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The Four Quartets of Los Angeles
Standing behind a bouquet of crimson red roses, Enrique Martínez Celaya waits to address a host of guests. Their echoes carry from the exterior which too is lined with smaller arrangements of roses in round vases and illuminated by candlelight and spills into the gallery, creating a gentle roar. Standing shoulder to shoulder, the UTA […]
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Tirtzah Bassel at VOLTA NY 2017
Primarily based on drawings done directly from observation, Tirtzah Bassel’s luminous paintings capture figures either at ease in their anonymity or discomfited within the uncannily familiar spaces they interact within, presented here by Slag Gallery (Brooklyn, booth C22)
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Enrique Martínez Celaya: “Lone Star”
Nestled inside an industrial complex off a beaten path in Culver City, adjacent to lush sprawling grills hills of a cemetery lined with flowers from visiting loved ones, lies a sanctuary of artistic solace. A modest black plaque rests on the exterior brick wall with a crest bearing the profile of a whale rising above […]
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Mandy Kahn Presents Math, Heaven, Time
Los Angeles has been a massive influence on my creative practice. There’s a culture of collaboration here that’s so fluid, so generous, so humble and so fertile that I can’t seem to spend more than a month away at a time: this city magnetizes me home. I’d like to emphasize the generosity of the creative […]
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Anatol Knotek: Play With Your Words
For Austrian artist and poet Anatol Knotek words possess dimension, weight, and depth. Inspired by Concrete and Visual poets who regard the typographical arrangement and shape of a poem to be as critical to its message as the meaning of the words themselves, Knotek makes language a malleable material in his practice. Installation Magazine: When did […]
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The Analytic Lyric: As Yet
We are pleased to share TODD BARONS’s poetry for the second time in Installation Magazine, but you will notice that his Think contribution is rather different from previous issues. A mediation on the completion of his recent book of poetry AS YET, published by Chax Press, Baron opens a portal inside his creative process and […]