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Aaron Morse: Lights Out for the Territories @ Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles until 7 Mar |
| these new paintings and works-on-paper by the Los Angeles-based artist “consider myth, nature and culture through dynamic compositions that combine their elements in colorful and complex layers”
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Alison Saar: Meet Me at the Crossroads: Ruby’s Soul Service Station @ L.A. Louver, Los Angeles from 24 Feb |
| a new immersive sculptural installation by the path-breaking artist – “a space of rest and renewal”
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American Cement at the American Cement Building @ Tropical Berlin, Los Angeles from 22 Feb |
| “Aimee Goguen, Margaret Haines, and P. Staff brandish prophecy, theatre, poetry, surveillance, alchemical instruments, masks, blades, regurgitated teratomas, and the fixative properties of cement itself” – Henry Hopper, curator
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Amoako Boafo: I Bring Home with Me @ Roberts Projects, Los Angeles until 21 Mar |
| new paintings by Boafo presented in an architectural re-creation of his studio in Accra, Ghana, built to scale inside the gallery
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Arshile Gorky. Horizon West @ Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles until 25 Apr |
| including never-before-exhibited works, an exhibition presenting Gorky’s landscapes from before and after his transformative 1941 transcontinental road trip with Agnes ‘Mougouch’ Magruder and Isamu Noguchi
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California Color: Peter Alexander, Karl Benjamin, John McCracken @ L.A. Louver, Los Angeles from 24 Feb |
| paintings, sculpture, and wall hangings from three artists linked by their interest in form and color, and their deep ties to the landscape and culture of Southern California
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Carol Prusa: Expansion Universe @ Bluerider ART, Los Angeles until 5 Apr |
| new works, including two 30-foot long scrolls, showing how “Prusa transforms the cool rigor of astrophysics into a poetic visual language”
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Christina Quarles. The Ground Glows Black @ Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles from 24 Feb |
| Quarles’ first exhibition with the gallery in Los Angeles – “at its core, her practice contemplates the instability of existence, the extent of resilience and what it means to inhabit multiple realities at once”
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Destiny Is a Rose: The Eileen Harris Norton Collection @ Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles from 24 Feb |
| from a collection focused on women, artists of color, and California, more than eighty works reflecting Harris Norton’s prescient vision and commitment to social justice and learning
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Gabriel Sanchez: Lamparilla @ Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Los Angeles until 28 Feb |
| titled after a street in Old Havana, Cuba, and the lamps people use during blackouts, Sanchez’ portraits, street scenes, and immersive installation “foregrounds humanity, vulnerability, and the quiet resilience embedded in daily experience”
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Griselda Rosas: Veni, Vidi, Vici @ Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Los Angeles until 28 Feb |
| “multidisciplinary works that resist binaries, inviting viewers into layered allegories, histories, and personal experiences”
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Ingrid Donat: Tatoo @ Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Los Angeles from 26 Feb |
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Leiko Ikemura: Riding Horizon @ Lisson Gallery, Los Angeles from 24 Feb |
Ikemura’s first exhibition in Los Angeles explores “the relationship between the female body and the natural world, the heavens and the horizon line, or as she describes it – ‘the place where two worlds come toget her’”
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Marcia Hafif: Experience of Being @ parrasch heijnen, Los Angeles until 4 Apr |
| including works not shown before in the US, an exhibition of paintings by the late artist spanning the early to middle parts of her career
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Tacita Dean: Trial of the Finger @ Marian Goodman Gallery, Los Angeles until 25 Apr |
| new and recent works by Dean including 35mm film installations, a new 16mm film, new chalk and slate drawings, Polaroid works, and works on glass
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Takashi Murakami: Hark Back to Ukiyo-e: Tracing Superflat to Japonisme’s Genesis @ Perrotin, Los Angeles until 14 Mar |
| twenty-four new paintings exploring ukiyo-e and Impressionism, focusing on bijinga and its impact on Monet, using silkscreened acrylics and glossy finishes in his Superflat style
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The Work is Never Finished: Prints, Drawings, and Paintings by Samella Lewis @ Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles until 7 Mar |
| “collective portraits of outrage, sorrow, and hope” by the late artist, educator, activist, art historian, and curator, who grew up in segregated New Orleans
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