The centerpiece is a video collaboration with Joshua Serafin and Nathan Mercury Kim, that creatively restages Goh’s 1981 ballet Configurations, adapting it into a celebration of queer community and resilience. Kang Seung Lee weaves together archival materials in evocative ways to create a patchwork portrait of his life and work, constructed through drawings on goatskin and gold embroidery on Korean Sambe cloth. The Heart of a Hand is a memorial homage to Goh Choo San, a Singaporean-born choreographer who died of an AIDS-related illness in 1987. Kang Seung Lee: The Heart of A Hand Kang Seung Lee (in collaboration with Joshua Serafin and Nathan Mercury Kim), “The Heart of A Hand” (2023), single-channel 4K video, color, sound, duration: 13 minutes, 13 seconds, edition of 5 + 2AP (image courtesy the artist, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and Gallery Hyundai, Seoul) Just My Imagination, the artist’s first solo show in his hometown, will be the largest presentation of his work, including drawings, airbrush paintings, a customized car, and a tattoo station.īeyond the Streets/Control Gallery ( control.gallery)Ĥ34 North La Brea Avenue, Fairfax, Los Angeles
His work draws on lowrider aesthetics, classic soul, and Chicano culture, reflecting a vision that is quintessentially LA, but often excluded from (or simplistically stereotyped in) Hollywood representations of the city. The LA native got his start airbrushing t-shirts at car shows, before building a career that spans graffiti, sign painting, and tattooing, counting Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, and Eminem among his roster of celebrity tattoo clients.
Mister Cartoon is one of the most iconic figures in street art/graffiti/tattoo scenes.
Mister Cartoon: Just My Imagination Mister Cartoon, “Sly, Slick & Wicked” (2022), triptych airbrushed acrylic urethane enamel on canvas, 96 1/8 x 64 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches (each panel) (image courtesy Beyond the Streets/Control Gallery) Two of the units house saplings smuggled into the United States from the Puerto Rican rainforest, “aliens” that will provide sustenance for inhabitants of a brave new world.ĥ26 E 12th Street, Unit C, Downtown, Los Angeles His first solo show in LA, Porvenir/Portátil, features wearable sculptures that filter air and water, made from everyday items like PVC pipe, rechargeable batteries, and hairdryer fans. Manuel Alejandro Rodríguez-Delgado creates mobile living systems for a post-apocalyptic near future. Manuel Alejandro Rodríguez-Delgado: Porvenir/Portátil Installation view of Porvenir Portátil by Manuel Alejandro Rodríguez-Delago (photo courtesy Canary Test) Through June 18 (Saturdays & Sundays only, 1-5pm) Mount Wilson, Angeles National Forest, Los Angeles ( directions)
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Sarah Rosalena pays homage to these women with Standard Candle, an installation of beaded textiles made with computer code based on these celestial images, situated in the Observatory’s shrine-like 100-inch Hooker telescope. The discoveries made here were only possible through the under-recognized labor of women who analyzed and plotted data using photographs of the cosmos printed on glass plates. Located at the top of a 5700-foot-high peak in the San Gabriel Mountains, Mount Wilson Observatory has been at the forefront of astronomical research for over a century. Sarah Rosalena: Standard Candle Sarah Rosalena, “Standard Candle” (2021) (© Museum Associates/LACMA © Sarah Rosalena photo by Ian Byers-Gamber) Finally, Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Frank Bowling celebrate diasporic identity, bringing together aesthetic touchstones from disparate geographic regions. Jackie Castillo recycles building materials to reflect the tumultuous transformation of the city, while Beck + Col’s anti-capitalist slasher slices and dices lowbrow cinema with bespoke costumes and elegant visuals. Sarah Rosalena enlists computers to create her beaded textile tributes to forgotten female science workers and Manuel Alejandro Rodríguez-Delgado creates handmade living systems for a dystopian future. A major Keith Haring retrospective at the Broad and an expansive solo show by hometown hero Mister Cartoon highlight their links to both graffiti and the gallery. This month, boundaries collapse between high and low, art and science, the street and the white cube.
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