Tag Archives: Vivian Joyner

Iko Iko, Let’s Go

Last Saturday night, on a lonely stretch of Sunset Boulevard in between Echo Park and Los Angeles’s downtown, the new showroom and art space, Iko Iko, opened for business. Located in a building complex with mostly “For Rent” notices in the other windows, Iko Iko’s hot pink letter signage and sizeable crowd leaking from the [...]

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 [...]