Studio Visit: Ron Athey, Undoing the Morbid Body of Christian Guilt By Gary Brewer “…I am nothing but love all my branches burn if I darken the day then the shadow recoils within me…” -Jean Genet, Funeral March Dionysian pleasure – a world freed from the sins of the father – awakening in the…
A Full Sense of Artistic and Spiritual Realization Dialectic of Being and Becoming: Realization of Fullness Curated by Khang Bao Nguyen 18th Street Art Center On view through October 21st by Genie Davis Poetry in motion. Performance tied to stationary art, and a world of meaning that springs to life. A group show that is…
Weekend at Berenice: Performance Art is well and alive in the Hillsides of Los Angeles By Lara Salmon On April 28th and 29th a group of young performers gathered at a mountainside home in East Los Angeles to create a weekend of live art. Titled ‘Weekend at Berenice’ in honor of the winding street it…
Rachel Yezbick, Cover Me at Garden through May 5th by Lara Salmon In a window-lined room, which sits atop an olive-green Victorian in Silverlake, lies a unique gallery space in Los Angeles. The visibility of the neighborhood from this room makes it feel like a watchtower, or possibly a greenhouse as it drowns in Southern…
Leonard Greco’s Sculptural and Theatrical Embodied Currently in residence, reception on January 13th Shoebox Projects, Brewery Arts Complex, Los Angeles By Genie Davis In progress now, with a reception set for January 13th, Leonard Greco takes over Shoebox Projects’ gallery space with a new installation, Embodied: St. Anthony & the Desert of Tears. This new body of work…
Daniel Joseph Martinez I am Ulrike Meinhof or (someone once told me time is a flat circle) Roberts & Tilton By Jody Zellen Through December 16 For Daniel Joseph Martinez, art and politics are inseparable. Martinez is known to shock and challenge viewers but never without purpose. His projects are extremely specific, well researched and…
“SELF RELIANCE 2017” at NowSpace By Sydney Walters Through October 1st While pondering what to create, many artists consider not only what he or she wants to create, but what they know will sell. After all, artists need to make a living somehow. It is this tension between desire, practicality, value and waste that…
