Contributors

Evan Nicole Brown

Managing Editor

Evan Nicole Brown is a Los Angeles-born writer, editor, and journalist who covers the arts and culture. Her work has been featured in Architectural Digest, ARTnews, CULTURED, Dwell, ​The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Times, T Magazine, and elsewhere. She is also the founder and host of Group Chat, a conversation series in L.A.

Lindsay Preston Zappas

Founder & Editor-in-Chief

Lindsay Preston Zappas is an L.A.-based artist, writer, and the founder 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. Recent solo exhibitions include those at the Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art (Buffalo, NY), OCHI (Los Angeles), and City Limits (Oakland).

Allison Noelle Conner

Contributing Editor

Allison Noelle Conner’s writing has appeared in Artsy, Art in America, Hyperallergic, East of Borneo, and elsewhere. Born in South Florida, she is based in Los Angeles.

Satoru Nihei

Graphic Designer

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.

Rachel Paprocki

Copy Editor

Rachel Paprocki is a writer, editor, and student of library science who lives and bikes in Los Angeles.

Aaron Boehmer

Administrative Assistant

Aaron Boehmer is a writer and photographer currently based in Texas. He is interested in writing and research related to the intersection between politics and art and has written for publications such as The Nation, Literary Hub, The Drift, and Texas Monthly.

MJ Brown

Board Member

MJ Brown joins Carla’s Board of Directors after supporting the organization in advancement strategies across institutional and individual giving. Her work in philanthropy centers on building meaningful relationships with artists, colleagues, and philanthropists and facilitating partnerships across these constituencies to fund creativity. MJ is currently the Director of Development at Headlands Center for the Arts and has previously held positions at Ballroom Marfa (Marfa, TX), The Redford Center (San Francisco, CA), Christie’s (San Francisco, CA), Kemper Art Museum (St. Louis, MO), and White Flag Projects (St. Louis, MO). She holds a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis and is currently based in San Francisco.

Trulee Hall

Board Member

Trulee Hall was born in 1976 and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. She received her BFA from Atlanta College of Art in 1999 and her MFA from CalArts in 2006. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Hall’s richly textured practice spans video, painting, sculpture, sound, dance, and immersive installation, routinely employing diverse technical skills gleaned from her prior work in various creative industries. Hall began working in performance, music, and video as an adolescent and developed a complex practice involving immersive sets, elaborate costumes, puppetry, claymation, CGI, and sound. Her paintings, sculptures, and installations integrate with and inform facets of her videos and soundtracks in an overarching practice. Her choreographed videos of non-narrative, surreal, feminist/erotic, philosophical, and symbolic systems employ a fiercely playful sense of humor, a patient appreciation for the mundane, and a love of the absurd.

Hall’s work has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Rubell Museum in Miami, the Zabludowicz Collection in London, the Villa Schöningen in Berlin, the Chuang Collection in Taiwan, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Barrick Museum of Art in Los Vegas, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, Deitch Projects in Los Angeles, The Armory Show in New York City, Paramount Studios for Frieze Art Fair, REDCAT, Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), Maccarone Gallery, and François Ghebaly Gallery, among numerous other exhibitions and film screenings internationally.

Joseph Daniel Valencia

Board Member

Joseph Daniel Valencia is a curator and writer working across Los Angeles and Orange County, California. His writing often addresses the importance of artist networks, alternative spaces, and issues of historical erasure and collective memory in contemporary art. In addition to Carla, he has contributed to Aperture, KCET Artbound, OC Register, and the U.S. Latinx Art Forum, as well as numerous exhibition catalogs. He is Curator at the Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College.