David Pagel reviews Joan Brown Herself: Paintings and Constructions, 1970-1980 at George Adams Gallery at CB1-G, Los Angeles, on view through April 23, 2016.

Pagel writes that this "straightforward show is at once enchanting and matter of fact. Nothing fancy animates the powerful pictures of the San Francisco painter (1938-1990), whose work gets more riveting with time. The people in Brown’s enamels on canvas are utterly ordinary — regular women, children and men going about their lives or stopping to pose for a picture, back when posing for pictures meant something special."