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volume 2 issue 5 may 2008

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Three LA Sculptors Break the Mold
BY TULSA KINNEY

I was making my rounds at the galleries in Culver City when I was struck by a funny-looking sculpture. It was a big blobbish form with thousands of tiny paper cut-out shapes, painted black, stuck in this small boulder. Far away it looked like feathers or moss, which then became a face. It seemed like a joke to me, which drew me in. If it makes me laugh, I’ll stick around.

That was one of many sculptures by Mindy Shapero at Anna Helwing Gallery. I kept thinking about it for several reasons. I liked the work, and the fact that it was by a woman reminded me that there seemed to be a lot of sculptresses in Los Angeles now. Liz Craft came to mind, and her work makes me laugh too. Ever since those bronze pieces at the Hammer, especially the motorcycle, I keep thinking, Who did I miss after Rodin? And I’ve followed Anna Sew Hoy’s delicate and raw sculptures for some time now, seeing changes in her work, using different materials and being unafraid to do something completely unexpected, like make a real cast, the kind you put on a broken arm, seven feet long, complimented by friends’ lewd comments and autographs.

Sculpture seems to have made a comeback. You see it everywhere. Artists are welding, sawing, pasting, cutting, nailing and glue-gunning like crazy. Everything but painting. Women more than ever are getting their hands calloused (or more likely, their assistants). Not that long ago, there were so few women sculptors, you could name them all. Only having to remember one name made it easier: Louise, as in Nevelson and Bourgeois. Women sculptors are now common, even in the limelight and especially in Southern California...

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IN THIS ISSUE...

LA ART FROM EAST TO WEST:
Field Guide to Street Art
LA Sculptors: Craft, Sew Hoy and Shapero
California Video at the Getty
Art Theft at the LAPD
Eastside Story
Hammer Turns Up the “Volume”
LA Sweeps the Whitney Biennial

OUR COLUMNISTS:
On the Wag: Kara Walker, ACE bodies
Southland Flâneur: Philip K. Dick
Throttle: Echo Park
Private Eye: Molly Barnes
Retrospect: Henrietta Shore
The Poseur: Community college
Bunker Vision: The Wooster Company

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