L E M A X I M U M

After four years Le Maximum is closing its doors. We opened in January 2020 as a venue for creativity, experimentation, and friendship. We close with gratitude for everyone who expanded our minds and filled our hearts. To all who contributed and supported, thanks for the memories! -Liam & Kris Edouard NG, Alberto, November 11th, 2023 - January 14th, 2024 Becca Mann, Sleepwalk, September 17 - October 28, 2023 Humans, Animals, Hungry Ghosts, curated by Gwen Hollingsworth, July 29 - August 26, 2023 Lapskaus: Simon Glaser, Evan Jose, Damon Sfetsios, April 1st - May 6th, 2023 Jake Kean Mayman, Ergonoptics, February 4th - March 12th, 2023 Gillian Steiner, Blind for Love, December 10, 2022 - January 22, 2023 The Cave: Jorge Elbrecht, Laura Larraz, Edouard NG, October 8th - November 13th, 2022 Jerry Peña, You Ain’t Gotta Lie to Kick It, August 13th - September 18th, 2022 Saj Issa, I Was Out Partying While You Were Home Making Prayers, May 14th - June 12th, 2022 Greg Gong, Painting, February 5 – March 27, 2022 Anastasia Denos, Point of Contact, February 5 – March 27, 2022 Proximity Alert, curated by Jesse Pearson, November 13th, 2021 - January 9th, 2022 Liam Neff, Last Evenings on Earth, September 18th - October 24th, 2021 Fata Morgana, July 28 – September 5, 2021 Sparkly Berman, Miracle Zone, May 15 – June 27, 2021 Pure Abstractions: Kent Familton & Jon Pestoni, February 27 – April 25, 2021 Stephen Aldahl, Cool Intentions, 5 December 2020 – 7 February 2021 Blue Flowers, 11 January – 7 March 2020

Closing reception for @edngx Alberto this Sunday 5-7 pm. Screening by Jo “22” Frias @22note and other interventions.

Edouard NG’s show Alberto is extended through January 14 by appointment. Last chance to see this stunning show. Image: Saint Sorlin - 2080. Found postcard, 6 x 4

A door repurposed from the yard obstructs the space creates a striking counterpoint to Edouard NG’s reflective surfaces. Don’t miss seeing this stunning show in person. Open Friday-Saturday 1-6 and by appointment.

Views of Alberto by Edouard NG. These works combine images of the past with forward looking materials in a beautifully jarring installation. Open Friday and Saturday 1-6 and by appointment. #edouardng

Images of Edouard NG’s show “Alberto” are now up on the gallery website, linked in bio. Please don’t miss seeing these formidable works in person. Open Friday-Saturday 1-6 and by appointment. For more information email [email protected] Documentation by Hannah Mjølsnes

Le Maximum is pleased to announce our exhibition Alberto by Edouard NG. The exhibition will run from Saturday, November 11th to Saturday, December 16th. A reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, November 11th from 6 - 9 pm. Alberto comprises three paintings and a short film titled RRR. NG sprays automotive paint onto acetate sheets roughly the size of a portal, then applies gestural marks in oil. The resulting images are abstract yet derived from everyday life; they mirror our gaze, while alluding to perceptions ranging from a blooming desert plant, the blue of the Amazon truck, or the eye of a hurricane. RRR montages images of nature and the built environment and is accompanied by a soundtrack by Jo “22” Frias. Blades of a yucca merge with the ribs of New York’s Oculus Center and a spinning airforce reactor engine. Opening into the ground are the orifice of a dead plant and the 9/11 memorial in New York. Hypnotic images of technological advance and intimations of civilizational collapse invoke our contradictory present-day realities. Edouard NG lives and works in Los Angeles. NG received a Master of Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute, New York. NG’s work has been the subject of solo and group exhibitions: The Cave, Le Maximum; For some bags under the eyes, sans titre, Paris; ŒDIPUS ŒDIPUS, New Galerie, Paris; and [Un]Real, DETOUR x NICOLETTI contemporary, New York, among others. For more information about Edouard NG please contact [email protected].

Becca Mann Felix, 2021. Oil and flashe on canvas, 60 x 90 inches. Mann’s paintings such as Felix layer color on top of a matte black background, creating subtleties that your eyes adjust to. These are paintings that beg to be seen in person. Sleepwalk is on view through October 28th. Open Friday and Saturday 1-6 and by appointment. #beccamann

Becca Mann Deuce Coupe 2020 oil on canvas On view in Sleepwalk through October 28th.

Becca Mann Night-blooming Cereus 4, 2023. Oil on muslin over panel, 11 x 14 inches. On view in her solo show Sleepwalk through October 28th. Hours: Friday and Saturday 1-6 and by appointment.

Images from Becca Mann, Sleepwalk, are now up on our website. Link in bio 🔗 Hours: Friday and Saturday 1-6 and by appointment. Come say hi 👋🏼

🚨Becca Mann, Sleepwalk, opens Sunday, September 17, 4-7 pm🚨 Drawing on sensory phenomena of light, air, and space peculiar to LA, Sleepwalk approaches the momentary from a subjective position: heat radiating from asphalt after dark, blinding sunlight reflecting off chrome, overexposed foliage. Taken together, the works record an experience of a place and time without divulging anything in particular about what may have happened there. Mise en scène without a narrative. The paintings are selected and configured in the gallery by a series of reversals. Black paintings are placed in the biggest white rooms; their subjects appear from the darkness slowly, challenging our eyes to adjust. Conversely, a smaller sunbleached guava branch irradiates in the black-walled gallery office, suggesting a sudden emergence from darkness into light. Emphasizing the optical, Mann amplifies the vagaries of nocturnal and diurnal perceptions. Related moods and sensations emerge: the cold mist of marine layer behind a moonlit flower, the lapping of a glowing swimming pool at night, the savage power of a hot-rodded engine burning asphalt. Silvery-blue window tints in a front room bring some extra refraction to the chroma and chrome of a turquoise Deuce Coupe, with a nod to the site-specificity of this installation in what was once the storefront office of Del Mar Auto. Becca Mann lives and works in Los Angeles. She is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has had solo exhibitions at Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, Safe Gallery, New York, Soccer Club Club, Chicago, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited at venues such as Bel Ami, Los Angeles, Friends Indeed, San Francisco, Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles, 356 Mission, Los Angeles, Basilica Hudson, New York, and Curtat Tunnel, Lausanne, Switzerland. Write to [email protected] for more information.