John Currin
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Space Invasion Pop-UP
"Artillery Event in Downtown Chinatown, April 11, 2015" From Space Invasion. Posted by Artillery Magazine on 4/24/2015 (30 items) Christopher Mercier Steven Wolkoff Maria McAlpine, Stuart Downey, Valerie Broussard, Melissa Karlin Leigh Wendy Susan Lasch Krevitt,...
Promise of New Life at Bates Motel
French artist Vincent Lamouroux has recently taken over Silver Lake’s Sunset Pacific Motel. Prohibitively known by locals as the “Bates Motel,” the condemned structure at Sunset and Bates has been transformed by Lamouroux into a temporal art intervention that will...
Fred Tomaselli: The Times
The daily newspaper is not quite a thing of the past. For some, it still arrives in printed form each morning at the front door. But the combination of "breaking news" stories and the Internet often makes this printed document obsolete: the web brings current news to...
Chitra Ganesh “Eyes of Time”
Chitra Ganesh’s site-specific mural Eyes of Time at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art of the Brooklyn Museum recalls the Kitsch Movement of the ’90s. As the child of Indian immigrants living in New York, Ganesh’s art responds to the dearth of her...
Wunderkammer at Pitzer College Art Galleries
For many centuries, the wunderkammer model of organizing collections of art and objects of curiosity was de rigueur. The earliest wunderkammer, or cabinets of curiosity, were the private collections of wealthy Europeans, including Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, Ole...
Turning Art Upside Down
Prestidigitator, composer, engineer and conceptual artist Nahum hails from Mexico City, has lived in London for many years after a degree from Goldsmith’s College, but really, he belongs anywhere. Recently he and eight other Mexican artists, along with a Mexican...
Aaron Johnson
Ornately grotesque, Aaron Johnson's paintings, on display at Stux & Haller Gallery, are vibrant, densely packed expositions on sex and death. According to Johnson the effect he’s after is the erotic intensity of two bodies merging together and two individual...
Editor’s Letter
Dear Readers Our paint-themed issue just makes me want to paint. I figure that’s a good thing. As a former serious painter, I get wistful for the days when I was alone in the studio for hours with pigment, medium and turpentine—especially when I see a good painting...
The Bold Standard
IN THE BEGINNINGThere is something about abstraction. The concept of the non-pictorial, non-mimistic image is unique in art, and in the world. Sometimes it seems to me that there is abstract art, and then there is everything else. This is what Ad Reinhardt meant when...
James Hayward: Maker’s Mark
Los Angeles painter James Hayward taught a USC graduate seminar in 1987. That was my introduction to him. He wasn’t much of a teacher, but he sure was a talker. He sat in a chair front and center in the classroom with his legs stretched wide open. When he would get...
Space Invasion
Think about the differences between the long-standing practices of painting and sculpture, and clichés persist: Painting is “flat,” sculpture is not; paintings go on a wall, sculptures do not. In contemporary art these separate paths often intersect; some notable...
Analia Saban
An acknowledgment of tradition coupled with a refusal to conform to established conventions makes Analia Saban an artist not easily categorized. Her work flows seamlessly across genre, concept and medium.A native of Argentina, Saban recalls arriving in California...
Sheldon Figoten
I met Sheldon Figoten in San Francisco in the mid 1970s. We were just a couple of ambitious young artists from Los Angeles on sabbatical in California’s northern hemisphere at the time. After returning to SoCal, Figoten settled in Venice and over the years has become...
Liat Yossifor
Propped against the wall of her second-story Hollywood Boulevard studio, three of Liat Yossifor’s gray paintings—each about seven feet by five feet—in various stages of completion sit perched on low wood supports. Yossifor’s high-ceilinged studio feels spacious, if...
Can I Get a Witness
The early 20th-century’s turn towards modernism in painting was a decisive shift in interest away from artistic representation of acts of witnessing. Abstract art—which now seems to dominate many visual demesnes including the decorative and graphic design, and sets...
The Forever Now
Curated by Laura Hoptman and on view at MoMA through April 5, “The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World” attempts to identify a distinctly current impulse to select and recombine styles, materials, iconography and other references from a broad...