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February 20, 2015

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2024:

Claudia Ross, “The Best Shows to See During Frieze Los Angeles,” featuring David HammonsFrieze Magazine, February 29, 2024

Matt Stromberg, “10 Offbeat Art Events During LA’s Art Fair Week,” featuring David Hammons, Hyperallergic, February 20, 2024

Caroline Liu, “Yalda Afsah at JOAN,” Carla, February 2024. Print
“Yalda Afsah en JOAN,” Carla, February 21, 2024

Hande Sever, “Johanna Hedva Undermines Capitalist Agenda,” Frieze Magazine, January 30, 2024

2023:

“Johanna Hedva, If You’re Reading This, I’m Already Dead,” Mousse Magazine, December 12, 2023

Matt Stromberg, “10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles in December,” Hyperallergic, featuring Johanna Hedva: If You’re Reading This, I’m Already Dead, December 4, 2023

Yalda Afsah, Los Angeles Review of Books, October 18, 2023

Martin Harries, “Having Once Been Beautiful,” Los Angeles Review of Books, September 6, 2023

2022:

Rachel Elizabeth Jones, “Review: Aimee Goguen at JOAN,” Carla, November 11, 2022

Nahui Garcia, “Pool at JOAN,” Carla, September 14, 2022

Jennifer Piejko, “Review: Nour Mobarak’s Dafne Phono,” Art-Agenda, September 9, 2022

Nour Mobarak interviewed by Ross Simonini on Subject, Object, Verb, a podcast produced by ArtReview, August 5, 2022

Allison Connor, “A Cryptic Dance Between Understanding and Incomprehension,” Hyperallergic, April 20, 2022

Beverly Semmes interviewed by Tyler Green on the Modern Art Notes Podcast, January 6, 2022

Christina Catherine Martinez, “Review: Pippa Garner at JOAN,” Artforum, January 2022

2021:

Pippa Garner interviewed by Kate Wolf on the Los Angeles Review of Books Radio Hour, November 26, 2021

Renée Reizman, “Pippa Garner’s Household Inventions Reimagine the World,” Hyperallergic, November 15, 2021

“From social commentary to playful inventions, check out Pippa Garner’s artwork at new DTLA exhibit,” Lindsay Preston Zappas on KCRW’s Greater L.A. hosted by Steve Chiotakis, September 30, 2021

Allison Noelle Connor, “Eating the Self: Arnold J. Kemp’s Hungry Hydras,” Carla, August 19, 2021

Arnold J. Kemp interviewed by Huey Copeland, “1000 Words: Arnold J. Kemp,” Artforum, March/April 2021

Andy Campbell, “Review: Peggy Ahwesh at JOAN”, Artforum, March/April 2021

2020:

Olivia Gauthier, “Jennifer West: Future Forgetting,The Brooklyn Rail, April 2020

“Jennifer West,” Los Angeles Review of Books

Asha Bukojemsky and Hannah Spears, “SOMETHINNNGISALWAYSSSWRONGGG by Barnett Cohen,” riting.org, February 28, 2020

Kim Cordova, “Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz, Moving Backwards,Art-Agenda, February 17, 2020

Judith Rodenbeck, “Review: Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz,” 4Columns, January 24, 2020

2019:

Cat Kron, “Review: Mira Dancy at JOAN,” Carla, October 30, 2019

Mira Dancy in “10 Contemporary Artists To Get To Know,” Nylon, October 2019

Jessica Simmons, “Review: Servane Mary at JOAN,” Artforum, Mary 2019

“SPINE: Madeline Hollander, Eva LeWitt, Ragen Moss at JOAN,” ARTnews, January 18, 2019

2018:

Catherine Taft, “Review: Harry Dodge at JOAN,” Artforum, November 2018

Olivia Leiter, “Harry Dodge: Works of Love at JOAN,” Art Practical, September 18, 2018

Ezrha Jean Black, “Harry Dodge,” Artillery Magazine, September 4, 2018

Brian Karl & Olivia Mole, “Love’s Labors Glossed,” X-TRA, October 22, 2018

Jonathan Griffin, “Per Proscenia: A Time Capsule of Los Angeles Art, 1969-93,” Frieze, August 21, 2018

“Pro Proscenia: An Elegant Exhibition Closing this Weekend at JOAN,” Diversions LA, June 23, 2018

Simone Krug, “Sam Anderson at JOAN,” Carla, March 15, 2018

Maximilíano Durón, “Nonprofit Gallery JOAN Moves to New Space in Downtown L.A.,”ARTnews, February 8, 2018

“JOAN Gallery Relocates to Downtown Los Angeles,” Artforum News, February 9, 2018

2017:

Catherine Wagley, “5 Free Art Shows to See in L.A. This Week,” LA Weekly, September 27, 2017

Catherine Wagley, “5 Art Shows to See in L.A. This Week,” LA Weekly, May 24, 2017

Meg Whiteford, “Review: Blair Saxon-Hill,” Artforum, January 2017

Kate Wolf, “Picturing La Petite Morte,” X-TRA, Winter 2017, Vol. 19, No. 2

2016:

Catherine Wagley, “5 Art Shows to See in L.A. This Week,” LA Weekly, December 14, 2016

Maximilíano Durón, “Eros and Elegy: On L.A.’s Queer Moment,” ArtNews, August 15, 2016

Catherine Wagley, “Aura Rosenberg at JOAN,” Carla, June 2, 2016

Emily Rappaport, “Many Ways To Dream: Around Los Angeles,” ArtNews, May 31, 2016

Claire de Dobay Rifelj, “L.A. Art Fairs” Carla, Issue 4, Spring 2016

Keith J. Varadi, “Ajay Kurian at JOAN,” Carla, March 24, 2016

Catherine Wagley, “Ajay Kurian: Unilateral Educational Disarmament,” LA Weekly, February, 25, 2016

Essence Harden, “One, Two, Three Up: Alison O’Daniel’s Centennial Marching Band Forwards, Backwards, Pause, Silent,” San Francisco Arts Quarterly (SFAQ), February 2, 2016

Catherine Wagley, “A Compton Marching Band Took Over Art Los Angeles Contemporary and It Was Awesome,” LA Weekly, January 30, 2016

Eileen Kinsella, “Is Art Los Angeles Contemporary the West Coast’s ‘It’ Fair?,ArtNet News, January 16, 2016

2015:

Catherine Wagley, “8 L.A. Artists and Art-World Figures to Watch in 2016,” LA Weekly, December 28, 2015

Sylvia Bataille at JOAN, Los Angeles,” ARTnews, December 9, 2015

The Agenda: This Week in Los Angeles,” Art in America, December 9, 2015

The Agenda: This Week in Los Angeles,” Art in America, November 18, 2015

Arielle Bier, “Review: Sylvia Bataille,Artforum, 2015

Hana Cohn, Sylvia Bataille at JOAN,” Carla, November 5, 2015

The Agenda: This Week in Los Angeles,” Art in America, September 2, 2015

Matt Stromberg, “ArtRx LA,” Hyperallergic, September 1, 2015

Last-Look: The Outdoor Type,” WOAH, August 13, 2015

Lindsay Preston Zappas, “Review: Mark Hagen at JOAN,” Carla, July 15, 2015

Ann Hirsch: Playground at JOAN,” Daily Serving, April 19, 2015

Required Reading: Net Art gets bodied,” Rhizome, April 2, 2015

The Agenda: This Week in Los Angeles,” Art in America, March 25, 2015

Matt Stromberg, “ArtRx LA,” Hyperallergic, March 24, 2015

Carolina A. Miranda, “Datebook: Word paintings dance on film, and art about roller skating,” The Los Angeles Times, March 12, 2015