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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2013 Stories by Catherine Wagley

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  Sorting Through Sam Francis' Paintings at the Pasadena Museum of California Art

  published August 29, 2013

  Here's how you play the "Which does MOCA own?" game: You go into any room of a contemporary artist's retrospective and scan everything there.... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including an Evening of Soothecore Music

  published Aug 28, 2013

  This week, artists stage a festival in Joshua Tree and a painter turns historical figures into funny present-day phantoms. 5. The puppetmaster Joel Kyack, whose paintings and sculptures often doubl... More >>

• Tasteful hoarder

  published August 1, 2013

  One room of Nick van Woert's exhibition "Labyrinth" at L&M Arts is dark and almost medieval, though in a hip, attractive way. Steel and iron... More >>

• OCD fantasies

  published July 4, 2013

  Zach Harris' layered, chiseled, carved paintings look as if they could have been made by an obsessive hippie working out of a cabin in Topanga... More >>

• God willing

  published August 8, 2013

  Art collector Danny First has been making benches -- they're black and would be nondescript if not for the bold prayers written across their... More >>

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  How Artist Hector Zamora Built a House on Top of Shopping Carts

  published August 22, 2013

  It takes 29 shopping carts to hold up a house. Or that's how many it takes to hold up the timber-stud frame of a small, single-family house... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including a Clarinet Imitating a Cricket

  published Aug 21, 2013

  This week, four decades' worth of a prolific abstract expressionist's work appears in Pasadena and a vacant East L.A. lot becomes an exhibition space. 5. Nine-day habitat Byron Westbrook's brief ex... More >>

• The gory kind of consumerism

  published July 18, 2013

  The floors at Gusford Gallery on Melrose glitter, and vitrines on black stands hold sculptures that are treated like, and even modeled after,... More >>

• Let there be many lights

  published July 11, 2013

  British curator Matthew Higgs, who's good at leveling playing fields, organized Richard Telles Fine Art's new show, "Illuminations." It's full of... More >>

• His name is my name, too

  published July 25, 2013

  Painter Robert Russell did a Google image search for Robert Russell and, unsurprisingly, found a range of strange-, striking- and... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including Black, Pill-Shaped Blobs All Over L.A.

  published Aug 14, 2013

  This week, three summer group shows feature cleverly weird work, and black lozenge-shapes appear around the city. 5. Blue satin streamers The house Richard Neutra built in the 1930s across the str... More >>

• No more bootlicking

  published March 28, 2013

  You have to walk through Cady Noland's Office Filter, a metal gate with a jacket hanging on one end of it, to get into the second gallery... More >>

• What's furniture without a home?

  published April 18, 2013

  Stephen Prina's show at LACMA, called "As He Remembered It," is full of built-ins -- built-in bookshelves, closets, cabinets, counters. Prina had... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including Bryan Cranston in a Sleeping Bag

  published Aug 08, 2013

  This week, a collector prays for more art and a composer explores negative YouTube energy. 5. God willing Art collector Danny First has been making benches -- they're black and would be nondescript... More >>

• No, you go naked

  published July 18, 2013

  "What do you mean by coaching me?" artist Kenneth Tam, wearing an orange cloth bag over his head, asks a man with an identical bag over his head.... More >>

• Smooth saboteur

  published July 11, 2013

  Only two of the paintings in Berlin-based Sergej Jensen's first exhibition at Regen Projects have paint on them. The others are stained or... More >>

• Convenience-store encounter

  published July 18, 2013

  Motion sensors trigger the pulley system in Vishal Jugdeo's exhibition "The Thing That Precedes the You" at Thomas Solomon Gallery. It moves when... More >>

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  Art About Tuba Thieves

  published August 8, 2013

  There are no tubas in artist Alison O'Daniel's in-progress film The Tuba Thieves — at least none you see in full. You... More >>

• Like a chicken with its head cut off

  published July 11, 2013

  "He journeyed from France to the crappy land of online UFO videos and single-highhandedly raised the bar on realism," said Captain Disillusion... More >>

• A different kind of Classical Revival

  published May 30, 2013

  The Farmers & Merchants Bank has been downtown on the corner of Fourth and Main since 1905. It was built in the Classical Revival style, which... More >>

• Art, lies and hashtags

  published May 23, 2013

  A green vinyl sign above the security desk at the Getty Center asks, "Is a museum for everyone?" Another sign affixed to the floor in the rotunda... More >>

• No beating around the bush

  published June 20, 2013

  Alexis Smith's collage Don't Feel Like the Lone Ranger is in a quaint, tastefully old-fashioned wood frame with a plaid border inside. At... More >>

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  Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including a Plexiglas Maze

  published Jul 31, 2013

  This week, a proponent of the "new jam movement" talks about fashion and food, and a series of short films explores numbers -- is one really the loneliest, and can two be as bad? 5. The new jam Sc... More >>

• What if Jeffrey Deitch and MOCA Had Made it Work?

  published Jul 25, 2013

  The official announcement that the Museum of Contemporary Art's director Jeffrey Deitch would step down only arrived at 3:30 p.m. yesterday, nearly two days after L.A. Weekly's Dennis Romero reported... More >>

• They want to put a baby in you

  published June 27, 2013

  Kristen Wiig plays Janine in 2007 film The Brothers Solomon, in which she agrees to be a surrogate mother for two hopelessly inept... More >>