los angeles art publications
Amelia Clipart
RECONNOITER
Thirty-seven years ago Lydia Takeshita and her college students formed what would become the LA Artcore Center, presently located in Japan Town in downtown Los Angeles, and later added the Brewery Annex location in Lincoln Heights. Takeshita is the founder, executive...
The Ninth Berlin Biennale
Curated by the New York-based art and fashion magazine collective DIS, The Ninth Berlin Biennale: “The Present in Drag” (or BB9), attempts to examine a “postcontemporary” condition through the presentation of unavoidable inauthenticity. Mostly it consists of work made...
Joseph Stashkevetch
Joseph Stashkevetch is a consummate craftsman, his work suspended effortlessly between drawing and photography. In his recent show at Von Lintel Gallery, the addition of a literal third dimension leverages his simple process (conté crayon on rag paper) into an...
Federico Solmi
Federico Solmi’s “The Brotherhood” offers a dystopian nightmare-scape where the cult of celebrity overwhelms one’s every sense. The pseudo-cliché of the beautiful versus the profane collides in the meticulously painted frames of “smart” TVs projecting Solmi’s drawings...
Denis Darzacq, Anna Lüneman
Activities are often pierced by interludes that have little to do with them. One’s reading, for instance, may be interrupted by thoughts, noise, a graphic on the opposite page, a text message. This sort of discontinuity is central to Paris-based Denis Darzacq and...
Barry Anderson, Timothy Paul Myers, Andrew Barnes
Constructed spaces, both virtual and actual, link the works of Barry Anderson and Timothy Paul Myers (in collaboration with Andrew Barnes). In the front galleries, Kansas City-based multimedia artist Barry Anderson presents projections, stills and monitor based works...
Nancy Evans
Curated by critic Michael Duncan, this 15-year survey consisting of 40 mixed media works, paintings, textiles and sculptures was evocatively entitled “Tree. Lingam. Void.” The exhibition offered an in-depth look into the artist’s ongoing exploration of the collective...
Deanna Thompson
The vast, empty expanses of the southern California landscape, whether desert vistas or sprawling webs of highways, have long fascinated artists. John Divola photographed a moldering beach house in Zuma and an “Isolated House” series of desert abodes while Ed Ruscha...
Jane Hugentober
With work that has a firm footing in the traditions of the fiber arts, Jane Hugentober builds the case for a powerful conceptual dimension within a more traditional art-making framework. Far from ironic, the artist looks to precedents such as Mary Kelly’s Post-Partum...
Lauren Marsolier, Rachelle Bussières
The endless deluge of photographs from digital cameras—one trillion photos were taken in 2015—seems to have made everyone in the online world both a photographer and photo consumer, with mixed results. Lauren Marsolier, living in Los Angeles, and Rachelle Bussieres,...
Shana Moulton
There is a taut psychological oscillation throughout “Journeys Out of the Body,” Shana Moulton’s current solo exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg. It could vaguely be heard in the opening night crowds that shuffled through the galleries as people...
No More Parties In L.A. – Kanye West Crashes Into the Art World
I have a confession. At some point between Graduation and 2010 or 2011 (whenever he last recorded with Katy Perry), I lost track of Kanye West. Yes, of course I was peripherally aware of what he might be doing, whether in terms of his own planned record releases or...
Save America & Mr. Fish
Artillery contributor Josh Herman interviews Robert Berman at his eponymous gallery about art and politics. Berman's art focuses on making sure Donald J. Trump doesn't get elected—a worthy cause—and includes other political works by artists such as Robbie Conal, Ed...
AMOCA: Dirk Staschke
In a collection of 18 ceramic and mixed media sculptures, Dirk Staschke explores the tradition of still life painting that emerged in Europe, specifically in Dutch “Vanitas” paintings, in the 17th Century. Staschke explores themes such as the ephemeral nature of...
CHG 10th Anniversary Exhibition
The art world ‘conversation,’ in many ways, can be a small one. In the post-modern, post-conceptual landscape, anything goes. Yet (Juxtapoz to one side) we’re not typically privy to the kinds of conversations Corey Helford Gallery artists might ignite. Once upon a...
Home Is Where the Horror Is – Guillermo del Toro (Part 1)
We live very close to horror in the early 21st century. But then I wonder how much has really changed since, say, the 1940s (although the northern 75 percent or so of the North American continent was relatively at peace during the 20th century up to that time). The...
