Fabrik - Issue 33

CONTRIBUTORS MEGAN ABRAHAMS is a Los Angeles based writer, art critic and artist. The managing editor of Fabrik, she is a contributing writer for Art Ltd. and WhiteHot Magazines. Megan is currently writing a novel and working on a new series of paintings. For links and more info, visit her sporadically updated blog: onbeyondwordsandpictures.com BETTY ANN BROWN is an art historian, critic, and curator. She has written about contemporary art in Southern California since the 1980s. Brown’s most recent curatorial project, Fantastic Feminist Figuration, opened at Groundspace Project in September.

SHANA NYS DAMBROT is an art critic, curator and author based in Los Angeles. She is currently LA Editor for Whitehot Magazine, Contributing Editor to Art Ltd. and a contributor to KCET’s Artbound, Flaunt, Huffington Post, The Creators Project, Vs. Magazine, Palm Springs Life, Desert Magazine and Porter & Sail. She writes a lot of books and speaks in public with alarming frequency.

PETER FRANK is a New York-born, Los Angeles-based art critic and curator. Associate Editor of Fabrik and art critic for the Huffington Post, Frank has served as Editor of THEmagazine Los Angeles and Visions Art Quarterly, as art critic for the LA Weekly, Village Voice and SoHo Weekly News, and as Senior Curator at the Riverside [CA] Art Museum.

KRISTEN OSBORNE-BARTUCCA is a freelance educator and arts writer based in Los Angeles. She is the creator and host of The Contemporary Art Podcast, in which she covers both established and emerging artists.

MAX PRESNEILL, KIO GRIFFITH & COLTON STENKE / ARTRA CURATORIAL is a volunteer organization focused on creating new modes of artist-driven exhibitions, platforms, opportunity based interactions and community building events locally, nationally and internationally. Founded in 2009, ARTRA has orchestrated MAS Attack and other large scale art events in Southern California with additional projects in Europe and Asia.

EVA RECINOS is a freelance writer and social media producer based in Los Angeles. Her writing has been featured LA Weekly, The Creators Project, PSFK and others. She is less than five feet tall.

LEAH SCHLACKMAN is a Los Angeles-based writer. A recent New York transplant, Leah studied art history and creative writing at NYU. In addition to contributing to Fabrik, she also writes for Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art and works for an architectural arts restoration firm.

PHIL TARLEY is a Fellow of the American Film Institute and an artist member of the Los Angeles Art Association. An art and pop culture critic, he posts stories on the WOW Report, ArtWeek LA and writes about contemporary art and photography for Fabrik. The Critical Eye, his art blog, is featured on Fabrik’s website. Tarley’s writing and photography has appeared in the LA Times, the LA Weekly, Adventure Journal, The Advocate and Adult Video News. He curates photography for the Artists Corner Gallery in Los Angeles.

KAY WHITNEY (kaywhitney.net) is a sculptor and writer. Her last solo show, ...a jest, was at Torrance Art Museum in 2015. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is represented in numerous collections. She is the author of many catalogs, and a frequent contributor to Sculpture Magazine and Ceramics Monthly.