As an artist, activist, and health educator, Terrill emerged in the ’70s, actively participating in the gay liberation and Chicano movements. At a time when these worlds felt disparate, Terrill worked to bridge the gap between them, tenderly humanizing what it meant to be Chicano and gay and later what it meant to live through the AIDS/HIV crisis and memorialize fallen loved ones. He did so through community-focused work and his art. Through canvas, zines, and mail art, he blends his lived experiences with a DIY ethic, pop-inflected forms, humor, and irreverence.
LOS ANGELES — Scientia Sexualis at the Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles takes its name from Michel Foucault’s term for the 19th-century study of sexuality, and uses the colonizing and pathologizing of the non-White and non-male body in this exploitative “science” as its jumping off point. Part of the Getty Foundation’s initiative PST ART: Art & Science Collide, the exhibition includes 27 artists who approach bodily autonomy or lack thereof from various perspectives. Works range from painted elegies for gay men lost to AIDS (Joey Terrill) to drawings made of menstrual blood (Xandra Ibarra) to a video offering new age-y comic relief (Nao Bustamante), and much more.
Participants describe a ‘much-needed boost’ to the LA community and a vital moment for the international art world, with major sales across the fair.
Mel Bochner, an artist who produced heady and often witty work in a multitude of mediums, exploring the boundaries of art — and the power of language — in drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking, books, installations and public art, died on Feb. 12 in Manhattan. He was 84.
How to Spend a Day at Frieze Los Angeles From a performance of Senegalese drumming to an artist’s egg hunt and immersive solo projects, get the most from your visit to this year’s fair
Fair presentations, onsite projects, Frieze Week gallery shows and institutional exhibitions foregrounding Black history across Los Angeles
In response to the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles, artist Richard Misrach—along with Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, Pace Gallery in New York, and Marc Selwyn Fine Art in Los Angeles —will offer a special edition photograph to be sold in support of relief efforts.
Michelle Uckotter, who burst onto the art scene with eerie paintings, will debut her first film during concurrent shows in Los Angeles in February.
From William Leavitt's cyborg visions to Uri Aran’s immersive installation, CULTURED highlights the city's best shows this month.
Stromberg writes, "Gothic Electronica is a two-gallery, 50-year survey of the work of William Leavitt, whose multi-media practice draws from Hollywood, film, mass media, and the landscape of Southern California. Narrative is a running theme in his work, which often blurs the line between theater and fine art. His early photo montages of the 1970s recall film stills, and his installations incorporating light and sound resemble stage sets, notably “Gothic Curtain” (1970/2008), which conjures the unsettling tone of the 1958 British film Dracula. More recent work includes paintings rife with robots, cyborgs, and other man-machine mashups, mixing mid-century space-age futurism with contemporary notions of technological hybridity."
Review of Richard Misrach Dancing with Nature by Linda Alterwitz for Lenscratch, September 2024
The latest edition of PST Art tackles aesthetics and technology with a wide focus, from the historical to the contemporary and the astronomical to the fantastical. Highlights include Channing Hansen’s fiber works featured in a solo presentation at Marc Selwyn Fine Art and in Energy Fields: Vibrations of The Pacific Rim organized by Fulcrum Arts and presented at Chapman University, a group show centering artists working with sound, vibration and kinetics.
Review of Richard Misrach Dancing with Nature by Fiona Perkocha for Musée Magazine, July 2024
Writer Jody Zellen's 'Pick of the Week' for What's on LA is Richard Misrach: Dancing with Nature at Marc Selwyn Fine Art.
Joey Terrill’s Windows Into Queer Chicano Life “I want my work to have a confessional nature about my life, my identity, and who I am,” the artist said in an interview with Hyperallergic. This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with art-world queer and trans elders throughout June.
Judy Zellen reviews Allen Ruppersberg: 25 Ways to Start Over.
William Moreno reviews Joey Terrill: Still Here.
Art critic David S. Rubin reviews Joey Terrill: Still Here in Hyperallergic.
A profile of artist Joey Terrill featured in the Los Angeles Times by Carolina A. Miranda
Fourteen paintings on paper by Bay Area artist Jay DeFeo (1929-1989) offer a provocative thumbnail sketch of a crucial period in the artist’s development. She tagged her extended 1952 stay working in a studio in Florence, Italy, as a foundational episode in her career. DeFeo made around 200 paintings on paper that summer, and these works from 1951 to 1954 frame the moment.
By Jori Finkel
Mel Bochner at Marc Selwyn Fine Art
Review by Michael Ned Holte in ArtForum
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