Issue 38 November 2024

(Re)claiming Sanctity

Harmony Holiday’s
Black Backstage
—Shameekia Shantel Johnson

To Live and Work in L.A.

The Recent Rise of
Alternative Art Spaces
—Keith J. Varadi

Collective Memory and
Coded Histories at the 60th
Venice Biennale

—Jenny Wu

Interview with
Andra Nadirshah and
Stevie Soares

—Molly Larkey

Michael Oxley Wants
to Show You Something

Photography & Interview:
Brandon Tauszik

Reviews

Jordan Strafer
at the Hammer Museum
—Laura Brown

Keith Mayerson
at Karma
—Alexander Schneider

Robert Andy Coombs
at ONE Archives
at the USC Libraries
—Philip Anderson

Tamara Cedré
at the California
Museum of Photography
—April Baca

Dogs & Dads
at Diane Rosenstein
—Aaron Boehmer

(L.A. in São Paulo)
Catherine Opie
at Museu de Arte
de São Paulo
—Mateus Nunes

Issue 37 August 2024

Sirens in New Pitches

Immersive Art and Violence
—Isabella Miller

The Connective Role
of Art in UCLA’s
Pro-Palestine Encampment

—Aidann Gruwell, Alex Bushnell,
Alex Yang, Katherine Sanchez,
and Ricky Shi

Interview with
Sofía Córdova

—Carmen Winant

Works in Progress

Featuring: Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Photos: Leah Rom

Reviews

Annabeth Marks
at Parker Gallery
—Natasha Boyd

Maura Brewer
at Canary Test
—Sampson Ohringer

Familial Technologies
at Commonwealth
and Council
—Ashlyn Ashbaugh

Bruce Richards
at Sea View
—India Mandelkern

Maya Buffett-Davis
at Soldes
—Hannah Tishkoff

(L.A. in N.Y.)
Jesse Stecklow
at Dracula’s Revenge
—Jenny Wu

Issue 36 May 2024

Defying Narrative
Containment, for
E.L. and Others

–Maya Gurantz

Does it Move You?

How to Look at Art,
According to
the Late Robert Irwin
–Janelle Zara

From Earthwork
to Test Plot

Transdisciplinary Approaches
to Ecological Reparation
–Emma Kemp

Interview with
Paulina Lara

–Joseph Daniel Valencia

Works in Progress

Featuring: Soo Kim
Photos: Leah Rom

Reviews

Teddy Sandoval and
the Butch Gardens
School of Art
at the Vincent Price
Art Museum
–Philip Anderson

Lex Brown
at Bel Ami
–Isabella Miller

Hugh Hayden
at Lisson Gallery
–Alexander Schneider

Diana Yesenia Alvarado
at Jeffrey Deitch
–Eva Recinos

(L.A. in N.Y.)
Cauleen Smith
at 52 Walker
–Shameekia Shantel
Johnson

(L.A. in São Paulo)
Candice Lin
at Almeida & Dale
–Mateus Nunes

Carla en Español

Issue 35 February 2024

CalArts and
the Rediscovery of
the Feminist Art
Program

–Catherine Wagley

Made in L.A. 2023:
Acts of Living

Formulas for Doing
the Right Thing
–Yxta Maya Murray

Dominique Moody
as Citizen Architect
–Tina Barouti

Refusing
Identification,
Not Identity:
Contemporary Positions
in Abstraction

–Jonathan Griffin

Interview with
Elmer Guevara

–Sigourney Schultz

Works in Progress
Featuring: Sharif Farrag

Photos: Leah Rom

Reviews

Sun Woo
at Make Room
–Claudia Ross

Alex Da Corte
at Matthew Marks
Gallery
–Isabella Miller

MUXXXE
at Long Beach City
College Art Gallery
–Thomas J. Stanton

Yalda Afsah
at JOAN
–Caroline Ellen Liou

A Project Curated
by Artists: 15 Years of ACP
at Morán Morán
–Natasha Boyd

Carla en Español

Issue 34 November 2023

Our Visuality:
Abortion Care Work
and Photography

–Carmen Winant

Tuning In and
Dropping Out:
Spiritual Frontiers in
Recent Art and Curation

–Isabella Miller

Inhabiting the
In-Between:
Silke Otto-Knapp’s
Permeable Worlds

–Jessica Simmons-Reid

Interview with
Devon Tsuno

–Ana Iwataki

Works in Progress
Featuring: Tanya Aguiñiga

Photos: Leah Rom

Reviews

Alberta Whittle
at the Institute of
Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles
–Alitzah Oros

Urs Fischer
at Gagosian
–Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi

for the sake of
dancing in the street
at OXY ARTS
–Nahui Garcia

Van Leo
at the Hammer
Museum
–Christie Hayden

(L.A. in Mexico City)
Nancy Lupo
at Morán Morán
–Lee Purvey

Carla en Español

Issue 33 August 2023

Absurd, Mischievous,
and Hoaxy:
Horvitz, Cadere,
and Artist Estates

–Tina Barouti

Horsepower:
Rethinking the Equine
in Contemporary Art

–Isabella Miller

Dawoud Bey’s
Somatic Landscapes

–Jessica Simmons-Reid

Interview with
Alison O’Daniel

–Irina Gusin

L.A. Harvest
Featuring: iris yirei hu, Paige Emery,
and Gerald Clarke

Photos: Paloma Dooley

Reviews

Olga Balema
at Hannah Hoffman
Gallery
–Alec Recinos

Anthony Olubunmi
Akinbola
at Night Gallery
–Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi

Wayfinding
at Craft Contemporary
–Rachel Elizabeth Jones

Chase Biado
at The Pit Los Angeles
–Justin Duyao

(L.A. in N.Y.)
Lauren Halsey
at The Metropolitan
Museum of Art
–Donasia Tillery

(L.A. in London)
Francesca Gabbiani
at Cedric Bardawil
–Rosa Tyhurst

Carla en Español

Issue 32 June 2023

The Ache of Rebellion:
Nan Goldin’s
Chosen Family

–Jessica Simmons-Reid

Another Kind of Freedom
Milford Graves and
the Art of Interconnectivity

–Thomas Duncan

Gathering Around
What We Love:
On Increased Institutional Interest
in Black Figuration

–Neyat Yohannes

Interview with
Elliott Hundley

–Sampson Ohringer

L.A. Harvest
Featuring: Emma Robbins,
Sam Shoemaker, and
Paul Mpagi Sepuya

Photos: Paloma Dooley

Reviews

Justen LeRoy
at Art + Practice
–Allison Noelle Conner

Esther Pearl Watson
at Vielmetter Los Angeles
–Justin Duyao

Mungo Thomson
at Karma
–Isabella Miller

Muscle Memory
at The Fulcrum
–Erin F. O’Leary

Bhabha Williams
at David Kordansky Gallery
–Reuben Merringer

Entanglements
at Hollyhock House
–Christie Hayden

Carla en Español

Issue 31 February 2023

The Scatological
Disembodiment of Tala
Madani’s Shit Mom

–Jessica Simmons-Reid

The Power of Objects:
On Afro-Atlantic Histories
at LACMA

–Yxta Maya Murray

Anachronism and
Apocalypse:
Notes on the
Contemporary Medieval

–Isabella Miller

Interview with
rafa esparza

–stephanie mei huang

L.A. Harvest
Featuring: Evan Walsh &
Alika Cooper, Esteban Schimpf,
and Crenshaw Dairy Mart

Photos: Paloma Dooley

Reviews

Lauren Bon and
the Metabolic Studio
at Pitzer College
Art Galleries
–Nick Earhart

a time to tear and
a time to mend
at Wönzimer
–Donasia Tillery

Maria Maea
at Murmurs
–Tina Barouti

The New Bend
at Hauser & Wirth
–Isabelle Rust

Chris Warr
at Phase Gallery
–Serena Caffrey

(L.A. in London)
John Knight
at Cabinet
–Rosa Tyhurst

Carla en Español

Issue 30 November 2022

Opacity and the Spill:
The Photographs of
Clifford Prince King, Shikeith,
and Paul Mpagi Sepuya

–Allison Noelle Conner

Andrea Bowers:
An Ethos of Resistance

–Jessica Simmons-Reid

Lumbung in Los Angeles

–Julie Weitz

Interview with
Amia Yokoyama

–Yves B. Golden

L.A. Harvest
Featuring: Diane Williams,
Heather Rasmussen, and Mimi Lauter

Photos: Paloma Dooley

Reviews

Kaari Upson
at Sprüth Magers
–Isabella Miller

Nadia Lee Cohen
at Jeffrey Deitch
–Erin F. O’Leary

Wendy Park
at Various Small Fires
–Neyat Yohannes

Paul McCarthy
at Hauser & Wirth
–Janelle Zara

L.A. Memo: Chicana/o
Art from 1972–1989
at LA Plaza de
Cultura y Artes
–Rosa Tyhurst

(L.A. in Venice, Italy)
Kelly Akashi
at Barbati Gallery
–Vanessa Holyoak

Carla en Español

Issue 29 August 2022

Going Back:
Kevin Beasley and the Power
of Homecoming

–Allison Noelle Conner

From Both Sides
of the Lens:
Ulysses Jenkins'
Self-Reflexive Video Practice

–Neyat Yohannes

Sara Cwynar and
the Texture of
Digital Pictures

–Erin F. O'Leary

Existing is Resisting:
AAPI Artists at Work

–Vanessa Holyoak

Interview with
Genevieve Gaignard

–Colony Little

Reviews

Derek Fordjour
at David Kordansky Gallery
–Amy Mutza

Jimena Sarno
at the Los Angeles State
Historic Park
–Hande Sever

Pool at JOAN
–Nahui Garcia

Ei Arakawa
at Overduin & Co.
–Niall Murphy

EXTRACTION:
Earth, Ashes, Dust
at the Torrance Art Museum
–Alitzah Oros

Jacci Den Hartog
at STARS
–Irina Gusin

Carla en Español

Issue 28 May 2022

The Performance
Artist and
the Politican

–Julie Weitz

Turn and Return
The Artist's Practice
During Trauma

–Beth Pickens

In Formation
How Early SoCal Feminist Artists
Forged their Identities through
Collaborative Practice

Ashton Cooper

Interview with
Tidawhitney Lek

–Tina Barouti

Tertiary
On Workers, Pictures,
and Power

–Rodrigo Valenzuela

Reviews

Who is it that I am writing for?
at Certain Fallacies
–Vanessa Holyoak

Clarissa Tossin
at Commonwealth
and Council
–Reuben Merringer

Dale Brockman Davis
at Matter Studio Gallery
–Georgia Lassner

Alicia Piller
at Track 16
–Renée Reizman

(L.A. in Manchester)
Suzanne Lacy
at the Whitworth and
Manchester Art Gallery
–Rosa Tyhurst

(L.A. in Long Island)
Mis/Communication:
Language and Power in
Contemporary Art
at Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery
–Diana Seo Hyung Lee

Carla en Español

Issue 27 February 2022

I Don't Think I Belong
On Niki de Saint Phalle's
(Auto)biography)

–Catherine Wagley

Time After Time

–Melissa Lo

Abundant Frequencies
Black Abstraction
in Motion

–Nneka Jackson

Dreaming the Neighborhood
The Communal Visions
of Pipilotti Rist

–Vanessa Holyoak

Interview with
Haena Yoo

–stephanie mei huang

So Close Right Now

–Ian Byers-Gamber

Reviews

Devin Troy Strother
at The Pit
–Neyat Yohannes

Katherina Olschbaur
at Nicodim Gallery
–Lindsay Preston Zappas

Sam Richardson
at Human Resources
–Erin F. O'Leary

Umar Rashid
at Blum & Poe
–Reuben Merringer

(L.A. in France)
Ser Serpas
at Balice Hertling
–Rosa Tyhurst

Carla en Español

Issue 26 November 2021

Raul Guerrero’s
Deflated Mythologies

–Catherine Wagley

How virtual care lab
Builds Community
in Online Spaces

–Ceci Moss

Artists Examining Themselves
On Nao Bustamante’s Speculum

–Neyat Yohannes

Interview with L. Frank

–Julie Weitz

Exquisite L.A.
Featuring: Yves B. Golden,
Amanda Harris Williams,
and Lauren Halsey

–Claressinka Anderson
Photos: Joe Pugliese

Reviews

Kenneth Tam
at ICA LA
–Joseph Daniel Valencia

The Going Away Present
at Kristina Kite Gallery
–Reuben Merringer

Aria Dean
at REDCAT
–Aaron Horst

Eliza Douglas
at Overduin & Co.
– Renée Reizman

Lee Bontecou
and Michelle Stuart
at Marc Selwyn Fine Art
–Peter Frank

(L.A. in S.F.)
Julie Weitz
at The Contemporary
Jewish Museum
–Amy Mutza
and Ariel Zaccheo

Carla en Español

Issue 25 August 2021

Eating the Self:
Arnold J. Kemp's Hungry Hydras

–Allison Noelle Conner

More than Not:
LACMA's "Not I" and
the Necessity of History

–Melissa Lo

Learn From This Community:
Resisting Hierarchy through
a Return to Community Arts

–Catherine Wagley

Interview with
Taylor Renee Aldridge

–Eva Recinos

Exquisite L.A.
Featuring: Kang Seung Lee,
Leslie Dick, and Amia Yokoyama

–Claressinka Anderson
Photos: Joe Pugliese

Reviews

Sessa Englund
at Hunter Shaw Fine Art
–Matt Stromberg

Em Kettner
at François Ghebaly
–Lindsay Preston Zappas

Beverly Fishman
at GAVLAK
–Neyat Yohannes

Marisa Takal
at Night Gallery
–Nick Earhart

"Intergalactix: against isolation/
contra el aislamiento"
at LACE
–Nahui Garcia

"If it's good for you,
it's fine by me"
at Real Pain
–Sampson Ohringer

Carla en Español

Issue 24 May 2021

Hidden Archives
L.A.'s Historic-Cultural Monuments and the Women They Leave Out

–Neyat Yohannes

Zombie(s in Candy)land
Sula Bermúdez-Silverman's Sugar and Salt

–stephanie mei huang

On Making Photographs in a Surveillance State

–Erin F. O'Leary

Correcting the Record to Preserve It
The Art of the Intersectional Archive

–Catherine Wagley

Interview with Cauleen Smith

–Madeleine Seidel

Exquisite L.A.: Featuring Lila de Magalhaes, Young Joon Kwak, and Beatriz Cortez

–Claressinka Anderson
Photos: Joe Pugliese

Reviews

Sarah Rosalena Brady at Blum & Poe
–Allison Noelle Conner

Alex Prager at LACMA
–Travis Diehl

Richard Tuttle at David Kordansky Gallery; Stanley Whitney at Matthew Marks Gallery
–Jessica Simmons

Xylor Jane at Parrasch Heijnen
–Matt Stromberg

(L.A. in N.Y.)
Thomas Fougeirol | Tony Marsh at albertz benda
–Leah Ollman

(L.A. in N.Y.)
Becky Kolsrud at JTT
–Anthony Hawley

Carla En Español

Issue 23 February 2021

Your Turn, My Turn, Our Turn
How Christine Sun Kim Reimagines Sound

–Allison Noelle Conner

Bodies that Move
On Process Over Product

–Catherine Wagley

Interview with Brianna Rose Brooks

–Neyat Yohannes

Made in L.A. 2020: a version

Crosstown Traffic
–Matt Stromberg
Kahlil Joseph's BLKNWS
–Nahui Garcia

Reviews

Ben Sanders
at Ochi Projects
–Aaron Horst

Sean Townley
at Kristina Kite Gallery
–Travis Diehl

Carrie Cook
at Tyler Park Presents
–Lauren Maya Ford

(L.A. in S.F.)
Candice Lin
at Friends Indeed
–stephanie mei huang

Carla en Español

Issue 22 November 2020

Maija Peeples-Bright's Anti-Hierarchical Utopias and the Art of World-Building

–Catherine Wagley

The Lighthouse
Drinking the Fuel/On the Rocks

–Travis Diehl

The Glitch Strikes Back
Legacy Russell's Feminist Manifesto

–Allison Noelle Conner

Linda Stark's Covert Emotion

–Lindsay Preston Zappas

Interview with Patty Chang

–stephanie mei huang

Reviews

WE LIVE!
Memories of Resistance
at Oxy Arts
–Joseph Daniel Valencia

Colleen Hargaden
at Hunter Shaw Fine Art
–Hannah Sage Kay

Duke Riley
at Charlie James Gallery
–Matt Stromberg

Amir H. Fallah
at Shulamit Nazarian
–Aaron Horst

Cody Critcheloe
at The Gallery @
–Gracie Hadland

Carla en Español

Issue 21 August 2020

Days of Take

–Travis Diehl

A Chinese Cure

–stephanie mei huang

Where is Our Reckoning?

–Catherine Wagley

Forged by Fire
How a Ceramic Studio is Creating a Radical Community

–Eva Recinos

Ground Control
Picturing Land Use in the Uninhabitable Desert of Los Angeles

–Paloma Dooley

Reviews

Films for Escapism
at Women's Center for Creative Work
–Allison Noelle Conner

Guadalupe Rosales
at Los Angeles Nomadic Division
–Matt Stromberg

Paul Mpagi Sepuya
at Vielmetter Los Angeles
–Erin F. O'Leary

Simone Leigh
at David Kordansky Gallery
–Jessica Simmons

(L.A. in S.F.)
Stimulus
at Guerrero Gallery
–Ariel Zaccheo

Carla en Español

Issue 20 May 2020

Spiritual Coroner:
Gala Porras-Kim

–Travis Diehl

New New Images of Man

–Catherine Wagley

Catastrophe

–Jessica Simmons

Walking in L.A.

–Aaron Horst

Carla,
a Timeline in 5 Years

Art in Isolation Interviews

Diedrick Brackens, Amy Bessone, Julia Haft-Candell, Ry Rocklen, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Lita Albuquerque
–Lindsay Preston Zappas

Reviews

Michael Ray
at Philip Martin Gallery
–Keith J. Varadi

Alex Anderson
at GAVLAK
–Julie Weitz

All of Them Witches
at Jeffrey Deitch
–Michael Wright

Ree Morton
at ICA LA
–Molly Larkey

Rodrigo Valenzuela
at Klowden Mann
–Matt Stromberg

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
at the Huntington
–Jennifer Remenchik

Gallery Viewing Room

Angels Gate Cultural Center,
Big Pictures Los Angeles,
Blum & Poe, Bridge Projects, Charlie James Gallery, Feuilleton, Five Car Garage, Klowden Mann, Moskowitz Bayse, Nicodim Gallery, Parrasch Heijnen, Philip Martin Gallery, Regen Projects, Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, The Pit, Wilding Cran Gallery

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.
–Matt Stromberg
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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
–Rosa Tyhurst
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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
–Jessica Simmons

(L.A. in N.Y.)
Shahryar Nashat
at Swiss Institute
–Christie Hayden
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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
Rosha Yaghmai Laura Brown
Exquisite L.A.
Featuring: Patrick Martinez,
Ramiro Gomez, and John Valadez Claressinka Anderson
Joe Pugliese
Reviews Outliers and American
Vanguard Art at LACMA
–Jonathan Griffin

Sperm Cult
at LAXART
–Matt Stromberg

Kahlil Joseph
at MOCA PDC
–Jessica Simmons

Ingrid Luche
at Ghebaly Gallery
–Lindsay Preston Zappas

Matt Paweski
at Park View / Paul Soto
–John Zane Zappas

Trenton Doyle Hancock
at Shulamit Nazarian
–Colony Little

(L.A. in N.Y.)
Catherine Opie
at Lehmann Maupin
–Angella d'Avignon
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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
Photos: Joe Pugliese
Reviews Raúl de Nieves
at Freedman Fitzpatrick
-Aaron Horst

Gertrud Parker
at Parker Gallery
-Ashton Cooper

Robert Yarber
at Nicodim Gallery
-Jonathan Griffin

Nikita Gale
at Commonwealth & Council
-Simone Krug

Lari Pittman
at Regen Projects
-Matt Stromberg

(L.A. in N.Y.)
Eckhaus Latta
at the Whitney Museum
of American Art
-Angella d'Avignon
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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
Jennifer Remenchik
Aaron Horst
Exquisite L.A.
Featuring: Anna Sew Hoy, Guadalupe Rosales, and Shizu Saldamando Claressinka Anderson
Photos: Joe Pugliese
Reviews It's Snowing in LA
at AA|LA
–Matthew Lax

Fiona Conner
at the MAK Center
–Thomas Duncan

Show 2
at The Gallery @ Michael's
–Simone Krug

Deborah Roberts
at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
–Ikechukwu Casmir Onyewuenyi

Mimi Lauter
at Blum & Poe
–Jessica Simmons

(L.A. in N.Y.)
Math Bass
at Mary Boone
–Ashton Cooper

(L.A. in N.Y.)
Condo New York
–Laura Brown
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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
Object Project
Featuring Suné Woods, Michelle Dizon,
and Yong Soon Min Lindsay Preston Zappas
Photos: Jeff McLane
Reviews Meleko Mokgosi
at The Fowler Museum at UCLA
-Jessica Simmons

Chris Kraus
at Chateau Shatto
- Aaron Horst

Ben Sanders
at Ochi Projects
- Matt Stromberg

iris yirei hsu
at the Women's Center
for Creative Work
- Hana Cohn

Harald Szeemann
at the Getty Research Institute
- Olivian Cha

Ali Prosch
at Bed and Breakfast
- Jennifer Remenchik

Reena Spaulings
at Matthew Marks
- Thomas Duncan
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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
- Aaron Horst

Adrián Villas Rojas
at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
- Lindsay Preston Zappas

Nevine Mahmoud
at M+B
- Angella D'Avignon

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
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Issue 10 November 2017

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Barely Living with Art:
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She Wanted Adventure:
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The Languages of
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Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA
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One National Gay & Lesbian Archives and MOCA PDC
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Paul Mpagi Sepuya
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Ravi Jackson
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Tactility of Line
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Trigger: Gender as a Tool as a Weapon
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Letter from the Editor Lindsay Preston Zappas
Women on the Plinth Catherine Wagley
Us & Them, Now & Then:
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The Offerings of EJ Hill
 Ikechukwu Casmir Onyewuenyi
Interview with Jenni Sorkin Carmen Winant
Object Project
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Broken Language
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Artists of Color
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Anthony Lepore & Michael Henry Hayden
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Home
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Analia Saban at
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Kanye Westworld Travis Diehl
@richardhawkins01 Thomas Duncan
Support Structures:
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Exquisite L.A.
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Young Chung
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Parallel City
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Jason Rhodes
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Letter to the Editor
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Issue 7 February 2017

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Generous
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Put on a Happy Face:
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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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Sam Pulitzer & Peter Wachtler
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Karl Haendel
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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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The Female
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The Rise
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Art Witch Amanda Yates Garcia
Interview with
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Agnes Martin
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Exquisite L.A.
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 Made in L.A. 2016
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Doug Aitken
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Mertzbau
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Jean-Pascal Flavian and Mika Tajima
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Mark A. Rodruigez
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The Weeping Line
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Non-Fiction
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The Art of Birth Carmen Winant
Escape from Bunker Hill
John Knight
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Ed Boreal Speaks Benjamin Lord
Art Advice (from Men) Sarah Weber
Routine Pleasures
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Carl Cheng
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Joan Snyder
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Elanor Antin
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Performing the Grid
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Moon, laub, and Love Catherine Wagley
Walk Artisanal Jonathan Griffin
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Material Art Fair, Mexico City

Rain Room
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Evan Holloway
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Histories of a Vanishing Present: A Prologue
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Carter Mull
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Awol Erizku
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Women Talking About Barney Catherine Wagley
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A New Rhythm
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Unwatchable Scenes and
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Works in Progress: Sharif Farrag

April 16, 2024

Text by Leah Rom

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Last June, ceramic artist Sharif Farrag set up his first private studio in a former coffee roaster in L.A.’s Fashion District —a space with enough power to run his heat-hungry kilns. His working style is unabashed and fast, like balancing as many grocery bags as you can in both arms. Often bedecked with figurines and broken-off chunks of “failed” pieces, Farrag’s works aren’t always finished when they come out of the kiln.

“The speed of the clay puts pressure on me to make decisions. It’s a perfect recipe for improvisation, for getting things out of me that I don’t necessarily understand—parts of me that I don’t have access to all the time.”

“If I don’t take care of my work, it bites me back. If I start a piece and then I don’t care for it, it just dries. But I never let it go to waste—I break the cool parts off and just fire them separately. And they’ll end up on something one day.”

“My life is at the pace of clay. It makes me feel proud to live a life that is determined by my craft. I’m happy to be involved in a medium that keeps me involved all the time.”

This essay was originally published in Carla issue 35.

Leah Rom is a Los Angeles-based photographer.

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