Infinite Return: Jenny Yurshansky Traces Her Soviet Jewish Roots / KCET Artbound
For years, Los Angeles artist Jenny Yurshansky has asked her mom the same question: When will they go back to Moldova? The small country, wedged between Ukraine and Romania, is part of her family's story. Yet, she's never even seen it. Yurshansky's mother and father...
Mirabelle Jones Fights For Women’s Rights One Catcall at a Time / KCET Artbound
Catcalling can happen randomly. As a woman, you might start to even expect it. Over time, some women become less phased by it and more internally pissed off. It's hard to remain neutral and unfeeling when some random guy yells obscenities at you, tells you he wants to...
Beyond Pranks: Marc Horowitz’s Mischievous Social Practice / KCET Artbound LA
Los Angeles-based artist Marc Horowitz isn't a comedian, but humor is an underlying theme in his wide ranging art. Through all of his hybrid performance art/comedy/social practice/long-form experimental projects, he works in a manner more akin to improv comedy than...
Petra Cortright: Post-Internet Art in the Social Media Age / KCET Artbound LA
Petra Cortright was raised in Santa Barbara, but she grew up on the Internet. The Los Angeles-based artist's work is often typified as "post-Internet art," which roughly translates to art that uses the Internet as its medium, source, context and place where it is...
Dreaming of the Real: Observing Artist Scott Marvel Cassidy / KCET Artbound Los Angeles
In Scott Marvel Cassidy's paintings, drawings and sculpture, it's often times impossible to separate reality from a dreamlike state, or to differentiate the manufacture of a domesticity with the actual domestic life. Focused on intersecting themes of memory, the...
Matt Siegle: Mining the San Gabriel Mountains’ Golden Past / KCET Artbound Los Angeles
Artist Matt Siegle wanted to understand the drifters, 19th century historical enthusiasts, and homeless individuals who inhabit the San Gabriel Mountains today, where gold mining was once a thriving industry. What he found didn't so much complete a narrative as...
A History of Hysteria in Art, Film, and Literature / KCET Artbound Los Angeles
Vireo is a new opera composed by Lisa Bielawa on a libretto by Erik Ehn and directed by Charles Otte, featuring 16-year-old soprano Rowen Sabala. A collaborative project of KCET and Cal State Fullerton's Grand Central Art Center, Vireo is being created expressly for...
Invasive Species: Jenny Yurshansky Plants Her Stake / KCET Artbound Los Angeles
Somewhere on Interstate 210, speeding through the California landscape, I looked off into the distance and realized that this view was made for travelers. It was a sunny day, and artist Jenny Yurshansky and I were on our way to her show "Blacklisted: A Planted...
VOTE for Zoe Crosher’s Fantasy Manifests Destiny / KCET Artbound Los Angeles
Let's make my story into a documentary! Just vote here: http://www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/vote/vote-manifest-destiny-billboard-project-vs-da-vinci-apartments-controversy.html Meanwhile, read the story. . . There's a stretch of Interstate 10 from Los Angeles,...
The CamLab Collaborative Force / KCET Artbound Los Angeles
There's an important difference between collaborators and twins. The former invest time in getting to know each other, slowly over time intuitively syncing up to each others' rhythms, ways of thinking, and creativity. The twin is an entirely different story -- a...
Charlie White’s Culture of Desire / KCET Artbound Los Angeles
Artist Charlie White is invested in the project of American adolescence. Fascinated by the commodification of desire and how this mechanism operates under capitalism, White's art practice focuses on the teen girl. To White, she is the most powerful bodily form to be...
Brian Getnick Creates L.A. Space / KCET Artbound Los Angeles
Brian Getnick is an integral part of Los Angeles' multi-faceted performance art community, and he does a little bit of everything -- including codirecting "Native Strategies," a journal and performance art platform created with Tanya Rubbak, and offering two-week...
E.J. Hill & the Art of Endurance / KCET Artbound Los Angeles
EJ Hill's performances don't wait for something to happen. Hill's works engage with the supposed boundaries we place on ourselves, focusing on the possibility of transcendence. There's a lightness and magical quality to Hill's deep brown eyes, which revel in...
Julie Orser’s Cinematic Fascination / KCET Artbound Los Angeles
Julie Orser's photography and video works consistently engage with the mechanics of American cinema, with a particular focus on representations of women in film. Tall and slender with black-rimmed glasses and a soothing voice, Orser could have appeared in one of the...
Miranda July: Looking for Somebody / KCET Los Angeles
Somewhere, somebody is looking for you. They are waiting at a café on Sunset Boulevard, gazing at the screen of their smartphone, anticipating the tiny ding of a bell that lets them know a message is waiting. They are using Miranda July's new iOS app Somebody,...