Joshua Abelow "Motion Pictures" @ Tif Sigfrids Gallery in Los Angeles

Tif Sigfrids presents a solo presentation by Joshua Abelow entitled "Motion Pictures". This is the artists first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. In his paintings, Abelow depicts the neurosis of the 21st century artist, creating a kind of self-portraiture through a handful of recurring characters. In this series we see a noodley stick figure nestled inside a buff witch running here, there, and nowhere in particular. These running witches are shown alongside new paintings of austere grey fields in which Abelow’s smaller abstract works attempt to orient themselves in the zero-g landscape. The characters in Abelow’s work simultaneously facilitate and obstruct semantic clarity, delivering an allegorical hangover without the full allegory itself. All of the paintings presented here stem from a body of work made during a sojourn in rural Maryland where the artist worked in relative solitude while simultaneously undergoing a curatorial project out of a space called Freddy in nearby Baltimore. Joshua Abelow "Motion Pictures" is on view now at Tif Sigfrids, 1507 Wilcox Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

Marianne Vitale's First Solo Show On the West Coast @ Venus Over Los Angeles

Venus Over Los Angeles presents an exhibition of new sculptures by Marianne Vitale, marking the artist’s first solo show on the West Coast. Vitale’s sculptures incorporate infrastructure staples (such as steel rail supports for an entire transport system and wooden beams for the base of a building’s framework) and interact with the gallery. The first space holds Thought Field (2016), composed of 90 unaltered factory-length sections of used steel railroad track, circa the 1920’s, with a combined weight of over 60 tons. In the second gallery space, for her new series Beam Work, the artist displays six towering stacks of eleven-foot long white pine squared timbers that have been hand-painted, bashed and pummeled to loosely recall urban traffic barricades. The exhibition will be on view until February 27, 2016 at Venus Over Los Angeles, 601 South Anderson Street. 

VIP Opening of La Rosa Social Club, A Four Night Art Installation Experience and Group Show by Aaron Rose

Over four days, during the 2016 LA Art Book Fair, La Rosa Social Club will open its doors and then close them forever. If you were there, then you were there. LA-based artist Aaron Rose offers us a chance to experience his version of an art bar with La Rosa, a conceptual installation that will run in conjunction with this year’s LA Art Book Fair. The collaborative project by The Conversation (Los Angeles/Berlin) and Alldayeveryday will take place in the Allday LA Project Space and will run from its opening preview on February 11th to February 14th. The concept will combine the traditional idea of a consumer space and inject it with an immersive, artistic experience. Artists that are designing ephemera for the bar are: Ed Templeton, Stefan Strumbel, Aaron Rose, Chris Johanson, Wes Lang, Barbara Stauffacher-Solomon, Gusmano Cesaretti, Chris Lux, Brian Roettinger, Terry Richardson, Alia Penner, Geoff McFetridge, Alexis Ross, Jesse Spears, Wyatt Troll, Lola Rose Thompson, Benjamin Barretto, Cheryl Dunn, Barry McGee, Raymond Pettibon, Olivier Zahm, Nate Walton. You can checkout La Rosa Social Club until February 14 at the Alldayeveryday project space, AlldayLA Project Space, 2028 E. 7th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90021

Exclusive Premiere of "Screen Test n.11: Romantic Love" by Alex Franco Featuring Poet and Model Greta Bellamacina

The short-film and intimate spoken word snapshot, entitled Screen Test n.11: Romantic Love, by photographer and filmmaker Alex Franco, features English poet and model Greta Bellamacina sprawled out, reading her poem Romantic Love. Bellamacina, who just had her first child with fellow artist and poet Robert Montgomery, says that the poem is from a series that explores the “early stages of motherhood from a young female contemporary perspective,” which is a perspective that is “massively under represented in the media today.” The poem, Romantic Love, is inspired by Lucien Freud’s 2002 painting Naked Portrait, which features a pregnant Kate Moss softly laying her head on her own arm in an intimate setting with a maternal glow. Bellamacina, who is a lingual portraitist that uses deeply powerful rhythms of language to paint her poems, plans to release a book of poetry later this month called Stockholm Syndrome. Click here to read the poem. Poem by Greta Bellamacina @ VIVA Model Management. Film by Alex Franco @ Artist and Agency .

Saint Laurent Special Zine Collaboration With Artist Mitchell Syrop

Tonight, Saint Laurent will be showing its new collection in the form of a runway show meets rock concert at the iconic Hollywood Palladium. The coveted invite, which was carefully delivered to Autre's doorstep, included a special zine collaboration between Saint Laurent and artist Mitchel Syrop, who is represented by Los Angeles based gallery Francois Ghebaly. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Berlinde De Bruyckere "No Life Lost" @ Hauser and Wirth in New York

Belgian artist Berlinde De Bruyckere’s work is currently on view at Hauser & Wirth in New York. The solo exhibition No Life Lost is centered by the monumental project Kreupelhout – Cripplewood, an ambitious work composed of wax, wood, fabric, blankets and ropes, reminiscent of a decomposed stack of bones. The almost entirely dark exhibition space underlines the macabre atmosphere created by the eerie art pieces. De Bruyckere’s work is informed by traditional Flemish Renaissance paintings whose influence she translates into a contemporary psychological terrain of pathos, tenderness and repulsion. Skin-like draperies are hanging from the ceiling and hauntingly distorted animal carcasses are presented on tables and glass vitrines. The artist’s interested in the dualities of the human condition are immediately apparent to the viewer. The ordinarily repulsive vision of a decomposing animal carcass becomes alluring while the shrine-like presentation allows for a sense of quiet respect. No Life Lost will be on view at Houser & Wirth until April 2, 2016. Text and photographs by Adriana Pauly