Shana Nys Dambrot

Carol Es; Credit: Courtesy of the artist

Meet an Artist Monday: Carol Es

Carol Es is having a big April, with a solo gallery show, a fiery new memoir and the awarding of the Bruce Geller Memorial Prize, the WORD Grant from American Jewish University’s Institute for Jewish Creativity....
David Bradley

GoLA Pick: David Bradley’s “Indian Country” at the Autry

David Bradley (b.1954, Minnesota Chippewa) has, over the course of a four-decade painting career, continued to expand the definition of art from "Indian Country" and what is expected of its aesthetic and meaning, within the problematic context of American visual culture. In the process he also redefined what pop art itself can achieve....
Xan Padron from New York at the Other Art Fair; Credit: Courtesy of the artist

GoLA Pick: There Is An Other Fair

Yes, we know, we've been to a lot of art fairs together already these past several weeks. But if you've got one more in you, the Other Art Fair is something a bit special this weekend at the Reef....
Cosimo Cavallaro: The Cheese Wall (video still); Credit: Courtesy of the artist

Artist Cosimo Cavallaro Builds the Cheesiest Border Wall (Video)

The Cheese Wall is his latest art project, certainly among his most political and potentially his most ambitious. A direct, if cheeky and eventually stinky, response to the egregious and absurd situation with the U.S./Mexico border wall, Cavallaro’s action exists in the Dadaist tradition of humor in dark times, the Fluxus tradition of performative ephemeral object-making, and the YouTube world of global viral video art....
Forrest Kirk; Credit: Claudia Fuentes

Meet an Artist Monday: Forrest Kirk

This week we meet painter Forrest Kirk, whose anomalous style merges a storytelling impulse with gestural abstraction and an old-school studio painting education in Paris. Moving fluidly between realism, figuration and pure color and texture, Kirk also incorporates elements of found objects, mixed media and collaged segments culled from his own original images in sociopolitically fraught scenes from literature, history and experience that he depicts, from James Baldwin to modern day Los Angeles....