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ART FOCUS - highlights and happenings

Across Los Angeles and the globe, artists are spinning threads of organic interconnection, re-envisioning our collective relationship to land and landscape, and revitalizing the boundaries of artmaking through technological intermediaries.

The Armory

Sean Kelly Gallery


Janaina Tschäpe, Flowering Blue Abyss, 2024, oil and oil stick on linen, 72 x 96 x 2″

Along with their stunning showing at the Armory, Sean Kelly opened Janaina Tschäpe's fourth solo exhibition with the gallery in New York, which presents a captivating evolution in Tscäpe's artistic journey, a profound personal exploration. Coinciding with the exhibition, a major new monograph on Tscäpe's work is being published. We are honored to have assisted our clients in procuring one of the pieces included in the publication!

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Hales Gallery

Left: When The Sea Calms Down, 2024, Acrylic on canvas, 60 1/4 x 55 x 2 1/2"
Right: Sharp Tongue; Working on Empathy, 2024, Acrylic on canvas, 70 x 70 x 2 1/2"

This year at the Armory, Hales debuted the latest body of large-scale paintings by New Mexico-based artist Jordan Ann Craig. A dynamic exploration and interpretation of North Cheyenne material culture, Craig's work celebrates her Native ancestry, posing questions about the languages of modern abstract painting and the relationship to both historic and contemporary Indigenous culture.

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COEX Seoul Frieze

Tina Kim Gallery

Lee Shinja, The Spirit of the Forest,1986, Wool, synthetic thread, tapestry 57 8/7 x 80 ¾″

Among other greats at Frieze Seoul, Tina Kim Gallery presented the work of Lee Shinja, the iconic Korean artist known for pioneering the "tapestry genre," coinciding with the conclusion of her New York debut exhibition with the gallery this month. With a career that spans over half a century, Shinja's most recent series pays homage to her hometown, weaving an innovative feminist challenge through her abstract autobiographical threads.


Lehman Maupin

Detail of Lee Bul's Perdu CXC, 2023, mother-of-pearl, acrylic paint on wooden base panel, stainless-steel frame, 64 9/32 x 44 5/8 x 2 9/16″

Alluring, exquisite, and yet indeterminate. The conceptual richness infusing each of Lee Bul's swirling surfaces, from painting to sculpture to video, has brought the South Korean artist well-deserved international acclaim. Alongside the showing at Seoul Frieze, Bul's bewitching interrogations of the boundaries of self will now grace the facade of the Met's Fifth Avenue as a series of towering sculptures, as provocative as they are enigmatic.

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Art and Science Collide: PST ART takes Los Angeles

September 15th - February 16th

A Getty initiative partnering with art institutions across Los Angeles, PST Art returns as a landmark regional event exploring the limits of art and science for the past, present, and future.

Thom Mayne / XCD_240610-192320_106216-BBD, 2024 / UV ink on aluminum, two panels / 78 x 97″ each panel: 78 x 48″

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LA Louver

Thom Mayne, Shaping Accident
September 18th - October 26th

Investigating the philosophical intersections of impermanence and materiality, Los Angeles-based architect and artist Thom Mayne demonstrates how technology – at the frontiers of computer language and object-creation – can reframe and readdress timeless questions at the essence of artmaking.

Channing Hansen, CF35.B4, 2024, California Variegated Mutant (July), California Variegated Mutant (Koso), Cotswold (Goober), Cotswold (Petunia), Romeldale (lago), Romeldale (Sally), and Romeldale (Ukita) fibers, Tussah silk and soil noils, holographic polymers, and photo-lumiscent recycled polyester, bamboo carbon fiber, Ingeo corn top, pearl infused cellulose, pineapple fiber, soy silk and Sequoioideae Redwood, 44 x 48″

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Marc Selwyn Fine Art

Channing Hansen, Cosmic Fabric
September 7th - October 19th

Channing Hansen derives his knitted patterns from complicated digital algorithms mimicking natural and cosmic phenomena, imbuing his hand-twisted fibers with a complex materiality. Both mechanical and organic, Hansen's works collapse the binary held between natural and technological systems, weaving a corporal technology that allows us to explore our connection with the physical world.

Andrea Bowers, “Ke'Ana Overhead Stump Cardboard,” 2024, Acrylic on cardboard, 84" x 88" x 5"

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Vielmetter Los Angeles

Andrea Bowers, Recognize Yourself as Land and Water
September 14th - November 2nd

Mourning the loss of old growth forests in the Pacific Northwest, artist and activist Andrea Bowers visualizes her physical bond with the land she has fought to protect. Expressing themes of eco-grief and ecofeminism, Bowers forges a passionate, intersectional resistance to patriarchal violence and ecological destruction. 

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