“LOS ANGELES — John Currin’s bizarre vignettes of feminine allure are
bound to arouse some rather rich and complicated feelings in the viewer,
and that is a good thing. His current show at Gagosian Gallery
in Beverly Hills, his first Los Angeles–area exhibition in 10 years,
consists of 11 new oil paintings of invented muses that are magnetic in
their beauty and weirdly compelling in their historically inspired,
imagined settings.”