By Kristine Schomaker I'm watching a Zoom screen where a medical school auditorium at USC is showing a painting of a service dog wearing a medical alert vest, his human hooked up to an IV pole surrounded by pharmaceutical labels and pain scales. The dog's eyes are clear and calm. The human's body is deconstructed into medical diagrams - intestines visible, organs exposed, reduced to systems and symptoms. Ashley Bravin just got out of the hospital with sepsis a week ago. She g

Mural, acrylic, 30'x11', 2025 Donna Budzynski showed up at her first art fair at 60 years old without a tent. She had no clue what she was doing. When she arrived and saw all these younger artists, she immediately thought she didn't belong there because of her age. But she had a fabulous welcome. She was juried into some big fairs in the Twin Cities. People told her how awesome her work was. Customers contacted her wanting pieces. And at 64, she just completed her first 30 ft

So I’m standing—back against some kind of white box column—in a gallery that’s humming and realizing: all these faces and textures and loops of color across the walls are having a long, heated conversation, and I’m the accidental eavesdropper. This isn’t just some reverential “women’s art exhibition”. It’s loud, messy, full of risk—Oak trees, riotous masks, feathery stitched creatures, piles of upcycled joybombs. Three women from one lineage. And the art is straight-up talkin

Photo Courtesy Jennifer Scott Jennifer Scott has been drawing since she could hold a crayon. At 50, she's put in 10,000 hours of practice times 30. She knows what she's doing. She's not studying something anymore—her work is not a performance for others, it's just part of how she communicates. Drawing with pen, being out and part of the world recording spaces—that's what keeps her excited. Her work moves between the immediacy of small black-and-white drawings and the expansiv

Rise of Raven Woman, 2021 self portrait , color photographs mounted on metal with hidden back frame, both performed and shot with tripod by the artist Monet Clark At 57, Monet Clark is making the best work of her life. She's deep in the process of creating performance-based photographic series and performance video works as animal-women hybrid characters. Think elaborately costumed figures posing in sweeping natural landscapes, tripod and interval timer capturing moments that

2020 Pastel Chalk Pencil on Strathmore Paper, 9x12 2020 Photo credit Wes Kroninger. Liza Macawili creates portraits that literally glow...

By Betty Ann Brown “Historically, the portrayal of minorities in movies and television is less than ideal. Whether it’s appearing in...

By Betty Ann Brown An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.                    ~Ruth Asawa  ...

Garel Fine Arts - The Other Side Artist Talk August 16th By Kristine Schomaker Sitting in that room at Garel Fine Art Gallery yesterday,...

I'm sitting here looking at photos from Heather Beardsley and Alexandra Carter's upcoming exhibition Stitched and Stained , and I keep...

By Kristine Schomaker What happens when artists are given a remnant of a jute rug and told, go forth and create something inspired by the...

By Betty Ann Brown "The experience of art challenges us to break free from conventional thinking and embrace the extraordinary." ~Henry...

By Kristine Schomaker There's something magical about watching someone talk about what they truly love. Genie Davis lights up when she...

The City of West Hollywood presents Art in Odd Places (AiOP) 2025: VOICE with 35 artist projects that refuse to wait for permission By...

By Kristine Schomaker I spent this afternoon at Nomad and Tryst at Del Amo Crossing and honestly? I needed that more than I knew. Walking...

Alicia Serling treats her energy like a palette. After months of burnout, she's learned to mix equal parts information intake with...

James A. Faulkner works with fragments—pieces of old photographs, vintage ephemera, and found materials that he layers into collages...

Gal Mariya Rivers prepares to reveal her face after a decade of anonymous body liberation I'm looking at a photo of Gal Mariya...

This is the first in an ongoing series exploring how artists are navigating our current political climate. I'm talking to artists about...

By Kristine Schomaker Monica Marks has been driving past abandoned homesteads for years. Windows down, camera in the passenger seat,...

By Kristine Schomaker Wendy Lee Gadzuk finds treasure in burn piles. Her current show Love Languages  at La Luz de Jesus Gallery emerged...

By Kristine Schomaker Paul Bojack's Yes You  at Z83 does something most art can't: it makes you the subject. Step into one of the private...

Incarnation - Biltmore 2025 Oil on canvas 24 x 20 inches / 61 x 50.8 cm "I think of my work as the residue of my pondering," Beryl Odette...

By Kristine Schomaker Alexandra Wiesenfeld paints like she's mapping uncharted territory—because she is. In her Los Angeles studio,...

By Kristine Schomaker There's something deeply wrong when an artist can spend seven years making work about gun violence in schools and...

By Kristine Schomaker There's something disarming about an artist who describes their work as "imagine Picasso, but not quite!" There's...

By Kristine Schomaker There's something deeply satisfying about watching someone embrace chaos with complete confidence. Marianna Baker...

Karla Funderburk, Photo by credit Isabella Mancebo Karla Funderburk Los Angeles, CA Age 64 In collaboration with Robyn Richardson I...

By Genie Davis Artist Julie Green is opening Patterns and Tones for a Paper Ballet  at Keystone Gallery June 21st. The exhibition has...

Opening June 7th at Shoebox, Araújo's first solo exhibition since losing her Altadena studio explores memory, loss, and the creative...