Contributors

Paula de la Cruz-Fernández is a historian, digital editor, and manages the wonderful bilingual team of Edita.us as they perform quality and culturally mindful editing, translation, and research in Spanish and English.

PJ Shahamat is the production assistant for the Carla Podcast and Carla Audiobook. PJ has worked on KCRW’s Greater LA, Left, Right & Center, and Bookworm. He is a graduate of California State University, Northridge, and NPR’s NextGen Program.

Lindsay Preston Zappas is an L.A.-based artist, writer, and founder and editor-in-chief of Carla. She is an arts correspondent for KCRW. She received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2013.

Catherine Wagley writes about art and visual culture in Los Angeles.

Erin F. O’Leary is a writer, editor, and photographer from the Midwest and raised in Maine. A graduate of Bard College, she has lived in Los Angeles since 2018, where she is the Managing Editor of the quarterly magazine and online art journal, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (Carla). Through research, criticism, prose, and personal essay, she explores photography through both an artistic and social-cultural lens—her work concerned not only with what pictures look like, but how the camera is used and what these images mean in, and for, our contemporary image culture.

Satoru Nihei is a graphic designer. His work explores personal and emotional life experiences through typographic form and design. Nihei’s design work has been published internationally and included in national and international collections and biennales. Most recently, he was invited to judge the 2019 Print Regional Design Awards. Nihei received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2011.

Sybil Perez is an art book editor living in Sierra Madre, California.

Aaron Horst is a writer and architect based in Los Angeles. He has written for Carla, Art Review, and Flash Art.

Angella d’Avignon is a writer in Los Angeles.

Ashton Cooper is a Los Angeles-based independent writer and curator and doctoral student in the Department of Art History at the University of Southern California.

Carmen Winant (b. 1983, San Francisco) is a writer, artist, and Assistant Professor of Critical Studies at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, OH. Winant is a regular contributor to Frieze magazine, The Believer and Aperture Magazines, X-TRA Journal and Art Papers. She is an editor at WAX Magazine and the co-editor of The Highlights Journal.

Cat Kron is a writer and editor based in Los Angeles and New York. Her work has appeared in Artforum, Art Review, BOMB, Cultured, Kunstkritikk, and Modern Painters, among others.

Chelsea Beck is a podcaster and writer. She lives and loves in Los Angeles.

Christie Hayden is a writer and editor living in Los Angeles. She received her BA from the University of San Francisco and her MA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She is the owner of OOF Books, an art bookstore and conceptual exhibition space. Her writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Baltimore City Paper, and others.

Christina Catherine Martinez is an art writer, stand-up comedian, and daughter of East Los Angeles. She hosts the conceptual comedy talk show Aesthetical Relations and is a 2018 recipient of the Creative Capital / Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.

Claire de Dobay Rifelj is a curator, writer, and art historian based in Los Angeles. She has produced exhibitions for CalArts, the Hammer Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Williams College Museum of Art, and her writing has appeared in exhibition catalogues, the LA Weekly, and on ForYourArt.com.

Claressinka Anderson’s poetry and essays have appeared in Autre Magazine, Chiron Review, Artillery Magazine, and elsewhere, as well as in the anthology Choice Words: Writers on Abortion. Through her ongoing collaborations with artists, her work engages the interstitial spaces of contemporary art and literature. Born and raised in London, she lives in Los Angeles where she is at work on her first libretto.

Ikechukwu Casmir Onyewuenyi is a Nigerian Australian curator and writer based in Los Angeles, where he is a curatorial assistant at the Hammer Museum. His writing has appeared in Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Media Culture, ARTS.BLACK, BLOUIN ARTINFO, Carla, OnCurating, and Performa Magazine, among others.

Jessica Simmons is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles. Her work and writing navigate the haptic, oblique space that exists between the language of abstraction and the abstraction of language.

Jonathan Griffin is a contributing editor for Frieze magazine, and also writes for publications including Art in Review, Art Agenda, The Art Newspaper, Cultured, and New York Times’ T Magazine.

Julie Weitz is a queer Ashkenazi video and performance artist living on Tongva/Gabrieleño land (Los Angeles) whose interdisciplinary practice also includes writing, teaching, and activism. Her first solo museum exhibition, GOLEM: A Call to Action, is currently on view at The Contemporary Jewish Museum on Ramaytush Ohlone land (San Francisco, CA) through December 5, 2021.

Keith J. Varadi is an artist, poet, critic, curator, and researcher, living in Los Angeles. During the week, he works for the long-running television game show, Jeopardy!. On the weekends, he roams the city.

Matt Stromberg is a freelance arts writer based in Los Angeles. In addition to Carla, his work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Art Newspaper, Hyperallergic, Teremoto, KCET Artbound, Artsy, frieze, and Daily Serving.

Matthew Lax is a Los Angeles filmmaker, artist, and writer, exploring technology, group dynamics, queerness, and disability. Lax’s films and video installations have shown at various institutions and film festivals including the Viennale (Austria), MIX NYC, IHME Contemporary (Helsinki), Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, NY) and Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA). Lax’s writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), ArtPractical and MARCH: a journal of art + strategy.

Simone Krug is a writer, educator, and independent curator based in Los Angeles. Her writing has appeared in Artforum, Art in America, and frieze, among other publications.

Travis Diehl has lived in Los Angeles since 2009. He is a recipient of the Creative Capital / Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant (2013) and the Rabkin Prize in Visual Arts Journalism (2018).

Yxta Maya Murray is a law professor and writer living in Los Angeles. She received a 2018 Art Writers Grant. Advice and Consent, her one-act play about the Christine Blasey Ford hearings, has just been published by LARB Books.