Ken Taylor Reynaga
'Beneath the Avocado Tree'
On view through 07/25
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There is a particular kind of shade, soft and irregular, shifting with the wind, where time slows just enough to notice what usually slips by. Beneath the Avocado Tree begins in that space.
In this exhibition, Taylor Reynaga approaches the landscape not as distant scenery but as something inhabited, labored in, and carried physically. Fields, mountains, and domestic interiors unfold in saturated color and restless
line, shaped less by direct observation than by recollection, by the sensation of being inside a place that has already taken hold of you. The paintings resist stillness. They move between figuration and abstraction, between presence and erasure, as if the image itself were struggling to retain what cannot be fixed.
At the core of these works are those whose labor sustains daily life, figures largely unacknowledged. Forms appear and recede, elongated, fragmented, or partially absorbed into their surroundings. Cowboys, workers, and
caretakers move through the terrain, their bodies bending toward it, merging with it, until the boundary between figure and ground dissolves. A hat becomes a hill. A body becomes a shadow. The land holds their imprint, even when it does not name them.
“I think of the people,” the artist reflects. “The people who take care of our landscape. My people. The ones who clean our homes, fix our cars, grow and harvest our food, build our houses, repair our plumbing, hang our lights, and cook our meals. Beneath this tree, I think about how they remain unseen. How we’ve lived invisible within the land we cultivate, to the point that we’ve become part of it.
(Cont. in comments...)
“So what I’m trying to present here, if you walk around, is just the beauty of the equipment, just the makers that I choose, the manufacturers I choose, make really... aesthetic stuff, you know, Reinhard Thöress’ amplifiers are just beautiful to look at. They’re just objects of desire. So unlike most audio businesses, I’m sort of 50% lifestyle, 50% audio, both have to be excellent. But if they don’t cross that boundary together, I’m not interested. So there’s a lot of great product that sounds great, but it’s just hideously ugly, not interested in it. And there’s a lot of beautiful product, that is really shitty, from an audio point of. So you have to find that boundary. And what I generally do is, um, I ask people to send me a picture of their living room or whatever, and try and really advise aesthetically 1st what you’re going to enjoy looking at, because most of the... time the stuff is not on. So it has to have a sculptural element. It has to enhance the living room.”
This is an excerpt from the interview with Stefan Simchowitz about Simco Audio, Stefan’s curated audio systems, and their role as part of Simchowitz Gallery’s Hill House experience.
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Intimacy is not closeness. It’s distance held together.
Stefan Simchowitz @stefansimchowitz presents Two of Us - Andrey Samarin @andreysamarin1 and Lera Derkach @lederkach working side by side without becoming the same.
Two practices. Two rhythms. One shared field.
The tension is the point.
Simchowitz Gallery @simchowitzgallery 📍 Hill House, Pasadena
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Andrey Samarin & Lera Derkach
@andreysamarin1@lederkach
'Two of Us'
02/15 > 04/11
OPENING FEBRUARY 15TH, 11 AM - 3 PM
1850 N Hill Ave, Pasadena, CA 91104
Now on view 👀
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'Stranger Things'
10/25 - 12/23
Zachary Armstrong, Craig Boagey, Peter Burns, Brian Yihurn Byun, Matthew Chambers, Penny Cortright, Edwarc S. Curtis. Stan Edmondson. Mark Flood. Marc Horowitz Nicolás Guagnini, Elizabeth Ibarra, Jasmine Little, Tyler Macko. Paul McLachlan. Kevin McNamee-Tweed, Mvriam Mechita, Nihura Montiel, Simphiwe Ndzube, David Noonan, Danii Pascoe, Diana Quandour, Jon Rafman, Ken Tavlor Reynaga, Julio Rizhi, Sterling Ruby, Sky Salange, Tschabalala Self, Jeremy Shockley, Ueda Shoji, Aaron Wrinkle, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
