The Carla Podcast

Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles
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The Carla Podcast

The Carla Podcast is brought to you by Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (Carla), a quarterly print magazine and online journal dedicated to expanding critical dialogue in Los Angeles’s contemporary art community. We release a new podcast every month in addition to the essays, reviews, and interviews published in the magazine and online. The podcast includes conversations with artists, curators, and creatives that make that live and work in Los Angeles.

  1. Episode 29: Patrick Martinez

    11/16/2021

    Episode 29: Patrick Martinez

    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. "It's also about observation too, right? ...

    1h 10m
  2. Episode 28: Maysha Mohamedi

    11/16/2021

    Episode 28: Maysha Mohamedi

    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 cre...

    57 min
  3. Episode 27: Naotaka Hiro

    09/15/2021

    Episode 27: Naotaka Hiro

    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 h...

    54 min
  4. Episode 24: Amanda Ross-Ho and Erik Frydenborg

    04/09/2021

    Episode 24: Amanda Ross-Ho and Erik Frydenborg

    L.A. based artists Amanda Ross-Ho and Erik Frydenborg talk about shifting focus and priorities after a year of the pandemic. As teachers, the two discuss what it’s been like to work with students over the last year, and they also find common threads across their art practices: attention to detail, engaging with time and archival material, and inviting the viewer into an open-ended dialogue.“The craft element was not just about a well-made object, but a way to see other objects with precision ...

    1h 7m
  5. Episode 22: Simphiwe Ndzube

    02/05/2021

    Episode 22: Simphiwe Ndzube

    In this episode, host Lindsay Preston Zappas talks to L.A. based artist Simphiwe Ndzube. Ndzube talks about his childhood growing up in South Africa and how as an artist he uses his Magical Realist style to blend past experiences with fantasy. Ndzube talks about following his inner child as an intuitive guide to his art making which blends sculpture, painting, and assemblage. Ndzube discusses art-making as a tool for unpacking traumas, and how he uses his own practice to process past experien...

    1h 9m
  6. Episode 21: Aria Dean, Harmony Holiday, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork

    12/11/2020

    Episode 21: Aria Dean, Harmony Holiday, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork

    Adapting performance work for Covid-19 safety — How performance operates without an audience present — How writing, sampling, and sound play in performance work — How the pandemic has shifted the way we we think about institutional support and artist communitiesIn this episode, I talk to three artists in The Hammer exhibition, Made in L.A. 2020: A Version, which is on view but still not open to the public due to Covid-19 restrictions. Harmony Holiday, Aria Dean, and Jaqueline Kiyomi Gork all ...

    1h 9m
  7. Episode 19: Nikita Gale

    10/09/2020

    Episode 19: Nikita Gale

    Abstraction as Resistance — Reclaiming Identity Through Strategies of Refusal — The Labor of Performance — Relating Audience and Performer — The Politics of Rest — Saying NoNikita Gale is an L.A.-based multi-media artist working in sound, sculpture, and video. In 2018, Gale made a solo show about changing her name—a form of reclaiming her own identity away from a patriarchal lineage. This refusal in many ways sets the stage for Gale’s multi-disciplinary practice, as she explores what it...

    54 min
  8. Episode 18: Sarah Williams

    09/03/2020

    Episode 18: Sarah Williams

    Learning within Institutions — Building Spaces for Community — Redefining Centers, Structures, and Bureaucracies — Connectivity within Digital Adaptations — Radical Everyday Practice — Living, Breathing ValuesSarah Williams is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Women’s Center for Creative Work (WCCW). In this episode, Zappas & Williams discuss the seeds in Williams’ trajectory that grew into WCCW, a space that nourishes and adapts to the needs of its creative feminist communitie...

    59 min
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The Carla Podcast is brought to you by Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (Carla), a quarterly print magazine and online journal dedicated to expanding critical dialogue in Los Angeles’s contemporary art community. We release a new podcast every month in addition to the essays, reviews, and interviews published in the magazine and online. The podcast includes conversations with artists, curators, and creatives that make that live and work in Los Angeles.

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  • Creator
    Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2021
  • Episodes
    25
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2024 The Carla Podcast
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