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The Take Room First impressions on LA Art Week 2026
At the tail-end of LA Art Week 2026, Artillery presented The Take Room at Wilshire Online where LA's cleverest writers and critics delivered and discussed their impressions on what they saw and heard during art week. Critics included Matt Stromberg, Janelle Zara, Keith J. Varadi, Brittany Menjivar, Paige Greco, Sampson Ohringer, Renee Reizman and NiggaCorp. [video width="720"...
AT HOME IN THE CHAOS In the studio with Zak Smith
What do CNN chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward, three-time Adult Video News All-Girl Performer of the Year Charlotte Stokely, and art-world rising star landscape painter Emma Webster all have in common? They’ve all posed for Zak Smith. The Ward portrait was one of his earliest works, back when her hair was riot grrrl red instead of Peabody-winning blonde, the commissioned portrait...
MONUMENTAL GRAFFITI & GLITTERACY RETNA's indecipherable language of pop power
The glittering paintings wouldn’t be out of place in Giza or Athens or Persepolis. RETNA’s bold scripts are the kind that shout down at you from the tops of ancient monuments. Sometimes elements of the painted characters resemble ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, sometimes Arabic calligraphy, sometimes a more European-looking, Knights Templar-esque code of crosses and keys. The texts of RETNA’s...
Reviews
SANDRA VASQUEZ DE LA HORRA at Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Few exhibitions make the gap between the United States and the rest of the world’s art capitals so blatant than “Sandra Vásquez de la Horra: The Awake Volcanoes” at Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Pegged as the artist’s solo debut in the US, the exhibition...
ZOE KOKE at Wolfpack HQ
I saw the sun saved and erased at the same time. In Zoe Koke’s recent paintings, oil becomes a way of holding sun. Here oil paint behaves like a desert light fixed in place, absorbing rather than illuminating. In one of her new paintings, Rainbow (2026), the desert...
Amelia Lockwood (quick review) at Morán Morán
Amelia Lockwood’s ceramics push up against the natural constraints of their medium in novel ways. Rather than the earthbound, closed forms associated with this medium, we get vine-like, open lattices, expanding outward from a central axis. These echo Rococo decorative...
Terry Powers (quick review) at Guerrero Gallery
Powers’ paintings—which range from landscapes to still lives to paintings of mechanical detritus—recall Impressionism, albeit in its most restrained instances: more Pissarro than Monet. That is, there’s a withholding quality towards light and a painterly restraint...
Zoe Alameda (quick review) at Cheremoya
The centerpiece of this show is From Here On Out (2025): a large, ramshackle, free-standing, scrap-wood armature supporting two plexiglass panels, embedded with four small assemblage-paintings, themselves containing collaged, miscellaneous photographic imagery...