Two lush summer shows are blossoming online at Torrance Art Museum. Both exhibitions are visual stunners; and they continue the museum’s ongoing aesthetic for cutting edge, culturally resonating art. Semblance | Sunshine co-curated by Josh Hashemzadeh and the Torrance...
“Quarantined Visions” continues with a selection of work from artists locked down in Italy. The first installment of this series exposed artwork from China, the country that suffered through the original outbreak and quarantine brought on by COVID-19. Part Duo takes...
Rodrigo Valenzuela pursues a robust and multivalent practice that encompasses lavishly produced and materially rich photography, sculpture, installation and video. At the same time, these pursuits are equally centered on a semiotic, politically engaged post-capitalist...
As part of a teaching proposal to the Autonomous University of Guadalajara in Mexico in July 1995, filmmaker Bruce Baillie makes clear what he believes to be the foundation for any kind useful communication, art, film or otherwise: “I want to present in my teaching,...
Why does brown always get the short end of the stick? If it’s yellow, let it mellow. If it’s brown, flush it down. It’s not fair – earthy, practical, pragmatic brown is so much more than the leavings of a last meal. Brown is the color of the earth, your Sunday school...
The uprisings and protests over the death of George Floyd erupted in Los Angeles not unlike its legendary wildfires. The flare-ups were largely spontaneous and unpredictable, some small and contained, others massive and out-of-control. Yet all were fueled with an...
Kate Newby is an artist of the immediate and quotidian. Her work is rooted in place, which she defines through the conditions, actions, and events that occur there. Her investment in the local is often expressed through site-specificity. This exhibition gives its...
Congratulations to our winner Brian C. Moss and our finalists. Moss' photo is seen above and first in our photo gallery in the July/August online issue of Artillery. The following photographs are the finalists. Please see the info below on how to enter for our next...
Dear Reader, You may have noticed there was no May/June print edition of Artillery. Due to COVID-19, funds were low and galleries were shuttered, so we did an online-only issue. But we are back now with a Summer print edition, and we owe it all to a GoFundMe campaign...
Set on a six-acre site overlooking downtown Montgomery and, most significantly, the Alabama State Capitol, The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opened in April 2018, is dedicated to the over 4,400 known victims of racial terrorism who were murdered by...
A good white American friend can be hard to find, so I appreciate and cherish mine. It’s June 2020, a month that will probably go down in history as one of the most pivotal, enraging, disgusting, hypocritical, amazing months in American history. And one by one, these...
Los Angeles–based photographer Brandy Eve Allen has responded uniquely to the isolation of the COVID social distancing period with a new series of portraits, shot from the street, of isolators in their homes. The subjects of the photos, who Allen found on Nextdoor...
Lynn Hershman Leeson has always been an artist simultaneously ahead of her time and very much a product of the present moment. From her revolutionary Breathing Machines in the early 1960s—the first sculpture works which incorporated sound—to her most recent video...
When I talk with Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe, his smiling face lights up the video conference window as he speaks of joy. He hopes to bring joy to the subjects of his portraits, and to those that view them. Picking up the range of tonality in Blackness, his portraits...
If there’s been a silver lining for the LA art scene during the pandemic, it just might be the new Gallery Association Los Angeles (GALA) an online platform known as GalleryPlatform.LA, that has taken root while everyone was quarantining. Brainchild of uber-gallerist...
In 1965, angry, fed-up citizens took over Watts, a historically Black neighborhood in South Los Angeles. Similar to the recent Black Lives Matter (BLM) uprisings, the Watts Riots began after police responded to a minor infraction with violence, arresting two Black men...
Hidden in a quiet Mid-City tract is a Los Angeles art institution. Not that you’d know it if you didn’t slow down and really look for the five-lot compound on this quiet residential street. Otherwise you could easily miss the sign: “St. Elmo Village,” half hidden by...
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