Frieze Los Angeles opens this week as well as Felix Art Fair and SPRING/BREAK Art Show but there are also some great exhibitions to view below just eight we think are kinda cool.
1 Jason Rhoades. DRIVE, 27th February 2024 – 14th January 2025, Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles
For Jason Rhoades, the car was a vehicle of artistic pursuit, both readymade sculpture and American idol. Starting 27th February, Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles will dedicate an entire gallery at its Downtown Arts District location to a yearlong exploration of Rhoades’ art via the subject of cars and car culture.
Read more: HERE
2 Robert Mapplethorpe, Animism, Faith, Violence, and Conquest Curated by Jacolby Satterwhite, February 24th – March 23rd 2024, Morán Morán
Morán Morán to open Animism, Faith, Violence, and Conquest, an exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs curated by Jacolby Satterwhite. Animism, Faith, Violence, and Conquest aims to bridge the temporal gap between primal imagery and contemporary experience, reflecting on how themes of animism, faith, sex, death, violence, and conquest have perpetually shaped our social structures and individual psyches.
Read more: HERE
3 Nora Turato it’s not true!!! stop lying! February 28th–April 27th, 2024, Sprüth Magers
Nora Turato’s medium is language. In a practice that spans performance, video and graphic design, she examines the ephemeral nature of words and the instability of meaning. Using text as her artistic source material, Turato records and dissects the vernacular of our current visual culture and zeitgeist by collating appropriated words, fragments, and quotes and translating them into captivating incantations that harness the essence and the nonsense of what collectively moves us. Read more: HERE
4 Betye Saar, New Work, February 24th – April 27th, 2024, Roberts Projects
Roberts Projects to present Betye Saar: New Work. Occupying the intersections of historic narrative and ancestral memory, factitive ritual and metaphysical truth, this exhibition is testament to Saar’s enduring legacy as a pioneer of Assemblage art and an American cultural icon. Referencing the tradition of accumulative sculpture that characterizes artistic conventions, Saar’s mixed-media assemblages emerge from a unique succession of gestures that meaningfully build upon each other. This process of accumulation takes aesthetic objects with profound epistemic weight—such as vintage wooden boxes, found objects and photographs—and thoroughly transforms them into mythical entities compounded by historical time. Read more: HERE
5 Paul McCarthy & Benjamin Weissman: Cognitive Surge: Coach Stage & Halfway to Sanity at The Pit, February 24th through April 6th, 2024.
Cognitive Surge: Coach Stage, a two-person exhibition of works by Los Angeles based artists Paul McCarthy and Benjamin Weissman and Group Exhibition Halfway to Sanity with a “I’m just gonna do it…fuck it.” vibe – Read Courtney Killough‘s review HERE
6 IZUMI KATO, February 28th — March 23rd, 2024, Perrotin Los Angeles
Perrotin to inaugurate its new Los Angeles location with an exhibition of work by Japanese artist Izumi Kato. Imagine, for a moment, that Izumi Kato’s figurative subjects have a life of their own. From the artist’s studio in Tokyo, his subjects have traversed the ocean, crossing the Pacific to emerge in Los Angeles. Making their way to Pico Boulevard, they appear utterly at home in Southern California—a place where one can encounter the extremes of both prehistoric geology and urban modernity, where tar pits coexist with gleaming new buildings, where eternal ocean cliffs abut concrete highway.
Read more: HERE
7 Art Megastar presents Fierce Form, February 17th – March 13th, 2024
Art Megastar presents the group exhibition Fierce Form bringing together works by some of the most exciting fast-rising European artists to tell a story of liberation, capturing the essence of the embodied spirit through vast landscapes and the abyss. Special Frieze Gathering March 2nd 5-8 pm
Read more: HERE
8 Nicholas Bono Kennedy, Sunset Nursery, February 23rd to March 29th, Simchowitz Pasadena
Simchowitz to present “Sunset Nursery,” an exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Nicholas Bono Kennedy. Captivated by our capacity to radically reshape our surroundings, “Sunset Nursery” explores the inherent balance of creation and destruction in our environment, prompting viewers to ponder the profound consequences of human intervention in nature. Kennedy captures a spectrum of human emotions through an interplay of imagery, environment and the transformative influence of light and shadows—from the comfort of familiarity to the unease of the unknown.
Read more: HERE
