Film Review: Gloria’s Call, a short film by Cheri Gaulke by Betty Ann Brown I am an ardent fan of feminist scholar Gloria Orenstein. I respect and admire her writing, especially her courageous mix of spirituality and academic concerns. I also adore her on a personal level. What’s not to love about that fiery red…
Judy Fiskin’s Video Installation, I Was an iPhone Addict through February 13 Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles By Jody Zellen For many years Judy Fiskin documented Los Angeles’ surroundings by making small-scale black and white photographs. These images of dingbat style apartment buildings, desert plants, military architecture and works of art were often shot in…
Diasporagasm at SBC SoLA Gallery By Genie Davis Through November 19th Filled with light, color, and form, Diasporagasm at SBC SoLA Gallery through November 19th presents the vibrant work of artists Bright Ackwerh, Kwame Akoto, Lavialle Campbell, Florine Demosthene, June Edmonds, Cole James, Jeffrey Meris, Jodi Minnis, Nii Kotei Nikoi, Keisha Oliver, Duane Paul, Gio…
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…
2017 California-Pacific Triennial at the Orange County Museum of Art By Mario Vasquez Through September 3rd Structures are ever-present and ubiquitous in our daily lives. Architecture provides shelter, a place to work, and to escape the elements. Because of this function, structures and architecture give people sites of political contestation, historical and personal memory,…
A Case for Art Why Art Matters! Torrance Art Museum By Lorraine Heitzman Through August 12th Anybody reading this review won’t likely need to be convinced that art matters, but if they did entertain any doubts, the show at the Torrance Art Museum provides ample justification. Why Art Matters! is TAM’s response to the…
Aliens with Extraordinary Abilities Fellows of Contemporary Art By Anna Garner Through July 21st The home is antithetical to the stranger; it is the known, the comfortable, the familiar, and familial. But what of the domestic aesthetics of diaspora and migration that out of necessity adapt the unfamiliar into the familiar. “Aliens with…
