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AVENGERS AT GAGA AND REENA SPAULINGS

This is the closing week of AVENGERS—SOMEONE LEFT THE CAKE OUT IN THE RAIN, a group show at Gaga & Reena Spaulings Fine Art, Los Angeles.

The exhibition features photographs by Julie Becker and Reynaldo Rivera—including several from the Cha Cha Girls ’87 series—prints by Juliana Huxtable, Stephen Willats, and Felix Bernstein & Gabe Rubin, paintings by Jill Mulleady, Mayo Thompson, and Bedros Yeretzian & Nicole-Antonia Spagnola, multimedia works by Harry Dodge, Megan Plunkett, Matthew Langan-Peck, and Larry Johnson, and videos by Ken Okiishi and Gary Indiana.

In addition, Hedi El Kholti’s Collage sketchbook #10 is here, as well as ABC Pong, Bernadette Corporation’s table piece, featuring audio by Sylvère Lotringer.

On closing night the gallery will host a video program, with work by Alexander Kluge, Alex Hubbard, and exhibition artists Dodge, Huxtable, Indiana, and Spagnola.

AVENGERS—SOMEONE LEFT THE CAKE OUT IN THE RAIN

Through Saturday, August 10.

Video program:

Saturday, August 10, at 8 pm.

Gaga & Reena Spaulings Fine Art

2228 W. 7th Street, 2nd Floor (entrance on South Grand View Street), Los Angeles.

Avengers—Someone Left the Cake Out in the Rain, 2019, from top: Matthew Langan-Peck, Untitled, 2019, digital C-print, wood, acrylic, oil paint; Mayo Thompson, Alligator & Turtle, 2019, gouache on canvas; installation view with Juliana Huxtable’s prints The Feminist Scam, 2017 (left) and The War on Proof, 2017, on wall and Bernadette Corporation’s ABC Pong in foreground; Megan Plunkett, The Encounter 01/The Prime Mover, 2019; installation view; Jill Mulleady, A Place in the Sun (Larry), 2019, oil on linen; Larry Johnson, Untitled (Century Schoolbook, Annotated), 1991, foamcore, photo mechanical transfer, rubber cement, ink, paint; installation view with Hedi El Kholti’s Collage sketchbook #10, 2015–2019, on stand; Mayo Thompson (2), Column and Bather, both 2019, gouache on canvas; Felix Bernstein & Gabe Rubin, Free Dissociation II, 2019, inkjet print; Reynaldo Rivera, Untitled (Fausto), inkjet print; installation view with four C-prints by Julie Becker from her The Same Room series; Felix Bernstein & Gabe Rubin, Free Dissociation I, 2019, inkjet print; Harry Dodge, The Gross Part (Stencil Series), 2015, plexiglass, primer, paint, UV-proof varnish, polished aluminum frame; Ken Okiishi, Being and/or Time, 2013–2016, HD video, 17 minutes, 15 seconds; Matthew Langan-Peck, J-U-, 2019, silkscreen on aluminum, wood,acrylic, oil paint, LED; installation view with Gary Indiana’s 2014 digital video Stanley Park on left. Images courtesy and © the artists and Gaga & Reena Spaulings Fine Art, Los Angeles. Special thanks to Jacob Eisenmann.

HARRY DODGE — WORKS OF LOVE

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At Tufts, outside Boston, the exhibition HARRY DODGE—WORKS OF LOVE brings together sculptures, drawings, and videos that “revel as much in theoretical ideas about a post-human future as they do in the ecstasy of the workaday present.”*

This week join Dodge and Amy Sillman in a public conversation for the annual Beckwith Lecture at the Museum of Fine Arts.

HARRY DODGE—WORKS OF LOVE*

Though April 14.

Tufts University Art Gallery

Aidekman Arts Center

40 Talbot Avenue, Medford.

HARRY DODGE and AMY SILLMAN

Wednesday, March 6, at 7 pm.

Museum of Fine Arts

Remis Auditorium

465 Huntington Avenue, Boston.

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HARRY DODGE—WORKS OF LOVE is an expanded version of Dodge’s 2018 show at Joan, Los Angeles.

From top: Harry Dodge, Emergency Weapon #26; Harry Dodge, Emergency Weapon #21; Harry Dodge, Works of Love installation view, Joan, Los Angeles, 2018. Photograph by Paul Salveson. Images courtesy the artist.

FOR JACK WHITTEN

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In a tribute to Jack Whitten, a group of his friends and colleagues, artists and curators—including Candida Alvarez, Jose Luis Blondet, Joshua Chambers Letson, Erin Christovale, Harry Dodge, Naima Keith, Diana Nawi, Betye Saar, Gary Simmons, Lily Blue Simmons, Bennett Simpson, and Alphaeus Taylor—will read from NOTES FROM THE WOODSHED, the just-published collection of Whitten’s writing.

JACK WHITTEN—NOTES FROM THE WOODSHED Reading and Launch

Saturday, August 25, at 3 pm.

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JACK WHITTEN—SELF PORTRAIT WITH SATELLITES, through September 23.

HAUSER & WIRTH, 901 East 3rd Street, downtown Los Angeles.

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Above image courtesy of Hauser & Wirth.

Below: Jack Whitten in the early 1970s on the corner of Broadway and Broome Street, New York City. Courtesy the Estate of Jack Whitten.

CONCRETE ISLAND AT VENUS

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Matt Johnson, Drywall #5 (Baby Aqua M440–3), 2017.
Painted wood, 72 x 101 x 72 inches (182.9 x 256.5 x 182.9 cm)
Image credit: Venus Over Manhattan

“Welcome to Concrete Island: an overlooked city within a city, an entropical paradise where leisure is lean….Listen to our walls: they speak in a rare blend of hobo shamanism and contemporary primitivism that captures the texture of the urban psyche.”*

This group show at Venus’ Boyle Heights outpost features work by Kelly Akashi, William Anastasi, Vern Blosum, Will Boone, Jedediah Caesar, Center for Land Use Interpretation, the Crenshaw Cowboy, Catharine Czudej, Jaime Davidovich, Harry Dodge, Sam Falls, Francesca Gabbiani, Kim Gordon, Matt Johnson, Lazaros, Jason Matthew Lee, Jason Bailer Losh, Tony Matelli, Pentti Monkkonen, Ruben Ochoa, Jon Pylypchuk, Ry Rocklen, Nancy Rubins, Sterling Ruby, Analia Saban, Blair Saxon-Hill, Max Hooper Schneider, Daniel R. Small, Piotr Uklanski, Kaari Upson, and Chris Wiley.

CONCRETE ISLAND, through May 20.

VENUS LOS ANGELES, 601 South Anderson Street, Los Angeles.

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“MADE IN L.A.” REVIEW

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opening night “Made in L.A.” at the Hammer Museum

I was really impressed with the work at Made in L.A., the Hammer Museum’s biannual group exhibition of artists who live and work in Los Angeles. The exhibition opened this past Saturday and the museum was packed. I took some pictures of my personal favorites and highlights from the opening night…

KChung TV Live Taping

KChung TV Live Taping

KChung TV will be filming in the lobby of the Hammer on select Saturdays and Sundays throughout the exhibition. On opening night they featured a series of programs, mostly interviews with artists.

Juan Capistran, …put very little trust in tomorrow, 2014, bricks and paint

Juan Capistran’s piece in the courtyard of the Hammer.

Gabriel Kuri, donation fountain, 2014, powder-coated steel, bird spikes, and coins

Harry Dodge

Harry Dodge’s sculptures, drawings, and paintings are very much influenced by Los Angeles artists John Baldessari, Paul McCarthy, and Raymond Pettibone.

Magdalena Suarez Frimkess and Michael Frimkess

I was really excited to finally see the Frimkess’s ceramics in person! Magdalena Suarez Frimkess is 84 years old, and she has been collaborating with her husband for years. Motifs from cartoons, American history, Egyptian and Latin American art, etc. grace their plates and vessels. The work of Magdalena Suarez Frimkess was recently featured in an exhibition at White Columns, in New York City, which I was sad to miss. They were also recently featured on the podcast Pussyfoot.

Max Maslansky, Painting (fragment), 2012, acrylic on bedsheet

A room of paintings by Max Maslansky, who paints haunting yet comedic images from pornography is not to be missed. Above, a woman brushes rouge onto a man’s penis while he takes a photograph.

Ricky Swallow

Sarah Rara

Channing Hansen

There was quite a bit of fiber art in the exhibition, including Channing Hansen’s delicate knit works stretched on canvas.

Infected Faggot Perspectives, edited by W. Wayne Karr and Cory Roberts-Auli, Issues 1-14, August 1991-Summer 1993

The zine Infected Faggot Perspectives was featured in the mini-exhibition “Tony Greene: Amid Voluptuous Calm.” Tony Greene died from complications with AIDS in 1990, and the exhibition features work by Greene along with some of his peers. I believe this is the only historical work in the exhibition.

Devin Kenny, Aahs, sad feels, 2014, Chocolate fondue with magnets and homemade ferrofluid

Devin Kenny’s artworks are like science experiments for kids. They really stood out. I’m excited to go back and take a deeper look.

Emily Mast, ENDE (Like a New Beginning), 2014

Emily Mast has installations and props throughout the museum, along with a performance where four individuals, some dressed in bright yellow struck poses, while another person placed yellow bird feathers on them. It was really beautiful.

Piero Golia, The Comedy of Craft (Act I: Carving George Washington’s Nose), 2014

I am very excited about Piero Golia’s piece, which will be realized throughout the exhibition, and after the exhibition. The Comedy of Craft (Act I: Carving George Washington’s Nose), features large blocks of white styrofoam which will be carved into the shape of George Washington’s nose from Mt. Rushmore.

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Tag Archives: Harry Dodge

AVENGERS AT GAGA AND REENA SPAULINGS

HARRY DODGE — WORKS OF LOVE

FOR JACK WHITTEN

CONCRETE ISLAND AT VENUS

“Welcome to Concrete Island: an overlooked city within a city, an entropical paradise where leisure is lean….Listen to our walls: they speak in a rare blend of hobo shamanism and contemporary primitivism that captures the texture of the urban psyche.”*

“MADE IN L.A.” REVIEW