Email Author Catherine Wagley

Awards

• 2013 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  "The Art of NASCAR"

• 2013 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  "Disney Demo"

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2012 Stories by Catherine Wagley

• Hypnotist sculptor

  published October 11, 2012

  Before LACMA officially opened its Resnick Pavilion in 2010, when the building had no interior walls, the museum installed a 50-meter-long floor... More >>

• A good excuse for flowers

  published November 1, 2012

  "As soon as everyone knew about his fisting photographs, his lilies gained an edge," curator Edward Steichen once said, remembering how Robert... More >>

• Cars and shorts

  published December 20, 2012

  Greta Magnusson Grossman, the designer who became famous for designing a cushioned crib for Sweden's Princess Birgitta and went on to design... More >>

• Video-art arcade

  published November 15, 2012

  "Welcome to the New Dark Age," says a sinister little monster who looks like a swamp-colored cloud with feet. His multicolored doppelgangers bop... More >>

• Comic book nightmares

  published December 6, 2012

  In the early 1990s, artist Jim Shaw began drawing his dreams the morning after. His Dream Drawings usually look sort of like pages out of a... More >>

• Steel's softer side

  published December 27, 2012

  Because so many of them are made of stainless steel, the sculptures in Kathryn Andrews' exhibition "D.O.A. | D.O.B." (dead on arrival / date of... More >>

• Red rubber (HIV virus) ball

  published December 13, 2012

  A remix of Beyoncé's "Sweet Dreams (Beautiful Nightmare)" plays throughout most of Jordan Wolfson's 14-minute video, Raspberry... More >>

• As seen on TV

  published December 6, 2012

  Marc-Olivier Wahler did title "LOST (in L.A.)," his group exhibition of French and L.A. artists at Barnsdall Park, after the television show... More >>

• Family paintings

  published December 13, 2012

  Al Payne used to piece together ravaged frames and shreds of cloth to make paintings that looked like disaster sites. He also would paint slightly... More >>

• White-collar fantasies

  published December 20, 2012

  In one of Bonnie Camplin's small new paintings, two black-haired men in business suits are deep into a seance, caressing a stonelike blob of gray.... More >>

• Photo free-for-all

  published December 27, 2012

  If you've ever dug through the piles of found photographs at Melrose Trading Post, or maybe another flea market, you've likely found those images... More >>

• Strange notations

  published December 13, 2012

  French artist Guy de Cointet, who moved to L.A. in 1967 and stayed, made drawings and props that were so elegant you sometimes forgot they were... More >>

• Capulets and the Montagues in the 21st century

  published November 8, 2012

  On Aug. 5, Matthew Teagu's L.A. Times cover story told of two feuding Brazilian families, the Ferraz and Novaes, who have been relentlessly... More >>

• Better than Aliens

  published September 20, 2012

  Artist Ed Ruscha says the first time he saw his friend Ken Price's ceramics, with weird, fingerlike things poking out of sleekly painted orifices,... More >>

• Terrorist peephole

  published October 25, 2012

  The first room of artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu's installation in the Hammer's plaza-level gallery is dimly lit and mostly empty. But there's an... More >>

• Jasper's journey

  published November 15, 2012

  Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park, also wrote about the artist Jasper Johns. He recalls driving the artist to some destination in... More >>

• Agony and ecstasy

  published November 29, 2012

  Shana Moulton's alter ego is a hypochondriac with a Dorothy Hamill haircut, big eyes and a collection of pastel-colored bathrobes. In a 2006 video... More >>

• Apologies to MLK Jr.

  published December 13, 2012

  In the 1967 film I Am Curious (Yellow), Lena, a Swedish girl, researches politics. At one point, she asks a former king, his powers limited... More >>

• Art out of leftovers

  published October 18, 2012

  When Michael Queenland moved to Berlin for an artist's residency there, he became enamored of a local discount store called Rudy's Ramp of... More >>

• Bondage art

  published December 6, 2012

  Nancy Grossman started drawing and sculpting her leather-bound figures years before Quentin Tarantino made Pulp Fiction, but, still, they... More >>

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  Why Artists Are Blurring the Line Between Real History and Pretend

  published December 27, 2012

  Iconic books about L.A. history have titles like History of Forgetting, Canyon of Dreams or — my favorite —... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including an Octopus With a Heart-Shaped Head

  published Dec 26, 2012

  This week, a frenetic, 40-minute-plus video airs on MOCAtv, a photo show gives famous and anonymous photographers equal play, and a short film brings together 21st-century preteens and a slavery-era... More >>

• Stuffed-animal solar system

  published November 15, 2012

  The Lion King debuted in 1994, three years after Mike Kelley first exhibited his 23-part sculpture Deodorized Central Mass With... More >>

• Buckets of bubbly

  published November 29, 2012

  As soon as you walk into Egan Frantz's exhibition at Roberts & Tilton in Culver City, you hear gurgling. You look down and see water bubbling out... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Warrior Snowman and a New Bridge Over the 210 in Arcadia

  published Dec 19, 2012

  See also: *Top 10 Most Memorable L.A. Art Events of 2012 *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. *Our Latest Theater Reviews This week, artists contemplate the end of the Maya... More >>