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3 weeks ago | 
momus.ca | Cat Kron
Systems call to mind the grandiose, sweeping, and entrenched, for better or worse. Systems of belief, systems theory, the prison system … By comparison, Nancy Holt’s Systems Works, a body of sculptural installations made between 1981 and 1992, are decidedly humble and pointedly unfixed, mutable.
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3 weeks ago | 
momus.ca | Cat Kron
Systems call to mind the grandiose, sweeping, and entrenched, for better or worse. Systems of belief, systems theory, the prison system … By comparison,…
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Feb 25, 2025 | 
artreview.com | Cat Kron
A new show at LACMA explores the impact of digital manipulation on the past 40 years of popular culture – and the rise of an influential counterculture Since the film industry drives Los Angeles, one might expect this show – of over 150 pieces of art, design, commercial film and software demonstrating the impact that digital manipulation tools have had on culture over the past 40 years – to force-feed its audience a sizzle-reel of CGI’s greatest hits.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
artillerymag.com | Emma Christ |Cat Kron
If the sculpture of concrete’s last big cultural “moment” (sometime in the 2010s) was typified by figurative and abstract cement statuary that merely winked at its Home Depot provenance, Lauren Bon foregrounds this material in all its blunt, obdurate force. “Concrete Is Fluid” was organized as an informal survey of the artist’s work with Metabolic Studio, the community platform she founded in 2005.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
frieze.com | Cat Kron
The axis on which ‘The Living End’ turns is there in its subscript: ‘Painting and Other Technologies, 1970–2020’. Painting is positioned not at odds with new apparatuses, but as a technology itself – one of many systems used to make sense of the visual world. As technologies go, however, it’s a porous one, absorbing emergent mechanisms and methods as it advances.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
contemporaryartreview.la | Ian Byers-Gamber |Lindsay Preston Zappas |Travis Diehl |Cat Kron
Issue 37 Immersive Art and Violence —Isabella Miller —Aidann Gruwell, Alex Bushnell, Alex Yang, Katherine Sanchez, and Ricky Shi Featuring: Njideka Akunyili Crosby Photos: Leah Rom Annabeth Marks at Parker Gallery —Natasha Boyd Maura Brewer at Canary Test —Sampson Ohringer Familial Technologies at Commonwealth and Council —Ashlyn Ashbaugh Bruce Richards at Sea View —India Mandelkern Maya Buffett-Davis at Soldes —Hannah Tishkoff (L.A. in N.Y.) Jesse Stecklow at Dracula’s Revenge —Jenny Wu...
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
frieze.com | Cat Kron
As with sonar navigation, curating is fundamentally a test of limits – sending a signal out and seeing what resonates. For Canadian artist Allison Katz, whose paintings pull from a vast collection of iconographies, this process of selection and combination comes easily – giving her recent turn to curating the weight of inevitability.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
artreview.com | Cat Kron
Lehmann’s works, of fissured tissue and fragmented forms, capture the tension between our human bodies and something more elevatedIn a new series of eight small, deft paintings on linen, canvas and panel, Claire Lehmann merges the visual language of late-capitalist imaging with that of Early Renaissance painting.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
artreview.com | Cat Kron
If You’re Reading This, I’m Already Dead at Joan, Los Angeles makes a emphatic experience of disembodied, perhaps even otherworldly artistic productionWhere do crip theory, AI-generative technology and goth subculture converge? Johanna Hedva, whose work harnesses these disparate subjects, might reply: in their relevance to a subversion of the ‘normative’ body.
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Sep 5, 2023 | 
artillerymag.com | Emma Christ |Cat Kron
How do we tell our stories? Martine Syms is rewriting the terms. In addition to sculptures, installations and text-based projects, the polymath Angeleno artist has made a string of ambitious films.
