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Writer Ricky Amadour speaks with artists Chloe Chiasson and BANKS on their recent side-by-side exhibitions at the UTA Artist Space in Los Angeles. In Bird on a Wire, Chiasson assembles large-scale sculptural paintings that provide introspection into her upbringing in Texas and the many idiosyncracies of queer life in a small rural town. BANKS shares drawings and poems from her book, Generations of Women from the Moon (2019), which are letters to her younger self. Discussed are the themes of womanhood, the representation of the human body, and the preservation of queer history.
Lia Halloran traverses through mechanisms of experimentation in order to document motion of matter. As an interdisciplinary artist, Halloran examines the interconnectivity of scientistic cultures and the performance of light. Halloran recently presented Your Body is a Space that Sees at LAX Terminal 1, as well as a solo exhibition, The Sun Burns My Eyes Like Moons at Luis de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles. In this interview the artist deep dives into the creation of cyanotypes, her Dark Skate series, and the influences of mythology and science on her practice.
Los Angeles-based artist Tara Walters spoke with us about her recent exhibition, Dropping In, at Kristina Kite Gallery.
Claire Colette’s second solo show with Harper’s Los Angeles, Derealization, whips up an Arcadian dreamscape through a unique potpourri of materials. In reference to the comely vistas that surround Los Angeles, Colette mediates between symbolic incantations to the universe and our understanding of reality.
Writer Ricky Amadour speaks with Iranian-born, Los Angeles-based artist Sara Issakharian about her recent exhibition “There's a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there” at Tanya Leighton Gallery in Los Angeles. Issakharian’s paintings enrapture her audience through candid gestures and delve into the many idiosyncrasies of clandestine Iranian politics through the use of mythology. Her works serve as postulates for a reawakened hope and confront cultural trepidation with frank conscientiousness.
It has been almost twenty years since internationally-renowned artist Francesco Clemente exhibited his work in Los Angeles. Thanks to a collaboration between Vito Schnabel, the wunderkind international gallerist and son of artist Julian Schnabel, and British real estate developer Alexander Dellal, thirty of Clemente’s paintings dating between 2001 and 2021 are now on display at the historic Old Santa Monica Post Office.
Pinhassi’s Thirst Trap, at Commonwealth and Council, is an unforgettable solo exhibition that interrogates the polarization of mechanical, elemental, and societal laws of obsolescence and attraction.
It’s Much Louder Than Before, organized by James Bartolacci and Stefano di Paola at Anat Ebgi, inexplicably lies at the taut deliberations between the adaptability and reconciliation of a party world of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
As the artist’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Adesman conjures up a magnificent display of technical ability reminiscent of 20th century surrealist painters.
The contemporary art fair, hosted at the storied Roosevelt Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard, includes 29 local Los Angeles galleries featuring only the brightest talent on the contemporary art scene.