MEXICO as MUSE
Artists look for inspiration south of the border
“Mexico is truly the promised land for abstract art.” Anni & Josef Albers, 1936 “Mexico is the most surrealist country in the world.” Andre Breton,…
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Catherine Opie
Regen Projects / Los Angeles
Catherine Opie enunciates the intentions and ideas behind her current body of 2012-2013 works with the first two images the viewer encounters—one a portrait, the…
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Doug Aitken
303 Gallery / New York
Sonic Fountain, the centerpiece of Doug Aitken’s show (all works 2013) includes a large, round hole jack-hammered into the cement floor and filled with water. From…
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DOROTHEA TANNING
Gallery Wendi Norris / San Francisco
Dorothea Tanning was a painter, printmaker, sculptor, set designer, writer and poet who died last year at the age of 101. Best known for her…
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Richard Jackson
Orange County Museum of Art / Newport Beach, CA
Richard Jackson is a maniac with paint. His current retrospective is a testament to the gargantuan ambitions and massive amounts of energy he has displayed over a…
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Art Spiegelman
Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia
Fans of Art Spiegelman’s seminal graphic novel Maus can be forgiven for writing off Spiegelman as a one-hit wonder. After all, before producing the two…
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FIELD REPORT: WANAS
Sweden’s Sylvan Salon
“The artist comes first,” says Marika Wachtmeister, referring to the core philosophy of Wanås, one of the most remarkable contemporary art venues in the world, which she founded in 1987. Located in southern Sweden, Wanås is unlike anywhere else . . .
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MEXICO al MAXIMO
MOLAA Curator Idurre Alonso has a passion
The Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach calls itself, “The only museum in the United States exclusively dedicated to modern and contemporary Latin…
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JENNIFER REEVES
BravinLee programs / New York
“Abstraction talks her head off. She has a lot to say.” You might not hear her right away, but Jennifer Wynne Reeves does. “I tune…
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Editor’s Letter
Summer 2013
Not so long ago on a return flight to LA, I was sitting next to a young Boston couple who had never been to the…
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Throughout his 1982 book All That is Solid Melts Into Air, Marshall Berman returns over and over to a single passage from Marx’s Communist…
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PROFILES: Elina Chauvet
Los Zapatos Rojos
It was in 2009, while teaching art workshops in Ciudad Juárez, that artist Elina Chauvet became aware of the numbers of women and girls disappearing…
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PROFILES: Sergio Bromberg
It's About the Ideas
In the 20th century there has long been a long tradition of artists extending their visions beyond the studio walls to encompass a wider range…
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PROFILES: Marycarmen Arroyo Macias
Labor of Love
Meeting Marycarmen Arroyo Macias in MexiCali was a fortuitous event; she lent me her camera in a pinch to photograph potential performance locations for the…
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PROFILES: Miguel Osuna
Around and Around
Miguel Osuna’s grandly decaying storefront studio at 4th and Spring streets is a workshop, a think tank, a popular spot on the monthly downtown art…
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PROFILES: Julio César Morales
On the Fringes
Geographical border zones figure prominently in the work of Julio César Morales, particularly those separating the U.S., where he lives, from Mexico, where he was…
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