The first time I met Yulia, I was still a student at UC Berkeley and Yulia was an artist in residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts. I remember touring her studio in admiration and wide-eyed wonder. She was living the artist journey that I dreamed of, so I picked up her business card…
How To Give a Shit is a monthly column by artist Joshua Hagler, which explores art in Los Angeles in funny and unconventional ways. Passing through rooms of artschoolish sculptures and videos, eventually I come to the first paintings in the Made in LA Biennial at the Hammer Museum. They are photo realistic depictions of various website screens with…
When I look at your work, I see of glimpses of intimacy — at times they are absurd or cause discomfort, but the intention is earnest. What do you want your work to do, to evoke in a viewer or participant? My partner once looked at my work and told me he thought my work…
Where is your studio space? What is it like in there? My studio is in Gothenburg in Sweden. It’s located in an industrial area not far from the sea. From my window, I can see some old boats and the bridge which leads to the city center on the other side.My studio is a composition…
Above a girl who sits on a floor, is a ball suspended in air. Her arms are raised. The question of whether she threw it or is ready to catch escapes your mind because of the way in which time doesn’t exist here. In stillness, raised arms can only accept the invisible; there is no…
You were there on that shocking night. I saw you. With a few of your friends nearby, you sat on a plastic chair or a couch or on the floor talking loudly and laughing at jokes while eating pizza or cookies or drinking an alcoholic beverage. You might have even gone ahead and opened a…
Tides is a series of wearable garments by Amabelle Aguiluz, whose work we’ve been following since the beginning of the year. Her influences very much derive from bodies of water and the organisms that live in them. From the first time I saw her work at Art Share LA to her collaborative residency with Szalt Dance Co and their…
Basement Gallery Announces art opening, work by Edwards Symes, curated by Anja Ulfedt. Opening Friday October 9th, 7-9pm
I had found out about Matt Hall’s work, like so many other artists I have found recently, through Instagram. I loved the way he was combining traditional skeletal articulation and conceptual ideas. Pouring over the sculptures and cabinets on his website, I saw little hints of Joseph Cornell, Mark Dion, and a sort of Mellvinian…
SUBJECT: Corporate Art Opportunity Dear Idiot Artist, Would you like to put a whole bunch of your art in a corporate lobby for the people who work there to admire/ignore for a full year? If so, we’ll pay you 1,000 to 2,000 dollars per year–that’s PER YEAR–depending on the size of the lobby. But wait,…
