About
Art.blogging.la is an Los Angeles-based art blog published by Bode Media Inc. Founded by Caryn Coleman, abLA was the first city-specific art blog born out of the desire to discuss and promote the vital, growing, and expansive art scene in Los Angeles. Since its beginnings in early 2004 posts on abLA have pertained to upcoming art exhibitions, reviews, interviews, artist features, and news briefings all with a strong editorial voice from selected diverse writers and guest bloggers. Art.blogging.la was voted a top art blog by Art in America in 2004, was added to Google News in early 2005, and included in Forbes Magazine’s Best of the Web 2005 in addition to being featured in the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Weekly, Artnet.com Magazine, amongst others.
Contacting abLA:
Email us at email@gmail.com. Please note that we welcome press materials via email regarding news, thoughts, gallery listings, and events happening in the Los Angeles art community. However, please note that since art.blogging.la is NOT a calendar listing or an open forum, we cannot guarantee that the information sent to us will be featured on the blog. Additionally, any images sent to us should be of low resolution and limited to one.
You can email us at: artbloggingla AT gmail.com
abLA Writers:
Caryn Coleman (Editor)
Caryn Coleman is currently pursuing her Master of Fine Arts degree in Curatorial Studies at Goldsmiths in London. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Art History from the University of Florida in 1998.
In the late 1990s, while working at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Coleman founded her first sixspace gallery. She re-opened sixspace in Los Angeles in 2002 where for the next six years she presented groundbreaking exhibitions by emerging artists and fostered a roster of international and national artists in a variety of media. Throughout her involvement in contemporary art in the past decade she has curated over fifty exhibitions and special curatorial projects such as SENT (the first exhibition exploring mobile phone photography as a medium) and with sixspace has participated in art fairs in Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, and London. In 2005 she was chosen by the LA Weekly as one of the 100-influential people in the Los Angeles art world.
Intensely dedicated to the Los Angeles art community she founded art.blogging.la, one of the first art blogs on the web, in early 2004 that since its beginning has been the go-to site for art in L.A. In addition to art.blogging.la, she has written for the Art Review online, the L.A. Weekly, New York Foundation of the Arts Online, The Artblog by Weblogs Inc, Juxtapoz Magazine, Metroblogging Los Angeles, and Suicide Girls as well as catalogue essays including Heather Cantrell’s Century’s End. She has been a guest-lecturer and spoken on numerous panels regarding online journalism and contemporary gallery practices. Coleman and her art projects have been featured in Artforum, Art in America, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Art in America, Forbes, Elle Magazine, among many others.
Spencer Cross
Spencer Cross, a.k.a. 5000!, is an artist and graphic designer and is the founder of Los Angles-based creative services boutique, Tokyo Farm. He is also the creator of KERNSPIRACY, a unique effort to foster community and camaraderie among Los Angeles creative professionals through a combination of ongoing events and discussion forums. Spencer also co-founded the art collective PopRocks+Soda, who are intensely focused on the study of the issues surrounding the eating of fermented milk and the drinking of fermented grapes. Yay, fermentation.
Spencer also occasionally updates blogTHOUSAND!, widely recognized as the internet’s topmost authority on who would win in a fight between a ninja and a pirate.
Valerie Palmer
Valerie Palmer is a contributing editor at Planet Magazine. Her writing has also appeared in Mean, Anthem, Venus Zine and New Art Examiner.
