The Fourth World Institute for Art and Olfaction By Shana Nys Dambrot Everything is mediated. All objects, actions, impulses, and mythologies are multivalent, shape-shifting, and strange. Even the singular is a stranger to itself. Articulating interconnectivity is an imperative for truthfulness, but the contours of overlapping energetic dimensions are a bear to make into…
Beautiful Parts CSUN Art Gallery on view through October 26th by Eve Wood Attempting to scrutinize and understand what makes someone, or something, beautiful is and has always been a dangerous game that only ever leads to feelings of disappointment and self doubt. That being said, Rough Play, the collective who conceived and organized…
Khôra at Mt. San Antonio College Art Gallery By Larry Gipe Through October 25th It’s hard to imagine a slipperier siting for an exhibition than “Khôra”, an evocative three-person show continuing until Oct 25 at Mt. SAC Art Gallery. To reckon with the meaning of the title, beware: Wiki will promptly plunge you down…
Waking the World: Robert Montgomery’s Latest Poetic Push in Los Angeles By Evan Senn In the history of text-based art; politics and shock value reign supreme. Poetry and poetic prose are softer, but are taking the dominant stage in recent years as the public begins to yearn for more emotive gestures and less hate, anger and…
Studio Visit: Camilla Taylor, Seeker of Shadows By Gary Brewer “Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvelously insidious, subtle image of life a coiling vital principle would be! And how many dreams the leftward oriented shell, or one that did not conform to the…
Ken Gonzales-Day Surface Tension: Murals, Signs, and Mark-Making in LA Skirball Cultural Center By Jody Zellen Through February 25th Ken Gonzales-Day’s exhibition documenting over 140 street artworks in Los Angeles is more than a history of Los Angeles Murals. By entitling the exhibition Surface Tension: Murals, Signs, and Mark-Making in LA, Gonzales-Day calls attention…
Santa Fe Art Colony Open Studios 2017 – Photo Essay by Julie Faith
