Venison Picks: Best of 2015

Nazish Chunara’s Picks: Nora Ruzsics & Emmerich Weissenberger opening at 18th Street Art Center in Los Angeles, CA. April-May 2015. SIGNALS are artworks that are being created during this journey and will be brought to Austria and other countries as the ART EMBASSY, a documentary film recorded of the journey. It is important to the artists, that current messages will be constantly…

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How to Give a Shit No 4

Do yoga in a room with art installed. Insipid bourgeois cliché? Worry not, we’re all clichés. It’s only absurd when described, but beautiful in the moment. In warrior one , I can see my own painting above our living room couch. It’s a four-by-four-foot abstract with muted greens and blues. It’s whatever. In warrior two,…

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How to Give a Shit No 8

Back when I first had the idea for this series, I had only been in Los Angeles for about a year, and I was having trouble finding art with what I call “spirit”. Because I didn’t know much about the scene, I didn’t really know where to look for work that felt as if it could…

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Vital at Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati

Manifest Gallery 2727 Woodburn Ave Cincinnati, OH 45206, USA​Opening reception |Friday November 11, 6 -10 p.m. ​Exhibition dates | November 11th  December 9thGallery hours: Tues – Fri, Noon – 7pm Sat, Noon – 5pm or by special appointment This exhibition of Margaret Smithers-Crump’s work is one of 8 selected from among 137 proposals submitted for…

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Will Caron

​Tell me a bit about the role of art in your life and when you found an interest in illustration. I look at art–broadly, across disciplines–as a pathway or a conduit toward an altered consciousness. Even before I knew what that meant, I could still feel it, and I think that’s true of anyone. ​As…

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How to Give a Shit No 1

I am sitting in a small theater within the Orange County Museum of Art on Friday, April 15th between two of my favorite artists, my girlfriend Maja Ruznic and one of my closest friends Kim Kei. We’re watching the new documentary “Eva Hesse” while eating some sweet and sour turkey jerky that we snuck in, and sobbing. We’re watching the…

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How to Give a Shit

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…

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Jennifer Huang

Jennifer Huang just finished her first year at the Art Institute of Chicago. If you have been an avid Venison Magazine reader you might recognize Jennifer’s name. She has been involved with Venison since our founding through her previous involvement in the collective Weeknight Rodeo from which we originated. This feature comes in two parts, a…

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