If Installation’s 15th Issue were a sitcom, it’s title would be something like “the one written in the artist’s words.”  For the first time each editorial department is written by a different contributor and thus the magazine reads with a crescendo of nuance and perspective.  Contributing Editor Daniel Rolnik visited Jen Stark’s Los Angeles studio […]

A production crew has set up base camp twenty feet away from our office door.  Crew members pace back and forth but they are obscured occasionally by my monitor which shields me from the office window.  I can see them, but they can’t see me.  They wear concealed earpieces like they’re part of a CIA […]

All was quiet as the Los Angeles skies threatened rain in Chinatown.  Standing beneath a sea of red paper lanterns strewn across fishing wire, fastened on either end to Dim Sum restaurants and gift shops, the lanterns began to bob like buoys lost at sea.  All was not quiet, however, inside Charlie James Gallery, where […]

Over the past week, Issues 08 and 09 were written in New York City- Chelsea to be exact.  The trip presented an opportunity to meet several of the photographers featured in the 20+20 Photography Issue.  Before this week these artists existed as abstractions- as names in word files, email correspondences and sets of images.  No […]

It all begins with a conversation.  Artists and collectors are connected by a web of association and it is through these conversations from seemingly disparate sources- whether it’s the person you first meet at a gallery opening, or an artist you accidentally find when conducting a Google search- that opens Pandora’s box. In our interview […]

The city of Los Angeles is 503 square miles.  The landscape is vast but when considering Los Angeles from a plan descending into LAX, the city is a giant square divided into grids.  Freeways, boulevards and avenues intersect at points and break the grid into even smaller fragments.   Los Angeles has long been a source […]