Artists As Keepers Of Radical Thought In The Weight of Matter

at Roberts Projects, Los Angeles (through June 15)
Reviewed by Eve Wood

The Weight of Matter, on view at Roberts Projects in Culver City, takes as it central premise the idea that artists are the keepers of radical thought, of dreams and incongruities, of nightmares and deepening schisms, and that these ideas are worth each and every dissection, no matter how minute or painstaking. On the surface, the exhibition appears to expand on the theme of materiality — how artists utilize their materials in new…