an unabashedly queer new language.

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Torey Akers |Elena Goukassian |Hannah Kay |Tim Schneider |Benjamin Sutton

Taming the Desert: Resilience, Religion and Ancestors in Ancient PeruFowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, until 13 AprilAlong Peru’s desert coast, despite unpredictable weather and harsh conditions, some of the oldest and most advanced civilisations in the Americas blossomed. Over thousands of years, cities and agricultural centres cropped up in the region, forming extensive trade networks between them.