“Narrative Painting in Los Angeles” is like summer reading, pulling you in with its stories, writes sharonmizota.
“Narrative Painting in Los Angeles” is a flat-footed title for what turns out to be an entertaining exhibition at Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica. Featuring works by 13 figurative painters, the show is like summer reading, pulling you in with its stories.
The tales open with Sandow Birk’s “The Mid-Term Election ” from 2018, an homage to Dutch Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel. It depicts a polling place on a sunny strip next to a skate park. A few people trickle in to vote, but the park and its environs are much more active. I appreciated Birk’s nod to Bruegel’s pre-photographic panoramas, where each detail of everyday life is miraculously in focus.
Another sweeping vista appears in James Doolin’s “Highway Patrol” from 1986, an officer’s view of a freeway interchange from the cool, orderly driver’s seat. It’s chilling in its vision of mastery, complete with rifle mounted on the dash.Ja’Rie Gray’s diptych “What if I Was …?” from 2014 operates at a more intimate scale. On the right, it portrays the artist as herself, a black woman; on the left, in almost a mirror image, she appears as a white woman.
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