by Alicia | Jan 20, 2016 | CRAVE
Today the Hammer Museum announced the artists selected for Made in L.A. 2016: a, the, through, only, co-curated by Aram Moshayedi and Hamza Walker, Director of Education and Associate Curator of the Renaissance Society in Chicago. The biennial exhibition takes place...
by Alicia | Jan 11, 2016 | CRAVE
Sarah Silverman glided onto the stage at LACMA on Thursday night for the program An Evening. . . with Sarah Silverman where she spoke with Elvis Mitchell, curator of Film Independent at LACMA, about her massive body of work, which includes comedy, acting, production...
by Alicia | Dec 30, 2015 | CRAVE
Rives Granade sounds strikingly similar to Rio Grande, a river in the Southwest. Rives Granade is an artist from the opposite side of the South, however — Mobile, Alabama, in the Southeastern United States, to be exact. I could hear a slight tinge in his voice — a...
by Alicia | Dec 29, 2015 | CRAVE
NYC/LA artist Jen DeNike draws for a legacy of literature, film and pop culture archetypes in her layered photography, sculpture and performative works. Creating new mythologies or cultural narratives that spin out of her own very personal experiences, relationships...
by Alicia | Dec 27, 2015 | CRAVE
Radamés “Juni” Figueroa makes work that is classic lowbrow meets highbrow, and it works so, so well. Random garbage and things thrown out of foreclosed homes become art. In his solo exhibition Rompiendo en Frío at ltd los angeles, Figueroa incorporates...
by Alicia | Dec 18, 2015 | CRAVE
Christine Wang’s artwork is not for the faint of heart. Primarily a painter, Wang’s work is both sardonic and confrontational, playing with a variety of mediated images toward an end point that may never arrive. Not that Wang’s work is existential in nature; rather,...
