August could be a gradual month within the artwork world, however the 10 reveals beneath supply some visible and conceptual delights earlier than the massive fall openings. UPEND gathers new views on feminist solidarity and activism within the face of our present reactionary backsliding, whereas PUNK LIVES reveals the lengthy legacy of transgression and tumult that punk progenitors laid down 50 years in the past. At Monitor 16 Gallery, a multi-faceted name to arms by way of the work of 35 artists encourages guests to sit down in our unease and glimpse new methods of dwelling. Lila de Magalhaes’s charming material works reveal the intercourse lives of bugs and different life kinds, whereas Canine & Dads presents a reappraisal of its two titular symbols of energy and authority.
Lila de Magalhaes: Laps of Chrysalis
Lila de Magalhaes’s dyed and embroidered works depict fantastical rococo dreamscapes of interspecies entanglements in opposition to the erotic backdrop of bedsheets. In “The Eden Venture” (2024), a girl canoodles with a worm, whereas “Pleasure Dome” (2024) options an insectoid orgy atop a mound of steaming excrement. Sewn threads outline kinds in opposition to a fluid backdrop of vibrant shade washes, conveying the messy metamorphosis of the present’s title.
Matthew Brown (matthewbrowngallery.com)
712 North La Brea Avenue, Fairfax, Los Angeles
By August 10
UPEND: Feminine Expertise and Activism
UPEND showcases a various group of feminine artists whose works make use of themes of resistance and solidarity within the face of reactionary assaults on girls’s rights and reproductive freedom. Collaborating artists embrace Elyse Pignolet, who embeds subversive textual content and pictures inside conventional blue-and-white ceramics; Kayla Tange, who addresses voyeurism and trauma by way of evocative sculpture, efficiency, and video; and She Loves Collective, a gaggle of ladies of Armenian heritage whose performances and installations concentrate on the continuing displacement and destruction of their homeland by the hands of Azerbaijan.
Angels Gate Cultural Heart (angelsgateart.org)
3601 South Gaffey Avenue, San Pedro, California
By August 17
PUNK LIVES
PUNK LIVES explores the visible expression of the punk motion, from its DIY origins 50 years in the past to subsequent generations of artists who keep it up its rebellious spirit and transgressive method to tradition. Curated in collaboration with Destroy Artwork, a Bay Space group devoted to supporting punk artwork, the present options classic and new work by punk pioneers together with Gee Vaucher of the band Crass, Jello Biafra of the Useless Kennedys, Raymond Pettibon, and John Holmstrom, founding father of Punk Journal. Youthful artists and musicians are additionally represented, together with Marissa Paternoster, Lady Mobb, Edward Cushenberry, and Somer Stampley. Moreover, a participatory flyer challenge will honor the grassroots fusion of artwork and music that flourished within the underground punk membership scene.
Subliminal Tasks (subliminalprojects.com)
1331 Sundown Boulevard, Echo Park, Los Angeles
By August 24
Canine & Dads
Canine & Dads is a three-artist exhibition that explores themes of rage, household, patriarchy, and companionship by way of photographs of canines and fathers. Karl Haendel’s photorealistic pencil-on-paper works reminiscent of “Offended Canine 6” (2023) meticulously seize the open maws and sharp fangs of snarling beasts, conveying a duality of safety and aggression. Taylor Marie Prendergast’s hazy, black-and-white work and drawings depict canines with a melancholic gravitas and inscrutable psychological depth. In the meantime, David Sipress’s cartoons, initially printed in publications like The New Yorker, present wry comedic commentary on the challenges of current with different beings on this planet.
Diane Rosenstein Gallery (dianerosenstein.com)
831 Highland Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles
By August 24
With the Moon Below Our Ft
Conceived as a part of a month-to-month curatorial program titled Surrealist Examine Group (SSG) on the Philosophical Analysis Society, With the Moon Below Our Ft brings collectively seven girls artists whose work attracts on futurism, surrealism, and portraiture to create new types of bodily autonomy and feminist empowerment. Works within the present embrace Penny Slinger’s cosmic collages, Regina Herod’s baroque assemblages of wax, metallic, and located objects, Lezley Saar’s work of psychics, and Jaklin Romine’s cruciform household altar draped in chiffon, velvet, and spandex.
Philosophical Analysis Society (prs.org)
3910 Los Feliz Boulevard, Los Feliz, Los Angeles
By August 31
Steve Roden: floating over the silent world
Steve Roden was a wildly influential and revered artist and musician who handed away from Alzheimer’s illness final September on the age of 59. floating over the silent world pays tribute to his legacy with a choice of lesser-known work, drawings, and sculptures created between 1990 and 2019. Roden’s boundless curiosity is clear in his genre-blurring work, which locations visible artwork, sound, science, and language in accessible conceptual frameworks. Notable works within the exhibition embrace “the floor of the moon” (2001), an early sculptural set up consisting of 490 hand-carved objects impressed by mountains and craters on a classic lunar map; work from his multi-year sequence the silent world (2002–03); and “from 33 to 45” (2019), which consists of visible representations of the sound of his favourite albums. On Saturday, September 7 at 2 pm, Michael Ned Holte and Alison O’Daniel will host a dialog and sequence of remembrances of their buddy and collaborator.
Vielmetter Los Angeles (vielmetter.com)
1700 South Santa Fe Avenue #101, Downtown, Los Angeles
By September 7
When the Summer time Bullet Sings
The 35 artists included within the ominously titled exhibition When the Summer time Bullet Sings make use of a heterogeneous vary of creative methods, making for a vigorous group present as visible and conceptual tropes ping-pong across the gallery. Holding all of it loosely collectively is a wholesome skepticism of custom and energy, an engagement with the right here and now, and a glimmer of hope that we’d simply all be OK on the opposite facet of this lengthy, scorching, summer season. Highlights embrace documentation of Nao Bustamante’s influential performances, Sandow Birk’s darkish historic work, Karen Lofgren’s sculptures balancing fragility and menace, Molly Segal’s sexually charged watercolors, and Victor Gastelum’s spray-painted work of cop automobiles.
Monitor 16 Gallery (track16.com)
1206 Maple Avenue Suites 100 & 1005, Downtown, Los Angeles
By September 7
Kyungmi Shin: Origin Tales
Kyungmi Shin layers photographs from artwork historical past, household photographic archives, mythological symbolism, and porcelain ceramics to inform new tales that mirror her expertise as a Korean-American girl. Mixing images and portray, Shin excavates colonial histories, analyzing how varied artwork kinds have contributed to the development of “the Orient” within the Western thoughts. Origin Tales options two-dimensional works in addition to patterned porcelain, and an set up of her assortment of discovered chinoiserie.
Craft Modern (craftcontemporary.org)
5814 Wilshire Boulevard, Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles
By September 8
Filipino California: Artwork and the Filipino Diaspora
Larger Los Angeles is residence to the most important group of Filipino People within the US, and the second-largest focus of individuals of Filipino descent anyplace on this planet subsequent to Manila. Filipino California options the work of seven modern artists, providing a number of views on life within the diaspora. Collaborating artists embrace Eliseo Artwork Silva, whose portray “Inang Kayumanggi ng California (The Brown Madonna of California)” (2022) is an outline of syncretic non-Western Catholicism; Allison Hueman’s “The Thriller of Life” (2024), a surreal, fractured historical past portray; and the post-colonial sci-fi of Anthony Francisco’s “Creature Chronicles: Zarah Meets the Atrivians” (2022).
Forest Garden Museum (forestlawn.com)
1712 South Glendale Avenue, Glendale, California
By September 8
Welcome to the Covid Resort
Welcome to the Covid Resort is a multi-disciplinary exhibition that pays tribute to the Los Angeles County Division of Well being employees who arrange emergency Quarantine and Isolation (QI) websites for houseless Covid sufferers in vacant motels and motels in Spring 2020. They in the end served over 10,000 folks, dropping a remarkably low variety of folks to the illness, and had been in a position to safe shelter for 93% of the sufferers who wanted housing after remedy. The employees inform their accounts in their very own phrases by way of video recordings mounted inside a recreation of a motel QI website, providing a glimpse into their life-saving endeavors.
Skid Row Historical past Museum and Archive (lapovertydept.org)
250 South Broadway, Downtown, Los Angeles
By December 14