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Katie Herzog's wildest show to date moves through decades of American matter as a result of digging through archives and Goodwills, working in rural libraries, attending the Libertarian Seasteader experiment "Ephemerisle," becoming a 4H parent, and physically occupying through art, to present her own lit candle as an American artist at the inception of 2020.

Through a series of new and original multimedia works, Mike Lee reimagines his adolescence into a surreal play-land rendi7on of his youth. From physical spaces, to solemn moments of introspection, he reflects on mundane moments of his childhood spent in Southern California. The sequence of rooms navigates through various stages of his upbringing with each space confronting specific memories. As the author of his surreal retelling, the artist takes creative license with the narrative, embellishing the story with happier alternatives to offset an underlying sadness. While some are whimsical fantasies, Sunny Days wrestles honestly between the melancholy of memory and idyllic dreamlike possibilities.

Inspired by Hollywood and following the logic of the stage to screen to adaptation, this exhibition will present a series of sculptures, photographs and two new films by the artist that explore the relationship between fashion-exploitation and contemporary culture. Using mass produced ready-made objects, staged garments and elements of glamour are configured into sculptures that mimic human proportions and poses, Ojo illustrates the absurdity of the contemporary condition by joining these elements together to demonstrate the complexities of today’s fashion industry and image obsessed culture.

CARTOONS TOO
A solo exhibition by Yung Jake features a series of new paintings, marking the artist’s return to the medium after nearly ten years creating rap videos, related digital works and assemblage. The new paintings consist of supports made of found metal upon which the artist has painted portraits, mostly of himself, in which cartoon elements are included within his likeness.

MAKING BETS IN A BURNING HOUSE
A solo exhibition by Hannah Epstein consisting of room installations in two separate galleries, one with a selection of handmade hooked rugs and the other with algorithmically printed digital works. In a room, textiles are installed to create the effect of a video game dungeon.

Summer Madness is an exhibition of new paintings and works by artist Pat Phillips, whose works in this series evokes the connection between sweltering heat and aggression, hostility and proximity to the “other.”

In tandem with LA Art Fair Week and Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Gozié Ojini will be doing a ephemeral public installation at the Yucca Community Center. If you plan on attending ALAC the temporary satellite installation is a quick 10 min walk from the Hollywood Athletic Club.

A solo exhibition by Hannah Epstein consisting of room installations in two separate galleries, one with a selection of handmade hooked rugs and the other with algorithmically printed digital works. In a room, textiles are installed to create the effect of a video game dungeon.

Combining video, painting, and ceramics, Through the Window Up the Stairs portrays a dynamic world of whimsy and malaise through the experiences of adolescence.

This exhibition of new sculptures featured in two spaces, the cabana and the garden, explores shelter and exposure, shade and sun, hiding and calling out. Sunshades inlaid with industrial air filters, Brita-purified water, recycled car filters, and “survival gear” specific to disaster threats posed to Los Angelenos, are commonly featured materials in these sculptures by O’Halloran. (Upon arrival, enter through gate and walk towards the back-house)

Rather than negating the importance of speaking up, speaking truth to power, or raising our voices, this exhibition treats silence as a powerful tool of resistance alongside acts of speech. Work by artists Abigail Raphael Collins, Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz, Nikita Gale, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Sharon Hayes, Baseera Khan, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Aliza Shvarts is included, along with historical documentation of silent protests.

Comprised primarily of abstract paintings on wood, On a New Coast offers an interplay between different areas of color, texture and tone built into paintings that feel compelling, energized and dynamic, and that, though abstract, have a palpable emotional presence, reminding the viewer constantly that a human hand built each work with intricate, careful attention.

In Pictures of the Floating World, Japanese-American Tami Demaree presents a synthesis of her Japanese/Hawaiian heritage in both imagery and process. In Pictures of the Floating World, Demaree has laboriously hand-carved large scale wood works that depict animals from both land and sea in compositions of symmetrical balance, conjuring the “Yin-Yang” concept of dualism in ephemeral states of equilibrium through the gaze of Ornamentalism in the traditions of Japanese and Hawaiian history and culture. The protagonists at center stage in Demaree’s mise-en-scène are set against brightly colored decorative patterns of natural elements, such as flowers and sea kelp in a style that brings to mind an amalgamation of pop cultures 70’s-era wallpaper and black-light art, as well as the ways women have adorned themselves across various traditions throughout human history.

“I feel an affinity to Michael Heizer's use of drawing when he carved circles in the desert with his motorcycle. I, too, am claiming land as artist's materials, but I'm using the ground to inscribe the surface of the paint.” – Margie Livingston

For the past four years, Margie Livingston has been dismantling the line between painting and performance. In a hybrid form of Action Painting, performance, and Land Art, she drags constructed paintings across terrain, inscribing the canvases with the ground to what she calls Extreme Landscape Painting or “non-painting painting.” Inherent in this process is the use of chance procedures and the knowledge that the ideas change and evolve as she gets into the work.

"The work of art created as a labor of love may sound cynical, yet it is made in good faith and contains a deep utopian wish for social change, no matter how naive and nostalgic that dream is." ~ Miyoshi Barosh

Over the last fifteen years, Miyoshi Barosh made her work with humor and dystopian irony in a style she called "Conceptual Pop." With an emphasis on cultural blindness toward death, decay, and the disintegration of both utopian social constructs, and ultimately the individual body itself, Barosh saw her work as "a manifestation of competing emotions around cultural conceits and identity politics through a handmade carnivalesque, mischievous confrontation." Given her untimely death, her message is made even more poignant, if not tragic, because she lived it.

Beginning with a love of color and abstraction, Stockholder’s groundbreaking work for more than 30 years transforms everyday objects into painterly sculptural forms while subverting our ideas regarding what is worthwhile or worthless.

Join CODA, the LA Phil’s group for young professionals and use promo code NEW2CODA for 20% off tickets to the February 14 performance and the opportunity mix and mingle with like-minded fans of the LA Phil—and orchestra members—over complimentary drinks at an exclusive after-party at Walt Disney Concert Hall.