Mixed media artist LACHSA Alum Erin Trefry creates paintings and sculptural assemblage using found objects and materials that evoke the body in their substance (like clay) and in their history of usage (garments, textiles, and remnants and tools of the clothing trade). Her patient deconstruction and reconfiguration of these materials reinvents them away from their
Alana Haim Surprised Everyone With Her Movie Debut. Even Herself. When Paul Thomas Anderson asked her to star in “Licorice Pizza,” the musician had zero acting experience. Now she’s winning rave reviews. By Lindsay Zoladz, Originally Published in the New York Times, Dec. 6, 2021 One summer night in 2019, Alana Haim was jet-lagged, tossing and
There's a face-off at the Huntington Museum of Art near Los Angeles. The contenders are Thomas Gainsborough's 18th-century painting Blue Boy and Kehinde Wiley's very 21st-century Portrait of a Young Gentleman. The two young men are sportily dressed and look directly at visitors; they even stand the same way. But there is one major difference. They remind me of trading
The artist invites viewers into her uncanny universe with a dual show in Los Angeles. Katie White, October 19, 2021 Originally published at https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ariana-papademetropoulos-interview-2022483 Los Angeles artist Ariana Papademetropoulos will lure you into a painted fairy tale—one that hovers winkingly between the romantic and the foreboding. Papademetropoulos, who is 30 and was born and raised in
Written By Caroline Framke One of the best surprises about this year’s Emmy nominations was “Pen15” landing a nomination for outstanding comedy series. More than any other TV show about teenagers, the Hulu show — co-created by Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle and Sam Zvibleman — feels like an open window into my own past as a gawky teen with
Originally published at the Los Angeles Sentinel By Amanda Scurlock sports writer, published July 1, 2021 Assata Gaines, a graduating senior from the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA), earned a full scholarship to attend NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Gaines not only looks forward to studying dance at the university
LACHSA Alum Jesse Perez appears in the San Diego Repertory Theater’s production of “JQA,” a play about John Quincy Adams. In Aaron Posner’s play, there is more than one John Quincy Adams, but only one way to ensure that American democracy endures. Sounding like a 19th-century MSNBC pundit, John Quincy Adams once complained to his
“This was the program that allowed me to find my voice and my love of music,” says double bassist and LACHSA alumnus. For cellist Zenaida Aparicio-Alejo, it has always offered “a place where we can rely on each other—on friends and teachers.” Both musicians have been involved with Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA) since the age of
Martha Gonzalez, the singer for Quetzal and author of a new book, “Chican@ Artivistas,” at her home in Los Angeles, holding a jarana from Veracruz.(Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) By STEVE SALDIVARLos Angeles Times, JULY 24, 2020, 7 AM You might think winning a Grammy might be an artist’s dream. For Martha Gonzalez, the
Moving from big stages to little screens, artists reflect on what really matters “Since the age of five, I’ve been a storyteller,” said Josefina Lopez, author of the play Real Women Have Curves (later produced as a film starring America Ferrera), and founder of the CASA 0101 Theater in the Boyle Heights neighborhood in Eastern Los Angeles. “And when I was
