The Creative Director of Installation Magazine Garet Field-Sells shares a selection of work from his recent Angle and Multiple series that accentuate the fluidity of the human form.     Why did you decide to pursue your artistic practice on the West Coast? The most facinating element of Los Angeles, to me, is how different each neighborhood is from each other. […]

Finding inspiration in Renaissance painters like Vermeer, Caravaggio, and Da Vinci, the works of Awol Erizku replace stiff, aristocratic subjects with women who capture the stylings of modern life.  Like the call and response spontaneity of jazz improvisation, Erizku’s response to Vermeer’s classic painting Girl with a Pearl Earring, is Girl with a Bamboo Earring. […]

The subjects of Angeleno photographer Mike Miller are icons of the West Coast Hip Hop scene, iconic supermodels and musicians.  Miller’s oeuvre lies in the cultural historical roots of California when Tupac’s music invigorated the 90’s music soundscape and album art was still coveted. Installation includes images from Miller’s recent book West Coast Hip Hop, […]

A professor of photography at UCLA, Catherine Opie is best known for her work documenting social and cultural issues specifically addressing identity and sexuality.  In her new body of work recently on view at Regen Projects, Opie continues in her tradition of landscape and portraiture.  Included in the self-titled exhibition is a portrait titled Kate […]

“Beauty” is relative to the time in which we live.  It’s loaded with social and cultural values and ultimately it’s true meaning lies in the eye of the beholder.  In A New Kind of Beauty Phillip Toledano documents faces and bodies that have been dramatically altered by dramatic plastic surgery.  His subjects look as though they […]

The first impression that every Installation reader experiences is our signature interactive cover.  There is something particularly mezmering about our 20+20 cover.  Filmed by our featured photographer Elias Tahan in black and white, a fresh faced Zach Magill dances to a pop beat on a soundstage.  With his hair slicked back in a faux pompadour, […]