Ellie Krakow’s “Comfort Corners” views chronic illness through a Ballardian lens, using sculpture to merge hospital beds and monitors with distorted limbs, rears, and organs.
About me: I primarily work in ceramics and bronze, using these materials to rupture perceived binaries, create community, and envision a symbolic utopia. My recent sculptures pay tribute to things we typically overlook or deem nuisances, such as costume jewelry,...
Question: My friend diagnoses everyone she dates as a narcissist as soon as the relationship ends. She never seems to understand that some men just want different things than she does or they just aren't into her. Is there a way to explain the difference between a...
In the March/April issue of Artillery, I argued that the subversion of cutesy cartoon aesthetics is almost always compelling, since the notion of a visual language with the power to connote primal emotions through ancient, universal strokes remains resonant despite...
I’m a 14-year-old boy who hates art. I recently went to Wilshire Online to see “Away from Desk.” Here are my opinions on it. The show included: an audio device playing melancholy choral tones, a stripper and a pole, a first aid kit hung diagonally on a wall, simple...
The Renaissance Revival-style Variety Arts Theater normally sits dormant at the chaotic corner of Figueroa and Olympic. However, for six weeks, from February 6th to March 20th, the theater hosted “What A Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem,” a presentation from the...
“Los Angeles is 72 suburbs in search of a city.” —Dorothy Parker Last weekend, Lily Monbouquette and Eric Bach, Los Angeles’s cutest couple, had their wedding in New Orleans. It was a gorgeous, moving affair in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, adjacent...
You recognize it before you know what to do with it. A cartoon, a flower, a line that feels like it’s been there before. Kitsch comes to mind, maybe, but it doesn’t quite stick. Or it sticks and then loosens. The image doesn’t hold you where you expect. It keeps...
In Spanish, the term feísmo is used to denote ugly technique in the pursuit of ugly truth. In its canonical expressions, it pairs the slapdash with a luxuriant emphasis on the grotesque. It’s a useful concept for the art of Brad Neely: looking at it closely, you can...
I parked my car on a random street in the nearby neighborhood, and as I was walking to the Venice Room, I passed by a place matter-of-factly called BREW. I had to peep the menu, because that bold, straightforward name simply struck me — naturally, they serve beer,...
When Liv, my middle sister, was three years old, she drew a perfect still life in sidewalk chalk. She rendered a side table and vase of flowers with a consistent perspective as if second nature, like a spider spinning a web. My dad loves this story and has told it so...
– Strangest collecting experience? I once bought a piece of art from a dealer on the secondary market. The painting was local so, foolishly, rather than have the art shipped to us, we decided to pick it up. My husband knocked on the door of the seller, only to be...
At New York Fashion Week this February, the biggest story wasn’t any of the actual clothes (although Rachel Scott had a banger of a debut collection for Proenza Schouler. I was particularly impressed with Look 9). It was looksmaxxing freak Clavicular walking in MAGA...
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