Art Los Angeles Contemporary
Russ Meyer: FISHIN’ and TITTIN’
People have been photographing sex since the invention of cameras. But the distribution of moving images that depict actual sex acts only became possible in the early 1970s. X-rated films shown in theaters were subject to prosecution into the 1980s. As content moved...
SHOPTALK
Museums and Unions The Marciano Art Foundation has closed, abruptly and in a cloud of controversy. Since its opening in 2017, most of the employees worked part-time, handling visitor services and making close to minimum-wage salaries. On November 1, District Council...
CODE ORANGE: JAN-FEB 2020
Congratulations to our winner Lauren Anderson and our finalists. Anderson's photo is seen above and first in our photo gallery in the January/February online issue of Artillery. The following photographs are the finalists. Please see info below on how to enter for our...
COMICS
Illustrate Your Love
Dear Babs, I’m in college majoring in illustration and minoring in fine art. My problem is some of my fine-art professors put down illustration and make it seem I can’t be part of the “Art World” and still be an illustrator. What do I do? —Stymied Student Dear Stymied...
Interview with Joanne Leah
Joanne Leah is a Brooklyn-based artist. In 2016 she founded Artists Against Censorship, a platform that catalogs artists‘ experiences with social media censorship. She currently serves as a liaison between censored artists and policymakers at Facebook and Instagram to...
Into the Deep We Go: Photographs by Thomas Joshua Cooper
Two weeks after the exhibition “Thomas Joshua Cooper: The World’s Edge” opened last fall at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The New Yorker magazine published a piece by Dana Goodyear titled “The Ends of the Earth: Thomas Joshua Cooper risks his life to...
Cynthia Daignault
“Elegy,” the title of Cynthia Daignault’s show, referenced Robert Motherwell’s 1948-1967 “Elegies to the Spanish Republic.” In contrast to his abstractions mourning the results of the Spanish Civil War, her representational portrayals lament the passage of time, with...
Luis Flores
Upon entering the gallery it is hard not to do a double-take. Seated, hunched over on the railing that parallels the entrance is a life-sized figure, the artist’s doppelganger. This crocheted replica dressed in his signature clothing— a blue t-shirt, black Levi’s...
Soft Schindler
Even in a white cube, there is always an element of architectural engagement to grapple with when laying out out an exhibition. But when the exhibition space is not a white cube -- and moreover, when the venue itself is a storied architectural landmark, such as the...
Ellen Sebastian Chang, Sunhui Chang and Maya Gurantz
“How to Fall in Love in a Brothel” offers a mix of the experiential and the conceptual, expressed as an interactive sculptural installation and an HD video. A collaboration between artists Ellen Sebastian Chang, Sunhui Chang and Maya Gurantz, the idea of a “brothel”...
Photography Beyond the Surface
Both literally and figuratively, it feels as if Photography Beyond the Surface serves as a portal to a new dimension in photographic art. The group show includes innovative, exciting work by eight photographers, including a survey of Melanie Pullen’s work, Joni...
Christopher L. Mercier
The art architects make we expect to mirror their architectural aesthetic, if not extend it seamlessly. It is a modernist trope — going back to the Baroque, in fact — that images and objects, functional and otherwise, further distinguish a notable space by integrating...
Tony Marsh
At his first solo show in Los Angeles in over 10 years, San Pedro based arist Tony Marsh presents eleven ceramic works from an ongoing series called Crucible and Cauldron. Some of the tankard-like objects appear to be bubbling over with one dominant color that is...
Testing Russ Meyer: FISHIN’ and TITTIN’ COPY
People have been photographing sex since the invention of cameras. But the distribution of moving images that depict actual sex acts only became possible in the early 1970s. X-rated films shown in theaters were subject to prosecution into the 1980s. As content moved...
Saying Goodbye to the Godfather: John Baldessari (1931–2020)
I learned yesterday—along with most of the Los Angeles art world –that John Baldessari had died. (He had actually died Thursday, but the word filtered out only this week-end.) Long before I knew him or what he represented (not only in Los Angeles, but the world),...
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