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The Cell Singer
See Ave Rose do a spoken word and dance performance as The Cell Singer From Aliens in LA at The Standard for Artillery Magazine June 18th, 2013. This was part of Artillery Magazine's book reading series and Aliens in LA did an enhanced reading from the book published...
Hooking up with Margie Schnibbe
Margie Schnibbe has a jungle thing going on in the front reception area of her house, as it seems to be filling with artsy-crafty sculptures made of stuffed pre-dyed and hand-painted fabrics. Some of them have a vaguely Nikki de Saint-Phalle aspect; others could only...
Thoroughly Contemporary
“We are not solely regionally focused,” says Miki Garcia, executive director of Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, which will change its name to Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara next week. “The artists that we show are local, national and international, so...
Venice Biennale Report
A symposium I attended in Italy, “Venice Agendas,” featuring leading curators from institutions such as Tate Britain, Sotheby's and Serpentine Gallery pondering the future of performance art in museums and galleries, initially brought me to Venice this summer....
Samuel Bayer: Diptychs and Triptychs
Perhaps the most impressive thing about Samuel Bayer’s series of photographic “Triptychs,” recently on view at ACE Gallery Beverly Hills, is the complexity of the meditation on desire and representation that they can engender in a [male] viewer. These 16 12-foot...
Happening 2013: LACE Benefit Art Auction
"LACE auction this year was a blast. Pieces went for cheap... a Mike Kelley for only 3K, a Richard Jackson for about the same, Raymond Pettibon for a mere $4000. You missed it. And the liquor was flowing. Copious vodka drinks where the bartendars ending up getting...
IN LOVE WITH THE ANIMALS
Born in the late 1970s, contemporary artist and neo-muralist Fernando Corona grew up in and around Mexicali’s vivid and visceral street culture. Receiving a scholarship to study fine art, he traded tagging for painting, establishing himself as one of the city’s most...
Lisa Adams: Second Life
Steve Rogers Betty Brown, David Eubank Llyn Foulkes, Lisa Adams, Dark Bob Nancy Evans, Karen Carson Calvin Phelps, Paul Redmond Barry Markowitz Dave Shulman, Jeffrey Vallance Tracey Harnish, Dark Bob, Llyn Foulkes, Peter Frank Dark Bob, Barbara Smith...
Gary Baseman:
The Door Is Always Open
Jessy Schwartz and ChouChou Shepard Fairey Gary Baseman Profile Gary Baseman and Tobys Gary Baseman With Sketchbook Gary Baseman and Orange Girl Gary Baseman and Carina Round Christian Clayton Henry Clayton Christian Clayton Coleman Clayton Mark Ryden and Marion Peck...
Connie Samaras:
Tales of Tomorrow
Renée Petropoulos, Matias Viegener, Judie Bamber Daniel Martinez, Martabel Wasserman Susan Silton, Eileen Cowin Julie Shafer L-R: Lisa Bloom, George Domantay, Carrie Paterson, Connie Samaras, Tyler Stallings, J... Juli Carson, Sara Diamond, Bruce Yonomoto Irene...
Between The Lines
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Heavy Metal
Jill Moniz CCH Pounder Robert Galstian Brian Thomas Jones Molly Barnes and Betye Saar John Hogg & Barbara Kolo Vasa & Herair Charles Dickson, Curtis Weaver, & Nicki McAuley Vasa CCH Pounder, Maren Hassinger, & Betye Saar Dr. Leon...
MEXICO as MUSE
"Mexico is truly the promised land for abstract art." Anni & Josef Albers, 1936 “Mexico is the most surrealist country in the world.” Andre Breton, 1938 Why Mexico? It was not only that Mexico was nearby and easily accessible to U.S.–based artists, although that was...
FIELD REPORT: WANAS
“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 . . .
MEXICO al MAXIMO
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 American art.” Yet its permanent collection is comprised largely of works from Mexico, with exhibitions often...
PROFILES: JOAQUIN SEGURA
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 Manifesto: All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept...
PROFILES: Sergio Bromberg
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 of ideas and modes of thinking, wherein artists like Wallace Berman with his magazine Semina in the ’60s, or much later in...
PROFILES: Marycarmen Arroyo Macias
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 MexiCali Biennial 13, in which we were both included. When I asked about her work for the show, she told me the...
PROFILES: Julio César Morales
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 born. In “Undocumented Interventions,” an ongoing series of watercolor and ink drawings, Morales presents...
CURFEW: WE DON’T NEED NO STINKIN’ WALL
Heaven’s gate doesn’t separate life and death like the U.S.-Mexican border. And if the rhetoric and rifles weren’t forcibly obvious symbols, the new pedestrian crossing from San Ysidro into Tijuana is unambiguously penal. A cattle stockade. While the debate over the...