Kristen Morgin at Marc Selwyn Fine Art

In her second solo show in Los Angeles, Kristen Morgin strips away the sentimentality that made her earlier works look nostalgic -- so obsessed with yesteryear that they seemed to have been made by someone with her heart set on turning the clock back. Her new works are timely and pointed, born of a sensitivity to the trauma of the real world but tough enough to know that fantasizing about the good old days too often goes nowhere.

By David Pagel

July 4, 2008