The Carla Podcast

Audio book of Carla issue #30, published November 2022. Individual articles can be accessed by navigating to the timestamps below.

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Read by Julie Weitz.

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Contents:

 Letter from the Editor (2:22)
 –Lindsay Preston Zappas


Opacity and the Spill: The Photographs of Clifford Prince King, Shikeith, and Paul Mpagi Sepuya (4:58)
 –Allison Noelle Conner

Andrea Bowers: An Ethos of Resistance (15:58)
 –Jessica Simmons-Reid

Lumbung in Los Angeles (29:47)
 –Julie Weitz

Interview with Amia Yokoyama (1:03:35)
 –Yves B. Golden

L.A. Harvest
Featuring: Diane Williams, Heather Rasmussen, and Mimi Lauter (1:03:35)
Photos: Paloma Dooley

Reviews

Kaari Upson at Sprüth Magers (1:12:17)
–Isabella Miller

Nadia Lee Cohen at Jeffrey Deitch (1:19:09)
 –Erin F. O'Leary

Wendy Park at Various Small Fires (1:29:08)
–Neyat Yohannes

Paul McCarthy at Hauser & Wirth (1:35:45)
 –Janelle Zara

L.A. Memo: Chicana/o Art from 1972–1989 at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes (1:43:51)
 –Rosa Tyhurst

(L.A. in Venice, Italy) Kelly Akashi at Barbati Gallery (1:53:03)
 –Vanessa Holyoak

Audio book of Carla issue #29, published August 2022. Individual articles can be accessed by navigating to the timestamps below.

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Read by Alitzah Oros.

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Contents:

 Letter from the Editor (1:40)
 –Lindsay Preston Zappas


Going Back: Kevin Beasley and the Power of Homecoming (4:58)
 –Allison Noelle Conner

From Both Sides of the Lens: Ulysses Jenkins' Self-Reflexive Video Practice (15:58)
 –Neyat Yohannes

Sara Cwynar and the Texture of Digital Pictures (29:47)
 –Erin F. O'Leary

Existing is Resisting: AAPI Artists at Work (46:43)
–Vanessa Holyoak

Interview with Genevieve Gaignard (1:03:35)
 –Colony Little

Reviews

Derek Fordjour at David Kordansky Gallery (1:17:04)
–Amy Mutza

Jimena Sarno at the Los Angeles State Historic Park (1:24:07)
 –Hande Sever

Pool at JOAN (1:31:49)
–Nahui Garcia

Ei Arakawa at Overduin & Co. (1:38:04)
 –Niall Murphy

EXTRACTION: Earth, Ashes, Dust at the Torrance Art Museum (1:45:27)
 –Alitzah Oros

Jacci Den Hartog at STARS (1:52:57)
 –Irina Gusin

Audio book of Carla issue #28, published May 2022. Individual articles can be accessed by navigating to the timestamps below.

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Read by Lindsay Preston Zappas.

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Contents:
 Letter from the Editor (2:30)
 –Lindsay Preston Zappas

 The Performance Artist and the Politician (6:41)
 –Julie Weitz

Turn and Return:
 The Artist’s Practice During Trauma (20:35)
 –Beth Pickens

In Formation:
 How Early SoCal Feminist Artists Forged their Identities through Collaborative Practice (34:40)
 –Ashton Cooper

Interview with Tidawhitney Lek (49:33)
 –Tina Barouti

Tertiary:
 On Workers, Pictures, and Power (1:06:30)
 –Rodrigo Valenzuela

Reviews
Who is it that I am writing for? at Certain Fallacies
 –Vanessa Holyoak

Clarissa Tossin at Commonwealth and Council
 –Reuben Merringer

Dale Brockman Davis at Matter Studio 
–Georgia Lassner

Alicia Piller at Track 16
 –Renée Reizman

(L.A. in Manchester)
 Suzanne Lacy at the Whitworth and Manchester Art Gallery
 –Rosa Tyhurst

(L.A. in Long Island)
 Mis/Communication: Language and Power in Contemporary Art at Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery
 –Diana Seo Hyung Lee

Audio book of Carla issue #27, published Spring 2022. Individual articles can be accessed by navigating to the timestamps below.

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Read by Lindsay Preston Zappas.

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Contents:
Letter from the Editor (2:51)
–Lindsay Preston Zappas

I Don't Think I Belong: On Niki de Saint Phalle's (Auto)biography (6:34)
–Catherine Wagley

Time After Time (21:00)
–Melissa Lo

Abundant Frequencies: Black Abstraction in Motion (36:58)
–Nneka Jackson

Dreaming the Neighborhood: The Communal Visions of Pipilotti Rist (48:38)
–Vanessa Holyoak

Interview with Haena Yoo (1:01:41)
–stephanie mei huang

So Close Right Now (1:16:32)
–Ian Byers-Gamber

Reviews
Devin Troy Strother at The Pit (1:19:53)
–Neyat Yohannes

Katherina Olschbaur at Nicodim Gallery (1:27:45)
–Lindsay Preston Zappas

Sam Richardson at Human Resources (1:36:14)
–Erin F. O'Leary

Umar Rashid at Blum & Poe (1:46:05)
–Reuben Merringer

(L.A. in Paris)
Ser Serpas at Balice Hertling (1:53:14)
–Rosa Tyhurst

Audio Book of Carla issue #26, published Winter 2021. Each individual article can be accessed on our new Carla Audio Books feed. Read the full issue and access photos and more at contemporaryartreview.la/print.

Read by Lindsay Preston Zappas

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Contents:
Letter from the Editor
–Lindsay Preston Zappas

Raul Guerrero’s Deflated Mythologies
–Catherine Wagley

How virtual care lab Builds Community in Online Spaces
–Ceci Moss

Artists Examining Themselves On Nao Bustamante’s Speculum
–Neyat Yohannes

Interview with L. Frank
–Julie Weitz

Exquisite L.A.
Featuring: Yves B. Golden, Amanda Harris Williams, and Lauren Halsey
–Claressinka Anderson
Photos: Joe Pugliese

Reviews
Kenneth Tam at ICA LA
–Joseph Daniel Valencia

The Going Away Present at Kristina Kite Gallery
–Reuben Merringer

Aria Dean at REDCAT
–Aaron Horst

Eliza Douglas at Overduin & Co.
– Renée Reizman

Lee Bontecou and Michelle Stuart at Marc Selwyn Fine Art
–Peter Frank

(L.A. in S.F.)
Julie Weitz at The Contemporary Jewish Museum
–Amy Mutza and Ariel Zaccheo

L.A. based artist Patrick Martinez’s artistic practice takes many forms. An observer of the city, his work illustrates the ever-changing urban landscape and the beauty that can be found within the diverse and layered aesthetics of our streets. Martinez discusses his role as an observer, the importance of recovering and documenting erased histories, and how his art serves a social purpose, communicating the most pressing social issues of our time. 

Host and Producer: Lindsay Preston Zappas
Engineering: PJ Shahamat
Production assistance: Alitzah Oros
Theme music: Joel P West
Episode Sponsor: Odd Ark LA

L.A. based artist Maysha Mohamedi’s abstract paintings are flurries of colors, lines, and shapes imbued with energy, sensation, and meaningful intention. She often paints with her hands and talks about both visible and invisible marks that go into the making of her work. She discusses her process, her use of language, the movements and gestures that define her work, and how the making of abstraction can be a privilege. 

“It does feel like a privilege for a person of color to engage in creativity abstractly. It feels like a privilege to spend time thinking about our feelings and expressing them, and having emotions that are carried out in a visual way like that.”
– Maysha Mohamedi

Host and Producer: Lindsay Preston Zappas
Engieneering: PJ Shahamat
Production assistance: Alitzah Oros
Theme music: Joel P West
Sponsored by: Paradise Framing and Parrasch Heijnen Gallery

L.A. based artist Patrick Martinez’s artistic practice takes many forms. An observer of the city, his work illustrates the ever-changing urban landscape and the beauty that can be found within the diverse and layered aesthetics of our streets. Martinez discusses his role as an observer, the importance of recovering and documenting erased histories, and how his art serves a social purpose, communicating the most pressing social issues of our time. 

Listen on contemporaryartreview.la, iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Hosted by Lindsay Preston Zappas
Production: PJ Shawhamat, Alitzah Oros
Music: Joel P West
Episode Sponsor: Odd Ark LA

L.A. based artist Maysha Mohamedi’s abstract paintings are flurries of colors, lines, and shapes imbued with energy, sensation, and meaningful intention. She often paints with her hands and talks about both visible and invisible marks that go into the making of her work. She discusses her process, her use of language, the movements and gestures that define her work, and how the making of abstraction can be a privilege. 

“It does feel like a privilege for a person of color to engage in creativity abstractly. It feels like a privilege to spend time thinking about our feelings and expressing them, and having emotions that are carried out in a visual way like that.”
– Maysha Mohamedi

Host and Producer: Lindsay Preston Zappas
Engieneering: PJ Shahamat
Production assistance: Alitzah Oros
Theme music: Joel P West

Episode sponsored by: Paradise Framing and Parrasch Heijnen Gallery

L.A. based artist Naotaka Hiro talks about the exploration of the “unknown body” in his multi-media practice. The Osaka-born artist, who works across painting, drawing, video, film, and sculpture, often puts constraints on his body as he works, embracing his own limitations and failures. In this episode Hiro gives listeners intimate insight to his nuanced process, and the private performance that goes into making his work. He also talks about how 2020’s pandemic and unrest directly impacted his recent exhibition, Armor.

“I think that making failure is to show myself, like a raw myself.. Not pretending or dont try to be pretty like something extra. I always have the tendency to make it neat and nice, but having a failure kind of pulls me off from that.”
–Naotaka Hiro

Host and Producer: Lindsay Preston Zappas
Production and engineering: PJ Shahamat
Theme music: Joel P West