New Coagula is out, and it sounds like a good one.
The late Dennis Hopper was an integral player in the American art world for half a century and his thespian personality was energized and informed by the boundless creative forces at play in the L.A. art world. In Coagula issue #103, publisher Mat Gleason pays tribute and offers his personal recollection on what made Dennis tick.
Coagula Issue #103 is packed with lots more: Gordy Grundy is riled up about drinking in this month’s GENUFLECT column. Alan Bamberger walks us through great strategies for artists to get a solo show in his TURNING PRO column. Victoria Barkley has a thing for Rosé Wines and DaVinci in her ART + WINE column. Jim Caron’s comics and Gerald Locklin’s LiterARTure poetry about art are featured as always.
Artist Ben Talbert is examined in detail by Matt Dukes Jordan, artist Lun*na Menoh’s solo show at Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica is previewed along with a pictorial survey of her edgy balance between art and high fashion. The dean of LowBrow art, Robert Williams is celebrated on the eve of the world premiere of a career-spanning documentary ROBERT WILLIAMS MISTER BITCHIN’ which premieres on June 16 at LACMA. And if all that were not enough, we have a feature review of William Wegman by Frank Charlie Woods and 32 (yes 32) L.A. reviews of galleries in Culver City and Chinatown.
