- J.G. Ballard, What I Believe, 1984. Read it in its entirety.

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Coming back to Los Angeles has always felt significantly foreign and deeply familiar. Every time I step foot in the city, my body has to readjust to its intonations and its hypnotic pace, to these new noises of traveling metal and to the warm breath of the orange trees. And yes, after these last months spent battling with Winter, I am actually joyously embracing the hot exhalations.

To celebrate this return, I invited Los Angeles based artist Kelly Kleinschrodt. For this edition, she submitted a series of photograms ironically carrying the seal of the city. Following up on her current experimentation with the photographic medium, Kleinschrodt has been playing with large sheets of mylar to “lift” surfaces and elements from her surroundings; in this particular series, she collected broken and splattered glass from parking lots, subsequently bringing the found residues to the darkroom to create these mesmerizing and unique plates.
I love how the scale of these familiar elements become mystified, eventually turning into radiating galaxies or magnified blood samples.

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Kelly Kleinschrodt

same glass twice (VII & VIII), unique prints, 2010
C-print, photogram diptych, back mounted to clear, sanded plexiglass
each 10 x 8 inches (25,4 x 20,3 cm)

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Kelly Kleinschrodt

same glass twice (VII & VIII), unique prints, 2010
C-print, photogram diptych, back mounted to clear, sanded plexiglass
each 10 x 8 inches (25,4 x 20,3 cm)

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Kelly Kleinschrodt’s recent solo exhibition, Deep Space, at Crisp London Los Angeles was seen in London and Los Angeles. Collaborative video work, made with artist Pablo Rasgado, were screened at the Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City and OPEN Contemporary Art Center, Beijing in September 2009.
The artist has also exhibited in group shows at Circus Gallery, Hollywood, CA, Kinkead Contemporary, Culver City, CA and The Humble Arts Foundation, Brooklyn, NY, among others. Recent performances were seen at FOCA, Los Angeles, CA, FiveMyles, Brooklyn, NY, Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami, FL and Project Row Houses, Houston, TX.

In 2007, Kleinschrodt was awarded an Artist Residency at the Vermont Studio Center. In 2005, she received a BFA from The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University and is currently in the MFA program at UCLA (class of 2011).

Kelly Kleinschrodt was born in 1983 in Opelika, AL. She lives and works in Los Angeles.

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The title of this painting refers to an island in the Red Sea that the French explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his team perused in the 1960s. They discovered that there were no life on it except for large quantities of a certain type of crabs running up and down incessantly.

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Susane Bergstaedt

Maf Zuber, 2010
acrylic on canvas
40 x 50 cm (15.7 x 19.7 inches)

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Susane Bergstaedt was born in Berlin and studied at the Technical College of Art and Design, Hannover. She has participated in several exhibitions in Berlin and all throughout Germany. She was recently featured in the series of group exhibitions entitled Six Days Of New Media at Linienstraße 127, Berlin.
She lives and works in Berlin.

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Back in the Spring of last year, I started shooting studio visits again and was invited to step inside Ariel’s studio here in Berlin.
I was drawn to his work due to both its intimate and its formal aesthetic. Heavy personal narratives were warmly buzzing from everywhere and yet it also felt like the cold report of a detective was being waved at me, as if the correspondent had solely lined up the facts of one’s life. It was darkly intriguing.
This photograph carries the same weight to me. Within the ongoing process of his practice, it represents the space where the political and the intimate connects, somewhere between photography, video, performance, and life.

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Ariel Reichman

Untitled 1, 1/3, 2010
pigment print on 100% rag paper, edition of 3 + 2 AP
framed, print size 100 x 100 cm (3.3 x 3.3 feet)

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Ariel Reichman was born in South Africa in 1979 and immigrated to Israel in 1991. He studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and at the U.D.K. Berlin. Reichman was awarded the lbb Prize for Photography by the Karl Hofer Foundation in 2008. He was recently part of the first group exhibition “Freischuss” at Die Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Berlin which was curated by Gregor Quack.
He lives and works in Berlin and Tel-Aviv.

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Like a romantic and premonitory episode, this diptych by Jessica Minckley seems to be carrying the melancholia of my current surroundings. As I am writing this from Berlin, I can almost see the same repetitive marks, the faded touches and the colored scratches that she applied to the intimacy of the format, surfacing on the walls of the city and in the color of the winter air.

Minckley works in an array of mediums, from works on paper, to painting and installation. Her practice resonates within the familiar, the self, and the crisis and sorrows that accompany such language.

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Jessica Minckley

Duolith, diptych, 2009
monoprint, watercolor and gouache on etching paper
7 x 5 inches each (17,8 x 12,7 cm), framed size 13.5 x 19.5 inches (34,3 x 49,5 cm)

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Jessica Minckley is an artist based in Los Angeles. She had her last solo exhibition with Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles in 2008 which was featured in Art Forum. Other recent group shows took place at Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles, Kreiling &, Los Angeles, and at Ambient Art Projects, Las Vegas.

She is also the co-director of Light&Wire Gallery whose last project consisted of a series of public installations on view at six bus stop shelters around Miami Beach during the Art Basel Fair. Finally, she recently launched a new online curatorial exercise entitled CANAL.

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Alika Cooper

Grace Jones / Keith Haring Triptych, 2010
gouache on paper
38 x 14 inches (96,5 x 35,5 cm)

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Paradise, gouache on paper, 9 x 12 inches, 2009.

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I’m not perfect, gouache on paper, 13.5 x 14 inches, 2010.

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Nude, gouache on paper, 15.5 x 13.5 inches, 2010.

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Alika Cooper is an artist based in Los Angeles. Her work is currently part of the group exhibition The Women of Women, The Female Form which opened January 16th at Taylor de Cordoba, Los Angeles.
She recently had her second solo exhibition with Mark Wolfe Contemporary, San Francisco, which published a 50-page, full color catalogue for the occasion.
In Europe, the artist has been showing with Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin and Galleria Studio Legale, Rome.

Alika Cooper was born in Agana, Guam in 1979. She received her M.F.A from the California College of Arts and Crafts , San Francisco in 2006.

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In April of 2005, I started this website as a way to connect with a city I was to call home for the next five years, and counting.
After having featured more than a thousand artists, at exhibitions, art fairs, and inside their studios, I have decided to propose their works for sale, directly to you.

Every Wednesday, one artist I have talked about previously on these pages will be featured with a piece of art available for purchase. This work will have been created specifically for The Flog and will solely be procurable online.

At the end of the year, a printed volume will be offered which will be gathering all of the pieces made available on this site.

This is a project I have been thinking about for a while now and I am really excited by its promises. Every artist I have contacted have shown much enthusiasm and talent in proposing me original work that I can’t hardly wait to show you what they have been hiding. We are now at a point where the art world needs to embrace alternative ways of producing and experiencing Art, and also needs to accept that significant works of Art can truly surface from everywhere. I believe that the internet is a worthwhile and critical space to filter and curate this vast production.

Welcome to this new chapter of The Flog and enjoy the Art, as always.

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Eric Yahnker

Bizarro Picasso, 2009
charcoal and graphite on paper
80 x 52 inches (203,2 x 133,4 cm)

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Eric Yahnker is an artist based in Los Angeles. His work was recently exhibited at the NADA Art Fair in Miami with Ambach & Rice, Seattle. To start off the year, Yahnker will be part of group exhibitions at Western Exhibitions, Chicago and at Baer Ridgeway Gallery, San Francisco and in May 2010, he will have his first solo exhibition in Europe at Jean Rochdard, Paris.

Recent press includes the LA Times Magazine, Tokion, Fecal Face, and the LAT.

Eric Yahnker was born in Torrance, California. He received his B.F.A. in animation from the California Institute Of Arts and studied journalism at University of Southern California.

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