• Desert X 2023

    The vast expanse of the Coachella Valley will once again become a site of inquiry activated by the voices of international artists for the fourth edition of Desert X.  A self-guided exploration of site-specific poetic and immersive works that span sculpture, painting, writing, architecture, design, film, music, performance and choreography, education, and environmental activism invites […]

    Installation Magazine No responses February 6, 2023
  • Spencer Mar Guilburt: This Too Shall Last

    The signature “Fire-Flowers” by Los Angeles-based Spencer Mar Guilburt act as checkpoints throughout the city.  Their inherent fluidity and motion transform the exterior of any wall, building, or canvas.  They have become like a fingerprint, an indelible and unmistakable mark confirming evidence that the artist was once here and has since traveled to a new […]

    A. Moret No responses June 30, 2021
  • MARdrian by Spencer “MAR” Guilburt

    In the early morning hours on August 31, Spencer “MAR” Guilburt stands before an empty canvas.  A seventy five foot bare concrete wall runs along the expanse of the driveway at Mondrian Los Angeles.  Every few minutes the valet turns a tight corner and runs the incline of the broken asphalt, barely missing the wall, just […]

    A. Moret No responses September 9, 2015
  • David Eddington: Take Me to the River

    The urban structure of Los Angeles illicit curiosity, particularly the series of twenty-seven bridges that run throughout Los Angeles connecting the San Fernando Valley to Long Beach.  Since their construction in 1909 the bridges and the LA River that runs beneath it like a labyrinth offers solace to artists like David Eddington, who frequently traverses […]

    A. Moret One response August 24, 2014
  • Lisa Adams: Location Unknown

    The viewer’s gaze unhinges the schism between a utopic past and a dystopic present, whose wrath is concealed by an arsenal of exacting moves executed invisibly by the hand of artist Lisa Adams.  By implementing a set of painterly techniques of her own creation, which includes the meticulous use of sponge rollers to create mosaic […]

    A. Moret One response August 24, 2014
  • Spencer Lowell: The Urban Alchemist

      “The photographic method is like observation because you’re taking notes, forming hypothesis, bring samples back to the lab, you’re processing them and then you’re drawing conclusions and sharing what you find with people and essentially that’s one of the best parts.” How did a zebra find itself on a splintered asphalt highway in the […]

    A. Moret No responses August 1, 2014