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Matthew Brannon and Fred Eversley open at David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles
Matthew Brannon and Fred Eversley open at David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles
September 13th through October 19th, 2024
Mechanical Cabaret painting by Farah Atassi aquired by The Centre Pompidou
Mechanical Cabaret painting by Farah Atassi aquired by The Centre Pompidou
Mark Bradford opens at National Museum of Berlin
Mark Bradford opens at National Museum of Berlin
September 6th, 2024 through May 18th, 2025

Mark Bradford launches his much-anticipated first solo exhibition in Germany, marking the reopening of the historic Rieckhallen at the Hamburger Bahnhof. This bold showcase, entitled Mark Bradford: Keep Walking, features 20 dynamic works spanning two decades, including paintings, sculptures, expansive installations, and videos. The exhibition offers an immersive exploration of race, gender, and economic inequality, presenting a compelling narrative that engages both the mind and the senses.

Lita Albuquerque opens at Michael Kohn
Lita Albuquerque opens at Michael Kohn
September 12 through October 19, 2024.

Michael Kohn Gallery is pleased to announce Earth Skin, an exhibition of new works by renowned artist Lita Albuquerque. For her fourth exhibition with the gallery, Albuquerque will present a new installation and series of paintings as part of The Getty’s 2024 Pacific Standard Time initiative. Known for her transformative artistic engagements in remote sites, Albuquerque’s work has historically blended the earthly with the cosmic. The exhibition will be on view from September 12 through October 19, 2024.

Barbara T. Smith and Laura Ohio perform at Automata in Chinatown, Los Angeles
Barbara T. Smith and Laura Ohio perform at Automata in Chinatown, Los Angeles
July 5th, 2024

"I Crawled Back Onto Shore and I Wailed and I Wailed and I Wailed and In My Eyes I Saw Love and Terror Reflected Back at Me in Equal Measure, For Home is Wherever You Return to For Life is Always Also Death" is a performance byBarbara T. Smith and CalArts alum Laura Ohio. It is part of the exhibition "Black Hole Family" by Jungsub Eom and Laura Ohio. Laura has been Barbara's personal and studio assistant for nearly 2 years. There performance is an elegy to intergenerational exchange. 

Joe Goode opens at the Honokar Foundation
Joe Goode opens at the Honokar Foundation
June 4th through July 20th 2024

Joe Goode is an influential American artist, best known for his contributions to the Pop Art movement of the 1960s. Born on March 27, 1937, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Goode moved to Los Angeles in 1959, where he quickly became an integral part of the burgeoning West Coast art scene. He studied at the Chouinard Art Institute, where he developed his distinctive style that combines elements of realism and abstract expressionism

Film Night: Early Films by Charles Christopher Hill & Richard Newton
Film Night: Early Films by Charles Christopher Hill & Richard Newton
Saturday, May 25th, at 6 PM

Space Ten Gallery is proud to present a screening of selected short films from the 1970s by Los Angeles artists Charles Christopher Hill and Richard Newton, curated by Robert Wilhite. Following the screening will be a short discussion moderated by art historian, archivist, and researcher H.C. Arnold.

Eamon Ore-Giron at the Whitney Biennial
Eamon Ore-Giron at the Whitney Biennial
Opening March 20th

Cirrus congratulates Eamon Ore-Giron on being one of only sixty nine artists chosen to participate in the 2024 Whitney Biennial. Curated by Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli, this years event, entitled "Even Better Than the Real Thing" showcases primarily American artists revealing truths of their personal identities and embodyment.

Ed Ruscha Retrospective opens at LACMA
Ed Ruscha Retrospective opens at LACMA
Apr 7–Oct 6, 2024

Ed Ruscha has consistently held up a mirror to American society by transforming some of its defining attributes—from consumer culture and popular entertainment to the ever-changing urban landscape—into the very subject of his art. In 1956, Ruscha left Oklahoma City to study commercial art in Los Angeles, where he drew inspiration from the city’s architectural landscape—parking lots, urban streets, and apartment buildings—and colloquial language.

As his first comprehensive, cross-media retrospective in over 20 years, ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN traces Ruscha’s methods and familiar subjects throughout his career and underscores the many remarkable contributions he has made well beyond the boundaries of the art world. The exhibition includes his early works produced while traveling through Europe, his installations—such as the Chocolate Room and the Course of Empire presented at the Venice Biennale in 1970 and 2005, respectively—and his ceaseless photographic documentation of the streets of Los Angeles beginning in 1965.

Salomon Huerta's Pool Paintings at Harper's
Salomon Huerta's Pool Paintings at Harper's
February 22- March 30, 2024

Cirrus Gallery congratulates Salomon Huerta on his exhibition Pool Paintings, shown at the Chelsea, New York location of Harper's Gallery. Huerta's exhibition illustrates ideas from his youth of unattainability and memory bold gestures and expressive color. 

At the age of 16, Salomon Huerta developed a fascination for private swimming pools; ennamored by their deliberate performance and juxtaposition of leisure and manicure. Huerta's exhibition Pool Paintings takes inspiration from from his youth, experiencing the unachievable luxury of these immaculate man made landscapes, while reimagining his typical style of obervational paintings through abstraction and bold gestures. Huerta's use of color, specifically in his depictoins of water, transfigure the naturalistic tones of the pools to symbolic models for emotion and memory. Check out some of Huerta's other prints at Cirrus. 

New Museum opens Judy Chicago: Herstory
New Museum opens Judy Chicago: Herstory
October 12th, 2023 - January 14th, 2024

“Judy Chicago: Herstory” will span Judy Chicago’s sixty-year career to encompass the full breadth of the artist’s contributions across painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, textiles, photography, stained glass, needlework, and printmaking. Expanding the boundaries of a traditional museum survey, the exhibition will place six decades of Chicago’s work in dialogue with work by other women across centuries in a unique Fourth Floor installation. Entitled “The City of Ladies,” this exhibition-within-the-exhibition will feature artworks and archival materials from over eighty artists, writers, and thinkers, including Simone de Beauvoir, Hildegard of Bingen, Artemisia Gentileschi, Zora Neale Hurston, Frida Kahlo, Hilma af Klint, and Virginia Woolf, among many others.

Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Groundswell: Women of Land Art: September 23, 2023 to January 7, 2024
Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Groundswell: Women of Land Art: September 23, 2023 to January 7, 2024

The Nasher Sculpture Center announces Groundswell: Women of Land Art, an exhibition featuring 12 American artists through installation, sculpture, documentation and historical ephemera, on view from September 23, 2023 to January 7, 2024. In the 1960s American artists began to move beyond the institutional spaces of galleries and museums to work directly in the land. With ties to Minimal and Conceptual art, these artists foregrounded natural materials and the site itself to create works that were large in scale and located outside of typical urban art world circuits. For many years, art historical narratives of Land art have been dominated by men: Robert Smithson, Michael Heizer, Walter de Maria, and others. Groundswell: Women of Land Art, intends to shift that focus to shed new light on the vast number of Land works by women artists, whose careers ran parallel to their better-known male counterparts, yet have received less recognition and representation in museum presentations.

Fred Eversley: Parabolic Light
Fred Eversley: Parabolic Light

Fred Eversley (b. 1941, Brooklyn, NY) is a pioneer of the Light and Space art movement, which originated in Southern California in the 1960s. Interested in science as a teen, he experimented by casting jello in a pie pan on a spinning turntable, thus creating his first parabolic surface. His fascination with the parabola—the only shape that focuses all forms of energy to a single point—continued in his career as an engineer designing acoustical testing laboratories for the aerospace industry. Eversley, who shifted to making art in 1967, developed an innovative process of spin-casting liquid resin. In 1970 he cast his first full parabolic lens in polyester, launching a body of work which would become his principal focus for over fifty years.

JOE GOODE Sea and Sky September 9 – October 21, 2023
JOE GOODE Sea and Sky September 9 – October 21, 2023

Leslie Sacks Gallery is pleased to announce Sea and Sky, an exhibition of works on paper by legendary Los Angeles based artist, Joe Goode (b. 1937, Oklahoma City). Presenting drawings, lithographs, and mixed media from 1969-1990, Sea and Sky highlights three of Joe Goode’s iconic series: Photo Clouds (1969-1971), Torn Sky (1975) and Ocean Blue (1988-1990).

Eamon Ore-Giron, Talking Shit: September 8 - October 21, 2023
Eamon Ore-Giron, Talking Shit: September 8 - October 21, 2023

Known for his cross-cultural practice, which includes painting, music, and video, in this exhibition, Ore-Giron returns to and expands upon his Talking Shit series, a body of work he began in 2017 while living in Guadalajara, Mexico. The paintings, textiles, and ceramic tile works in the exhibition represent an imagined conversation between the artist and deities from Mexico and Peru’s ancestral past. With precisely rendered, vibrantly-colored, semi-abstract references to the gods Quetzalcoatl, Coatlicue, Amaru, and Inti, among others, Ore-Giron explores our ongoing relationship with symbols of culture and the ways in which they come to hold ideas around individual and collective identities.

ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN: Sep 10, 2023–Jan 13, 2024
ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN: Sep 10, 2023–Jan 13, 2024

“I don’t have any Seine River like Monet,” Ed Ruscha once said. “I’ve just got US 66 between Oklahoma and Los Angeles.” ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN will feature over 200 works—in mediums including painting, drawing, prints, photography, artist’s books, film, and installation—that make use of everything from gunpowder to chocolate. Exploring Ruscha’s landmark contributions to postwar American art as well as lesser-known aspects of his more than six-decade career, the exhibition will offer new perspectives on a body of work that has influenced generations of artists, architects, designers, and writers.

Jack Butcher — Checks Elements
Jack Butcher — Checks Elements

Checks Elements is part of a 152-piece collection of monoprints and non-fungible token pairs, exploring the elemental relationship between digital and physical art, and the manual and automatic processes that are present in each. Conceived and created by Jack Butcher in collaboration with legendary master printmaker Jean Milant and Cirrus Editions, each unique physical piece is handmade on a Mailander 202 lithographic printing press, consistent with its computer-generated instructions. Digital counterparts and their complete rendering instructions are stored entirely on the Ethereum blockchain.

The entire collection and its unique compositions are formed from the ‘Alpha’ elements. ‘Earth’, ‘Air’, and ‘Water’ will be on view at Christie’s New York, 20 Rockefeller Plaza from 20-23 May.

SITE Santa Fe Opens Bruce Nauman’s First Solo Exhibition in New Mexico
SITE Santa Fe Opens Bruce Nauman’s First Solo Exhibition in New Mexico

SITE Santa Fe presents internationally renowned artist Bruce Nauman’s first solo exhibition in New Mexico, His Mark, running through September 11. The show features a collection of new and recent video installations, including never-before-shown self-portrait work and 3D video.

Fred Eversley at David Kordansky Gallery, NY
Fred Eversley at David Kordansky Gallery, NY
May 6 through June 10, 2023

 Eversley’s abstract, three-dimensional meditations on color—including the luminous lens-like objects for which he is best known—entice the viewer to approach, prompting questions about how the biological and optical mechanics of sight determine how we see and understand each other, and communicating a kinetic, palpable sense of the mysterious presence of energy throughout the universe.

Fred Eversley’s first solo exhibition in over four decades in New York is on view at our New York gallery from May 6 through June 10, 2023.

Craig Kauffman: Construction Paintings 1973- 1976
Craig Kauffman: Construction Paintings 1973- 1976

Craig Kauffman became known in the mid-1960s for his innovative use of industrial plastic as a support for painting. He gained significant recognition for several series of works, and investigated both form and coloration, challenging the medium while remaining in the conversation with both mainstream Minimalism and the artists associated with Light and Space.

 


 

 

Light, Space, Surface: Selections from LACMA’s Collection
Light, Space, Surface: Selections from LACMA’s Collection

Light, Space, Surface: Selections from LACMA’s Collection explores the art of Light and Space as well as related works with highly polished surfaces often referred to as “finish fetish.” In the 1960s and 1970s, various Southern California artists began to create works that investigate perceptual phenomena: how we come to understand form, volume, presence, and absence through light, seen directly through other materials, reflected, or refracted. Many used newly developed industrial materials—including sheet acrylic, fiberglass, and polyester resin—in their work. Light, Space, Surface draws on LACMA's deep holdings of this material, revealing the vibrancy and diversity of this aspect of American art history. The exhibition features works by Peter Alexander, Larry Bell, Billy Al Bengston, Judy Chicago, Ron Cooper, Mary Corse, Ronald Davis, Laddie John Dill, Fred Eversley, Robert Irwin, Craig Kauffman, John McCracken, Helen Pashgian, Roland Reiss, Roy Thurston, and Hap Tivey.

Boil, Toil & Trouble
Boil, Toil & Trouble

The exhibition 'Boil, Toil & Trouble' includes 50 contemporary artists working in a range of media who explore mystical, mythological, or spiritual frameworks and practices as they pertain to water. Artists selected have created works that deal with magic, ritual, the alchemy of water and the role of the ‘witch’ or medium in contemporary art.

New Ceramics by Grant Levy Lucero
New Ceramics by Grant Levy Lucero

“It doesn’t matter if you’re a child or a hundred years old – there’s something that I want people to interact with”

Grant Levy-Lucero sees ancient Greek and Roman pots as a blueprint. The textbook definition of art. His own ceramics take these as a starting point. They’re witty, and laden with American logos. Bounty, Cookie Crisp and Moon Pie all feature. To create them, the artist uses a traditional coiling technique. This is where you roll out long, snake-like shapes of clay, and then layer them on top of each other to make a vase. After, he adds imagery in bright gloss paint, drawing attention to the bumpy surfaces of the clay. Deliberately naive, the pots also nod to old cartoons from the Looney Tunes empire.

EAMON ORE-GIRON: COMPETING WITH LIGHTNING / RIVALIZANDO CON EL RELÁMPAGO
EAMON ORE-GIRON: COMPETING WITH LIGHTNING / RIVALIZANDO CON EL RELÁMPAGO

This exhibition brings together paintings from the last twenty years by artist, musician, and DJ Eamon Ore-Giron; from his Southwest and Peruvian-inspired figurative works from the 2000s, to his paintings in the 2010s that engaged elements of both figuration and abstraction, including an ongoing series focused on Mesoamerican deities, to his most recent Infinite Regress series.

Christina Quarles Collapsed Time
Christina Quarles Collapsed Time

The first institutional solo exhibition of the US painter Christina Quarles in Germany, shows an installation that occupies the entire exhibition space: gauze panels divide the rooms, similar to translucent theatre scrims used to reveal and obscure actors, décors, and objects. The formal language of Quarles’ paintings explores the experience of living in a racialized, queer body. Her figures contend with the boundaries of identity, as they intervene with complex patterns and planes.

CHRIS BURDEN Cross Communication
CHRIS BURDEN Cross Communication

I set up these unexpected, dreaded situations as an attempt to control fate. Instead of letting things happen to me, I made them happen.
—Chris Burden

Gagosian is pleased to present Cross Communication, an exhibition of relics, films, and video works by Chris Burden, plus other materials that document his early performances.

Eamon Ore-Giron: Black Medallions, No Gold
Eamon Ore-Giron: Black Medallions, No Gold

Fleisher/Ollman presents Black Medallions, No Gold, Eamon Ore-Giron’s first solo exhibition at the gallery and the first exhibition exclusively devoted to the artist’s new Black Medallion series. The show coincides with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the African American Museum in Philadelphia’s exhibition Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America (March 23–October 8, 2023), which features two large-scale paintings by Ore-Giron commissioned by the Pennsylvania Academy.

Mark Bradford You Don't Have to Tell Me Twice
Mark Bradford You Don't Have to Tell Me Twice

Beginning 13 April, Hauser & Wirth will present ‘You Don’t Have to Tell Me Twice,’ a major solo exhibition by Mark Bradford. Filling the entirety of the gallery’s 22nd Street building, the artist’s first show in New York since 2015 sees the artist embarking upon a deeply personal exploration of the multifaceted nature of displacement and the predatory forces that feed on populations driven into motion by crisis. Primarily known for his unique style of ‘social abstraction,’ Bradford has recently turned his attention toward figures, including his own, and has created sweeping new works where flora and fauna—predators and prey—move within dense, dreamlike abstracted landscapes, masses of material, color and line.

Barbara T. Smith at The Getty
Barbara T. Smith at The Getty

Barbara Turner Smith (b. 1931) has been at the forefront of artistic movements in Southern California for over 50 years, particularly feminist art and performance. Her artwork—which ranges from paintings, drawings, and artist's books to installations, videos, and performances, and often involves her own body—explores concepts that strike at the core of human nature, including male and female sexuality, sensuality, physical and spiritual sustenance, and death.

Now Playing: Ruben Ochoa, "Revolution Carts and Class: C Mobile Gallery"
Now Playing: Ruben Ochoa, "Revolution Carts and Class: C Mobile Gallery"

For the first time in over 15 years, Ruben Ochoa is exhibiting his mobile gallery, CLASS: C, to the public. Presented alongside CLASS: C will be a suite of street vendor carts (by Revolution Carts) with Ochoa-designed graphics. Street vendors will sell tamales and refreshing fruits from the vendor carts during Frieze LA. 

Vija Celmins / Robert Gober at Matthew Marks Galler
Vija Celmins / Robert Gober at Matthew Marks Galler
October 29–December 23, 2022

In 2002, Robert Gober interviewed Vija Celmins at her Long Island home. He asked her about her work habits: “Do you work every day?” Celmins said she didn’t. “I have always had a very complicated relationship with working—starting and stopping,” she said. Gober admitted that he hadn’t “really worked in a year and a half.”1 It is funny to read their anxious exchange about working (and not working) after seeing Vija Celmins / Robert Gober, the two-person show currently on view at Matthew Marks Gallery, in which their tenderly labored works invite viewers close.

Ed Ruscha: Tom Sawyer Paintings
Ed Ruscha: Tom Sawyer Paintings
October 19–December 22, 2022 rue de Ponthieu, Paris

Gagosian is pleased to present ten new paintings and a new hologram by Ed Ruscha. Tom Sawyer Paintings, the artist’s first ever solo exhibition of paintings at the gallery in Paris, will open alongside a presentation of new work by James Turrell in the gallery’s upstairs space, as well as exhibitions at Gagosian’s other Paris locations of new paintings by Jenny Saville (rue de Castiglione), and a sculpture by Richard Serra (Le Bourget). Concurrently, Gagosian will participate in the inaugural edition of Paris+ par Art Basel at the Grand Palais Éphémère from October 20 to 23.

Simphiwe Ndzube: Isithunywa so Moya | A Messenger of the Spirit
Simphiwe Ndzube: Isithunywa so Moya | A Messenger of the Spirit
Nicodim Gallery October 15 – December 3, 2022

In Isithunywa so Moya, Simphiwe Ndzube’s fifth solo exhibition with Nicodim, Isithunywa are mystical beings that serve as messengers and mediators between the physical and spiritual realms. This body of work casts the artist’s inspiration as Isithunywa, forces he harnesses to pull his practice to new frontiers with his hands, eyes, and heart as vessels. The characters he channels find themselves in varying states of transition: in Gxarha River – 1856, 2022, a faulty Xhosa prophetess has a vision that she believes will lead her people to freedom, but instead brings famine and death; in The Swing, 2022, an owl rocks a clownish figure from a trapeze, dangling him above a body of water either in good humor or as torturee for some crime committed; The Great Mother, 2022, lights a candle, chasing the night away.

“Alexis Smith: The American Way,”
“Alexis Smith: The American Way,”
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) in La Jolla

As this show of 50 collages, assemblage pieces and installations from the 1970s to the 2010s demonstrates, Smith has unearthed our cultural touchstones, stories and myths and artistically re-created them. Her collage, “Degree of Difficulty” (2005) juxtaposes a photo of the vibrant Britney Spears from a Pepsi ad, with a picture of the aging Shirley MacLaine from “Modern Maturity,” and a photographic calling card of a female prostitute. With each image partially concealed by a geometric shape, the piece alludes to the objectification of women — the sexy young thing, the old woman, the sex worker — in contemporary society.

David Kordansky Gallery Announces Matthew Brannon at Art021
David Kordansky Gallery Announces Matthew Brannon at Art021
November 10 – 13
Fred Eversley: Show at Orange County Art Museum
Fred Eversley: Show at Orange County Art Museum
Reflecting Back (the World)

From a distance, Fred Eversley’s lenses and mirrored forms look like planets floating in space, their highly polished reflective surfaces reflecting and refracting the world, and our place within it. Fred Eversley: Reflecting Back (the World) expands on the groundbreaking 1976 exhibition of his work at OCMA (then known as the Newport Harbor Art Museum). This was a pivotal period for Eversley—he hit his stride with his primary mode of working at the same time the Light and Space movement gained momentum in Southern California.

Bottega Veneta Teamed Up With Top Choreographers to Stage a Series of Dance Performances Inspired by the Art of Bruce Nauman
Bottega Veneta Teamed Up With Top Choreographers to Stage a Series of Dance Performances Inspired by the Art of Bruce Nauman
Artnet

The Italian fashion house designed costumes for the program, which was organized by the Pinault Collection in Venice.

Fred Eversley: "The Shape of Energy"
Fred Eversley: "The Shape of Energy"
The Getty

Watch the artist at work in his Venice, CA studio

"Mary Weatherford Brings ‘Horror and Beauty’ to Venice"
"Mary Weatherford Brings ‘Horror and Beauty’ to Venice"
New York Times

"Inspired by Titian’s “The Flaying of Marsyas,” the midcareer artist is showing a series of shadowy and somber works at Museo di Palazzo Grimani."

Article by Robin Pogrebin

 

Allan McCollum at Galerie Thomas Schulte
Allan McCollum at Galerie Thomas Schulte
April 23 - June 4, 2022

Cirrus Gallery & Cirrus Editions Ltd. congratulates Allan McCollyum on his two upcoming exhibitions at Galerie Thomas Shulte in Berlin. 

'Tony DeLap and His Circle' at Parrasch Heijnen
'Tony DeLap and His Circle' at Parrasch Heijnen
April 9 - May 19, 2022

Parrasch Heijnen is pleased to present "Tony DeLap and his Circle," a scholarly view of DeLap's six-decade long career marked by the sustained and wide-ranging impact he and his oeuvre have had on generations of artists.

Celebrating Ed Moses at LA Louver
Celebrating Ed Moses at LA Louver
May 11 - July 9, 2022

LA Louver delighted to announce that a selection of artworks by Moses will be available to view at our Venice Beach gallery from May 11 until July 9, 2022.

Farah Atassi 'Resting Dancers' at Almine Rech
Farah Atassi 'Resting Dancers' at Almine Rech
APRIL 08 — MAY 14, 2022

Cirrus Gallery and Cirrus Editoins Ltd.congratulates Farah Atassi on her third solo exhibition at Almine Rech, on view in Shanghai from April 8 to May 14, 2022..
 

Barbara T. Smith 'Holy Squash' at Andrew Kreps Gallery
Barbara T. Smith 'Holy Squash' at Andrew Kreps Gallery
March 25 – May 7, 2022

Cirrus congratulates Barbara T. Smith of her upcoming exhibition Holy Squash at Andrew Kreps Gallery.

Lita Albuquerque 'Liquid Light' at the Venice Biennale
Lita Albuquerque 'Liquid Light' at the Venice Biennale
Presented by bardoLA

Cirrus congratulates Lita Albuquerque on Liquid Light, a solo exhibition presented by bardoLA’s as part of their third official Collateral Event at the International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.

Math Bass at Tanya Leighton
Math Bass at Tanya Leighton
January 22 through March 5, 2022

Cirrus Gallery congradulates Math Bass on their upcoming exhibition 'clown alley' at Tanya Leighton, Berlin.

Allan McCollum at Petzel
Allan McCollum at Petzel
January 14 – February 19, 2022

Cirrus Gallery congradulates Allan McCollum on Traces: Past and Present, an exhibition of three individual projects on view at Petzel Gallery in Chelsea, at 456 West 18th Street, from January 14 to February 19. 

how we are in time and space: Nancy Buchanan, Marcia Hafif, and Barbara T. Smith
how we are in time and space: Nancy Buchanan, Marcia Hafif, and Barbara T. Smith
Friday, Jan 28, 2022 - Sunday, Jun 12, 2022

This exhibition is shaped by the forces of proximity, friendship, generosity, and longevity. Buchanan, Hafif, and Smith met in the newly formed MFA program at UC Irvine and remained friends for life.

Armory Center for the Arts
145 North Raymond Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91103

Barbara T. Smith at Brand Library and Art Center
Barbara T. Smith at Brand Library and Art Center

GLENDALE, CA - Glendale Library, Arts & Culture presents Let Me Talk, a provocative exhibition featuring paintings, sculptures, installation, and photography by a diverse group of 24 artists. This exhibit, curated by Ada Pullini Brown and Jill Sykes, will be at the Brand Library & Art Center from January 22, 2022 - March 19, 2022. Let Me Talk includes a special edition portfolio of 52 new prints called Utopia/Dystopia, which were produced at the famed East Los Angles printmaking workshop, Self Help Graphics.

Jonas Wood at David Kordansky
Jonas Wood at David Kordansky
December 14, 2021

Cirrus congratulates Jonas Wood on his forthcoming exhibition, Plants and Animals, at David Kordansky, opening January 22, 2022.

Untitled Art Fair Miami 2021
Untitled Art Fair Miami 2021

We are excited to be back in person at Untitled Miami.

Untitled Art Fair is an innovative and inclusive platform for discovering contemporary art. It balances intellectual integrity with cutting-edge experimentation, refreshing the standard fair model by embracing a unique curatorial approach.

Jonas Wood at Gagosian
Jonas Wood at Gagosian
11/12/2021

Cirrus congratulates Jonas Wood on his forthcoming exhibition at Gagosian Hong Kong, opening November 23.

More information here

David Austen: The Last Trapeze Artist
David Austen: The Last Trapeze Artist
TOTAH, opening November 11 from 6-8 PM
LACMA x Cirrus Interview Online
LACMA x Cirrus Interview Online
Jean Robert Milant speaks with Leslie Jones

For more than 50 years, the renowned L.A. print shop Cirrus Editions has worked with hundreds of artists to create compelling and innovative original prints. Join Cirrus founder Jean Milant and LACMA curator Leslie Jones as they discuss the workshop’s past and present, including reflections and anecdotes from artists and printers.

Derek Boshier: Icarus and K Pop
Derek Boshier: Icarus and K Pop
at Gazelli Art House

Gazelli Art House represented artist Derek Boshier brings a solo exhibition to the London gallery, unveiling two series, Icarus and K Pop. The exhibition coincides with Frieze London and will incorporate a programme of corresponding events to be revealed closer to the time.

Craig Kauffman: Prints 1980-1981
Craig Kauffman: Prints 1980-1981
at Frank Lloyd Gallery

Craig Kauffman's initial interest in printmaking emerged while he was attending UCLA. He likely worked with the well-respected John Paul Jones, who established the school's printmaking department.  Entrance to the City (1952) displays Kauffman's early fascination with the work of Paul Klee. Despite the elementary appearance of three untitled lithographs from 1953, Kauffman's stick figures holding hands reference sexual identity in the shape of their heads — a V for the female and an upward arrow for the male. 

Roger Herman
Roger Herman
at Sorry We're Closed Gallery

Often featuring bright underglaze colors contrasting with dark, glossy glazes, the pots range from small, handheld cup- or bowl-like pieces to massive vases, urn-like pots, and large platters. Herman also employs many drawing and painting techniques, including inlay, scraffito, wax resist, oxide wash, and combinations of underglaze and glaze.

Peter Alexander: Deep Dive
Peter Alexander: Deep Dive
Brian Gross Fine Art

Brian Gross Fine Art is pleased to announce the opening of Peter Alexander: DEEP DIVE, on Thursday, September 9th. On view will be nine paintings made of oil, acrylic, and resin on aluminum exploring the luminous properties of light as seen through water. A quintessentially California artist, Peter Alexander (1939–2020) was associated throughout his career with the Light and Space movement in Los Angeles, beginning in the 1960s, and garnered an international acclaim for his sculptures, paintings, and installations investigating the properties of light and color. The exhibition will be on view through November 6, 2021.

Judy Chicago: A Retrospective
Judy Chicago: A Retrospective
August 28 - January 9 at De Young Museum

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco celebrate pioneering feminist artist Judy Chicago with a retrospective spanning from her early engagement with the Californian Light and Space Movement in the 1960s to her current body of work, a searing investigation of mortality and environmental devastation, begun in 2015. The exhibition includes approximately 130 paintings, prints, drawings, and ceramic sculptures, in addition to ephemera, several films, and a documentary. Together, these works of art chart the boundary-pushing path of the artist named Cohen by birth and Gerowitz by marriage, who, after trying to fit into the patriarchal structure of the Los Angeles art world, decided to change her name and the course of history.

Raul Guerrero Print
Raul Guerrero Print
Special Offer

Raul Guerrero
1974 silkscreen with Cirrus Editions

$840

Limited Time Only

Mark Bradford Education Lab
Mark Bradford Education Lab
at Hauser & Wirth Menorca

The Education Lab at Hauser & Wirth Menorca is an integral element of Mark Bradford’s exhibition ‘Masses and Movements,’ on view until 31 October 2021. This project was created by students from Escola d’Art de Menorca in collaboration with Mark Bradford, Marcos Lopez, España Martinez, and Lola Mercadal. There will be further opportunities for visitors to engage in hands-on activities, and the space is dedicated to public engagement program throughout the duration of the exhibition.

Ron Cooper: Charlotte Jackson Fine Art
Ron Cooper: Charlotte Jackson Fine Art
Opening July 30

RON COOPER | CARS & BARS

When visiting Ron Cooper’s Taos studio, one is immediately aware of the artist’s other passion – cars – vintage cars that he races. His 1936 “Black Beauty” Ford five window coupe parked directly in front of the studio is the first attraction even before entering the building. But there is a relationship here – much like Cooper’s art, these beautiful cars, including the two that will be on display in Ron Cooper: Cars & Bars, draw the viewer in with their simple, classic forms, finish-fetish surfaces, and custom detailing.

LACMA x Cirrus Gallery & Cirrus Editions, Ltd
LACMA x Cirrus Gallery & Cirrus Editions, Ltd
Celebrating the 51st Anniversary of Cirrus Editions—LA Print: Edition 10
Job Announcement
Job Announcement
Full Time Gallery Associate

Cirrus Gallery, an internationally-recognized contemporary art gallery and fine art edition publisher, specializing in art from the 1970s to the present, is seeking a highly motivated and organized individual to join its small, flexible team in downtown Los Angeles.

Math Bass in Altered Future
Math Bass in Altered Future
at Tanya Leighton

Tanya Leighton is proud to present Altered Future, a selection of new paintings, drawings and sculptures by artists from the gallery’s programme. Our present reality has taken a counterfactual turn. We are made unavoidably aware that the course of world events can be unexpectedly diverted, and that even apparently singular events are differently experienced by communities and consciousnesses. In Altered Future, intergenerational artistic voices reflect upon fragility, daring to imagine new landscapes of labour, desire, identity and community. The artworks are contextualised and elaborated through short videos and commissioned texts by art historians and critics including Shiva Balaghi, Sonja-Maria Borstner and Sabrina Tarasoff.

Simphiwe Ndzube and Zakes Mda
Simphiwe Ndzube and Zakes Mda
for Zwirner Dialogues

A conversation about the art of telling stories with the South African artist Simphiwe Ndzube, who works between Cape Town and Los Angeles and whose first solo US museum exhibition opens this month at the Denver Art Museum, and the renowned writer Zakes Mda, whose novels are widely read throughout South Africa and beyond. The two dissect their magical realist stories of post-apartheid South Africa and their experiences of America on the page and on canvas—and try to locate the source of their own magic.

Alexis Smith at Garth Greenan Gallery
Alexis Smith at Garth Greenan Gallery
June 10 - July 30, 2021

Garth Greenan Gallery is pleased to announce Alexis Smith: Not in Utopia, an exhibition of four monumental installations at 545 West 20th Street. Opening on Thursday, June 10, 2021, the exhibition features a selection of Smith’s immersive wall murals, all created between 1980 and 1982. Works like Tightrope (1980), Cathay (1981), Satan's Satellites (1982), and Fool’s Gold (1982) extend into three dimensions, transforming gallery walls into theatrical backdrops—augmenting her unique form of conceptual art suffused with the imagery of Hollywood and the American West. 

Raul Guerrero at David Kordansky
Raul Guerrero at David Kordansky
Art Basel OVR: Portals

David Kordansky Gallery is pleased to announce a solo presentation of paintings by Raul Guerrero at Art Basel OVR: Portals from June 16 through 19. An online exhibition featuring an interview with the artist about his paintings will be presented concurrently on our website.

Jonas Wood at Gagosian
Jonas Wood at Gagosian
Four Tennis Courts

"My forms are not rendered spatially. My paintings of tennis courts are about an interest in abstraction, and how the court becomes a geometric puzzle."
—Jonas Wood

Holly Harrell in Line Magazine
Holly Harrell in Line Magazine
a new magazine

Holly Harrell's work is featured in the inaugural issue of Line Magazine "Resort" alongside Anna Feigenbaum, Covey Gong, Andi Lu, Jasmine Marin, Maya Murali, Andrew Nemiroski, Seva Olenin, Mandi Porcelli, Diamond Stingily, and Sua Yoo. 

Mary Weatherford | SITE Santa Fe
Mary Weatherford | SITE Santa Fe
Canyon - Daisy - Eden

Over the last three decades, Los Angeles-based artist Mary Weatherford has developed a rich and diverse painting practice: from early target paintings in the 1990s based on operatic heroines, to expansive, gestural canvases overlaid with neon glass-tubing that brought attention to Weatherford’s practice in the 2010s. Mary Weatherford: Canyon—Daisy—Eden presents a survey of Weatherford’s career, drawing from several distinct bodies of work made between 1989–2017. As constant experiments with color, scale, and materials, these works reveal the continuity of Weatherford’s preoccupation with memory and experience, both personal and historical.

The Cross Cultural Female Gaze
The Cross Cultural Female Gaze
Lita Albuquerque, Alia Ali, Raina Matar and Manal Ataya

The Cross Cultural Female Gaze

11:30 am (EST)

Moderator:
Manal Ataya, Director General of the Sharjah Museums Authority

Panelists:
Alia Ali, artist
Lita Albuquerque, artist
Rania Matar, photographer

On Math Bass: Got a Light?
On Math Bass: Got a Light?
by William J. Simmons for Artillery Mag

A strained, stretched, widening, loosened metaphor, one that gives lights and receives them, might be the best way to describe Math Bass’ work. Yet metaphor is an easy interpretational mode that relies too heavily on iconography. Morever, description logo-centrically implies that all that is felt can be written or painted, that you actually can describe what bottoming is like to someone who has yet to do it. A simile might be better. In this moment, it seems more capacious. Bass’ work is like a ride on the Long Island Rail Road, winding through a certain kind of world, in which crushed skulls and young love happen simultaneously and often unnoticed, where aspiration and reality meet, where the Piano Man’s jar is filled up with cock-like bread, where hearts are broken and lose their three-dimensionality, only to unflatten at the sight of beautiful arms at work on a floor.

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