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5 from 1 presents the work of one artist in conversation with five sources that are driving their studio practice. The rest is up to you. Ryder Richards (link) Breech, 2012 plastic, wood, graphite, gunpowder 84″ x 38″ x 46″

The thing about Jasper Johns that is often overlooked is that his art has become part of the DNA of the Art World. Some might argue that this happened in a Big Bang fashion in the late fifties when his art burst on the scene. It was then that the rather commonplace motifs of Johns’ [...]

I don’t know how it will play in Texas when it comes to the  Nasher Sculpture Center in February 2013, but Ken Price’s magnificent exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is so thoroughly suffused with the bittersweet aura of a memorial that it’s impossible not to be thrilled by the joy that [...]

This is an essay about learning Photoshop. Kruger, “Your comfort is my silence’ 1991   I have to learn it for a class. I am in graduate school, see. I still have a hard time believing this. I’m in this multimedia experimental MA program in Specialized Journalism The Arts at the University of Southern California. I’ll [...]

    1988 was a rotten time to be a teenager. During the Reagan-Bush era, you had to put in a lot of work to hear something other than Bon Jovi. There was no internet, and the indie revolution in film and music and fashion and new media was still years away. A girl interested in [...]

5 from 1 presents the work of one artist in conversation with five sources that are driving their studio practice. The rest is up to you. Lesli Robertson (link) Bond  Heal  Loss, 2012 concrete, aluminum, mixed media interactive installation 8′ x 8′ x 1′

As Made In L.A., 2012 nears its closing week many of us are coming to terms with the exhibition catalog, a hefty critical document, indeed. My collegue Roman Stollenwerk and I began a debate about its significance. We thought it would be a good idea to open up the debate to more voices. Here is our exchange, comments are open: (Full disclosure, while I [...]

  (For an introduction to Laura Lark’s advice column, click here.)   Dear Laura, I think I’m ready to approach a gallery about showing my work, and maybe even ask them to represent me as an artist. I’ve heard from older artists that it’s sort of like dating. Is that true? And if it is [...]

Photography’s greatest Achilles heel may be that it’s too damn illustrative. How then to wrestle the poetry back into a medium which explains so much and leaves so little for interpretation? I was reminded of this re-occuring  struggle when I saw, again, the emotive and evocational prints of James Fee at Craig Krull Gallery. Fee, [...]

5 from 1 presents the work of one artist in conversation with five sources that are driving their studio practice. The rest is up to you. Danielle Riede (link) Talking to Tecumseh, 2011 artificial flowers recuperated from crafts dimensions variable