Audio book of Carla issue #31, published February 2023. Individual articles can be accessed by navigating to the timestamps below. Read the full issue, access photos and more at contemporaryartreview.la/print. Read by Jessica Simmons-Reid. Purchase the issue or a 1-year subscription. Contents:  Letter from the Editor (1:33)  –Lindsay Preston Zappas The Scatological Disembodiment of Tala Madani’s Shit Mom (4:33) –Jessica Simmons-Reid The Power of Objects: On Afro-Atlantic Histories at LACMA (18:30) –Yxta Maya Murray Anachronism and Apocalypse: Notes on the Contemporary Medieval ..read more

Audio book of Carla issue #30, published November 2022. Individual articles can be accessed by navigating to the timestamps below. Read the full issue, access photos and more at contemporaryartreview.la/print. Read by Julie Weitz. Purchase the issue or a 1-year subscription. 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) &nb ..read more

Audio book of Carla issue #29, published September 2022. Individual articles can be accessed by navigating to the timestamps below. Read the full issue, access photos and more at contemporaryartreview.la/print. Read by Alitzah Oros. Purchase the issue or a 1-year subscription. Contents: Letter from the Editor  –Lindsay Preston Zappas Going Back: Kevin Beasley and the Power of Homecoming  –Allison Noelle Conner From Both Sides of the Lens: Ulysses Jenkins' Self-Reflexive Video Practice   –Neyat Yohannes Sara Cwynar and the Texture of Digital Pictures  –Erin F ..read more

Audio book of Carla issue #27, published Spring 2022. Individual articles can be accessed by navigating to the timestamps below. Read the full issue, access photos and more at contemporaryartreview.la/print. Read by Lindsay Preston Zappas. Purchase the issue or a 1-year subscription. 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 ..read more

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 Purchase this magazine or buy a 1-year subscription. 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 ..read more

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 Shawha ..read more

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 ..read more

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 self.. Not pre ..read more

Audio Book of Carla issue #25, published Fall 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 Purchase this magazine or buy a 1-year subscription. Contents:00:01:40 Letter from the Editor –Lindsay Preston Zappas 00:05:05 Eating the Self: Arnold J. Kemp's Hungry Hydras –Allison Noelle Conner 00:17:30 More than Not: LACMA's Not I and the Necessity of History –Melissa Lo 00:31:17 Learn from this Community: Resisting Hierarchy through a Return to Comm ..read more

Audio Book of Carla issue #24, published Summer 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 Purchase this magazine or buy a 1-year subscription. Contents:00:01:53 Letter from the Editor –Lindsay Preston Zappas 00:05:44 Hidden Archives: L.A.’s Historic-Cultural Monuments and the Women They Leave Out –Neyat Yohannes 00:19:28 Zombie(s in Candy)land: Sula Bermúdez-Silverman’s Sugar and Salt –stephanie mei huang 00:33:12 On Making Photographs in a S ..read more