Michael Pybus "Peak Human" @ Depart Foundation in Los Angeles

Depart Foundation presents Michael Pybus: Peak Human, its first exhibition of works by the London-based mixed-media artist. A satirical blurring of boundaries and hierarchical relationships, PEAK HUMAN is a playful admixture of high and low. Hijacking the visual language of commercial consumption, Hollywood stargazing, and popular entertainment franchises, Pybus irreverently dissolves the graded divisions between the little known and the branded, the world of design and that of mass consumption, with the rarified vernaculars of fine art. PEAK HUMAN will include a series of large-scale, collage paintings in which Pybus appropriates imagery from iconic sources. Recognizable are references to artworks by the likes of Warhol and Hokusai, Nintendo video game characters, Pokémon, and graphics from commercial design. Pybus creates amalgams of readily familiar brands in a commentary on the indiscriminate power of branding, while also referring to his cooptation of this fame. The freedom with which Pybus borrows objects, images, and references, captures varying forms of desire, whether it be the covetous satisfaction of consuming through retail, aspirational fantasies, or the familiar din of popular culture. Michael Pybus "Peak Human" will be on view until June 3, 2017 at Depart Foundation in Los Angeles. 

Opening Night Of Marc Horowitz's "Interior, Day (A Door Opens)" at Depart Foundation In Los Angeles

The Depart Foundation in Los Angeles is hosting Marc Horowitz's first ever solo show. The exhibition includes sculptures and paintings that reimagine the old as new. In his own words, "the thesis of the show is conflating personal history with art history." Click here to read our interview with the artist. "Interior, Day (A Door Opens)" will be on view until December 19th at Depart Foundation, 9105 West Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles.

Grear Patterson 'Seek and Destroy' @ Depart Foundation

The Depart Foundation and American Academy in Rome to present Grear Patterson: Seek and Destroy, the artist’s first Los Angeles solo exhibition and the Los Angeles sequel to Patterson’s exhibition Forest Theater presented at the American Academy in Rome in 2014. A precocious former member of The Still House Group, New York-based American artist and photographer Grear Patterson, working in a variety of media, creates expressive works suffused with nostalgia for lost innocence and childhood rituals. Summoning many of his most significant formative experiences, he plumbs the pleasures and traumas of adolescence, evoking both personal and collective rites! ! ! of passage. His work, alternating between disclosure and reticence, explores not only the immediacy of reckless experience, violent impulses and erotic yearning, but also the halting emotional and linguistic shorthand used to express those furtive memories and desires. Grear Patterson: Seek and Destroy will be on view until May 30th at Depart Foundation, 9105 West Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles