Where Art Never Dies

The Liminal Spaces of Mark Acetelli

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  • The art of Mixed Mediums

               During my visit to the ArtSpace Warehouse gallery in Los Angeles, California, I stumbled upon a small section dedicated to two separate artists, Raul de la Torre and Len Klikunas. While their art is inherently different in make, perspective, and color, both artists use a similar ideology: mixed mediums. The former uses the hyperpigmentation of…

  • The Liminal Spaces of Mark Acetelli

    My first endeavor to galleries in Los Angeles brought me to ArtSpace and Artplex, two sister contemporary art galleries which strive to display, debut, and market various artists of both local and national importance. They offered an incredible range of art, from sculpture to neon signs to paint to digital media and I became fascinated…

  • An Abject Bouquet

    Avalon Grover 04/28/2023 In her book Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva defines abjection as what is “radically excluded and draws me towards the place where meaning collapses” (Kristeva, 2), or in other words, the human reaction to a threatened, or absolute, breakdown of the distinction between self and object. She goes on to explain that, while…

  • Afro-Atlantic Histories Exhibit

    Avalon Grover 04/18/2023 LACMA, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and an internationally renowned institution, currently presents the Afro-Atlantic Histories Exhibition which I had the pleasure of visiting on April 7, 2023. The exhibit features art pieces from contemporary and historical artists depicting experiences and emotions from the transatlantic slave trade, their welcome, or…

  • American psycho’s feminism and patrick bateman’s struggle with self-identity

    Hollywood enjoys sexualizing women. This undeniable fact stems from the common use of the male gaze, deeming it much more dominant in terms of camera editing, female placement, and ultimately, the viewers’ gaze. In her essay, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, Laura Mulvey, film theorist, argues for the inclusion of the female gaze in film and…

  • Paranoia In The Maids

    Avalon Grover 03/13/2023 Often, Surrealists in the 1920’s operated by disturbing, confusing, and attacking the unconscious mind to expose one’s desires and traumas. Comparatively, the work of Jacques Lacan and Salvador Dalí centered around the activity of the conscious mind instead. Lacan’s theory of paranoia and Dalí’s paranoic critical method invoke an active investigation of…

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