Jenny Holzer: Righteous Rage

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Jenny Holzer: Righteous Rage

Here’s the shaggy dog, like a resort comedian of yore who must begin with a “funny thing happened on the way…” story: before I interview Jenny Holzer we are writing to one another. It’s a t June 27, 2022
Jaime Muñoz: Blood Memory

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Jaime Muñoz: Blood Memory

Pomona, California, situated east of downtown Los Angeles, between the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains, in what was once known as the citrus triangle, is a bit of a gateway into the Inland E June 20, 2022
Kate Pincus-Whitney: Generosity of Spirit

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Kate Pincus-Whitney: Generosity of Spirit

It has been a long two years of heavy stillness. I honestly believe that at the deepest point in the pandemic I could have easily taken a finger and dragged it across my thigh, unsurprised to find it June 13, 2022
Summer 2022 Cover Story: ARYZ's Big Moves

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Summer 2022 Cover Story: ARYZ's Big Moves

In street art, the topic has always revolved around the question of the next big thing in muralism, or the next “name” to take the movement to a new level, the discussion always about the questio May 31, 2022
Kim Dacres: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

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Kim Dacres: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Born and raised in the Bronx by Jamaican parents, Kim Dacres considers her artistry a luxury—not to be taken for granted. Growing up, the abstract sculptor, who works with disassembled tires reconf April 25, 2022
Kristina Schuldt: Nothing Has to Fit

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Kristina Schuldt: Nothing Has to Fit

Rough and elegant, beautiful and grotesque, strong and fragile, vibrant and dispiriting, successful and failed. Such are the perpetual interplays that play with equilibrium in what we  recognize April 18, 2022
Matt Bollinger: The Realist of Fantasy

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Matt Bollinger: The Realist of Fantasy

During such a decade, as we live through the most unreal days, how do you categorize  someone as a realist painter? You begin to wonder what it is someone is trying to realistically convey.  April 11, 2022
Patrick Martinez: Neon Landscape

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Patrick Martinez: Neon Landscape

On a warm and sunny December morning I drove across LA, from the west side to Huntington Park, specifically, to see Patrck Martinez in his studio. The sprawl is palpable, throbbing with the nuance of April 04, 2022
Aryo Toh Djojo: A Close Encounter

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Aryo Toh Djojo: A Close Encounter

It feels quite apt that in the middle of a global pandemic, the US government would more or less admit the existence of UFOs. There was no Hollywood scripted announcement, no looming Independence Day March 28, 2022
Joy Labinjo: Fun & Games

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Joy Labinjo: Fun & Games

One of my favorite Joy Labinjo works features two men standing side by side, both in suits, framed by orange into rectangular blue boxes and presented in the trappings of some sort of magic show. On March 21, 2022
Woody De Othello: Flash of the Spirit

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Woody De Othello: Flash of the Spirit

In the midst of a revelation, Woody DeOthello is awe inspiring. Through his hands, inanimate objects vibrate: Lamps laugh at light switches and telephones might lick your face. Optimistically breathi March 14, 2022
Alice Neel: People Come First

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Alice Neel: People Come First

The twentieth-century figurative painter Alice Neel reflected that, “My psychiatrist once told me that I got interested in painting portraits because I liked to watch my mother’s face.  It h March 07, 2022
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