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Martin Soto Climent

Martin Soto Climent

Martin Soto Climent's exhibition at Michael Benevento is a meticulously orchestrated visual symphony of photos, videos and sculptures. The Mexico City based artist titled his show "Temazcal" after the type of ceremonial sudatorium that inspired this body of work. The...

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EDITOR’S LETTER

EDITOR’S LETTER

Dear Reader, I’m an artist, who has quit making art. It’s been over a decade since I last shot a video or painted. Yes, I miss the hell out of it, but I’d rather give it up if I can’t give it my all. That was the decision I made when I started this magazine 11 years...

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The Educated Outsider: John Tottenham

The Educated Outsider: John Tottenham

“We’ll play to 700?” John Tottenham asks, but really it’s more of a demand than a question. It’s my second week of trying to combine an interview with him on his drawings of the Manson girls (as he insists, “You don’t have to focus on that series”) and our weekly game...

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Seeing Reality: Abel Alejandre and Others

Seeing Reality: Abel Alejandre and Others

Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you to see what you’re looking at more clearly. The image is passing through you in a physiological way, into your brain, into your memory—where it stays—it’s transmitted by your hands....

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Sitting for Don Bachardy

Sitting for Don Bachardy

Don Bachardy found his lifelong metier at the movies—he was drawn to the larger-than-life faces on the silver screen, especially those of actresses, and began drawing those faces, copying their likenesses from popular movie magazines. Later, when he moved in with...

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The Wild Ride of Eli Langer

The Wild Ride of Eli Langer

If one were to Google Canadian artist Eli Langer, most of the results would reference a convoluted legal case against his first show (held at Toronto’s Mercer Union Gallery in 1993) that proclaimed the subject matter not simply to be pornography but child...

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Laurie Lipton: Intimations of Mortality

Laurie Lipton: Intimations of Mortality

Laurie Lipton’s supremely detailed large-scale graphite drawings document the haphazardness of modern life as well as the darker more sinister underbelly of consumerist culture. Looking at these images, one can’t help but be reminded of how the proletariat is...

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Blood On Clay: Gerardo Monterrubio

Blood On Clay: Gerardo Monterrubio

Gerardo Monterrubio marks his ceramic sculptures with his memories and experiences as an Oaxacan immigrant. Free-flowing drawings upon his pottery relate engrossing autobiographical narratives interlaced with cultural commentary. His work recalls a vast historic...

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Provocative Depictions on  Female Sexuality

Provocative Depictions on Female Sexuality

The image on the wall delivers a message of warmth and messiness. Amanda Charchian calls it 7 Types of Love, Agape, and it presents a disembodied pair of female lips floating against a soft sea of pink, a cloud of blood seeping from the red lipstick. As a photograph,...

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Code Orange

Code Orange

  The following photographs are the finalists from Artillery's March/April issue. The winner is Michelle Fierro (seen above and first in the photo gallery). See her photo published in the print version of Artillery, March/April, 2018. Congratulations to Michelle...

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SHOPTALK

SHOPTALK

Comings and Goings We say farewell to Marc Foxx Gallery on Wilshire Boulevard, in business since 1994. Interestingly, they’re not a victim of the disruptive Metro construction on Wilshire; their building wasn’t effected, but one of the partners, Rodney Nonaka-Hill,...

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ART BRIEF

ART BRIEF

Salvator Mundi, a portrait of Christ attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, was sold to a Saudi Arabian prince for $450 million (including fees) at Christie’s New York auction last November, smashing the previous art sale record by more than a factor of two. Christie’s...

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UNDER THE RADAR

UNDER THE RADAR

I have a confession to make: I am Miroslav Kyropnik! (crickets) One of my sub rosa projects at UCLA was the creation of a body of work by a totally fictional outsider artist who took found photographs, magazine illustrations, and art reproductions and added speech...

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DECODER

DECODER

Artists will ask, “What’s your Instagram?” It’s horrible. Anything: Twitter, Facebook, just Google me, even asking for a business card is fine (even though I’ve never had one), but not my Instagram. Please? Melissa is millennial. She keeps DMT in her vape pen—“Well,...

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Report From Mexico City

Report From Mexico City

It’s starting to rain in Mexico City on Friday afternoon, but Rodrigo Feliz is, in fact, happy. That’s because on the second day of Material Art Fair’s fifth edition, it’s already clearly a triumph. Formerly director of Mexico City’s acclaimed Labor Gallery, Feliz has...

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CURFEW

CURFEW

In September 2017, the Los Angeles Times ran the headline “Four must-see art shows that speak to the anxiety triggered by Trump’s DACA reversal.” In November, HuffPo posted “A Guide To The Anti-Trump Art You Can See In New York Right Now.” In January 2018, one of the...

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SIGHTS UNSCENE

SIGHTS UNSCENE

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BUNKER VISION

BUNKER VISION

The desire to make drawings move goes back centuries. A 5000-year-old bowl found in Iran contains a sequence of images of a goat jumping up to a tree that could appear to be an early animation if the bowl was spun quickly enough. A 3000-year-old lamp found in China...

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