David Fahl

"The Big Show" Groups shows are almost always problematic -- uneven, schizophrenic, overloaded with information -- and Lawndale Art Center's annual open-call, juried exhibition never seems to escape these peccadilloes. With no frame of reference besides one or two pieces by each artist on the wall, it's just too easy...

"Courbet and the Modern Landscape" Realist painter Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) is widely considered the forerunner of the impressionists for his "radical" self-expression at a time when the popular French Salon championed conservative, narrative painting. That said, don't expect anything as provocative as his 1866 works The Origin of the World...

"Frank Stella - 1958" So here's a painter who became one of the leading lights of minimalism in painting in the '60s, one of the real names of the art world for the last half of the 20th century. A grad student and museum curator together track down a batch...

"Al Souza" You may have seen Al Souza's puzzle paintings. But if you haven't, they're pretty much what they sound like: paintings made out of puzzles. Souza hunts puzzles high and low, in thrift stores and on eBay, and has freelancers assemble them. Then he takes strategic sections of the...

Jessica Stockholder There's something about Jessica Stockholder's work that makes it instantly recognizable. With bright, broad strokes slathered on large found objects, her work contains elements of both painting and sculpture. She mixes domestic and construction items at will, creating combinations that are visually and intellectually appealing. In her latest...