Art In Residence

Vidas

Erick Medel, Floras para Mama (Mother’s day), 2024, Polyester thread on denim, 20 x 16 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Charlie James Gallery, Los…

Art-Tease

Circus of Books exterior and storefront window. Image courtesy of Mito Aviles @artteasela. Photo by Jimena Sandoval.  Blazing pink like a Willy Wonka fantasy on…

Preserved Memories

Medical professionals forecast somewhere between 130 and 176 million people globally will have dementia in 2050, dramatically rising from 57.4 million in 2019, meaning that…

At the Edge of the Sun

On rare occasions, there are gallery exhibitions that make a strong statement—either politically, culturally, or both— capturing the zeitgeist of a moment, and sparking a…

Imaginary Cartography

A map is a drawn representation of space, making sense of and setting limits to a given area. The earth’s terrain is charted through its…

Felix Art Fair 2024 Edition

Learning about new and emerging contemporary artists can be daunting for the average person who doesn’t regularly attend gallery openings to mingle with artists, collectors,…

The End of Night

Drawing inspiration from film and art history, Karyn Lyons’ wistful, evocative oil paintings of teenage girlhood are charged with coming-of-age romanticism. In her first solo…

Synthetic Self

The meteoric rise of Artificial Intelligence, or AI, in 2023 has commanded our attention. From its popularity on platforms like ChatGPT—capable of generating and editing…

The Illusion of an “Underneath”: an exclusive interview with artist Hank Ehrenfried

What is revealed behind the fold? What is hinted at, but goes unseen? This is the power of art; to make something in our minds…

HYPNAGOGIC SEX IDOLS

We as humans seem to have a fascination with documenting ourselves—with showing that we were here, that we mattered. From the crude marks of ancient…

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Echo

Understanding the chaos and grandeur of Hundley’s collage works means understanding the fundamental unit of their construction: the intimate and almost sentimental act of sifting…

Durian on the skin

Author: Cooper Johnson

With all of its flesh tones and synthetics, its re-purposed refuse, its simulations and premonitions, its wisps of human history and myth—and especially its rethinking…

LOW VOICE OUT LOUD

Author: Kirsten Ihns

Oil painting’s historical connection to wealth—and more specifically to the rise of capitalism—is not news to anyone. As the art critic John Berger pointed out,…

Mapping The Sublime: Reframing Landscape in the 21st Century

Author: Ashley Ouderkirk

While the majority of Americans, 72% according to a 2021 poll by Yale University, believe global warming is happening, only 47% seem to believe that…

The Conversation

Author: D. Edward Martin

“Listen up, motherf*ckers! Now we’re having fun.” The lines come squawking through a speaker (as in, an object producing sound) on the floor, but who…

We Are All Guests Here

Author: Cooper Johnson

One of my favorite half-truths in the art world is that there really isn’t anything new, just variations of what’s come before. It’s true that…

Song of the Cicada

Author: Nate Ancheta

In a moment of acceleration and rapid climate change artists must ask what it means and entails to approach this moment—the Anthropocene—from the vantage point…

Sacred Witness Sacred Menace

Author: Cooper Johnson

Perhaps it’s by default, reverence, or sentiment that we think of the progenitors of an art movement as having more difficult challenges than those who…

Desert X 2021: Places and Ideas

Author: D. Edward Martin

Desert X is an exhibition that exists in two modalities. One is in the physical world – the actual sites of the work scattered throughout…