13ThingsLA: May 15
BY SHANA NYS DAMBROT
May 14, 2024
Left: Poetry Cards for give away; Right: Performance still from Jane Brucker’s June performance at COLA, featuring performer, Jeremy Hahn, as seen in the reflection of “It's been a long time..” Photography by Gene Ogami.
EXCERPT:
The COLA 2024 Awards Exhibition opens Saturday, May 18, 2-4pm at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. COLA 2024 is an exhibition of new work by five Los Angeles-based artists, featuring dynamic installations of ceramic, sculpture, photography, video, painting, and drawing. They tend to keep the new work created for the purpose under wraps until the opening, but this year’s recipients of the Independent Master Artist Project (COLA/IMAP) grants in design and visual arts are an eclectic and seriously impressive group. Look for thoughtful installation and performance artist Jane Brucker, provocative filmmaker and installation artist Mariah Garnett, socially engaged photographer Janna Ireland, transdisciplinary environmentalist storyteller Debra Scacco, and boundary-pushing ceramicist Bari Ziperstein.
SHANA NYS DAMBROT is an art critic, curator, and author based in Downtown LA. Formerly the arts editor at the L.A. Weekly, she is the co-founder of 13ThingsLA, and a contributor to the Village Voice, Flaunt, Artillery, and other culture publications. 13ThingsLA is a weekly LA art guide published by HIJINX ARTS.