Nikki Darling
Nikki Darling is a student in the Creative Writing/Literature PhD program at USC. Her poetry and experimental essays center around subjectivity, persona, and post-structualist methods of deconstructing literary form and meaning. She is finishing her first novel, "Fade Into You," a memoir of mixed race identity in the San Gabriel Valley during the 1990's. Her criticism has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Art Book Review, Tomorrow Magazine and Public Books, among others. Her essay Appropriate For Destruction was included in Best Music Writing 2010.
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In a new exhibition, John Burtle creates a walk-in environment/ecosystem to investigate the physical and perceptual boundaries of landscape painting.
Patrick Walsh, a.k.a JPW3, challenges modes of convention through his interdisciplinary approach to art that toys with the edges of artistic and philosophical rebirth.
Jules Gimbrone believes that sound is the most radical of mediums.
The artwork of Alika Cooper is appropriated from the work of male photographers and arranged into sumptuous collages.
Paul Pescador's art wants to get familiar with you. His work keep viewers at an emotional and physical distance, creating a constant yearning for consistency.
The work of writer/artist Jibade-Khalil Huffman addresses the age-old human condition within our modern social structure.
L.A. artist Katie Herzog's latest work, debuting at the Night Gallery on June 29, deals with the issues of transgendered language and identity.
The EMP festival explores L.A.'s long and vibrant musical history by tracking down those lesser known and more carefully protected pockets that changed and altered the musical landscape.