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.
Episodes
25 episodes
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 street...
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Season 5
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Episode 29
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1:09:51
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 g...
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Season 5
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Episode 28
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57:28
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 wor...
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Season 5
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Episode 27
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54:12
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 24
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1:06:47
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 fantas...
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Season 4
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Episode 22
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1:09:29
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 a...
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Season 4
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Episode 21
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1:08:35
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 wor...
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Season 4
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Episode 19
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53:53
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 Willia...
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Season 4
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Episode 18
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59:11
Episode 17: Remembering John Baldessari
Remembering John Baldessari: artist, friend, teacher, and mentor — Leslie Jones, Meg Cranston, Fay Ray, Amanda McGough, and Norm Laich reflect on the life and legacy of the celebrated Los Angeles artist This special ...
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Season 3
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Episode 17
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51:39
Episode 16: Todd Gray
Growing up in L.A. — Rock Photography and Photographing Michael Jackson — Feeling Split Between Commercial Work and Art — The Colonized Mind — Finding Balance Between Mind and Body — Make Rules Break RulesTodd Gray joins ...
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Season 3
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Episode 16
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1:07:36
Episode 15: Lari Pittman
How identity has shaped Pittman’s work—Being a Painter in the Pictures Generation—Working Politically While Not Being Defined as a “Political Artist”—Thoughts on the Younger Generation of Artists—On Boredom—Leaving Work Open for the View...
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Season 3
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Episode 15
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50:16
Episode 14: Jamillah James
Interview with curator Jamillah James — The unconventional start to her art career — The responsibility of museums to be accessible & accountable — Generosity & mentorship — What does it mean to curate the contemporary?<...
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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1:19:01
Episode 13: Trulee Hall
Trulee Hall on her recent solo show — Americana and female sexuality — Working across multiple mediums — The importance of timing in an artist’s career — Choosing the right galleryWriter’s RoomIn this last e...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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1:03:40
Episode 12: Dianna Molzan, Catherine Wagley
Dianna Molzan discusses her recent show, “Fizzz,”and generating joy amidst political chaos — Vanessa Place’s Rape Jokes — Understanding how art might open up space to communicate about the #MeToo Movement — Do artists need to be good at ...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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1:05:59
Episode 11: Kelly Akashi, Christina Catherine Martinez
Julian Rosefeldt’s “Manifesto,” in relation to the subjectivity of the body, Hollywood, and politics — Kelly Akashi discusses her art practice and recent show — What makes a good press release?Writer’s RoomH...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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1:19:35
Episode 10: Travis Diehl on Davis Lynch, Jim Walters on Art Taxes
David Lynch’s paintings and the contrast between still-images versus moving — Tips and tricks for how to file your taxes as an artistWriter’s RoomHost Lindsay Preston Zappas is joined by Carlacontri...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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55:19
Episode 9: Bettina Korek, Hamza Walker, Sam Parker, Catherine Wagley
How figurative art relates to Christianity and politics — Celeste Dupuy-Spencer depicts white America — Sneak peek of the art fair Frieze Los Angeles — L.A.’s art community vs. its collector base — How do I price my artwork?...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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1:13:17
Episode 8: Made in L.A. 2018 curators and writers
Looking back on “Made in L.A.”— What does it mean for an artist to be political? — How are artists responding to our time?—How do young artists connect with curators?Writer’s RoomLindsay is joined by the thr...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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1:17:10
Episode 7: Amanda Ross-Ho, Norm Laich, Matt Stromberg
Whose work is it anyway? — Norm Laich’s world as a brush for hire — The art of the collaboration — Is there a viable way to share your work on social media?Writer’s RoomLindsay is joined by Carla co...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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1:14:03
Episode 6: Micol Hebron, Angella d’Avignon
Florals and feminism — the historical, political, and gendered uses of floral imagery — Call-out culture and Instagram feminism — Has female representation in the art world made any progress?Writer’s RoomLin...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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1:05:37
Episode 5: The Death of Alt Weeklies, Catherine Wagley
The death of alt weeklies — The responsibility of the writer — Creating inclusive news platforms for local communities — How do we make art writing accessible to a wide audience?Writer’s RoomLindsay is joine...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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53:42
Episode 4: Matt Stromberg on Instagram in the Art Museum, Interview with Dani Tull and Yvonne Bas of Odd Ark LA
The role of Instagram in the art museum – should museums be adapting programming to appeal to the general public? – Highland Park gallery, Odd Ark LA, shares their story – We listen to some great music tracks by Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw ...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:03:27
Episode 3: Travis Diehl on Trash and Gentrification, Interview with Adam Miller and Devon Oder of The Pit
New trends in trash – artists’ and galleries’ roles within gentrifying neighborhoods in L.A. – Does the boom of artist-run spaces actually point to a lack of support for emerging artists? Writer’s RoomL...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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57:07
Episode 2: Ike Onyewuenyi on EJ Hill, and Meatgrinder Teen Art Club
Conversations about the body, the ephemerality of performance, the marginalization of certain art histories, and how a teen art collective is engaging in the community.Writer’s RoomLindsay is joined by two C...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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49:05
Episode 1: Women on the Plinth, Brett Schultz, Francisco Cordero-Oceguera, and Michael Ned Holte on MFAs
This is a packed episode with conversations ranging from politics in art, all-women exhibitions, art fairs and alternative gallery structures, and the benefits (and hardships) of getting an MFA. Writer’s Room<...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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57:21
