We Are Here: Contemporary Art and Asian Voices in Los Angeles
USC Pacific Asia Museum 46 N Los Robles Ave, PasadenaWe Are Here: Contemporary Art and Asian Voices in Los Angeles brings attention to the dynamic voices in our diverse metropolis that extend viewers’ knowledge and understanding of the Asia Pacific region. The exhibition highlights seven female contemporary artists of diverse Asian Pacific heritages living and working in Los Angeles.
Cole Sternberg: FREESTATE
ESMoA 208 Main Street, El SegundoThe issues addressed in the exhibition require critical and immediate attention.
The Inconstant World
Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 1717 E 7th St, Los AngelesWith the body, language, and the experience of time as points of departure, the exhibition engages the limitations of representation and images as sites of interpretation.
Paul Pescador: PSA
Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 1717 E 7th St, Los AngelesThey represent a collage of dialogue with different stakeholders, as well as the artist’s own experience of moving through the world as a fellow member of the public.
Close to Home: Creativity in Crisis
SFMOMA 151 3rd Street, San FranciscoTaken together, their work emphasizes our shared experience in this collective crisis.
Off the Wall
SFMOMA 151 3rd Street, San FranciscoFive contemporary artists expand upon earlier efforts to break free from the confines of the picture frame by transforming photographs into sculpture, including them in complex installations, projecting them onto various surfaces, even creating custom furniture for their display.
Charles Gaines: New Work
SFMOMA 151 3rd Street, San FranciscoThe conceptual artist’s new works emerge from research into the Dred Scott Decision of 1857, which decreed that Black people were not U.S. citizens and therefore could not sue for their right to freedom.
Chantal Peñalosa: There’s Something About the Weather of this Place
Best Practice 2284 Kearney Avenue, San DiegoThrough gestures and actions that intervene in everyday life, Chantal Peñalosa establishes dialogues with entities that apparently cannot respond: memories, rumors, architecture, stones, clouds, aromas, or gestures.
Traces on the Surfaces of the World
Gavlak 1700 South Santa Fe Avenue, Suite 440, Los AngelesTraces on the Surfaces of the World brings together six international artists whose works stage the anxious encounters between human bodies and inanimate objects that define a world reformed by an all-encompassing fear of contagion.
Of Other Spaces
Kylin Gallery 8634 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly HillsThis exhibition presents temporary sites that augment our behavior, places that are simultaneously real and unreal, constantly shifting, and accumulating time.
Summer Wheat: Anything Can Happen
Shulamit Nazarian 616 N La Brea Ave, Los AngelesKnown for their tactility and texture, Wheat’s materials take on the form of both painting and sculpture, and borrow from the rich, and often gendered, history of fibers and textiles.
Brenna Youngblood: the LIGHT and the DARK
Roberts Projects 5801 Washington Boulevard, Culver Citythe LIGHT and the DARK takes as its genesis Youngblood’s experience navigating the difficulties of last year and applying her lived experiences – endured as two separate but simultaneous realities – to her practice.
Andrea Joyce Heimer: Lonely Hunter
Nino Mier Gallery 7277 Santa Monica Blvd, Los AngelesHeimer's paintings evoke narrative friezes and tapestries, where outdoor landscape and interiors are organized into distinct rows or thresholds, each portraying a different stage in the lives of her characters.
Pieces of Me: NFT Exhibition
TRANSFER 1000 S Hope Street, Suite 420, Los AngelesThe artists in this exhibition are known for their explorations of identity, being, and phenomenology in digitally-mediated realities, and represent a survey of the past, present and future of ‘digital art’.
Ameh Egwuh: Life After Life
Rele Gallery 8215 Melrose Ave, Los AngelesThe works are brightly colored, dream-like spaces populated with balloons, birds, and clocks, almost dancing around the human body as its primary subject.
Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe
Roberts Projects 5801 Washington Boulevard, Culver CityEach figure becomes a symbol of the reclamation of cultural dignity, embracing the idea of origin and personal narrative as it relates to gender and race dynamics.
Daniel Crews-Chubb
Roberts Projects 5801 Washington Boulevard, Culver CityHe creates organically progressive quasi-figurative paintings in series which rely on a group of constructed historic or mythic characters for the work’s narrative.