by Shelley Holcomb The past few years have shown us that regardless of how diverse we like to think the current art world is, it’s really not hard to see if we look at the numbers that it’s still very much dominated by white cis men (surprise, surprise). …

Interview by Donasia Tillery Artist and fashion designer Gabriela Ruiz is best known for immersive scenes of neon hues, sensory heights, and unrepentant fantasy. …

By Devany Harden For a city that was once part of Mexico and nearly 50% of the Los Angeles population being Latinx, it’s fair to imagine that the number of art galleries, museums, and spaces showing Latinx work here would roughly mirror that number. Spoiler alert: It doesn’t. L.A. ranks…

Interviewed by Devany Harden Brianna Mims is an artist, abolitionist, and facilitator based in Los Angeles, CA. Mims is a graduate of the University of Southern California where she studied Dance and NGOs and Social Change. …

Interview by Shelley Holcomb Through paintings, installations, and performances, artist Jonah Elijah offers his audience a representational view of what it’s like to be Black today. His work explores rituals of leaving the house, fighting for freedom, and what it means to leave your mark as an artist. …

Storm Ascher is an artist and curator who founded Superposition Gallery in August 2018. Storm started her curatorial projects with a mission to subvert gentrification tactics used in urban development through art galleries. …

In support of the global movement towards equity and justice — as unionization movements proliferate around the world, and after a nationwide summer of unrest for Black lives and social justice — Curate LA looked to its hometown arts institutions to assess the power and influence at the very top…

by Jonathan Velardi Our media landscape is inundated with alerts, graphic manifestoes and calls to action; the act of vying for our attention is arguably an art form in itself. In the sixties, when Los Angeles was ablaze with rebellion against social injustice and a rising counterculture, a former nun…

Artist Brittany Tucker grew up with a respect for portraits instilled by her mother, an artist herself. Drawing on history and her training as a studio artist, Tucker creates paintings that combine her fully-rendered self-portraits with a cartoonish, generic figure of a white man. …