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April 27, 2022 • View in browser
The Experimental Laboratory of Artist-Inventor Carl Cheng
Cheng is equal parts inventor and artist, breaking both technological and cultural ground as a Chinese-American artist. | Vanessa Holyoak
Circuit boards, monitors, plants, and rocks all exist on a level playing field here. Cheng manipulates each one in unique ways to conduct subtle experiments in psychology and underscore the patterns, hypocrisies, and delights of human nature. His work maintains a sense of humor that leaves it open to multiple interpretations, letting materials speak for themselves and never giving into didacticism, despite toying with the territory of scientific inquiry.
Fiona Connor’s Portals Into Closed-Down Clubs
Connor creates a simulacrum of closed-down businesses she would frequent or come across in Los Angeles, New York City, and New Zealand. | Cat Yang
A Cryptic Dance Between Understanding and Incomprehension
Rather than dismissing illegibility as a lack of clarity, Steffani Jemison embraces opacity as a strategy that provides other ways of practicing freedom and connection. | Allison Conner
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CLOSING SOON
Lydia Maria Pfeffer, “Happiness” (2021), oil on canvas, 70 x 58 inches
Lydia Maria Pfeffer: Lily of the Valley
Ochi Projects through April 30
Alvado Barrington: 91-98 jfk-lax border
Blum & Poe through April 30
Phel Steinmetz
Michael Benevento through April 30
Steffani Jemison: End Over End
JOAN through April 30
Mapping Fiction
The Huntington Library, West Hall, through May 2
ON VIEW
Genevieve Gaignard: Strange Fruit
Vielmetter Los Angeles through May 7
Jaishri Abichandani: Flower-Headed Children
Craft Contemporary through May 8
‘How Do You See This World?’ The Art of Almighty God
Fowler Museum through May 8
Diedrick Brackens: heaven is a muddy riverbed
Craft Contemporary through May 8
Phyllida Barlow
Hauser & Wirth through May 8
The Port of Long Beach Recordings
Canary Test through May 11
Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation
Hammer Museum through May 15
