Current Issue

Showcasing LA’s enormous photography community, MOPLA (Month of Photography Los Angeles) sets the agenda for Fabrik’s 20th issue as photography becomes a city-wide focus with a variety of events and programs, designed to inspire and invigorate the photography professional, enthusiast and collector, occurring at multiple venues throughout April. This issue spotlights celebrity photographer Karen Bystedt’s The Lost Warhols, which offer an intimate glimpse beyond Andy Warhol’s meticulously constructed persona. At 94, genius autodidact Saul Leiter’s pioneering use of color in his New York street photography gets the art-world respect it deserves. A profile of emerging photographer Katrina Umber shares the metaphysics informing her numinous practice and curatorial entity 5790projects sources eight emergent and mid-career artists whose works are foregrounded by photography. Gallerist Stephen Cohen’s smashing group show “Falling From Great Heights” presents three artists whose photographic images engage the sublime.

Review at REDCAT lauds New York theater company Elevator Repair Service’s staging of Gatz, an eight hour theatrical marathon that translates F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Peter Frank’s “Coming Out, Going In” finds a sense of longing with a sense of presence in Venice-based Shulamit Gallery’s group show “Leaving the Land of Roses,” and moving vulnerability along with poignant abjection within the works of Doni Silver Simons, “de-noue-ment (n)” and Pouya Afshar, “The Mystery of Süveyda: Within the Artist’s Mind.” In his mainstay Museum Views, Frank sees Miriam Wosk’s embrace of mortality at Santa Monica Museum of Art and the Hammer Museum’s survey of Llyn Foulkes’ integral role in Los Angeles’ rich tradition of social protest. Click here to view the current issue of Fabrik as an online Flipbook.