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CODE ORANGE July-August Winner & Finalist
Congratulations to our winner Maureen Bond and our finalists, Maureen's photo is seen above and first in our photo gallery in the July/August 2022 online edition of Artillery. The following photographs are the finalists. Please see the info below on how to enter for...
BOUNCING IN THE ARTIST’S BUBBLE, PART ONE
Artists create in a bubble, a womb constructed with their hearts, minds and souls. This freedom-loving habitat is a protective space, a defense against the contrarian outside world. Influences might receive a wary invitation to enter. That beautiful bubble may float...
The Zen of Skate Parks and Broken Vessels A Conversation with Amir Zaki, Part 2
CM: The other part of this exhibition (Empty Vessel – Amir Zaki, at the Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Orange Coast College) are photographs of ceramic vessels. Are they in fact broken? AZ: You brought up the last body of work at ACME, which is important because that...
The Zen of Skate Parks and Broken Vessels A Conversation with Amir Zaki, Part 1
This interview with Amir Zaki was conducted on September 16, 2019, in advance of his exhibition "Empty Vessel" at Orange Coast College's Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion from Sept. 19–Dec. 5, 2019. Christopher Michno: "Formal Matter," the last body of work your exhibited...
SCARLET’S SCREENINGS Summer Film Picks
A slew of movies has been pent up during the pandemic, either from delayed productions or distribution plans, or both. Now the floodgates are opening, and some of the films are very good. In this new column, I’m going to make recommendations for your movie-viewing...
Zachary Stadel June 16, 1978 – April 22, 2022
Zachary Heath Stadel passed away on Thursday, April 22, 2022, in Alhambra, California; he was 43. A memorial exhibition on Saturday June 18, from 5-8:00 PM. at 530 North Western, Los Angeles, CA, 90004. Proceeds from the sales of Zack’s artwork will go to the JED...
Jacki Apple 1941–2022
Artist, critic, producer, writer and performer Jacki Apple, born in New York in 1941, died at her home in Culver City, CA on June 8, 2022, surrounded by white flowers and listening to the music of Meredith Monk, a friend and colleague. Her work encompassed multi-media...
BOOKS: Forbidden Photos George Platt Lynes' Daring Eye
In 1981 a new photography monograph appeared that seemed like an artifact from a parallel universe. The cover was a studio shot of a nurse flanked by two nude men. Many of the photos in the book depicted nude men in potentially gay scenarios. It had only become legal...
From the Editor May-June, 2022; Volume 16, issue 5
Dear Reader, This issue is about art being made outside of Los Angeles and New York. If art is being made and shown at reputable galleries in those cities, it has the stamp of approval: Collectors can feel safe that their taste is superb and their investments are...
SHOPTALK: LA Art News LA Gallery Migration, Museum Make-overs, and more.
New York, New York! The art market is back, and here in SoCal we’re seeing it with a slew of New York galleries moving in. Pace’s “mergence” with Kayne Griffin is official, and I hear the new signage now bears the Pace name. Sean Kelly gallery is occupying a...
Poems "Silicon Valley" by Rhiannon McGavin; "Vanity in Vain" by John Tottenham
Silicon Valley A cloud is the earth displaced for tracks of cable underground, underwater A stream is the friction between content and a beckoning hand To kindle is to adjust the climate dial in a server farm An antenna is the arc of pesticide as it is sprayed...
COMICS Where the Wild Beasts Are
CODE ORANGE May-June Winner & Finalist
Congratulations to our winner Grace Mesenbring and our finalists, Grace's photo is seen above and first in our photo gallery in the May/June 2022 online edition of Artillery. The following photographs are the finalists. Please see the info below on how to enter for...
THEATER REVIEW: Ann Pasadena Playhouse
To do a one-woman play is a challenge; to do a one-woman play about a noted public figure and keep the audience enthralled for two hours is a tour de force. That’s what Holland Taylor manages to do in Ann, which just opened at the Pasadena Playhouse (through April...
SHOPTALK: LA Art News Art Fairs, Gallery Movement, and more
Frieze 2022 The art fairs have returned, and with such a burst of optimistic energy! Maybe they’re signaling the lifting of the curse of COVID—or our fervent hope for its end. And maybe artists, during all the imposed quarantines and self-isolations, have devoted...
René Magritte and the First Art Gang Book Review of "Magritte: A Life"
Magritte: A Life By Alex Danchev 439 pages, illustrated Pantheon Books When an artist achieves the kind of iconic status where they are known outside of the Art World, there can often be a tendency to codify their myth into something that might pass the Elevator Pitch...
Poems "Kiefer Lights a Big Cigar" by Klipschutz; "The Poet’s Garden" by John Tottenham
Kiefer Lights a Big Cigar & waves the heavy machinery into place He rearranges the rubble speaking whichever language suits the occasion He & Tony saunter through a tunnel in the South of France “It’s my gesture” is what he says about his art His use of...
