Press release: While for the moment, the fates of human and non-human beings are inextricably entangled, the power of humans is waning. We arrived late on the planet and are likely to exit early. —Max Hooper Schneider A mad scientist, magician, alchemist, trash master, doomsday predictor, and borderline hoarder, Max Hooper Schneider has spent the
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“Living in a Lightbulb” at Tanya Bonakdar, New York/Los Angeles
Press release: It’s like living in a light bulb, with the leaves Like filaments and the sky a shell of thing, transparent glass Enclosing the late heaven of a summer day, a canopy Of incandescent blue above the dappled sunlight golden on the grass. — Sally’s Hair by John Koethe (excerpt) Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is
Dan Finsel at Michael Benevento, Los Angeles
Press release: Given the time I seem to have found myself in: “The End of Time”, I have yet to title this exhibition and I’m really not sure that I want too. If I would, it could be: “Les Fin, Finsel” or maybe something like “Before-Depersonalization-After” or possibly even: “What do Fireman do in Hell?
Harrison Pearce at Baert Gallery, Los Angeles
Press release: We are outnumbered. Amidst a network of kinetic objects, Harrison Pearce lets us peer into strange relationships. Rigid industrial materials frame organic forms, bulbous and infant sized, simultaneously cradling and stimulating them. A burst of noise, and suddenly something moves. While attempting to locate the unseen event, a viola da gamba soothes us
Beverly Pepper at Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles
Press release: Kayne Griffin Corcoran is pleased to present the gallery’s second solo exhibition of work by, 96 year-old American born, Italy based sculptor, Beverly Pepper. The presentation will highlight the work this great artist created early on in her career between 1958 – 1967. During this period, Pepper carved out a niche in her
Cécile B. Evans at Château Shatto, Los Angeles
Press release: Cécile B. Evans’ practice offers percipient, moving accounts of the governance and rebellion of human emotions, in particular as they come into contact with technological and physical structures that seek to rationalize or streamline them. Her films, sculptures and installations articulate moments of dissonance as instruments of capitalist progress and technological advancement come
Andrei Koschmieder at Jenny’s, Los Angeles
Press release: For his debut solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Andrei Koschmieder presents a new series of sculptures of suitcases, specifically drawn from the iconic shape of Rimowa Luggage. Over the past several years, Koschmieder has developed his distinctive technique of sculptural painting hybrids, a peculiar liquefied amalgamation of paper, inkjet dye, spray paint, and
Christine Sun Kim at Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles
Press release: Ghebaly Gallery is pleased to present Finish Forever, an exhibition by the acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Christine Sun Kim. Her first solo exhibition in Los Angeles brings together recent videos and drawings that use American Sign Language (ASL), musical notation, and closed captioning in films and television as vehicles to deconstruct perceived ideas of
Darren Bader at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Press release: Blum & Poe is pleased to present character limit, an exhibition by New York-based artist Darren Bader. This is the artist’s second solo show with the gallery. Darren Bader (b. 1978, Bridgeport, CT) lives and works in New York and on the road. Institutional solo exhibitions include (@mined_oud), Madre Museum, Naples, Italy (2017-18);
Deana Lawson at The Underground Museum, Los Angeles
Press release: Every human body carries the memories and marks of its origin story. But bodies are also like vessels that contain all of the knowledge, love, and culture needed to imagine themselves beyond the boundaries of earthly acres, and oceans. Vessels can take many forms: mothers, fathers, brothers, daughters, lovers, kings and queens. Our
Ricky Swallow at David Kordansky, Los Angeles
Press release: David Kordansky Gallery is pleased to present Shoulders, an exhibition of new sculptures by Ricky Swallow. The show will open on November 2 and remain on view through December 15, 2018. An opening reception will take place on Friday, November 2 from 6:00pm until 8:00pm. Including several works that represent a dramatic increase
Kentaro Kawabata at Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles
Press release: Nonaka-Hill is pleased to present a solo exhibition of Japanese artist Kentaro Kawabata. The exhibition of thirteen works, all produced in porcelain, are from four ongoing series. Six works titled “Knot Face” are large platter forms constructed with concentric ropes of soft porcelain, coiled outwards and upwards into a shallow bowl shape. The
Channa Horwitz at Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles
Press release: I feel that through chance comes structure, or that if chance plays out long enough it will become structure. That if we cannot see the structure in chance we are too close to see it. The theory behind my work is that through structure comes an apparent chance. If structure plays out long
Kazuo Kadonaga at Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles
Press Release: Nonaka-Hill is pleased to present sculpture by Kazuo Kadonaga, produced in the materials wood, paper, bamboo and glass, between the years 1977 & 1999. Kadonaga, who descends from a forestry family, chose instead to become an artist in the late 1960s. He tried painting at first, but around 1970 Kadonaga eschewed the personal,
Mark Grotjahn at LACMA, Los Angeles
Press release: Los Angeles-based artist Mark Grotjahn (b. 1968) has made “Butterfly” compositions since 2002, and the latest to come out of his studio is 50 Kitchens (2013–18), exhibited here for the first time. Conceived as one work, 50 Kitchens takes its inspiration from a single composition (in black and cream-colored pencil) that Grotjahn made
Wendell Dayton at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Press release: Blum & Poe is pleased to announce the first major solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Wendell Dayton. Stainless steel sculptures spanning six decades of the artist’s oeuvre populate the entirety of the downstairs and upstairs galleries along with the outdoor gardens. Upon completing his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Indiana University
Louise Sartor at Bel Ami, Los Angeles
Press release: Paintings, furtive, like adolescents running away from home, from a seaside resort town in the South of France, to the City of Angels, seaside as well, but resort not – there is no off season in LA. Saison morte: dead season, a pause, a break, some sort of an ending; the party’s over,