Photo by Leonard Nadel, 1956 “Bracero workers being fumigated at border town Hidalgo, Texas”, Courtesy Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
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PROFILES, Q&A: Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia
Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia loves to create objects expressing hybridized meanings, calling attention to how things are not as simple as they first appear. For “by Deborah Calderwood,” his first solo exhibition at CB1 gallery in downtown Los Angeles, he presented paintings appropriated from his wife Deborah’s early childhood drawings, touching on notions of originality and love. For “Papel tejido,”...
The Supernatural Hero Bunker Vision
The most interesting thing about Mexican superheroes is that the super is short for supernatural. Where such people in the English-speaking world might inhabit a science fiction, their Mexican counterparts exist in the realm of Magical Realism.
FILM: SPRING BREAKERS
Last year’s James Franco–curated “Rebel” show at the Joel Cohen/MOCA space included a collaboration between Hollywood’s polymathic heartthrob and indie enfant terrible Harmony Korine, in the form of a video entitled CAPUT. The rooftop rumble between bare-naked gang ladies wielding machetes and BMX bikes was one of the installations that sought to deconstruct Rebel Without a Cause and the movie’s...
THE GOODBYE LOOK
THERE IS SOMETHING VERY REASSURING—;for someone whose attention, unless riveted by something truly compelling, tends to wander—about being told by her interviewee, "I pride myself on my short attention span." Chances are, though, Dawn Kasper's span of attention, however brief, is a whole lot more intense than yours or mine. As anyone who has followed Kasper's work—from its earliest...
Reviews
Pick of the Week: The Lights of Los Angeles Los Angeles
Beauty is all around us. This thought feels simplistic, and given the past year, even wrong. Stuck in our homes, away from family and friends, a city as large and vibrant as Los Angeles becomes terribly claustrophobic. And even for those fortunate enough not to be...
Gallery Rounds: Peter Hujar Marc Selwyn Fine Art
Peter Hujar's square format black-and-white photographs are a reminder of the beauty of film and the power of a well-composed, carefully lit, and patiently observed image. Hujar died of AIDS in 1987 at the age of 44 and left behind an exceptional body of work that...
Pick of the Week: Shiyuan Liu Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
Art, at its most essential level, attempts to fix in space the experiences that pass like sand in an hourglass. On the whole, reality is almost always more complex than can be accurately represented, and meaning is missed in the variety of expression. But Shiyuan Liu...
Gallery Rounds: Ben Sanders Ochi Projects
Ben Sander’s latest body of work, "Poppies," centers on the opium poppy flower. The show is separated into two rooms, the main gallery floor featuring acrylic and airbrush paintings on wood panels and the lower loft room exhibiting the artist’s colored pencil and ink...
Pick of the Week: Cosmo Whyte Anat Ebgi
Nothing is just one thing. This is a sentiment that many of us here in the United States, particularly those of us with privilege, are coming to terms with in an entirely new way. From recognizing that many workers who previously went unseen are in fact essential, to...