Los Angeles
March 15, 2023

The Contentious History of Frank Lloyd Wright’s First LA Home

In their exhibition at the Hollyhock House, Louise Bonnet and Adam Silverman engage with the building’s peculiarities — and its origin story. | Matt Stromberg 

LATEST REVIEWS

Simone Forti Finds the Dancer Within Us

Forti started as a painter so it’s only natural that she would transform other artists and cultural workers into dancers. | Renée Reizman

Choreography can be passed from one teacher to another, like an heirloom. Even as Parkinson’s steals Forti’s mobility, her groundbreaking performances will live on with her students, and beyond. Every gesture is an imprint of her relationship with her community.

Simone Forti
Jan. 15–Apr. 2, 2023
MOCA, 250 South Grand Avenue, Downtown (moca.org)

ON OUR RADAR

Kathleen Ryan: Beachcomber
Through March 25
François Ghebaly, 2245 East Washington Boulevard, Downtown (ghebaly.com)

Kathleen Ryan is known for her glittering sculptures of decaying fruit, constructed from hundreds of small crystals, stones, marbles, and bits of glass. With her current solo show, she applies this mixture of fascination and revulsion to that quintessential site of California cool, freedom, and leisure: the beach. A rotten orange slice and cherry are skewered by a larger-than-life cocktail umbrella, alluding to the sickly sweet hangover that remains once the party is over. In contrast to her signature maximalism, she has crafted oversized clam shells from scrap car parts, their elegant industrial curves tinged with a melancholic sense of abandonment.

Gaetano Pesce: Dear Future
Through March 31
Future Perfect, 1800 Camino Palermo Street, Hollywood Hills (thefutureperfect.com)

Architect and designer Gaetano Pesce’s work is characterized by bold colors, organic forms, experimental materials, and a whimsy that offers a vision of Modernism quite different from the understated, rectilinear uniformity of the International Style. He uses techniques like pouring colored urethane to thwart industrial standardization, giving near-identical objects their own personalities. Dear Future brings together over fifty years of furniture and sculpture from the mercurial master, including an updated version of his iconic 1969 curvacious “UP5_6” recliner chair, made this time from recycled corks.

Korakrit Arunanondchai: Painting, Prayer, Text
Through April 15
Clearing, 530 North Western Avenue, East Hollywood (c-l-e-a-r-i-n-g.com)

Korakrit Arunanondchai’s latest show includes paintings and sculptures shaped by processes of destruction and creation, reflecting a conflicted relationship with home. The exhibition features spirit houses which began as doll houses built by the artist’s mother, which were then burned and remade with elements from traditional Thai spirit houses. Large history paintings are made through a similarly destructive process during which Arunanondchai collages onto denim canvases, then sets them aflame, mixing the ashes and performance photography with unburned denim to create works that depict their own demise.

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