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for the sake of dancing in the streets at OXY ARTS
Leer en Español Geochicas, interactive map and archival documentation wall (installation view) (2023). Touchscreen monitor and various archival materials. Compiled by Raja Bella Hicks and Caitlin...
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Van Leo at the Hammer Museum
Leer en Español Van Leo, Self-Portrait (Sunday, November 1, 1942). © The Rare Books and Special Collections Library at The American University in Cairo. Image courtesy of the Hammer Museum....
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Naoki Sutter-Shudo at Gaga & Reena Spaulings LA
Naoki Sutter-Shudo, End of Thinking Capacity (installation view) (2024). Image courtesy of the artist and Gaga & Reena Spaulings LA. Photo: Paul Salveson. Naoki Sutter-Shudo’s exhibition End of...
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William Brickel at Michael Kohn Gallery
William Brickel, Two Figures Table (installation view) (2023). Oil on linen, 76 x 67.75 inches. Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist and Michael Kohn Gallery. Many of...
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(L.A. in Mexico City) Nancy Lupo at Morán Morán
Leer en Español Nancy Lupo, Colorado Royalty (2023). Oil on catalytic converter shell, toilet paper, PVA, pearl pigments, phosphorescent pigments, Balsa wood, paper, and fly fishing line, 17 × 29.5 ×...
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Sam Gilliam at David Kordansky Gallery
Sam Gilliam: The Last Five Years (installation view) (2024). David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, 2024. Image courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery. Photo: Jeff McLane. A collection of nylon fabrics,...
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Erin Trefry at Lowell Ryan Projects
Erin Trefry, A tale of giant tricks (2024). Oil on cotton fabric, 43 x 63 inches. Image courtesy of the artist and Lowell Ryan Projects. Photo: Charles White. The works in Erin Trefry’s latest...
View ArticleLetter from the Editor, Spring 2024
Leer en Español While editing this issue, I was weeks away from delivering my first baby and found myself in a period of intense nesting. As I read each article, the topic of home that was so...
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CalArts and the Rediscovery of the Feminist Art Program
Leer en Español Mira Schor, Goodbye CalArts (1972). Gouache on paper, 21.5 × 29.5 inches. Image courtesy of the artist and Lyles & King, New York. The Feminist Art Program (1970–1975): Cycles of...
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Kate Mosher Hall at Hannah Hoffman Gallery
Kate Mosher Hall, Clothing as a spell (2024). Acrylic and flashe on canvas, 55 x 65 inches. Image courtesy of the artist and Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles. Photo: Paul Salveson. Never Odd or...
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Boz Deseo Garden at Timeshare
Boz Deseo Garden, The Virtual Estate of Roy Hoffman (installation view) (2024). Image courtesy of the artist and Timeshare. Photo: Brandon Bandy. When I walk into Boz Deseo Garden’s exhibition, The...
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Made in L.A. 2023: Formulas for Doing the Right Thing
Leer en Español Christopher Suarez, PCH & Cherry at 7 p.m. (detail) (2023). Image courtesy of the artist and the Hammer Museum. Photo: Joshua Solis. The title of the sixth iteration of the Hammer...
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Made in L.A. 2023: Dominique Moody as Citizen Architect
Leer en Español Dominique Moody, N.O.M.A.D. (detail) (2015–23). Layered corrugated patina-stained metal, salvaged stainless steel washing machine door, dryer door, vintage barn wood, salvaged globe,...
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Paul Pfeiffer at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Paul Pfeiffer, Red Green Blue (installation view) (2022). Single-channel video with color and surround sound; 31 minutes and 23 seconds; dimensions variable. The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los...
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Pat Steir at Hauser & Wirth
Pat Steir, Painted Rain (installation view) (2024). Hauser & Wirth, West Hollywood, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Jeff McLane. I first visited Painted Rain, Pat...
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Refusing Identification, Not Identity: Contemporary Positions in Abstraction
Leer en Español Teresa Baker, Flow (2023). Acrylic, buckskin, yarn, and artificial sinew on artificial turf, 110 × 74 inches. © Teresa Baker. Image courtesy of the artist and de boer, Los...
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Interview with Elmer Guevara
Leer en Español Image courtesy of the artist and Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles. Photo: Elon Schoenholz. I first encountered Elmer Guevara’s work during our time as graduate students at Hunter...
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Julia Kowalska at Steve Turner
Julia Kowalska, To Give to Eat or to Allow Oneself to Be Eaten (2024). Oil on canvas, 39.5 x 47.25 inches. Image courtesy of the artist and Steve Turner, Los Angeles. An unsettling sensibility...
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Scratching at the Moon at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Scratching at the Moon (installation view) (2024). Image courtesy of the artists and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Photo: Jeff McLane. Upon entering the Institute of Contemporary Art,...
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Works in Progress: Sharif Farrag
Leer en Español Last June, ceramic artist Sharif Farrag set up his first private studio in a former coffee roaster in L.A.’s Fashion District —a space with enough power to run his heat-hungry kilns....
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