Ken Taylor Reynaga
'Beneath the Avocado Tree'
On view through 07/25
Come visit!
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.
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This is the Simco EL84 Integrated with Toroidals. A nice upgrade and a little more expensive then the regular transformer version. She is a beauty and we make this in a 5881, 6L6, 6V6 and EL84 version.
table/woman,
acrylic and oil on wood panel, 5 x 7 3/4 in.
On view @tatjanapietersgallery
Solo show: A Passing Cloud
April 19- June 7, 2026
Installation shots @wedocumentart
#elizabethibarra
Running towards the moon,
oil on paper, 16 inch diameter
On view @tatjanapietersgallery
Solo show: A Passing Cloud
April 19- June 7, 2026
Installation shots @wedocumentart
#elizabethibarra
“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.
🎥 Complete video: vtv.la or link in bio.
#simcoaudio #highendaudio #contemporaryart #interview #simchowitzgallery @stefansimchowitz@audiosimco@simchowitzgallery@creativeartpartners
Here is an exhibition view of my show:
A Passing Cloud,
@tatjanapietersgallery
April 19 - June 7, 2026.
This exhibition shows a wide range of my practice. Presenting for the first time part of the mobile I made for my son and works on loose canvas. It is very special to me.
I am very grateful to @tatjanapieters for continuing her support and showing all these different works in a beautiful way.
Image by @wedocumentart
#elizabethibarra
“So I contacted brands, as I learned, that I liked, and became a dealer for Boenicke Audio, became a dealer for the most prestigious valve brand in the world, Audio Note, which is an amazing British company that I’m proudly a dealer of. And then I met these young kids in Manchester who had designed the speaker, which I now call the Simco One. And I just went deep in it, kind of like I went into the art business. I decided that there should be more American made products, so I decided to start a line of cables that were American made, tonearm, for cartridges, that’s American made. The tonearm is the thing that goes on the turntable. And I just like, everything I do, I just went really deep, tried to learn everything about it, met these guys who you could even consider gurus, who are really knowledgeable about their field…”
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.
🎥 Complete video: vtv.la or link in bio.
#simcoaudio #highendaudio #contemporaryart #interview #simchowitzgallery @stefansimchowitz@audiosimco@simchowitzgallery@turnend_audio@boenicke.audio@audionote_uk@creativeartpartners
