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Issue 19 February 2020

Letter from the Editor –Lindsay Preston Zappas
Parasites in Love –Travis Diehl
To Crush Absolute On Patrick Staff and
Destroying the Institution
–Jonathan Griffin
Victoria Fu:
Camera Obscured
–Cat Kron
Resurgence of Resistance How Pattern & Decoration's Popularity
Can Help Reshape the Canon
–Catherine Wagley
Trace, Place, Politics Julie Mehretu's Coded Abstractions
–Jessica Simmons
Exquisite L.A.: Featuring: Friedrich Kunath,
Tristan Unrau, and Nevine Mahmoud
–Claressinka Anderson & Joe Pugliese
Reviews April Street
at Vielmetter Los Angeles
–Aaron Horst

Chiraag Bhakta
at Human Resources
–Julie Weitz

Don’t Think: Tom, Joe
and Rick Potts

at POTTS
–Matt Stromberg

Sarah McMenimen
at Garden
–Michael Wright

The Medea Insurrection
at the Wende Museum
–Jennifer Remenchik

(L.A. in N.Y.)
Mike Kelley
at Hauser & Wirth
–Angella d’Avignon
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Issue 18 November 2019

Letter from the Editor –Lindsay Preston Zappas
The Briar and the Tar Nayland Blake at the ICA LA
and Matthew Marks Gallery
–Travis Diehl
Putting Aesthetics
to Hope
Tracking Photography’s Role
in Feminist Communities
– Catherine Wagley
Instagram STARtists
and Bad Painting
– Anna Elise Johnson
Interview with Jamillah James – Lindsay Preston Zappas
Working Artists Featuring Catherine Fairbanks,
Paul Pescador, and Rachel Mason
Text: Lindsay Preston Zappas
Photos: Jeff McLane
Reviews Children of the Sun
at LADIES’ ROOM
– Jessica Simmons

Derek Paul Jack Boyle
at SMART OBJECTS
–Aaron Horst

Karl Holmqvist
at House of Gaga, Los Angeles
–Lee Purvey

Katja Seib
at Château Shatto
–Ashton Cooper

Jeanette Mundt
at Overduin & Co.
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Issue 17 August 2019

Letter From the Editor Lindsay Preston Zappas
Green Chip David Hammons
at Hauser & Wirth
–Travis Diehl
Whatever Gets You
Through the Night
The Artists of Dilexi
and Wartime Trauma
–Jonathan Griffin
Generous Collectors How the Grinsteins
Supported Artists
–Catherine Wagley
Interview with
Donna Huanca
–Lindsy Preston Zappas
Working Artist Featuring Ragen Moss, Justen LeRoy,
and Bari Ziperstein
Text: Lindsay Preston Zappas
Photos: Jeff McLane
Reviews Sarah Lucas
at the Hammer Museum
–Yxta Maya Murray

George Herms and Terence Koh
at Morán Morán
–Matt Stromberg

Hannah Hur
at Bel Ami
–Michael Wright

Sebastian Hernandez
at NAVEL
–Julie Weitz

(L.A. in N.Y.)
Alex Israel
at Greene Naftali
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Issue 16 May 2019

Trulee Hall's Untamed Magic Catherine Wagley
Ingredients for a Braver Art Scene Ceci Moss
I Shit on Your Graves Travis Diehl
Interview with Ruby Neri Jonathan Griffin
Carolee Schneemann and the Art of Saying Yes! Chelsea Beck
Exquisite L.A. Claressinka Anderson
Joe Pugliese
Reviews Ry Rocklen
at Honor Fraser
–Cat Kron

Rob Thom
at M+B
–Lindsay Preston Zappas

Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age
of Black Power, 1963-1983
at The Broad
–Matt Stromberg

Anna Sew Hoy & Diedrick Brackens
at Various Small Fires
–Aaron Horst

Julia Haft-Candell & Suzan Frecon
at Parrasch Heijnen
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(L.A. in N.Y.)
Shahryar Nashat
at Swiss Institute
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Issue 15 February 2019

Letter From the Editor Lindsay Preston Zappas
Letter to the Editor
Men on Women
Geena Brown
Eyes Without a Voice
Julian Rosefeldt's Manifesto
Christina Catherine Martinez
Seven Minute Dream Machine
Jordan Wolfson's (Female figure)
Travis Diehl
Laughing in Private
Vanessa Place's Rape Jokes
Catherine Wagley
Interview with
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Laura Brown
Exquisite L.A.
Featuring: Patrick Martinez,
Ramiro Gomez, and John Valadez
Claressinka Anderson
Joe Pugliese
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Vanguard Art at LACMA
–Jonathan Griffin

Sperm Cult
at LAXART
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Kahlil Joseph
at MOCA PDC
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Ingrid Luche
at Ghebaly Gallery
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Matt Paweski
at Park View / Paul Soto
–John Zane Zappas

Trenton Doyle Hancock
at Shulamit Nazarian
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(L.A. in N.Y.)
Catherine Opie
at Lehmann Maupin
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Issue 14 November 2018

Letter From the Editor Lindsay Preston Zappas
Celeste Dupuy-Spencer and Figurative Religion Catherine Wagley
Lynch in Traffic Travis Diehl
The Remixed Symbology of Nina Chanel Abney Lindsay Preston Zappas
Interview with Kulapat Yantrasast Christie Hayden
Exquisite L.A.
Featuring: Sandra de la Loza, Gloria Galvez, and Steve Wong
Claressinka Anderson
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Gertrud Parker
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Robert Yarber
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Nikita Gale
at Commonwealth & Council
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Lari Pittman
at Regen Projects
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at the Whitney Museum
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Issue 13 August 2018

Letter From the Editor Lindsay Preston Zappas
Letter to the Editor Julie Weitz with Angella d'Avignon
Don't Make
Everything Boring
Catherine Wagley
The Collaborative Art
World of Norm Laich
Matt Stromberg
Oddly Satisfying Art Travis Diehl
Made in L.A. 2018 Reviews Claire de Dobay Rifelj
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Aaron Horst
Exquisite L.A.
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Reviews It's Snowing in LA
at AA|LA
–Matthew Lax

Fiona Conner
at the MAK Center
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Show 2
at The Gallery @ Michael's
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Deborah Roberts
at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
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Mimi Lauter
at Blum & Poe
–Jessica Simmons

(L.A. in N.Y.)
Math Bass
at Mary Boone
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Condo New York
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Issue 12 May 2018

Poetic Energies and
Radical Celebrations:
Senga Nengudi and Maren Hassinger
Simone Krug
Interior States of the Art Travis Diehl
Perennial Bloom:
Florals in Feminism
and Across L.A.
Angella d'Avignon
The Mess We're In Catherine Wagley
Interview with Christina Quarles Ashton Cooper
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Featuring Suné Woods, Michelle Dizon,
and Yong Soon Min
Lindsay Preston Zappas
Photos: Jeff McLane
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at The Fowler Museum at UCLA
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Chris Kraus
at Chateau Shatto
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Ben Sanders
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iris yirei hsu
at the Women's Center
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Harald Szeemann
at the Getty Research Institute
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Ali Prosch
at Bed and Breakfast
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Reena Spaulings
at Matthew Marks
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Issue 11 February 2018

Letter from the Editor Lindsay Preston Zappas
Museum as Selfie Station Matt Stromberg
Accessible as Humanly as Possible Catherine Wagley
On Laura Owens on Laura Owens Travis Diehl
Interview with Puppies Puppies Jonathan Griffin
Object Project Lindsay Preston Zappas, Jeff McLane
Reviews Dulce Dientes
at Rainbow in Spanish
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Adrián Villas Rojas
at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
- Lindsay Preston Zappas

Nevine Mahmoud
at M+B
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Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960- 1985
at the Hammer Museum
- Thomas Duncan

Hannah Greely and William T. Wiley
at Parker Gallery
- Keith J. Varadi

David Hockney
at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (L.A. in N.Y.)
- Ashton Cooper

Edgar Arceneaux
at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (L.A. in S.F.)
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Issue 10 November 2017

Letter from the Editor Lindsay Preston Zappas
Barely Living with Art:
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Eli Diner
She Wanted Adventure:
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Catherine Wagley
The Languages of
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Lindsay Preston Zappas
L.A. Povera Travis Diehl
On Eclipses:
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Jessica Simmons
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Dianna Molzan, and Patrick Jackson
Lindsay Preston Zappas
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Ibid Gallery
One National Gay & Lesbian Archives and MOCA PDC
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at Smart Objects

Paul Mpagi Sepuya
at team bungalow

Ravi Jackson
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Tactility of Line
at Elevator Mondays

Trigger: Gender as a Tool as a Weapon
at the New Museum
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Issue 9 August 2017

Letter from the Editor Lindsay Preston Zappas
Women on the Plinth Catherine Wagley
Us & Them, Now & Then:
Reconstituting Group Material
Travis Diehl
The Offerings of EJ Hill
Ikechukwu Casmir Onyewuenyi
Interview with Jenni Sorkin Carmen Winant
Object Project
Featuring: Rebecca Morris,
Linda Stark, Alex Olson
Lindsay Preston Zappas
Photos by Jeff McClane
Reviews Mark Bradford
at the Venice Biennale

Broken Language
at Shulamit Nazarian

Artists of Color
at the Underground Museum

Anthony Lepore & Michael Henry Hayden
at Del Vaz Projects

Home
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Analia Saban at
Sprueth Magers
Letter to the Editor Lady Parts, Lady Arts
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Issue 8 May 2017

Letter from the Editor Lindsay Preston Zappas
Kanye Westworld Travis Diehl
@richardhawkins01 Thomas Duncan
Support Structures:
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Catherine Wagley
Interview with
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Eliza Swann
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Young Chung
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Jennie Jieun Lee
at The Pit

Trisha Baga
at 356 Mission

Jimmie Durham
at The Hammer

Parallel City
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Jason Rhodes
at Hauser & Wirth
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Letter from the Editor Lindsay Preston Zappas
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Put on a Happy Face:
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Travis Diehl
The Limits of Animality:
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Ikechukwu Casmir Onyewuenyi
More Wound Than Ruin:
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Jessica Simmons
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Rafa Esparza
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Reviews Creature
at The Broad

Sam Pulitzer & Peter Wachtler
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Karl Haendel
at Susanne Vielmetter

Wolfgang Tillmans
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Ma
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The Rat Bastard Protective Association
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Letter from the Editor Lindsay Preston Zappas
Kenneth Tam
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Travis Diehl
The Female
Cool School
Catherine Wagley
The Rise
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Art Witch
Amanda Yates Garcia
Interview with
Mernet Larsen
Julie Weitz
Agnes Martin
at LACMA
Jessica Simmons
Exquisite L.A.
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Ry Rocklen
Sarah Cain
Intro by Claressinka Anderson
Portraits by Joe Pugliese
Reviews
Made in L.A. 2016
at The Hammer Museum

Doug Aitken
at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA

Mertzbau
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Jean-Pascal Flavian and Mika Tajima
at Kayne Griffin Corcoran

Mark A. Rodruigez
at Park View

The Weeping Line
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Letter form the Editor Lindsay Preston Zappas
Non-Fiction
at The Underground Museum
Catherine Wagley
The Art of Birth Carmen Winant
Escape from Bunker Hill
John Knight
at REDCAT
Travis Diehl
Ed Boreal Speaks Benjamin Lord
Art Advice (from Men) Sarah Weber
Routine Pleasures
at the MAK Center
Jonathan Griffin
Exquisite L.A.
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John Baldessari
Claire Kennedy
Intro by Claressinka Anderson
Portraits by Joe Pugliese
Reviews Revolution in the Making
at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel

Carl Cheng
at Cherry and Martin

Joan Snyder
at Parrasch Heijnen Gallery

Elanor Antin
at Diane Rosenstein

Performing the Grid
at Ben Maltz Gallery
at Otis College of Art & Design

Laura Owens
at The Wattis Institute
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Letter from the Editor Lindsay Preston Zappas
Moon, laub, and Love Catherine Wagley
Walk Artisanal Jonathan Griffin
Reconsidering
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Inside the L.A. Artist
Anthony Pearson
Mystery Science Thater:
Diana Thater
at LACMA
Aaron Horst
Informal Feminisms Federica Bueti and Jan Verwoert
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Lita Albuquerque
Interiors and Interiority:
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Char Jansen
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Material Art Fair, Mexico City

Rain Room
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Evan Holloway
at David Kordansky Gallery

Histories of a Vanishing Present: A Prologue
at The Mistake Room

Carter Mull
at fused space
(L.A. in S.F.)

Awol Erizku
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Letter from the Editor Lindsay Preston Zappas
Le Louvre, Las Vegas Evan Moffitt
iPhones, Flesh,
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at Arturo Bandini
Lindsay Preston Zappas
Women Talking About Barney Catherine Wagley
Lingua Ignota:
Faith Wilding
at The Armory Center
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A Conversation
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Char Jansen
How We Practice Carmen Winant
Share Your Piece
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Federica Bueti
Amanda Ross-Ho Photographs
Erik Frydenborg
Reviews Honeydew
at Michael Thibault

Fred Tomaselli
at California State University, Fullerton

Trisha Donnelly
at Matthew Marks Gallery

Bradford Kessler
at ASHES/ASHES
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Letter from the Editor Lindsay Preston Zappas
Hot Tears Carmen Winant
Slow View:
Molly Larkey
Anna Breininger and Kate Whitlock
Americanicity's Paintings:
Orion Martin
at Favorite Goods
Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal
Layers of Leimert Park Catherine Wagley
Junkspace Junk Food:
Parker Ito
at Kaldi, Smart Objects,
White Cube, and
Château Shatto
Evan Moffitt
Melrose Hustle Keith Vaughn
Max Maslansky Photographs
Monica Majoli
at the Tom of Finland Foundation
White Lee, Black Lee:
William Pope.L’s "Reenactor"
Travis Diehl
Dora Budor Interview Char Jensen
Reviews Mary Ried Kelley
at The Hammer Museum

Tongues Untied
at MOCA Pacific Design Center

No Joke
at Tanya Leighton
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Body Parts I-V at ASHES ASHES
Eve Fowler at Mier Gallery
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Art for Art’s Sake:
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Anthony Pearson
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at François Ghebaly
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Mateo Tannatt
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Slow View:
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Anna Breininger
with Julian Rogers
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at LACMA

Mernet Larsen
at Various Small Fires

John Currin
at Gagosian, Beverly Hills

Pat O'Niell
at Cherry and Martin

A New Rhythm
at Park View

Unwatchable Scenes and
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Charles Gaines
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Henry Taylor
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Scratching at the Moon at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Scratching at the Moon (installation view) (2024). Image courtesy of the artists and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Photo: Jeff McLane.

Upon entering the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles’ (ICA LA) expansive atrium, visitors are greeted by Michelle Lopez’s Correctional Lighting (2024), a monumental highway lamp that swings haphazardly in a circle, its weight delicately counterbalanced by a resin-cast cinder block. The lamp casts a lighthouse beam that illuminates the diverse collection of artworks on view, which together complicate and widen our understanding of “Asian American” as both a term and an identity. By engaging their diasporic experiences of mutual connection and support, the thirteen intergenerational artists featured in Scratching at the Moon reflect on how communities evolve over time, acknowledging what is passed down through lineages and what is lost in translation.

Tucked away in a dark enclave is the video installation Hotel (2024) by Korean American artist Na Mira, which pays tribute to the artist’s creative ancestors. Corner set mirrors bounce projected videos of the artist Hanna Hur running in a ritualistic spiral through the desolate Bonaventure Hotel in Downtown L.A. Meanwhile, a lone radio hauntly emits the upbeat and clerical voices of L.A.’s 1540 AM Radio Korea. As Hur traces diminishing circles, she gestures toward a portal that links life and death, acknowledging how they inform one other. Mira’s spiritual practice conjures a cosmic awareness of her forbearers—namely, Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. In Hotel, Mira draws upon Cha’s final unfinished film, White Dust from Mongolia (1980), as source material, borrowing characters from Cha’s script and consulting her archives for direction in an effort to continue breathing life into the multitude of directions her work could have taken. Mira’s intent is not to complete Cha’s work but to honor her spirit of fragmentation, dancing somewhere between retrieving the past and actively writing the present. 

While Mira’s work builds a bridge to artist networks beyond our physical reach, Scratching at the Moon also underscores the profound impact of diasporic communities on our local L.A. art and culture. Occupying an entire gallery, the work of Korean American artists Yong Soon Min and Young Chung offers poignant insight into not only their student-mentor relationship, but also their overlapping and disparate diasporic experiences. Chung presents Not By Birth (1996/2023), a series of black-and-white portraits memorializing biological and chosen family members. In a photograph titled Ssaem, an informal term for “teacher” in Korean, Min, Chung’s professor in the ’90s, wears a kindhearted smile and crosses her arms self-assuredly. In the wake of Min’s recent passing, the image becomes even more sentimental, speaking to the importance of intergenerational camaraderie.1 Lining the adjacent wall, Min’s Defining Moments (1992) comprises six black-and-white self-portraits etched with words and numbers representing historical dates significant to her identity.

As a self-proclaimed “Cold War baby”2 who immigrated to California at the age of seven, Min grew up between two cultures, in her own words, “feeling…half-home both as an American and as a Korean.”3 Both Min and Chung reflect on the specificity of Korean American culture in Los Angeles, which is home to the largest population of Koreans outside of Korea—one of Min’s portraits, for instance, refers to the 1992 L.A. riots and the subsequent racism and violence faced by the Korean American community. While Chung’s “self-portrait” pays tribute to those who have had a direct impact, honoring Min’s legacy in education and art,4 Min’s construction of self is built upon her historical lineage and collapses timelines between generations and continents.

Whether directly showcasing the intimacies and camaraderie between a network of individual artists or reaching further to honor the histories that continue to actively transform and shape our shared diasporic identity, the artists in Scratching at the Moon make our entanglements visible, embodying the multiplicity of the term “Asian American” and nullifying the fallacy that we exist as a monolithic group.5

Scratching at the Moon runs from February 10–July 28, 2024 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1717 E. 7th St., Los Angeles, CA 90021).

Young Chung, China Doll, King (Saigu), Mamasan, and Papasan from Not By Birth (installation view) (1996/2023). Five archival pigment prints mounted to Dibond in lacquered aluminum frames, 24.25 x 18.25 x 1.5 inches each. Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, Mexico City. Photo: Jeff McLane.

Na Mira, Hotel (installation view) (2024). Two-channel 16mm film transfer (black and white, silent, 1 minute and 33 seconds; black and white, silent, 2 minutes and 58 seconds); HD video (sound, 26 minutes and 56 seconds); transmitter; radio; mirror; and paint; installation dimensions variable. Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist and Paul Soto, Los Angeles. Photo: Jeff McLane.

Na Mira, Hotel (installation view) (2024). Two-channel 16mm film transfer (black and white, silent, 1 minute and 33 seconds; black and white, silent, 2 minutes and 58 seconds); HD video (sound, 26 minutes and 56 seconds); transmitter; radio; mirror; and paint; installation dimensions variable. Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist and Paul Soto, Los Angeles. Photo: Jeff McLane.

Scratching at the Moon (installation view) (2024). Image courtesy of the artists and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Photo: Jeff McLane.

Scratching at the Moon (installation view) (2024). Image courtesy of the artists and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Photo: Jeff McLane.

Scratching at the Moon (installation view) (2024). Image courtesy of the artists and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Photo: Jeff McLane.

Dean Sameshima, Traces (no.1) (installation view) (1990/2023). Eight archival inkjet prints on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag paper, 16.5 x 23.5 inches each unframed. Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist; Kristine Kite Gallery, Los
Angeles; and Soft Opening, London. Photo: Jeff McLane.

Amanda Ross-Ho, Untitled Waste Image (HEAVY DUTY) and Untitled Prop Archive (THE PORTFOLIO) (installation view) (both 2023). Duratex transparency print in custom lightbox, 74 x 60 x 5 inches; Reproduction Magnolia Street Kitchen Table (154.84%) (Combination core plywood, ash end-grain veneer with fleece backer, plank matched plain-sliced maple veneer, steel surface mount corner brackets, oil and hard wax finish) and pre-owned, modified, prop objects sourced from the online marketplace, 56 x 96 x 46ó inches. Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York. Photo: Jeff McLane.

Scratching at the Moon (installation view) (2024). Image courtesy of the artists and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Photo: Jeff McLane.

Anna Sew Hoy, Multitude Wall (installation view) (2023). Button-down shirts and safety pins, installation dimensions variable.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, Mexico City. Photo: Jeff McLane.

  1. Sigourney Schultz, “Yong Soon Min, Intrepid Korean-American Artist, Dies at 70,” Hyperallergic, March 19, 2024, https://hyperallergic.com/878620/yong-soon-min-intrepid-korean-american-artist-dies-at-70/.
  2. Yong Soon Min, “Biography,” accessed April 9, 2024, https://www.yongsoonmin.com/biography/.
  3. Mary Akamine, “Artist Yong Soon Min: Blending politics with art,” The International Examiner, 1990, accessed April 9, 2024, https://www.yongsoonmin.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/ysm-aboutysm-1990-TheInternationalExaminer.pdf.
  4. Min’s teachings profoundly affected Chung, who founded the gallery Commonwealth and Council in 2010 and has gone on to mentor a generation of emerging artists of color in L.A., some of whom are included in this exhibition.
  5. Connie Hanzhang Jin, “6 Charts That Dismantle The Trope Of Asian Americans As A Model Minority,” NPR, May 25, 2021, https://www.npr.org/2021/05/25/999874296/6-charts-that-dismantle-the-trope-of-asian-americans-as-a-model-minority.

Sigourney Schultz is an L.A.-based art writer. She holds an MA in Art History from Hunter College in New York City.

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