The Next Generation (Architectural Digest, Dec 2013)

“Sima Familant, Adviser

Having been in London for the ’90s Young British Artists craze, Familant has been looking for a scene with a similar excitement ever since. The closest right now? Los Angeles. “All these great artists teaching at the art schools there has created this incredible community,” she says. Familant has a particular fondness for L.A. artists exploring the tense beauty in collisions between man and nature. Among them is Matthew Brandt____(Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, and M+B, Los Angeles), who puts landscape photographs through chemical processes that render them vibrantly stained and scarred. She also points to Sam Falls____(American Contemporary, New York, and M+B, Los Angeles), whose diverse conceptual-art practice frequently involves enlisting the forces of Mother Nature, as seen in the paintings and sculptures he leaves outside to be distressed and altered by the sun and, occasionally, rain—it is California after all.”

by David Colman

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