Made In L.A. is coming to the Hammer, Barnsdall Park, LAXART, and billboards around town on June 2 and will showcase sixty emerging, under-recognized Los Angeles artists–one of which will be voted to win a $100,000 prize. In order to help you make an educated vote this summer, we’re counting down to Made In L.A. by showcasing each artist participating in the biennial.
Math Bass is a very, very mysterious figure. She is nearly untraceable, even with a name like “Math Bass,” but we’ve been able to discern that she is mainly a performance artist whose work is centered on ritual. She’s worked with Lora Reynolds in Austin as well as the cool folks of Sunset’s Overduin And Kite.
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This week’s Featured Interview with artist Gary Baseman will be a five part series, a new part of the story released every day of this week. Welcome to Garypalooza!
Working for himself now, Gary has had to create his own system to produce his own work. He went from working with editors and producers to working for himself, a huge change in how someone works. “When I was an illustrator, you didn’t have much time,” he said. “You have to work fast. You do something for the New York Times Op-Ed: you get a story Wednesday at 11AM and you have to have an idea by 2PM. If it’s Time, you get a story on Wednesday, sketch Thursday, finish Friday, then it’s published around the world. You had to really think of the concept and how to create an intriguing image to draw someone in. Here, I have more time to think things through. Before, I was a visual problem-solver for others. Now, I’m a visual problem-solver for myself.”
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Larchmont Village’s Larchmont Grill is a place we somewhat literally stumbled into one Sunday night a few months ago and a few weeks back stopped into to grab a bite. We found it on Yelp, hadn’t heard of it, and decided to check it out on a whim. It’s a place you would never notice and would definitely just think it is some house off of Melrose that a valet occasionally stands outside of.
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Made In L.A. is coming to the Hammer, Barnsdall Park, LAXART, and billboards around town on June 2 and will showcase sixty emerging, under-recognized Los Angeles artists–one of which will be voted to win a $100,000 prize. In order to help you make an educated vote this summer, we’re counting down to Made In L.A. by showcasing each artist participating in the biennial.
Animal Charm is a video art group consisting of artist Rich Bott and Jim Fetterly. They are part high art video remixers, part comedy art video troupe, many times rivaling the video stylings of Everything Is Terrible–but replacing knee slapping with sharp, sharp wit.
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