Katie Herzog in The New American 2.28.20
California Artist Features John Birch Society History
Written by Steve Byas
Monday, 17 February 2020
Katie Herzog, a Los Angeles-based artist and director of the Molesworth Institute, has prominently featured some notable history of The John Birch Society (JBS) in a recent exhibition of her work. (The JBS is the parent organization of The New American.)
While it is highly unlikely that Herzog intended her art to be complimentary of the JBS, the artwork does recall some of the work of the JBS in ... (read more)
Jonesy featured in Andy Campbell’s Book 2.27.20
Bound Together: Leather, Sex, Archives, and Contemporary Art
by Andy Campbell
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Morgan Mandalay in Newcity Art 2.27.20
Doubling in the Dark: A Review of Morgan Mandalay at Extase
BY RYAN FILCHAK
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
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At Extase, an apartment gallery in Ukrainian Village, six paintings hang in an otherwise unfurnished front bedroom, wherein artist Morgan Mandalay utilizes a primarily drab color palette with pops of yellow and fire red to depict night skies, shrouded figures and dark interiors. In the recessed space of the would-be closet, Mandalay’s stunning “In the Garden of Heripedes” portrays a hunched figure dressed in ... (read more)
Alexandra Wiesenfeld in Art and Cake 2.27.20
Studio Visit: Alexandra Wiesenfeld
February 16, 2020
Alexandra Wiesenfeld: The Uncharted Terrain of the Soul
“…the beauty of this world which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.” ~ Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
“Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.” ~ Homer, The Iliad
Written by Gary Brewer
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Rebecca Ripple in group show The Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography 2.26.20
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Andrea Chung screening at New Mexico State University 2.26.20
University Art Museum, New Mexico State University
March 5th
10am - 6pm
Curator Marisa Sage has chosen Artist and Mother to be part of the Feminist Border Arts Film Festival at NM State, tied to her motherhood show "Labor" at the new art museum there.
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Katie Herzog reviewed in Los Angeles Times 2.12.20
Review: George W. Bush is her ‘blue boy.’ How artist Katie Herzog throws some serious shade
By CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT | ART CRITIC
FEB. 12, 2020 | 9:43 AM
The first image you’ll see in Katie Herzog’s exhibition of recent work is her copy of the infamous self-portrait of George W. Bush, the former president of the United States who is now a Sunday painter, taking a shower. Herzog made just one small alteration: Her portrait is painted entirely in a chilly range ... (read more)
Christine Frerichs reviewed in Artforum 2.1.20
February Issue
Christine Frerichs
KLOWDEN MANN
By Suzanne Hudson
Christine Frerichs's "interior portraits" are diminutive, closely observed paintings on paper that frame her home and studio, sites of domesticity and labor. They are much smaller than the canvases on which she has often worked, whose larger scales summon landscapes and climates as well as emotions. Indeed, she began making the pieces shown here under the exhibition title "Viewfinder" in 2018 as interim compositions of light and mood, adjacent to the other work; they are ... (read more)
Rodrigo Valenzuela in group show at Sala Alcalá 31 1.28.20
Gran Sur: Chilean contemporary art in the Engel Collection
From February 25, 2020 to April 26, 2020
Alcalá Room 31
La Sala Alcalá 31 presents the exhibition "Big Sur: Chilean contemporary art in Engel Collection" , an important selection of one of the largest private collections in Latin America, Claudio Engel collection.
Curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné, “Gran Sur”, presents for the first time in Spain such an important exhibition of works by Chilean artists from the late twentieth and early twenty-first. The exhibition not ... (read more)
Rodrigo Valenzuela artist talk at Kutztown University 1.26.20
RODRIGO VALENZUELA TO PRESENT ARTIST TALK AT KUTZTOWN
February 3, 2020 at 6pm
Sharadin Art Building, Lecture Hall 120
Kutztown University
Rodrigo Valenzuela to Present Artist Talk at Kutztown University Feb. 3
KUTZTOWN, PA -- The Kutztown University Department of Art is proud to welcome artist Rodrigo Valenzuela at 6 p.m., Monday, Feb. 3, at 120 Sharadin, where he will present an artist talk. His show Jornada is currently on display in KU's Marlin and Regina Miller Gallery. The event is free ... (read more)