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Sharon Mizota will examine the work of emerging and mid-career artists who use aesthetic strategies to question conventional social categories and hierarchies and to suggest new social and political formations. Conveying theoretical concepts regarding art's political potential in everyday language, Mizota's criticism and feature articles, which have appeared in The Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Weekly, aim to encourage a general readership to make connections between works of art and larger social forces. She is particularly interested in the work of artists of color, West Coast artists, and artists from Asia and Latin America such as Ruben Ochoa, Haegue Yang, and Paul Chan.
Sharon Mizota, a freelance arts writer since 2005, has written for the Los Angeles Times, Artforum.com, ARTnews, Art Ltd., and Wired.com. Recent articles include a feature on Charles Gaines, "Clarity in every crisis," and another on Andrea Bowers, "Politics sewn to art, panel by quilt-like panel," both in the Los Angeles Times; "Cao Fei," "Richard Ross," "Chen Xiaoyun," and "Shirley Tse," all in Artforum.com; "WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution," in Art Ltd.; and "Mark Bradford" in ARTnews. She was a founding member and newsletter editor of Godzilla West: Asian American Multidisciplinary Arts Network in San Francisco.
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