Maxwell Hendler's work can be seen in two exhibitions in and around Los Angeles this winter; as part of Pieceable Kingdom curated by David Pagel for the Beacon Arts Building and in a small solo survey at the Los Angeles Harbor College, Maxwell Hendler: Seen and Unseen.

Beacon Arts continues its Critics-as-Curators series with Pieceable Kingdom curated by art critic David Pagel. The exhibition features works in a range of media by seven artists who capture the complexity of everyday life; Erin Cosgrove, Asad Faulwell, Maxwell Hendler, Laura Krifka, Mimi Lauter, Devin Troy Strother and Matt Wedel. The exhibition opens February 5 and continues through March 6, 2011.

The Los Angeles Harbor College will open Maxwell Hendler: Seen and Unseen, on February 19 continuing through April 16, 2011. The exhibition will feature 5 works in various media and serve as a small survey of Maxwell Hendler's career from 1988 to 2004. Gallery hours are from Monday - Thursday, 11 - 4 or by appointment.

Los Angeles Times Art Review: "Perpetual Motion: Michael Goldberg" at Cal State University, Long Beach

The University Art Museum at California State Long Beach will open their much anticipated Michael Goldberg Retrospective on September 9, 2010. Including almost 50 works from every period of Goldberg's career, this exhibition will be the most comprehensive examination of his work to date. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue with essays by David Anfam, Bill Berkson and curator, Elizabeth Hanson. The exhibition will remain on view through December 12, 2010.

Curator Eliza Rathbone, Chief Curator of the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC explores a very special and particular chapter in the artist's oeuvre. In the early 1950s, Pousette-Dart created a series of paintings working in graphite and oil on canvas to produce works that are both complex and spare, subtle, yet quite intense. The exhibition contains 27 works (many that have not been seen for 50 years) and will be on view June 5 - September 12, 2010.

Judd Tully's article in Art+Auction takes "A Second Look" at the works of Norman Bluhm, Edward Dugmore, Michael Goldberg and Alfred Leslie in addition to a few others. Tully examines their contributions to push the seemingly improvisational style of Abstract Expressionism further and their short lived notoriety that was eclipsed by Pop art in the early 1960s. Now these same artists are garnering more respect from museums and in the marketplace.