LA-based artist Hayley Barker graces the cover of our special online May/June 2020 issue. Barker is profiled by Julie Schulte and will be showing her new paintings this fall at Shrine NYC.
COVID-19
SHELTER-IN-PLACE: Remarks on Oxblood
Red is a color that should never be messed with, diluted, bastardized, cross-pollinated or otherwise appropriated, which calls into question the reason the color oxblood exists at all. If you cut open the belly of an ox, would the seepage of viscera reveal this...
Virtual Studio Visit: Megan Marlatt
With the help of Zoom and Facetime, I recently paid a virtual studio visit to Megan Marlatt in Orange, Virginia, where she lives in a former commercial building next to the railroad tracks with her husband, photographer Richard Knox Robinson, an Affenpinscher...
Quarantine Q&A: Davida Nemeroff of Night Gallery
Are you in touch with your collectors and are they still interested in buying art or are they showing hesitation due to the stock market slump? Yes, we have kept in communication with our collectors, and we have been heartened by their continued support and commitment...
Quarantine Q&A: Walter Maciel
Is your current exhibition open to the public by appointment? And does it matter who the “public” is, i.e. only prospective buyers, art critics, art curators? In accordance with LA City and CA state ordinances, we are currently closed to the public and will remain...
Movements: Battles and Solidarity
On the weekend before everything locked down in Los Angeles, I was fortunate enough to catch the exhibition "To View a Plastic Flower" at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and to hear one of the featured artists, Vietnamese American artist T. Kim-Trang Tran,...
Pleasures of the Plague
It’s a typical Saturday night, the drinks are flowing and the music is playing - as I lie in the bathtub reading another David Goodis novel, sipping another tequila and soda, with a Brahms piano sonata playing softly in the next room. I’m in my natural element,...
Kate Johnson, 1969–2020
This past March Los Angeles lost a truly wonderful artist, Kate Johnson, after her courageous three-year battle with cancer. She undertook this journey with dignity that I hope I have if I ever need it. I have known Kate since 2000 when she and Michael Masucci brought...
SHELTER-IN-PLACE: Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia
Editor's Note: In lieu of our usual reviews and gallery rounds, we will be running a special SHELTER-IN-PLACE series for the duration of social distancing. This series will focus on that which can be enjoyed from home: musings on stream-able films, online art, and...
Quarantine Q&A: Max Presneill of Torrance Art Museum
Is your museum still open and operating with certain staff members still coming in to work? We are keeping staff members to a minimum at the museum to enable some ongoing tasks; to continue that requires one person at a time to handle. Still, the staff has their...
Bunker Tips: TV Rations
This week we’ll discuss streaming options that are either free, or offer free trials. I’ll pass on recommendations that might help you navigate them. If something good gets dropped for a limited time, I’ll try to alert my readers. HBO GO is offering free access to...
SHOPTALK April 2020 Edition
Three weeks ago I was visiting LACMA for their landmark exhibition “Where the Truth Lies: The Art of Qiu Ying,” featuring a Ming dynasty painter at the Resnick. Afterwards I came out to look for the plinth where a new Yoshitomo Nara sculpture would be going—the...
Quarantine Q&A: Susanne Vielmetter
Is your current exhibition open to the public by appointment? And does it matter who the “public” is, i.e. only prospective buyers, art critics, art curators? Our current exhibitions are closed to the public as required under the COVID-19 lockdown but we do...
The Unseen, Seen
Walking my dogs has become a new form of meditation as I imagine it has for many people confined to their rooms for what feels like an eternity, but as Virginia Woolf once wrote in her private letters: “I need solitude. I need space. I need air. I need the empty...
Donna Isham in conversation with Shana Nys Dambrot
Fine artist Donna Isham speaks with Los Angeles art critic Shana Nys Dambrot about her recent hugely successful first solo show. She: unBound, the beauty and power of the unrestrained woman in downtown Los Angeles. The Zoom conversation highlights Isham’s viewpoints...
Deep Listening By the Light of a “Full Pink Moon”: Opera Povera in Quarantine
The planet, some of us might say, is having a moment. Panic, collapse, disruption—with the tables turned on the principal disrupting species by an errant configuration of protein presumably just doing its thing in the carbon cycle; also course-correction, regrouping,...
Quarantine Q&A : Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
Q&A with Luis De Jesus & Jay Wingate Is your current exhibition open to the public by appointment? And does it matter who the “public” is, i.e. only prospective buyers, art critics, art curators? Yes, both of our current exhibitions are up and open to the...
Tulsa’s Top 5 Interviews
Dear Reader Well here we are again...same time, same place—boy does that phrase take on a completely new meaning. I've put together five of my Artillery interviews, starting with Catherine Opie, way back in 2006 in our very first issue—that's 13 years Artillery's been...
