Linda Stark lends serious attention to the heart symbol, which, like most symbols associated with women and femininity, is easily dismissed and oft-overlooked.
Jennifer Remenchik
Jennifer Remenchik is an artist and writer living in Los Angeles.
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The Visual Magic of Helen Frankenthaler’s Los Angeles Prints
In 1979, Frankenthaler traveled to the West Coast and was introduced to the gallery and studio Mixografia, where she would eventually produce a series of serene and exuberant prints.
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Turning to Art for Spiritual Sustenance
“A lot of people have been turning to art, needing space to process,” says the artist Edgar Fabián Frías, who, along with Hayley Barker, Julie Weitz, and Patrisse Cullors, has been discussing their art as spiritual practice.
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An Exhibition Across Los Angeles Takes on New Meanings in Times of Protest
When We Are Here / Here We Are opened in mid-May, the street landscape of Los Angeles looked decidedly different.
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525 Posters Designed by CalArts Students Since 1980
More easily lost to trash bins than the annals of history, these posters form the basis for a book cataloguing student work at CalArts over the last 40 years.
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Creating a Census for Los Angeles Artists
The survey, which serves to “identify and map the needs of local artists,” is the first of its kind in a city whose artist population continues to rapidly expand.
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Strange and Subtle Portraits of Artists’ Hands
Karl Haendel’s large drawings of artists’ dominant hands are an unexpected portrait of the Los Angeles art scene.
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Three Women’s Art Collectives Exchange Artworks Across Borders
Artists in Paris, Mexico City, and Los Angeles began sending small gifts through the mail. The exchange grew into The Box Project, which gathers the work of 76 women artists working in three collectives.
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“Guess Who Laid Us Off?”: Art Workers Stage Protests on Black Friday
Former employees of the Marciano Art Foundation gathered at Rodeo Drive’s Guess storefront to distribute flyers about their unionization attempt. Union members staged simultaneous actions in solidarity on the East Coast.
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Laid-Off Marciano Art Foundation Employees Picket a Dinner Hosted by Marciano Brothers
Usually prepped to dole out exhibition information to museum art-goers, last night the workers had a 400-dollar a plate dinner to protest and pedestrians to inform.
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A Beloved Alternative Video Store Reopens in Los Angeles
The new Vidiots will continue as a video rental store and also has plans to restore the Eagle Theatre to its original role as an independent cinema house.
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Artists Who Have Addressed Sexual Trauma Since the 1970s
In Against Our Will, Vivien Green Fryd makes a convincing case for the need to examine artworks through the lens of sexual trauma, a violent reality that unfortunately spans across gender, ethnicity, race, and time.