RECOMMENDED With Ekberg’s last show at Thomas Robertello, he installed “disco ball in the woods” in the window of the gallery. This time, Ekberg features several of his photographs. “Aberration #7” takes a picture looking up towards trees as spherical aberrations, or color rings, forms from the light being refracted. Ekberg camera documents the mundane in nature and at his home through found objects and observations. “The sun reflection in a small puddle”’s faded and grainy blacktop surrounds the water containing a couple of leaves and a glint of light reflecting off it. “The condensation from a glass of my bedside table” shows a ring of water sedentary on a table with a bed, plants on a windowsill and light bleeding through the window, adding ambience to the piece. His other images include an ice cube melting on a hardwood floor, an airplane flying centered against various grays in the sky and the wonderful composition of a bubble laying on a perfect bed of green grass absorbing the images around it. Smoke rings from off camera float around coffee, bananas and a newspaper on a table. Aberrations equal imperfections but sometimes these rife flaws lead to beautiful images. (Garin Pirnia) Through January 19 at Thomas Robertello
All You Need Is Love: A Review of "LOVE: Still Not the Lesser" at MoCP Museum of Contemporary Photography shows a collection of work from a dozen international artists on the subject of love and in all its many manifestations and forms: Straight love, queer love, family love, love of others and love of the self.
For Us: A Review of "Something from Something" at Engage Projects Kushala Vora and Adia Sykes’ collaboration "Something from Something" tells us as viewers that knowledge, art, creation, inspiration, love—really anything you can think of—has a place of origin.
Women Behind the Lens: A Review of "From Her to Eternity" Courtney Love curates on the street. Just west of Wabash on the corner of Eighth Street, there is a wall of stellar rock star images that includes a special collection made by women photographers over the years.
Excavated Images: A Review of “Life Against Itself” at Patron For the better part of a decade, the L.A.-based artist has used a variety of bladed tools to make her signature alla prima monochromatic gestural abstractions. In the last year, however, the hand has cut off the knife.
All Too Real: A Review of “Not All Realisms” at The Smart Museum In the compelling exhibition currently on display at the Smart Museum, photographs tell the story of the sixties in Africa. It was a decade of change, resistance, revolution and hard-won independence in many African countries.
