Name: Sabrina Gschwandtner: Absinthe, Smoke, Sugar, Choice
Start: 2025-11-01 16:41:16
End: 2026-01-10 16:41:16

Sabrina Gschwandtner: Absinthe, Smoke, Sugar, Choice

by Shoshana Wayne Gallery

Shoshana Wayne Gallery is pleased to present Absinthe, Smoke, Sugar, Choice, an exhibition by Sabrina Gschwandtner. This is the artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition will be on view from November 1, 2025 through January 10th, 2026, with an opening reception on November 1, from 4-6pm.

After the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Gschwandtner looked back to the “pre-Roe” era, drawing on early film and familial memory to explore how women have taken control of their bodies and lives.

Working with black-and-white 35mm film, etching ink on film, thread, and video, she presents twelve film quilts and a single-channel video that expand the concept of “filmic suture” into a three-dimensional, materially embodied cinematic form.

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Event Dates

November 1, 2025 to January 10, 2026

Location

Shoshana Wayne Gallery

Event Type

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State: California

Image alt text: Black and white film strips are arranged vertically and in the center there is a hot pink square.

Diversity: woman artist(s)

Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible

Kid friendly: Yes

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Shoshana Wayne Gallery

Shoshana Wayne Gallery opened in 1986 in Santa Monica in a historic building that once housed the iconic Beach Boys’ Studio. From the very beginning, the gallery had a mission to give women artists a platform for exhibitions in Los Angeles and to help energize and promote their careers. Early exhibitions often focused on discoveries of new talents including Nicole Eisenman, Kiki Smith, Arlene Shechet, Pae White, Yoko Ono, Dinh Q. Lê, Lorna Simpson and Nan Goldin.

Notable early exhibitions include Lost and Found in California: Four Decades of Assemblage Art (1988); West Coast Duchamp (1989); Rachel Lachowicz’s performance Red not Blue (1992); Viennese Actionism (1993); Young British Artists Group Show (1995) featuring Chris Ofili, Michael Landy, Sarah Lucas, and Peter Doig; Barbara Bloom’s Pictures from the Floating World (1995); Wood Cuts: 1977-1997 by Anselm Kiefer (1998): and Balthus’, An Intimate Look (1999).

In the last several years Shoshana Wayne Gallery has curated major exhibitions including: a large-scale video installation by Michal Rovner titled Nofim (2014); People I Saw But Never Met by Zadok Ben-David (2017), which received over 15 reviews in 5 languages; Rachel Lachowicz’s Lay Back and Enjoy It (2017); and The Scrolls: Distortion by Dinh Q. Lê (2017).

The gallery relocated to the historic West Adams district of Los Angeles in 2022, inaugurating the new 5,000 square foot space with Orly Maiberg’s Where do we go from here (2022).

Sabrina Gschwandtner: Absinthe, Smoke, Sugar, Choice