Tulsa Kinney

Los Angeles, United States

Tulsa Kinney is the editor and co-founder of Artillery: Killer Text on Art. An LA-based magazine focusing on contemporary cutting-edge art and culture

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Seeing Detroit Through Fresh Eyes

Nov 3, 2024 | artillerymag.com | Emma Christ |Tulsa Kinney

Recently I had the opportunity to visit Detroit for the first time in my life. What a magnificently diverse city bustling with bars and restaurants on every corner in the downtown area, with one of the top encyclopedic art museums in the nation where the socialist mural by Diego Rivera can be seen. No wonder Taylor Renee Aldridge left Los Angeles to return to her native Detroit, I thought to myself as I was tooling around downtown in the brisk autumn weather.
From the Editor - Artillery Magazine

Sep 9, 2024 | artillerymag.com | Tulsa Kinney

Dear Reader,I have good news and bad news. Let’s start with the bad news: This, after 18 years, is my last editor’s letter. What an incredible journey it has been. Here’s the good news: Artillery will still carry on! More on that later. I started this magazine with my late husband, Charlie Rappleye, in the summer of 2006. This career-turn was a surprise to me, as being an editor of a magazine was never on my list of what I wanted to be when I grew up. I’ve been an artist all my life.
From the Editor - Artillery Magazine

Jul 9, 2024 | artillerymag.com | Tulsa Kinney

Dear Reader,As a kid, I didn’t get to do much traveling. The family trips we took were always by car to visit relatives, somehow miraculously fitting seven of us into a big two-toned Oldsmobile. My dad used to roll down the window, just a sliver, to blow out the smoke from his cigar. On our way to Chicago, where my Italian grandparents lived, we usually passed through St. Louis.
PEER REVIEW - Artillery Magazine

Jul 9, 2024 | artillerymag.com | Emma Christ |Tulsa Kinney

Tom Knechtel, a Los Angeles–based artist who shows with PPOW in New York and Marc Selwyn Fine Art here in LA—where his exhibition, “The Hare in the Studio,” just ended in June—is known for his intricate paintings and drawings, often depicting himself, animals and important players in his life.
Anne Austin Pearce: Her Blue Period

Jun 5, 2024 | artillerymag.com | Tulsa Kinney |Yxta Maya Murray

What is a colorist painter?
From the Editor - Artillery Magazine

May 8, 2024 | artillerymag.com | Tulsa Kinney

Dear Reader,In the early Artillery days, I assigned a writer to critique the films and videos that were showing in the sprawling 2007 MOCA exhibition, “WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution.” There were more than 20 films and videos included, mostly viewed on the original, portable black-and-white television sets or small analog monitors with bulky VHS recorders and other archaic equipment.
Editor's Pick: Margaret Lazzari

May 1, 2024 | artillerymag.com | Tulsa Kinney

The New York Times recently ran an article with the headline “Art Isn’t Supposed to Make You Comfortable”—Margaret Lazzari’s series of works devoted to her traumatic struggle with breast cancer, “The Cancer Series,” fits right into that category.
Stephen Seemayer: Dark Side of Paradise

May 1, 2024 | artillerymag.com | Tulsa Kinney |Leanna Robinson

The precarious balance of society and nature, and man’s place within the magnetism of both is the central theme of Stephen Seemayer’s “Dark Side of Paradise” at Bermudez Projects. The collection of 26 paintings and nine studies are an ode to the shadow self and the two inescapable authorities that aim to rule it—civilization and death.
GALLERY ROUNDS: XANADU

Feb 1, 2024 | artillerymag.com | Tulsa Kinney |Alexia Lewis

Currently on view at Gallery V, located on the Pasadena City College campus, is “Xanadu,” a group show featuring the work of nine artists. Though tightly curated by Shelli Tollman, who is also in the show, each artist has enough breathing room to leave a real impact on viewers. Contributors were asked to respond to the idealized hallucinogenic place of “Xanadu” (referencing the 1980 musical fantasy film), and how it can be used as a starting point to escape from despair.
From the Editor - Artillery Magazine

Jan 3, 2024 | artillerymag.com | Tulsa Kinney

Dear Reader,I admit to being a Luddite when it comes to preferring a paintbrush to the computer. So, when artists gained access to AI-generating tools, I wasn’t that impressed, nor alarmed. There seemed to be a lot of hoopla and fearmongering about the prospect of such a tool making art … perhaps even more efficiently than humans? Our Nonhuman issue addresses various approaches that artists take in dealing with the nonhuman, whether it be in physical form or robotics.