Articles
Roberto Gil de Montes: Hecho en Mexico at Lora Schlesinger Gallery
"Lora Schlesinger Gallery photos by Eric Minh Swenson" From Roberto Gil de Montes: Hecho en Mexico. Posted by Artillery Magazine on 4/23/2014 (10 items) Roberto Gilde Montes, artist talk Molly Barnes, Lora Schlesinger, Roberto Gil de Montes, Joan Quinn Farrah...
William Kentridge’s “The Refusal of Time”
William Kentridge's dazzling "The Refusal of Time," at New York’s Metropolitan Museum, marries science and art in an installation that comprises a 30-minute, 5-channel video featuring live stop-action animation, the spoken word and music projected on three walls of a...
Spectacular Subdivision in Wonder Valley
The desert is a surprising place, and we see it anew when artists are drawn there by site-specific projects such as “Spectacular Subdivision,” which took place recently in Wonder Valley over the weekend of April 4 through 6. About 35 artists made work for two sites,...
Robbert Flick: “Freeways,” at Rose Gallery
When I was just out of school and began my first regular daily commute of the Southern California freeways, I remember stealing glances to either side of the road. I caught brief glimpses of the fleeting vistas, noting how with every quarter mile, my vantage point...
POP-EYECONIC Group Show at Corey Helford Gallery
POP-EYECONIC Group Show, posted by Artillery Magazine on 4/01/2014 (17 items) Artist Chris Anthony and his girlfriend, Jessica Spotts, with his piece "Josephi... Artist Eric Joyner with his piece "Life Before Hamburgers". Artist Joey Remmers with his...
Alexandra Manukyan’s “Beautiful Disaster” at Corey Helford Gallery
"Images courtesy of @[362039667819:274:COREY HELFORD GALLERY] http://www.coreyhelfordgallery.com/shows/alexandra-manukyan/info-press/" From Alexandra Manukyan's "Beautiful Disaster" Opening Night. Posted by Artillery Magazine on 4/01/2014 (6 items) Alexandra Manukyan...
Guest Lecture: F. Scott Hess
The subject matter of several of my recent paintings derives from screwed-up iPhone panorama photographs. For centuries art linear perspective has ordered the space of paintings, determining how we look at an image. In panorama mode my iPhone-5 liberates the mind from...
Marc Selwyn’s Inaugural Opening
"Art luminaries came out to celebrate a new gallery for Marc Selwyn Fine Art: On February 16, 2014, invited members of Los Angeles’ vibrant art scene convened in the newly renovated historic 1940s Al Grimmet’s Garage, that has been transformed into the sleek, new...
TRADING PLACES
When I drove up to Zackary Drucker’s home off San Fernando Road, the front door was wide open—a startling sight since most of the surrounding houses have metal bars over the windows and doors. The Los Angeles video and performance artist lives in Glassell Park, an...
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...