Art curated by FORTH art editors.
He is an arresting hybrid: a knife throwing, intellectual, multidisciplinary artist. A polymath operating under the disarming nom de plume ‘Vivian Seabright’. It also doesn’t hurt to mention his striking resemblance to Humphrey Bogart circa 1936. We met to talk about Seabright’s experience with ceramic and glass and, of course, the compelling art of knife…
Daria Svertilova is a 19-year-old female photographer from Odessa, Ukraine. Using her camera, she paints portraits of modern youth with, for her age, an unusually serious consideration for form and content. “Young men” is a signature subject of Daria’s work. Captured with Daria’s clever eye on medium format film, a balance is struck between the…
Somehow, with 128,934 (current) followers since his first post 10 months ago, Joel Strong, creator of the ever-popular mydaywithleo Instagram, is a bit of a mystery. You can’t find him on Facebook; Google his name and you’re sure to scroll over thousands of “lil Leo” images until you’re suddenly in the weird corner of the…
Impermanence is about an idea that all the matter including all the life forms collapse in the spatial-temporal dimension we belong to. The idea was inspired by the second law of thermodynamics (entropy theory). I have found a beauty in it. By chance, I read an article [on] BBC online [in] 2010 about how fungus…
Made from an old book, Wake is a stream of consciousness journal, exploring self-actualization, fragments of poetry, and childhood memories. Blending collage, hand lettering, and drawings of houses and talking hearts, the pages turn with the feel of a psychedelic self-help book. I took this sketchbook everywhere. I would work on it at cafes, at bars, waiting…
Kris Kirk doesn’t keep secrets. In the spirit of Gary Leonard’s gritty underground punk photography and Richard Bellingham’s unflinching family portraits, California native Kirk’s photographs play out like a diary—rough, frantic—an uncalculated sum of events filled with meaning or nothing at all. His work, as seen on NightedLife.com, regards the world with a callous and…
“Quasi una Fantasia” “Humanity Is A Tightrope” “Under a New Moon” “I Loved that Hat” “Chiquita” Anthony Jenny was born in the SF Bay Area, but moved to LA to study philosophy at UCLA. Upon deciding to pursue a career in art, Jenny uses his philosophical mindset as inspiration for…
Joshua Tree, CA Joshua Tree, CA Death Valley, CA Death Valley, CA Death Valley, CA Molly Rose McCambridge is an installation based dance maker, filmmaker, painter, activist, feminist thinker and queer woman. Molly graduated with honors in Dance and Film from Hollins University and has…
Written by Dulcinea Circelli. It’s after dark at The Hive Gallery and Studios on a Sunday night. The whole place is empty and quiet except for the moaning of the exposed old pipes that crisscross the ceiling.
Don Gialanella: “I work with repurposed materials collected from the streets of LA and turn them into large sculptural spheres. I received commissions for orb sculptures from the Cities of Napa and Pasadena, both in 2013. The Orb sculptures create new thoughts about ordinary things.
