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
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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,
“The Conscientious Objector” at Schindler House MAK Center and WEHO TV, Los Angeles
Press release: Public Fiction’s The Conscientious Objector is a multifaceted endeavor that unfurls in parts from February to April 2018. It comprises a publication, a series of artist-made commercials for television, an exhibition of artworks activated by performances, and public programs. To be an object, is to object1 Set in West Hollywood, The Conscientious Objector
Nina Könnemann at House of Gaga, Los Angeles
Press release: Liquidity has served as a metaphor for digital activity now for several decades, not least because of the [1] “randomness, chaos, and even danger” individual users risk when dropping lazily into so-called information streams—fraught with outrageous reactionary currents and devastating emotional riptides. If certain acquired skill (youth, self-loathing) is needed to avoid a
Morag Keil at Jenny’s, Los Angeles
Press release: The exhibition is conceived as a series of doors, walls, and portals to individual rooms. In the style of an amusement park or a first-person video game, Keil has constructed an environment within the gallery that modifies the space into a partially domestic and interactive setting. Upon entering the gallery through the hallway,
“A Curius Herbal” at Garden, Los Angeles
Press release: Garden returns with A Curious Herbal, a group exhibition that investigates varying approaches to botanical representation. Utilizing imagery of flowers, fauna, fruits, and plants, the works included invoke themes of utility and ornament, preservation and mortality, collection and the Archive, arrangement and display. A Curious Herbal features work by Genevieve Belleveau, Brian Khek,
Jack Goldstein at Meliksetian | Briggs, Los Angeles
Press Release: I want to turn thought into something tangible – an object – and then back to a thought. Jack Goldstein, Interview with Morgan Fisher, 2002 Meliksetian | Briggs is pleased to present Jack Goldstein: Selectric Works. The one hundred works on paper featured in the exhibition will be shown for the first time.
John Baldessari at Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles
Press Release: Sprüth Magers has exhibited John Baldessari for almost three decades and is pleased to present his second solo show at the Los Angeles gallery. The exhibition features twenty-seven works from Baldessari’s new series of large-scale paintings based on the ubiquitous Emojis. John Baldessari’s name is synonymous with the art scene in his native
Cooper Jacoby at Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
Press release: Absorption is the displacement of a surplus into a porous body, either by accident or design. They rattle around in packets at the bottom of vitamin bottles, are wedged in the pneumatic joints of satellites, and sometimes end up in children’s stomachs. They’re thirsty. They gradually draw smells out of the air, siphon
Daniel Pflumm at 6817 Melrose, Los Angeles
Press release: DANIEL PFLUMM (B. 1968, Geneva, Switzerland) is a central figure in the effervescent cultural scene and underground club culture of 1990s Berlin. Pflumm plays a key role in creating and engaging, in the context of capitalism’s conquest of the former East, a critical dialogue between electronic music production, art making and corporate aesthetics.
Klara Liden at Reena Spaulings, Los Angeles
Press release: For her first solo exhibition in the city of Los Angeles, Berlin-based artist Klara Liden has produced a site-specific installation at Reena Spaulings Fine Art. Working with materials sourced locally, such as salvaged construction site barricades and two by fours, Liden reorganizes the interior space of the gallery by directing attention toward the
Sarah Ortmeyer at Potts, Los Angeles
Press release: SARAH ORTMEYER introduces Uncle Donald’s international nephews to the USA. a piece on INTERNATIONALIS HUEY, DEWEY, LOUIE TICK, TRICK, TRACK HUGO, PACO, LUIS RIRI, FIFI, LOULOU DIEGUITO, HUGUITO, LUISITO DULIK, BULIK, KULIK RIP, RAP, RUP TOUTOU, SOUSOU, LOULOU JORGITO, JUANITO, JAIMITO TUPSI, HUPSI, LUPSI TUPU HUPU, LUPU KHIUI, LIUI, DIUI HINKO, DINKO, VINKO
Mathis Altmann at Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
Press release: There is no literal English translation for “Wir sind das Volz“. There isn’t even one in German. It’s something totally made up. It’s bullshit. Back in Zürich, in autumn of 2016, I discovered a sub-slogan at the local lumber supply, claiming “Wir sind das Holz” (“We are the wood”). Since then, whenever I