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By Lisa Wong Macabasco
Perhaps no other city in the world has noticed an expansion in its art scene over the past decade like Los Angeles. If you’re interested in art in Los Angeles, you’re already familiar with The Broad and Hauser.
Amanda Ross-Ho, Untitled Waste Image (HEAVY DUTY), 2023. Durability transparency print on a traditional lightbox, 74 x 60 x five inches. Image courtesy of the artist and Mitchell-Innes
Billed as the first survey of Asian-American artists at a major Los Angeles fresco art museum, “Scratching at the Moon” brings together the paintings of thirteen Los Angeles artists over the past five decades. The exhibit (which runs through July 28) debuted, in part, as a reaction to the rise in attacks on Asian Americans in 2020, amid false rhetoric about the pandemic. In many mediums, the paintings address identity formation, immigration, cultural assimilation, gentrification, family dynamics, and much more. Don’t miss the voyeuristic yet melancholy photographs of lonely spectators in Berlin’s adult cinemas, taken by Dean Sameshima, who discovered many new enthusiasts with the paintings in the same series at this year’s Venice Biennale.
Lotus L. Kang, Mother (Spore, 2022-2023) (detailed view), 2022-23. Stainless Steel Mixing Bowls, Pigmented Silicone, Rubber, Cast Aluminum Anchovies, Cast Aluminum Asian Pears, Cast Aluminum Chestnuts, Cast Aluminum Lotus Root, Cast Aluminum Seaweed Knots, Cast Aluminum Dried Pears, Cast Aluminum Cabbage, Dried Lotus Tubers, nylon, cap. Photo: Paul Salveson.
The gallery has been on the lips of world art lately, thanks to an exciting roster of artists generating buzz at major fairs and exhibitions from New York to Venice. Founders Young Chung and Kibum Kim gravitate toward experimental and conceptual artists from marginalized backgrounds that reflect the diversity of Los Angeles and the wider West Coast; Many are other people of color, queer, and/or social class. A recent exhibition of his family’s inherited wisdom included the series of stainless metal bowls by artist Lotus L. Kang (often used in Korean families to make kimchi) scattered on the ground, containing aluminum castings from foods such as cabbage, anchovies, and pickled lotus roots. Made of silicone.
Rafa Esparza, Trout, 2024. Acrylic on adobe and steel. 123 x 145 x 156 inches (total), 60 x x 3 inches (each). Photo: Charles Blanc.
Alfonso Gonzalez Jr. , Duck Keg, 2024. Oil, teeth on canvas. 72″ x 60″ Photo: Charles White.
Former MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch’s two outposts in West Hollywood are sprawling institutions that can host extensive immersive exhibits as well as museum-quality systems and events. And he remains attached to local artists, as evidenced by the perfect exhibition “On the Edge of the Sun. “”, organized through the 12 Los Angeles-based Latino artists whose works are featured. The exhibition, open through May 4, is a snapshot of a position and time that conveys transparent and compelling perspectives, with many works exploring the iconography of Los Angeles. Angels and the United States and referencing the culture, history, and experiences of Latin America.
Installation view of “Alberta Whittle: Learning a New Score for Hope in Times of Disaster” at Regen Projects, Los Angeles, March 18-May 18, 2024. Photo: Evan Bedford, courtesy of Regen Projects
A pleasant sense of peace pervades Alberta Whittle’s first exhibition at Regen Projects, “Learning New Punctuation for Hope in Times of Disaster. “Through a series of tender new paintings and sculptural paintings, the Glasgow-based artist demonstrates her technique for cultivating community and compassion. and disaster response response. The exhibition, open through May 18, also includes “Lagareh – The Last Born,” a film that highlights the strength of Black people through individual acts of resistance; Whittle presented his paintings when he represented Scotland at the 2022 Venice Biennale, marking his first appearance in North America.
This up-and-coming collective of Filipino-Americans is worth watching. It offers eclectic programming, ranging from lumpia-making workshops to panels on music content production, short film grantmaking, and screenings of little-known independent gems like In the Early 2000s (pronounced in Filipino: “day-boo”). Its name comes from Theodore Roosevelt’s description of the Filipinos in 1899.
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Located in the center of the Sunset Strip, Pendry West Hollywood radiates the glamour of the Hollywood Hills. If you ever tire of gazing at the amazing perspectives that stretch across downtown Los Angeles, the hotel’s art collection also has plenty to offer, featuring local artists. along with world-famous performers, with an emphasis on evoking the laid-back glamour of California. That jingle when you get out of your car? It’s Cao Perrot’s whimsical golden tree sculpture with shiny mother-of-pearl leaves, adorned with a Swarovski crystal. Anthony James’ soft 70′ Icosahedron installation exerts its own powerbox in the lobby.
Installation of the Soho Warehouse staircase by Geneviève Gaignard.
The main façade of the Soho Warehouse may seem modest by luxury hotel standards, but the sentinel on Shephard Fairey’s wall hints at the impressive art collection hidden within. It is one of six members’ club- and hotel-specific commissions exploring language and framework and is a component of 150 artworks spread over seven floors in the century-old former commercial building. The opening of the property in 2019 coincided with the flourishing of downtown Los Angeles’ art scene, and the collection focuses on new local artists, some of whom have studios just steps away; Look for works by Mark Bradford, Juliana Huxtable, Christina Quarles, Christine Sun Kim, Tschabalala Self, Martine Syms, and Amalia Ulman.
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