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Psychedelic Shack
If one thinks of the essence of Modernism as being about direct experience rather than recreated experience, the artist who has really continued to expand possibilities is James Turrell. A striking aspect of his retrospective exhibition at the Los Angeles County...
Camera Obscura by Abelardo Morell
In 1987, the year his son Brady turned two, Abelardo Morell lay down on the nursery floor in order to see the world the way a wriggling baby would. From that vantage point he looked up at a stack of blocks towering over him as if it were a BCE column or stele, and he...
A Chip Off the Old Block
In many Japanese artistic traditions, from sword making to ceramics, creative techniques have been passed down from generation to generation. Some artists today can boast that they are the 15th generation of an artist family, tracing their roots to the 17th century....
Profile: Marisol Rendón
As I meandered through Marisol Rendón’s installation, “So, Dragons Do Exist?” at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles gallery last summer (this was before I had even glanced at the contrarian, almost self-negating parenthetical subtitle, “Considerations of the Unavoidable...
Exile off the Strip: Dave Hickey
So like a few of you (not many more—which was wise—you really didn’t miss anything), I went down to the Grand Central Market at 3rd and Broadway downtown to hear Dave Hickey plug his latest, Pirates and Farmers, subtitled “Essays on Taste,” under MOCA’s auspices—which...
Massacre on 53rd Street
Well the axe has fallen once again on the magnificent American Folk Art building, designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien Architects. The structure is considered to be an architectural gem having won numerous awards including an American Institute of Architects...
Hassan Hajjaj | My Rock Stars: Volume 2 at Gusford Gallery
"Photos courtesy of GUSFORD | los angeles http://www.gusfordgallery.com/exhibitions/11/installation_shots/" From Hassan Hajjaj | My Rock Stars: Volume 2. Posted by Artillery Magazine on 1/17/2014 (10 items) Hassan Hajjaj, Queen Latifah, Kelsey Lee Offield, Marques...
Jonas N.T. Becker at Shulamit Gallery
"http://shulamitgallery.com/current-exhibition/" From Jonas N.T. Becker: Zol Zayn || What If. Posted by Artillery Magazine on 1/18/2014 (15 items) Shulamit Nazarian, Jonas N.T. Becker Shulamit Nazarian, Jan Belson, Tomi-Jean Yaghmai Doni Silver Simons installation...
Tripping the Light Fantastic
James Welling’s “Flowers” (2004–11) suggest backlit tree branches in bloom against a blank sky. A pure white light appears to pass through these elegant arrangements of shadowy stem, leaf and petal shapes, and in the process is refracted, as if by a prism, into...
Super Inequality
Micol Hebron is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. Through photographic works, videos, installations, performance and writing, she has become known for critically engaging the tropes of art history and modernism, with a particular eye toward resurfacing...
Field Report: Berlin
Painted on a small particle board, screwed to a brick wall, above and behind which Berlin’s U-Bahn (here elevated) rumbles to and from its terminus, a figure of indeterminate sex holds a power drill to its head, the bit twirling out the opposite temple in a splash of...
Notes from Underground
Summer of 1965. The artist’s mother, Resia (also an artist), stands between her two daughters wearing a sleeveless shift with a bold daisy pattern. The horizon line of the Atlantic connects the heads of the three women, who pose, smiling and relaxed, in front of a...
Master of the Mexican Silver Screen
There’s a scene early on in the film The Night of the Iguana (1964) where Richard Burton, playing a jaded ex-priest-turned-tour-guide in Mexico, asks the bus driver to stop on a bridge. The passengers—a group of American matrons—are puzzled. “What are we stopping...
Legendary Provocateur
“Chris Burden: Extreme Measures,” at New York’s New Museum is the artist’s first major exhibition in the U.S. in over 25 years. A legendary provocateur, Burden has challenged traditional concepts of art through his galvanizing performance pieces and later...
Martin Mull at Samuel Freeman
"http://samuelfreeman.com/exhibitions/martin-mull-split-infinitives/" From Martin Mull. Posted by Artillery Magazine on 1/07/2014 (7 items) Steve Martin Seth Green Tania Kosevich, Eric Idle Macaulay Culkin and friend Martin Short, Catherine O'Hara Bob Odenkirk Eugene...
Mira Schor at CB1 Gallery
"Photos by Jason Chang" From Mira Schor. Posted by Artillery Magazine on 1/07/2014 (10 items) Erica Mahinay Tucker Neel, Susan Silton Sarajo Frieden, Robin Mitchell Sandeep Mukherjee, Robert Baruch André Goeritz, Carmine Lannaccone Marie Theibault, Bill Vaughn Amelia...
Lari Pittman at Regen Projects
From Lari Pittman. Posted by Artillery Magazine on 1/07/2014 (14 items) Michael Osten Ron Handler Roy Dowell, Lari Pittman Diane Holland Alan Harris, Susan Anderson Charles Gaines Lari Pittman Harper Simon, Tenley Nordstrom, Brian Butler Brenda Williams, Clair Baker...
Let there be clouds
As the Los Angeles Aqueduct celebrates its 100-year anniversary this month, many art institutions and organizations are showing support in their exhibition programming. Grand Central Art Center (GCAC) in downtown Santa Ana erected a monumental installation in...
Californication
Lately, I've noticed mysterious islands along California freeways. The half circumferences of curving transition ramps from one freeway to the next form their perimeters. Many contain terraces of plants native to this arid region, large rock formations, and gravel...
Freudian Pleasures
In the middle of the sitting there was a knock at the door. A beautiful woman entered the studio. She did not say a word but went straight to the bathroom. The Grand Painter followed the young woman. He would be back in a few minutes. Then, there was the sound of...