The Dizzying Range of UCLA’s MFA Show

The Dizzying Range of UCLA’s MFA Show

LOS ANGELES — In previous generations, a few key painters and photographers were primarily associated with Los Angeles’s artistic output: Ed Ruscha and David Hockney, for example, typified the city’s sun-bathed, midcentury modern look. With time, though, it has become more and more difficult to pin down the city’s creative production — now, there’s a cottage industry of cocktail hour critics (myself included, sometimes) who attempt to sum up wha…