Catherine G. Wagley

Catherine G. Wagley writes about art and visual culture in Los Angeles. She currently works as an art critic for L.A. Weekly and contributes to a number of other publications, most recently CARLA, ARTNews, East of Borneo, and L.A. Review of Books. She is a contributing editor for Momus.

Features• September 20, 2017

Spoiled Roots: Mark Bradford and the Erasure of Community

By Catherine G. Wagley

Artists tasked with filling the US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale have often poked at its resemblance to Monticello, the plantation designed by the…

Features, Reviews• May 5, 2017

Gallerist Virginia Dwan, the Reluctant Legend

By Catherine G. Wagley

“Any ideas of art history or significance were forgotten,” wrote gallerist Virginia Dwan in 1990, remembering the first time she saw one of Yves…

Reviews• December 8, 2016

Isa Genzken Plays with the Artworld’s Insides in “I Love Michael Asher”

By Catherine G. Wagley

“And why is this dedicated to Michael Jackson?” journalist Randy Kennedy asked Isa Genzken last February as both sat on a stage at the…

Features• December 8, 2015

Friends Among Us: Reflections on the Value and Risk of Nepotism in Art

By Catherine G. Wagley

Corazon del Sol had just arrived in Lisbon, to an apartment she left in the early 2010s, not long after losing someone close. She…

Reviews• October 26, 2015

Helen Molesworth Upends the Permanent Hang at MOCA LA

By Catherine G. Wagley

Ruth Asawa spent the summer of 1948 making buttermilk for her teachers, Josef and Anni Albers, in Asheville, North Carolina. She was enrolled at…