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Layering Subjectivity Q&A with Zoe Walsh
Zoe Walsh is a Los Angeles–based painter originally from Washington D.C. They received their BA from Occidental College and Masters from Yale University. Represented by M+B Gallery, Walsh has exhibited their work in group shows around the world. In 2019, they were nominated for the prestigious Emerging Artist Grant from Rema Hort Mann Foundation and were the Al Held Foundation Affiliated Fellow at the American Academy in Rome in 2015. I asked Walsh the following questions to gain a better understanding of their artwork. ARTILLERY: I know you studied under Linda Bessemer during your time at Occidental College. To me, there is a connection...
CHEECH MARIN’S NEXT MOVE An Explosion of Chicano Art in Riverside
How apt that the new Cheech Marin Museum for Chicano Art and Culture in Riverside, California should open in a repurposed public library. Libraries are historically accessible spaces for learning and intellectual research. Museums, on the other hand, still struggle to make themselves approachable—not to mention equitable. Not so with The Cheech, as it’s affectionately known. “I first learned about art in a public library,” says the namesake collector Marin over a Zoom call: “It was part of a family assignment.” This new visual “library” resonates with a vibrant urgency unlike any other museum in Southern California. The Cheech—an adjunct of...
FALL 2022 PREVIEW HIGHLIGHTS
Get ready for the big 2022 Fall art season. This is traditionally the biggest show of any other time in the art world where most galleries put their best foot forward with their September and October exhibitions. We’ve selected a few highlights coming this Fall in Southern California. The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA Judith F. Baca: World Wall September 9, 2022–February 19, 2023 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Henry Taylor: B Side November 6, 2022–April 30, 2023 The Broad William Kentridge: In Praise of Shadows November 12, 2022–April 9, 2023 The Huntington Gee’s Bend: Shared Legacy September...
Tara Thomas ( 1966 –2022) Chef to the LA Arts Dies
Artillery is sad to report that Los Angeles Chef Tara Thomas passed away on August 11, 2022. Tara was an enthusiastic supporter and early adopter of the Los Angeles art magazine. “I consider Tara a friend,” said Editor-in-Chief Tulsa Kinney, “She was generous with her Traxx Restaurant. My husband and I held our wedding reception on that beautiful Union Station patio. She always supported the arts.” Tara was raised with an appreciation for the finer things, be it a floral arrangement, fine fabric, a well-set table or a personal beau geste. She was schooled at Miss Porter’s, the Connecticut bastion of ladylike good taste since 1843. Her...
Publication In The Age of Negation, Part III Compassion and Contempt
Let the disgust pour through me. Let it seethe. Let it sink in and settle. I wasn’t capable of doing anything more than lying on the sofa, stewing in bitterness and resentment. One likes to think that one’s work will be well-received by these commercial middlemen—because one has seen the crap that’s out there, because it meets one’s own hyper-self-critical standards, and because the few people one has shown it to, and whose opinion one respects, are warmly disposed towards it. But one neglects to take into account that the self-appointed legislators who make it their business to turn a profit out of other people’s creativity cater to the...
