The Regional Connector will open June 16, and it’s really good news for those of us who take Metro, because it will reduce time and station changes in getting around on LA’s ever-expanding light rail. I'm also looking forward to the public art—some of the most...
ART THAT TRANSPORTS
From the Editor May/June 2023; Volume 17, issue 4
Dear Reader, “Art about art is elitist,” my boyfriend in grad school used to tell me. But if that was the case we wouldn’t have AbEx, Minimalism and maybe even Conceptualism. I got it though: The art world with its various trends and movements could seem precious and...
PUBLISHER’S EYE Edie Beaucage; Jean Lowe at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
Walking through Edie Beaucage's show of sculptures and larger-than-life portraits is like wading through clouds of brushstrokes made of vivid greens, blues, and pops of orange, the subjects of the paintings staring coolly at you. In the following gallery, Jean Lowe's...
From the Editor March-April 2023; Volume 17, issue 4
Dear Reader, As long as there are people, there will be portraits. Face it—no pun intended—people are attracted to people. We like to look at ourselves; we like to people-watch; we gaze into our lover’s eyes. Our faces are unique and fascinating: they are who we are....
Mr. Brainwash Goes to Beverly Hills And the Richest Man in the World has plans for a Luxury Hotel in Beverly Hills
The late-morning crowd lining up under the sports-car replicas on the wall of the old Paley Center was in a buzzy mood. Patiently waiting to gain access to the “Mr. Brainwash Museum” were an assortment of retirees, matrons and members of the spray-tanned classes—a...
More Diverse, The LA Art Show LA Convention Center, February 15-19
The opening of the LA Art Show Wednesday night attracted thousands of art lovers, collectors and celebrities who came to meet artists and view artworks from around the globe. Visitors of should expect an endless stimulation of artistic imagination and creations that...
From the Editor January-February, 2023; Volume 17, issue 3
Dear Reader, My social media intern recently sent me a text with an unmistakable degree of urgency. She stated that Chance the Rapper was trying to get in touch with me by Instagram message. “Who?” I replied. My assistant, being of the millennial generation, was not...
Birds of a Feather: An Interview with Artists Katy Crowe and Margarete Hahner Katy Crowe and Margarete Hahner: Moulting at LA Tate Gallery, Los Angeles
At the beginning of the pandemic, April 2020, LA artists Katy Crowe and Margarete Hahner bumped into each other, waiting in line to get into Trader Joe’s. There, they decided to start working on a project together which would involve painting on each other’s...
From the Editor November-December, 2022; Volume 17, issue 2
Dear Reader, This Women’s issue is not our first, but we welcome any opportunity to celebrate women artists, curators and dealers. Normally our November/December issue is our Interview issue, but in light of the recent overturn of Roe v. Wade, we made the decision to...
On our Cover; Nov-Dec 2022; Issue 2, vol. 17 Kristin Bedford
Our Cover Art is a photograph by Kristin Bedford. Bedford is featured in our Women's Issue, written by Allison Strauss. "No Soy De Ti / I Don't Belong To You, 2018. What a powerful image; it seemed like the most appropriate image for our Women's Issue. Congrats to...
Legendary Fabricator Jack Brogan (1930–2022) The Cowboy Gets Off the Saddle
Jack Brogan, the legendary arts fabricator, quietly died at home on Wednesday, September 14 at 3:30 PM. He was 92 years old. His long life was exemplary. Born in Tennessee in 1930, Brogan came home after serving in the Korean War. He drove a truck until the unions...
Remarks on Color: Mischievous Mustard September's Hue
Mischievous Mustard often shows up where he’s not wanted—on T-shirts and dress slacks, in the car (like the time Joe Morrison ate a hot dog for breakfast on his way to work and dropped it on his brand new leather seats), at the corners of Virginia Ramona’s mouth...
Art Writer/Author Frances Colpitt Dies (1952–2022)
Frances Colpitt, renowned art historian, author, curator, feature writer and contributing editor for Art in America for over 20 years; teacher and mentor, died in her Fort Worth, TX, home September 12, 2022. Colpitt, who recently retired from her position as the...
From the Editor September-October, 2022; Volume 17, issue 1
Dear Reader, As I’ve been saying since the dawn of Artillery (16 years ago now): LA is the most vibrant art city in the country. This isn’t exactly a revelation, so why focus on LA—yet again—in this current issue? Because we felt it was worth revisiting the subject in...
Portia Munson P.P.O.W. Gallery
Artist, feminist, environmentalist—these themes elegantly converge in her exhibition “Bound Angel” which examines, with perverse pleasure, the darker cultural implications of mass production, the fight for gender equality, and the mounting ecological crisis....
Robert Ginder Craig Krull Gallery
The ornate paintings depicted in Robert Ginder’s first solo show at Craig Krull Gallery induce nostalgia, especially for those Angelenos. Palm trees, long-standing businesses, bungalow-style homes, and points of attractions rise from their gold leaf-encrusted wooden...
Tara Thomas ( 1966 –2022) Chef to the LA Arts Dies
Artillery is sad to report that Los Angeles Chef Tara Thomas passed away on August 11, 2022. Tara was an enthusiastic supporter and early adopter of the Los Angeles art magazine. “I consider Tara a friend,” said Editor-in-Chief Tulsa Kinney, “She was generous with her...
Dreams in Deixis Tufenkian Fine Arts
If the endpoint of a viewer's perception in art is to re-create something in the mind's eye through one's own experience of the artwork, then the work of art is demonstrative. It acts as a catalyst for the imaginative re-creation of something the artist is pointing at...