This week we wrapped up the install of a very fun project! We installed @robidecking for this very cool gallery! It's both stylish and environmentally friendly!
GC: @omconstruct
A long windy road getting here, but @etra.la officially opens tonight. Props to my partners @andrewmlawson@ealgorri the real stars of this restaurant. Proud to have played my part and looking forward to the final piece of 737 N Western coming to life starting tonight at 5pm. Also props to @johnzabawa for an incredible design collaboration. Been a dream transcending the traditional architect/designer/developer dynamic together. #westernxmelrose
About last night! Thank you all for coming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Max, thank you for moonlighting as photographer 💫 @blumenfield_projects@clayca_ x.
‘Earth Room’ is on view through June 17th.
ANNOUNCING JAMES FUENTES LOS ANGELES
5015 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90038
Opening reception: Saturday, May 6, 6-8pm.
James Fuentes is honored to announce the opening of the gallery's new Los Angeles space, occupying a 1920s era commercial building along a lively strip of Melrose Avenue, reenvisioned by internationally recognized architecture studio and design consultancy Leong Leong.
Didier William: Things Like This Don’t Happen Here will inaugurate the space. The exhibition will be on view May 6–June 17, 2023.
Photography: Naho Kubota
Construction: @omconstruct 🥂special thanks #OmarMata
IT’S HAPPENING !!! We are thrilled to announce "Body Root," an inaugural group exhibition. Join us tonight for the first show at our new location on Hollywood Blvd. Co-curated by the wonderful Blair Taylor.
Cocktails by Yola. Rideshare strongly encouraged.
Saturday, November 12 from 6-8p
5229 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90027
The show will be on view through December 17.
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“For me, art is concerned with the idea of the human condition, which I see as the space between the body and the mind” -Paul Lee 🥁
We look to art and artists to guide us towards a nonlinguistic interpretation of the meaning of being here, being alive. In a culture that prioritizes critical thought, pragmatism, and the primacy of language, it is necessary to inject alternatives. We are not yet brains in jars, powered by the Singularity. We are bodies, riven with desires and punched through with loss and joy that we can only pretend to control. Abstraction becomes a clarion call away from packaged ideas and into a murkier realm from deep in the body.
New York-based British artist, Paul Lee, reframes everyday materials as powerful talismans of yearning, of sensate experience and symbolic codes. In his ongoing series of wall assemblages built around tambourines, Lee draws out our latent synesthesias, injecting sound into the visual field, calling upon our associative resources to form a bridge between painting and music, object and subject, hard and soft. Also from New York, sculptor Maya Barrera’s ceramic works similarly operate on both a local and cosmic scale, creating whole realms that are also simple vessels with often brutalist color treatments. Barrera’s sense of texture and form toggle the viewer between beauty and abjectness, always maintaining a core delicacy.
Link in bio for full press release, written by Blair Taylor.
Installation view by the lovely Ruben Diaz.
Our Toshizo Watanabe Jaccc culinary center is nearing the finish line ! @jaccc_la@theoriginalchangsta #shimodadesigngroup #interiordesign #dtla #littletokyo @omconstruct
