by Alicia | Feb 20, 2016 | CRAVE
In Bay Of Smokes, an exhibition showing at Various Small Fires in Los Angeles, artist Amy Yao’s visual landscape of semiotics and symbols plays with concepts of environmental contamination. To demonstrate these concepts, she plucks materials and objects from their...
by Alicia | Feb 17, 2016 | CRAVE
When L.A. artist Vanessa Prager paints, she paints hard. She doesn’t make paintings so much as she makes gloopy, blobby, swirling sculptural works out of paint, indulging in extreme messy excess. These are portraits that are more like landscapes – alive with movement,...
by Alicia | Feb 10, 2016 | CRAVE
Rachel Kauder Nalebuff and I met at a coffee shop, those places where writers go to get out of their home offices and be around some sort of humanity while remaining completely in their own worlds. Something felt oddly familiar about Rachel, and so we agreed...
by Alicia | Feb 10, 2016 | CRAVE
There’s something undeniably eerie about the work of Justin John Greene. Shadows lurk on the walls of rooms that seem like they should be empty. Workers carry pained looks on their faces — feelings of despair, nothingness, and a sense of desperation crowd the...
by Alicia | Feb 1, 2016 | CRAVE
Amalia Ullman frequently tackles complex questions about the creation of narrative and persona on the internet through otherwise simplistic materials and media. Her solo exhibition, Stock Images of War at Four Six One Nine, a pop-up gallery in Culver City, was...
by Alicia | Jan 23, 2016 | CRAVE
Devin Troy Strother plays with familiar racist American stereotypes of Black people, repeating these signs and symbols until they start to feel meaningless. But systemic racism is still very much a part of everyones’ everyday lives — one can’t even turn on...
