Angella d’Avignon
I’m a writer and publicist based in Los Angeles and New York.
I was a 2023 ArtTable Fellow, a writer-in-residence at IKEA, and a 2024 MOMUS Arts Journalism resident. My fiction was longlisted in the 2021 First Pages Prize and I was a finalist for the 2022 Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Prize and the 2022 Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.
I am represented by Sarah Levitt at Aevitas Creative.
In addition to fiction, nonfiction, and reporting, I work in PR as well as a brand copywriter and strategist in the art, design, fashion, and architecture worlds.
I also coach artists and anyone applying to grants, colleges and institutions, and/or writing project proposals. SERVICES HERE.
contact:
angella@ang.works
Selected writing & reporting
Salvaging the Historic Tiles of California’s Burned Fireplaces, for Hyperallergic
With a new David Hockney show in Palm Springs, we visit the artist’s L.A. haunts, for the Los Angeles Times
The Dismantling of the Frank Gehry Project You’ve Never Heard Of, for Dwell
How San Diego Gave Rise to the Country’s First Legal Nude Beach, for Dwell
Yucca Valley Material Lab Draws Artists to the High Desert, for the Los Angeles Times
Deinfluencing, “Anti-Hauls,” and the Dupe Decor Conundrum, for Dwell
The Eames Archives launches Bay Area headquarters offering the public a look in, for Wallpaper*
An Unlikely Art Show Pops Up in an LA Mausoleum, for Hyperallergic
Picture Perfect, for ELLEdecor
Free Dirt, for The Paris Review
But is it Junk? for AIGA Eye on Design
Wayne Thiebaud and Ghia’s Le Spritz, for Variable West
They Live Alone in Ghost Towns, for the New York Times
Location Not Found, for Real Life
A Review of: "Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh", for The Believer
Affirmation memes for millennial dreams, for Dirt
Ghost Towns of Instagram, for The Baffler
The Mortician and the Murderer, for Topic Studios (now in development)
Citrus Season, for Popula