CONTRIBUTORS

MARY MANNING Photographer

New York–based photographer Mary Manning has had solo exhibitions at Canada gallery and Cleopatra’s, and at Sibling in Toronto. Last year, they curated the exhibition “Looking Back/ The 12th White Columns Annual” for White Columns. Grace Is Like New Music, a book of their recent works, was published by Canada in 2023. The photographer spent an afternoon with poet CAConrad outside St. Mark’s Church for this issue. “Making a portrait with CAConrad in the west yard of St. Mark’s Church was a dream assignment,” says Manning. “When we finished, CA generously gave me a tarot reading with the most beautiful deck I’ve ever seen.”

LÉON PROST Photographer

Autodidact Léon Prost strives to catch what goes unseen. As a French reportage photographer and director, Prost traveled in Romania with his analog camera, documenting his journey through the country. He has shot for publications including L’Officiel Hommes, M le magazine du Monde, and Regain. For this issue, the photographer turned his lens on FrenchLebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh.

KARLA LEYVA Photographer

Karla Leyva is a transdisciplinary artist working to analyze the fantasy around colonized bodies in an increasingly digital world. Implicit in her work is the desire to expand the body beyond the flesh, the desire to leave the periphery, to be seen, touched, felt, consumed, and discarded. Leyva has shown her work in Pereira, Los Angeles; Portland, Oregon; London; and across Mexico, where she currently lives. She entered the world of Javier Barrios, a fellow Mexico City resident, for this issue. “What I like the most about him,” she says, “is that he works very hard to be the great artist he is now.”

JESSE GLAZZARD Photographer

Jesse Glazzard was born and raised in Yorkshire and lives in London, after graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2019. He has documented moments among his close friends over several years, and has shot and directed for brands including Calvin Klein, Ssense, and Adidas, among others. A regular CULTURED contributor, the photographer captured French musician Christine and the Queens for this issue in Paris. “I love working with Chris,” says Glazzard. “It was especially nice this time because I got to see some of the city. We started the shoot with a few push-ups.”

LARRY BELL Artist

Taos, New Mexico–based artist Larry Bell is one of the most noteworthy representatives of abstract art in the postwar period, with a career spanning nearly six decades. Bell’s medium, “light on surface,” often utilizes the technology of thin film deposition of vaporized metals and minerals on glass surfaces. Bell exhibits extensively in museums and galleries across the world, and is the recipient of numerous public art commissions. For this issue, he spoke with collector Billie Milam Weisman about their parallel lives in the arts. “I always enjoy talking with Billie,” says Bell of his longtime friend. “She is a real fixture in the LA art scene.”

Curated by Ricky Swallow

Through August 4, 2023

September 5 – October 14, 2023 LOS

Celebrating David Kordansky Gallery’s 20th Anniversary

Through August 19, 2023

SHARA HUGHES

DEANA LAWSON

September 9 – October 21, 2023

DAVE HOLMES Writer

Dave Holmes is an editor-at-large and columnist for Esquire whose work has appeared in publications including the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, and New York magazine. He is thrilled to have interviewed the artistic polymath that is TØKIO M¥ERS for CULTURED’s summer music issue. When it comes to his other summer music picks, Holmes will tell you this in confidence, because he feels he can trust you: He still listens to that first Wilson Phillips album about once a week.