Author Archives: Winnie Bowers

My Mother, Not Myself

Photographer Vivian Joyner debuts a gingerly edited body of portraits of her mother in My Mother, Not Myself: Portraits of Amy Joyner, at Cal Arts L Shaped Gallery in Los Angeles. Despite their clarity, her photographs have a painterly quality to them: One mostly red, one white, blue, black, and green, each tells a color [...]

Seven Days in the Art World at MoCA

“Most of the art world isn’t bullshit.” So says Sarah Thornton, and I think we would agree. “We” are 25-30 art world inclusives grouped around Thornton, and MoCA bookstore owner Dagny Corcoran, at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. Thornton is launching a book five years in the making. Seven Days in the Art [...]