by Zara Kand | Feb 16, 2023 | Interviews
Recently, ArtNowLA sat down with a queen of the pop surrealism scene, Elizabeth McGrath, at her cozy home in Pasadena, CA, to catch up on her recent activities and glean insights into the life of an artist. Born in Los Angeles in 1971, McGrath, self-taught, has been...
by Jasmine Liu | Oct 17, 2020 | Interviews
Mark Steven Greenfield Black Madonna William Turner Gallery September 19 – November 28, 2020 (By appointment) Few scenes are more familiar to a student of art history than the Madonna and Child, making it no small feat when a new rendition of that imagery...
by Natalie Pashaie | May 24, 2020 | Interviews, Reviews
Austyn Weiner HEAD Soul Car Garage By Appointment Only Los Angeles-based artist Austyn Weiner seems to be thriving in quarantine. This makes sense considering she is an artist whose very practice “denotes and engages a recourse in chaos” (artist’s website). Born in...
by Jane Greenstein | May 10, 2020 | Interviews
With the proliferation of online viewing rooms, virtual museum tours and all forms of socially distant art creation going on since the COVID-19 crisis began, many in the art world have begun to question whether the art world has finally crossed a line in the sand....
by Victoria Looseleaf | Apr 23, 2018 | Interviews, Performance Art
It was a cold, wet morning in February of 1997, when I walked into a 3,000-square-foot Northridge warehouse that was sandwiched between Al’s Auto Body and a stretch of doughnut shops and nail parlors. Bundled up to ward off the rains that were then pounding...
by Juri Koll | Feb 17, 2018 | Interviews
Bill Barminski Pop-Up Retrospective Castelli Art Space February 22-24, 2018 For three nights only, February 22-24, a number of Bill Barminski’s works from the 1980s to the present will be on view at Castelli’s great new space on Washington Blvd. near...