Exhibitions

BY / BUY ME

6 Dec 2019 - 25 Jan 2020 "By / Buy Me" explores the artist as self-publisher of artworks in editions — multiples, prints, posters, wallpaper, artists’ books and other goods that interrogate, parody or question the commodification of art. Since Duchamp produced his first Boîte-en-valise, containerizing his oeuvre and assuming the mantle of traveling salesman, artists have consistently advanced new means of self-publishing and subverting, the traditional role of artist as maker tied to the middleman of publisher and dealer. Read more

HOPE GANGLOFF

24 Oct - 30 Nov 2019 A black and indigo Montana landscape, punctuated by neon pink and red stars and city lights; the weaving pink and green tentacles of fauna on the shores of Monterey, California; and, the lavender-hued Mount Monadnock, New Hampshire, at sunset. Operating as compositional vehicles for explorations of color theory, form and scale, these scenes proffer fragmented personal narratives, detailing the locations of some of Gangloff’s most poignant career and private moments. Read more

ALAIN KIRILI

WHO'S AFRAID OF VERTICALITY? 12 Sep - 19 Oct 2019 Demonstrative of Alain Kirili’s lifelong fascination with verticality, the selection traces an investigation of the subject in abstract sculpture and exhibits a subtle drive for aesthetic diversity. For five decades, the artist has cultivated a practice that embeds a formalist rigor with a humanist warmth. The exhibition is marked by an appreciation for abstract signs in three-dimensional space, one which spurs a dialogue with high relief that Kirili views as being a celebration of life, or la joie de vivre. Read more

GREG SMITH

GARAGE POLITBURO 7 Jun - 26 Jul 2019 I see an opening: technology has changed the game, once again democratizing what had required outsized resources. Blockchain technology brings bureaucracy creation to the people, opening up the possibility of making ministries that are particular, domestically scaled, or even boutique. And the accompanying markets are trivial to set up, all while maintaining a bureaucratic character. Rest assured, the familiar elements are present but now everyone has the opportunity to tinker. Read more

ROBYN O'NEIL

AN UNKINDNESS 25 Apr - 1 Jun 2019 Robyn O’Neil’s fourth exhibition with the Gallery marks a departure in process, a deconstruction of the visual and material, and an aesthetic genesis for the artist. Named for “an unkindness,” the term used to reference a flock of ravens, the exhibition impresses upon the viewer a sense of foreboding and threat that is reinforced by the centerpiece triptych, An Unkindness. Life on Earth is arduous and fraught with challenge. Read more

JOHN MCLAUGHLIN

ASCETIC APPROACH 21 Mar - 20 Apr 2019 John McLaughlin has long been characterized as the preeminent classical West Coast, minimalist hard-edge painter. These black-and-white photographs provide only the most basic reflection of McLaughlin’s work. His heralded paintings, produced from the mid-1940s forward, would prefigure the cool, anodyne aesthetic assumed by younger Southern California light and space, finish fetish, artists, including Larry Bell, Judy Chicago, Mary Course, Craig Kauffman, Robert Irwin, John McCracken, and James Turrell. Read more

WILMER WILSON IV

SLIM...YOU DON'T GOT THE JUICE 31 Jan - 16 Mar 2019 Slim… you don’t got the juice presents multidisciplinary departures from familiar modes of figurative representation, as they have evolved in the realm of photographic discourse. Wilmer Wilson IV has developed strategies of redaction and annotation in his work that begin to destabilize the norms of making and viewing portraiture through visual, material, and technical manipulation. An exploration into the complex renderings of individual subject-hood versus object-hood in portraiture, the artist has conceived of a stapled-surface-as-viewing-device that mediates image with material. Read more