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Shana Nys Dambrot

Shana Nys Dambrot is an art critic, curator, and author based in Los Angeles. She is currently L.A. editor for Whitehot Magazine, contributing editor to Art Ltd., and a contributor to KCET’s Artbound, Flaunt, Huffington Post, The Creators Project, Vs. Magazine, Palm Springs Life, Montage, Desert Magazine, L.A. Review of Books, and Porter & Sail. She studied art history at Vassar College, writes loads of essays for art books and exhibition catalogs, curates and/or juries a few exhibitions each year, sometimes exhibits her photography and publishes short fiction, and speaks in public at galleries, schools, and cultural institutions nationally. An account of her activities is sometimes updated at sndx.net.
Recent Articles
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Cultural Politics
Artbound
Ten Seasons of Evolution and Revolution on 'Artbound'
Post date: 2019-06-12T11:54:01-07:00From the beginning, the DNA of “Artbound” has been about democratization, not only in terms of access to more contemporary arts-based programs but about diversifying that content itself in meaningful ways. Follow its journey through ten seasons.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Motherhood Opens Artist Eyes to New, Exciting Materials
Post date: 2018-04-19T10:26:45-07:00There’s a long and glorious tradition of artists turning to their immediate surroundings for the materials with which to make their work. So when an artist becomes a parent, specifically a mom, why not expect the same kinds of investigations?
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Travel to California's Paleoindian Past Inside a Military Base
Post date: 2018-04-11T10:17:54-07:00The greatest (meaning both the largest and the best preserved) concentration of Native American rock art in the country is only about a hundred miles north of Los Angeles. It's in China Lake Naval Base. And that’s where things get interesting.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
From Bierstadt to Bob Ross: How Landscape Painting Re-Imagined the American West
Post date: 2018-04-11T09:58:55-07:00Before the golden age of Hollywood Westerns, the mythology and allure of the American West was portrayed by dedicated, skilled landscape painters. Their legacy continues today.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Nature's Ways Inspired These Complex Works
Post date: 2017-06-27T13:58:18-07:00Meet the artists who have set themselves on botanical time, creating intricate works that do more than look pretty.
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Land Art
Artbound
Desert X: Land Art at the Edge of the City
Post date: 2017-03-17T14:33:23-07:00Nearly half of Desert X happens “in town” or on its adjacent fringes, as opposed to the mythical and rather apocryphal “open” or “empty” desert.