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September 28, 2022 • View in browser
Alyssa Monks Captures the Energy and Anxiety of Being in Paint
With the numerous self-portraits Monks has painted throughout her career she offers her “self” to the viewers while also generating a sense of dissolution. | John Seed
Monks is a skilled realist who has managed to both embrace and work past the possibilities of hyperrealism. Her art is energized by the paradoxes and tensions generated by her uncanny hybridization of refined and abstracted visual elements. Her paintings, in which she often appears, have a kind of anxious and revelatory glamour.
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WHAT TO CATCH THIS WEEKEND
Breastplate (© Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) and figurative ocarina (© Los Angeles County Museum of Art) showing powerful individuals in centered positions, against a backdrop of the Caribbean coastline, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia (photo © Jota Arango)
The Portable Universe: Thought and Splendor of Indigenous Colombia
Los Angeles County Museum of Art through October 2
Featuring several objects on loan from El Museo del Oro in Bogota, the exhibition is an attempt to move away from a Western-centric framework and is informed by a collaboration between curators and members of the Arhuaco of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.
Mika Rottenberg
Hauser & Wirth through October 2
Argentine-born Mika Rottenberg satirizes the global commercial network of manufacturing and consumption with her own absurd DIY production lines. This is her first major solo show on the West Coast.
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Catherine Opie on Her First Monograph, “a Map of My Mind”
For Opie, photographing is about “understanding what it is to be inclusive.” | Anne Wallentine
CLOSING SOON
Kaari Upson, "Untitled" (2015–21), graphite and ink on paper, 102 1/2 x 209 inches (photo by An Xiao Mina/Hyperallergic)
Kaari Upson: never, never ever, never in my life, never in all my born days, never in all my life, never
Sprüth Magers through October 8
Lee Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse
Los Angeles County Museum of Art through October 9
ON VIEW IN MUSEUMS & GALLERIES
Stars Don’t Stand Still in the Sky: A Tribute to Lawrence Weiner
Regen Projects though October 22
Martin Roemers: Relics of the Cold War
Wende Museum through October 23
The Medium is the Message: Flags and Banners
Wende Museum through October 23
Ray Anthony Barrett: …of frontiers and phantoms
Wilding Cran through October 29
Broadway to Freeway: Life and Times of a Vibrant Community
Santa Monica History Museum through December 23