I Am Not This Body Group Show @ Tyler Park Presents In Los Angeles

I AM NOT THIS BODY. But I am. Aching and full of longing. Take a picture of this meat, this husk. You don't have me. I am something that cannot be photographed, cannot be named, defined, translated. There's experience and that's all there is .... But there's also all this stuff. It gets in the way. I've always had trouble with stuff. I've fought my whole life to have control over stuff, over the appearance of stuff: my chaotic hair, learning to play the accordion, getting dressed, being on time, electric bills, the five ballet positions, getting money, spending money, even just putting one foot in front of the other. Clear the table. A place for everything and everything in its place. A battle for order, a battle for space.

— Barbara Ess, excerpt from I Am Not This Body, Aperture, 2005

Co-curated by artists Juliana Paciulli and Evan Whale, I Am Not This Body reflects on the battle between the physical and indefinable; things that are at once us but aren’t. The bodies in the show have been collaged, painted, cast, printed, chemically altered, cut out, and dyed. Some cast shadows and some ripple in the wind. The works are rooted in reality, but they meander through beautiful, undulating reckonings with these realities. These figures emerge from their surroundings and reach into histories, presents, and futures revealing experiences that are exquisitely human.  

 
 

Exhibiting artists include: Andrea Chung, Vanessa Conte, Barbara Ess, Daniel Gordon, Tommy Kha, Young Joon Kwak, Juliana Paciulli, Kim Schoen, Evan Whale, and Jessica Wimbley. I Am Not This Body is on view through July 31 @ Tyler Park Presents 4043 West Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles 

All That Spring Promises Group Show @ Tyler Park Presents In Los Angeles

All That Spring Promises serves as a precursor to the season of spring, which will run through the meteorological beginning of spring (March 1) and end on March 20, 2021, the almanac's astrological first day of spring. Through various mediums and artists of varied practices, the exhibition includes elements of flora, animals, the body, and mysticism in reference to the season, which has long been associated with new hope, new beginnings, and inspiration. From this, All That Spring Promises seeks to point ahead that better days are on the horizon with new life and new possibilities, as winter succumbs to spring.

Featured artists include Louis Heilbronn, Daniel Ingroff, Angie Jennings, Anabel Juárez, Christina Mesiti, Paul Pescador, and Evan Whale.

All That Spring Promises is on view through March 21 @ Tyler Park Presents 4043 West Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles