Over the next year, Brad Phillips and Gideon Jacobs are writing a 12-chapter "serial novella" for Autre. It will be written Exquisite Corpse style — they will alternate who writes each month's chapter, and won’t have access to the previous chapter until it has been published. Brad and Gideon have not discussed plot, structure, format, themes, characters, etc, and promise not to do so even once the project is underway. The idea is to react to each other's work, and hope the final Frankensteinian product is something that deserves to exist. If the authors like what they've made when it's done, the editors might publish it as a "zine." Installments will go up on the 15th of every month. Click here to read Chapter 1: G & B.
Naama Tsabar Presents Inversions @ Shulamit Nazarian In Los Angeles
The exhibition title, Inversions, refers to a new body of work that is installed directly into the existing architecture of the gallery. Utilizing the shallow space behind the gallery’s walls, Inversion #1 and Inversion #2 assumes an overlooked space as a site of importance or a platform for action. Fusing together elements from guitars, harps, banjos, and violins, Tsabar creates an inverted instrument that relies on the contortions and penetrations of participants’ bodies for its activation. Inversion #2 includes a singing chamber, with holes and voids in the architecture for the voices of performers to fill. Inversions is on view through February 22 at Shulamit Nazarian 616 N La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles. photographs courtesy of the gallery
Kirsten Stoltmann and Jennifer Sullivan Presents Female Sensibility @ Five Car Garage In Los Angeles
”Female Sensibility“ is a two person show with LA based artist Kirsten Stoltmann and NY based artist Jennifer Sullivan. The title for the exhibition is inspired by Lynda Benglis’s 1973 video Female Sensibility which simultaneously acknowledges and parodies ideas around being categorized as a woman artist or defined artistically through gender. Stoltmann and Sullivan have continued aspects of this strategy in their own work through fore-fronting not just the female body and gaze, but their own specific bodies, emotional lives, and experiences, in favor of exploring the layers of meaning around self-representation and gender identity. In their work, there is a both a revised valuation of characteristics often assigned as feminine such as emotion, intuition, sensuality, and relationships, as well as a resistance and subversive attitude towards the limiting roles that women are expected to fulfill.
Female Sensibility is on view through March 1, 2020 @ Five Car Garage, Santa Monica, LA. Email info@emmagrayhq.com for address. photographs courtesy of Five Car Garage
Anish Kapoor New Stainless Steel Sculptures at Regen Projects In Los Angeles
Regen Projects presents an exhibition by renowned artist Anish Kapoor. Since the 1980s Kapoor’s ambitious practice has continuously expanded the limits of sculptural form by investigating scale, volume, color, and materiality. With this exhibition, the artist’s sixth solo presentation following his gallery debut in 1992, Kapoor brings together a selection of new mirror works that challenge optical perception and phenomenological experience through experiments in shape and form. On view until February 16, 2020. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Opening Of Night+Market Chef Kris Yenbamroong's New Gallery Le Maximum in Venice
photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Xin Liu's Living/Distance @ Make Room in Los Angeles
“Is breeding a physiological instinct for women? I put my life (time, effort, intelligence) into an inorganic, ruthless mechanical system, and then place my bone and blood (teeth) in the center. It is part of me, my avatar. We will never be alive in the same space, it will break into pieces before returning to Earth. It came to life in the absence of gravity, but I am standing here firmly. I speculate that "humanity" will not break through the interstellar space-time distance in the form of organism. If we acknowledge our limits as biological species, how can human beings face the others, who are created and feared by us?”
— Xin Liu
Living/Distance is on view through Feb 1, 2020 @ MakeRoom 1035 N Broadway, Los Angeles. photographs courtesy of Lani Trock
The Art Of Elysium 13th Annual Heaven Gala At The Hollywood Palladium
The Art of Elysium’s annual HEAVEN is an artistic installation curated by some of the world’s leading and most renowned luminaries. Each year, The Art of Elysium celebrates a chosen visionary who creates their idea of “Heaven on Earth” as it relates to the charities four main disciplines: fashion & design, fine arts, music & movement, and theatre & film. The Art of Elysium was founded in 1997 to support artists working for the benefit of others. For over twenty years, they’ve paired volunteer artists with communities in Los Angeles to support individuals in the midst of difficult emotional life challenges like illness, hospitalization, displacement, confinement, and/or crisis. They also serve medically fragile children, teens, adults, seniors, those dealing with social, emotional and mental health issues, and the homeless. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
Emilien Crespo "Soul Of Los Angeles" After Party at Flamingo Estate In Los Angeles
photographs by Pia Riverola
Emilien Crespo "Soul Of Los Angeles" Signing and After Party @ Owl Bureau and Flamingo Estate
photographs by Jesse Salto
Opening of Archipelago: A Solo Exhibition by Arielle Pytka At Just One Eye in Los Angeles
Archipelago tells a story of an imaginary new world, perhaps here on Earth or in the stars. As a child, Pytka always dreamt of being an adventurer and cartographer in the early days of exploration. At fifteen, she crossed the Atlantic Ocean, crewing on a vintage sailboat and in 2015, she completed another transatlantic crossing, sailing in the Panerai Transat Classique, in which her team came in first place. All of this time at sea fueled her creative inspiration and interest in the discovery of distant new lands and people. The paintings in Archipelago are a reflection of her desires to map unknown places. She subconsciously began painting maps to destinations that do not exist on our globe. Some of these paintings are reminiscent of island chains in South East Asia, where she lived part-time for the last 5 years.
Archipelago is on view at Just One Eye 915 North Sycamore Ave. LA. photographs courtesy of Nina Prommer
Mika Tajima: PSYCHO GRAPHICS @ Kayne Griffin Corcoran In Los Angeles
PSYCHO GRAPHICS connects material transformation to the shape of an uncontainable future that exceeds our current bodily and psychic experience of power. The works on view manifest Tajima’s continued investigation into the production and transmutation of matter, energy, and the human psyche. PSYCHO GRAPHICS is on view through January 11 at Kayne Griffin Corcoran 1201 South La Brea Ave, Los Angeles. photographs courtesy of Kayne Griffin Corcoran
Ariane Vielmetter: The Rose Garden @ Ever Gold [Projects] In San Francisco
In new paintings, drawings, and sculptures, Ariane Vielmetter explores representations of the female body in relation to fruits and flowers, and the ways these visual metaphors relate to lived experience. The female body, as a vessel for new life, is a natural structure for this kind of projection, and Vielmetter is particularly interested in the way this kind of imagery relates to the experiences of pregnant women. In a culture overloaded with information about best health practices, and a political climate that is very unpredictable with regards to women’s rights, the pregnant body has become an increasingly political site.The Rose Garden is on view through December 21 at Ever Gold [Projects] 1275 Minnesota Street #105, San Francisco. photographs courtesy of Ever Gold [Projects]
Marc Horowitz: The Qualitative Validation Principle @ Ever Gold [Projects] In San Francisco
The paintings and drawings on view extend the forensic system Horowitz began developing after visiting the Roman ruins in Milreu, Portugal, which inspired him to restage previously abandoned works using archeological motifs. TQVP is at times a painterly Rorschach test that asks the viewer to inhabit decisions made by the artist to expose the detritus of his own jokes, but it also seems like something or someone decided to go off script along the way. Or, that an off-color joke, though aborted, continues to make appearances, to refer to a glyph or key which would unlock deeper meanings if it were available. Alas, some mysteries remain precisely within the surface on which they were inscribed, alluding to and denying their secret in the same gesture. The Qualitative Validation Principle is on view through December 21 at Ever Gold [Projects] 1275 Minnesota Street Suite 105, San Francisco. photographs courtesy of Ever Gold [Projects]
Mieke Marple: Bad Feminist @ Ever Gold [Projects] In San Francisco
Bad Feminist reflects on the ancient Greek myth of Medusa in the era of #MeToo. Taking its title from Roxane Gay’s book Bad Feminist: Essays (2014), in which the author describes a sexual assault she experienced as a child, Marple reflects on historical depictions of women and rape in light of today’s changing understanding of the power dynamics at play within society at large. Bad Feminist is on view through January 18 at Ever Gold [Projects] 1275 Minnesota Street Suite 105, San Francisco. photographs courtesy of Ever Gold [Projects]
April Street: The Lady of Shalott @ Vielmetter In Los Angeles
Comprised of 16 fabric-relief paintings, April Street’s The Lady of Shalott melds landscapes with corporeal elements to create portrait-like vignettes where waterfalls cascade into braids and hair extensions, surreal forms and voluminous lines define space and hyper-sexualized otherworldly elements rise inside and throughout her multi-dimensional surfaces. The Lady of Shalot is on view through January 11 at Vielmetter 1700 S Santa Fe Ave, Los Angeles. photographs courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter
Liz Glynn: Emotional Capital @ Vielmetter In Los Angeles
Liz Glynn’s 2017 MASS MoCA solo exhibition, Archaeology of Another Possible Future, considered the contradictions of the contemporary American economy, where value is increasingly abstract and established through declarative acts divorced from material reality. In Emotional Capital, Glynn explores the intersections of material and affective realities as they play out in and on bodies within the context of increasingly polarized and irrational political and economic systems. Emotional Capital is on view through January 11 at Vielmetter 1700 S Santa Fe Ave, Los Angeles. photographs courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter
Tony Marsh: Like Water Uphill @ The Pit In Glendale, California
Tony Marsh’s Like Water Uphill consists of eleven of Marsh’ ceramic works from his ongoing Crucible and Cauldron series. Marsh’s practice fixates on the long history of the creation of vessels. His method of production is predicated on the acceptance of failure, and an interest in the unpredictable. As a medium, ceramics are known for their fragile nature, not just their delicate nature after having been fired, but also their tendency to collapse, explode, crack, or fall apart while the clay is still wet or during the firing process. The ability to overcome these obstacles, and adhere to chemical and compositional constraints is often times what warrants the success of the finished piece. However, Marsh’s approach in his Crucible and Cauldron works embraces discovery and ultimately searches for unpredictable outcomes. The works are built up from multiple applications of mineral mixtures, different glazes, pigments, and even found scraps of other ceramic material. Like Water Uphill is on view through December 14th at The Pit 918 Ruberta Ave, Glendale. photographs courtesy of the artist and The Pit
Hugo Crosthwaite: TIJUAS! (Death March, Tijuana Bibles and Other Legends) @ Luis De Jesus In Los Angeles
In TIJUAS! , Crosthwaite will present selections from several bodies of work that continue his exploration of this ever-evolving transnational culture, among them the Tijuana Bibles , a new series of stop-motion drawing animations and books; graphite, charcoal and ink on canvas and panel paintings; new Tijuanerias ink drawings; and Death March , a phenomenal 27 foot 30-panel work mural. This will be the first time this work will be presented since it was commissioned in 2010 for Morbid Curiosity: The Richard Harris Collection at the Chicago Cultural Center. TIJUAS! (Death March, Tijuana Bibles and Other Legends) is on view through through December 21, 2019 at Luis De Jesus 2685 S La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles . photographs courtesy of the artist and Luis De Jesus
Watch FAIRE's New Bloody Music Video: Laisse Lucifer
French Gaule wave band FAIRE just release another video for Laisse Lucifer, featuring french burlesque dancer Maud Amour and directed by Lucie Bourdeu. Their first EP “La Vie” is available on every streaming platform. Read our previous interview with FAIRE here
An Interview With Multidisciplinary Artist Jónsi On The Occasion Of His Exhibition @ Tanya Bonakdar Gallery In Los Angeles
In a series of three new gallery-based works, Jónsi riffs on the invocation of sensory inversion in Goethe’s fifth Roman Elegy in which the Romantic poet makes a connection between the experience of a lover’s body and a classical marble sculpture with the phrase, “see with a feeling eye, feel with a seeing hand.” In Jónsi’s remix, Goethe’s advice to experience the world in a different way is given a sonic update that might read as follows: “hear with a feeling ear, feel with a hearing hand.” Seeing, hearing, feeling – each of these senses collapse upon one another in Jónsi’s work as sound takes a concrete form and the tactile and the auditory merge into a surprising synesthesia. While one might read these works within the lineage of bombastic noise experiments harkening back to those of the Italian Futurists who championed the revolutionary aspects of noise in opposition to formal music, Jónsi’s approach is far more interested in exploring the phenomenological complication and extension of the senses as an antidote to a world in which we are constantly confronted by the agitated white noise of contemporary civilization. In his work there is an overarching attempt to assert the primacy of the auditory, the tactile, and the visual in helping the human organism navigate its way through this unmoored and volatile world. Jónsi’s solo exhibition is on view through January 9, 2020 @ Tanya Bonakdar Gallery 1010 N Highland Avenue. photographs by Jeff Mclane, courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles