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August 3, 2022 • View in browser

Your Concise Los Angeles Art Guide for August 2022

Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very Los Angeles art events this month, including Rae Klein, Blake Daniels, Margaret Garcia, Andrea Bowers, and more. | Matt Stromberg

This month's exhibitions offer vibrant and challenging explorations of place, identity, and history. Some dig deep into the geographic and cultural fabric of the city, while others introduce artists from across the country and the world, whose work compliments the buzzing energy of summer in the city.

LOOKING AHEAD

Steve Keene in action from his Brooklyn Studio “Cage” (2021) (photo by and courtesy Daniel Efram)

Steve Keene Art Show
Palm Grove Social through August 12

The Steve Keene Art Show is a career retrospective featuring hand-painted multiples, a site-specific mural, and rarely-seen early work from this “Johnny Appleseed of art,” as Elsa Longhauser, founder of the ICA LA, dubbed him.

Rae Klein: LOW VOICE OUT LOUD
Nicodim Gallery through August 13

Rae Klein’s haunting, dreamlike paintings feature familiar objects — a horse, a candelabra, a pair of eyes — but the juxtapositions offer little in the way of explanation. Her spare, surreal compositions invite viewers to construct their own narratives.

PHILTH HAUS: LYLEX 1.0
Feminist Center for Creative Work, opening August 13

Curated by Mandy Harris Williams, the exhibition features PHILTH HAUS’s injection of the blood of a person undergoing hormonal and dietary modulation therapies into oyster mushrooms and investigating its implications.

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LATEST REVIEWS

Leonora Carrington’s Little-Known Explorations of Jewish Mysticism

In her designs for S. Ansky’s play The Dybbuk, the artist blends various visual and mythological strands of her European background with those of her adopted home of Mexico. | Matt Stromberg

Shirley Tse’s Ecology of the Everyday

In her art, Tse confronts the hypocrisies of our larger environmental reality, in which the time to search for sustainable models is running out. | Vanessa Holyoak

Mika Rottenberg Mines the Banality and Allure of Spectacle

Despite themes of alienation, fragmentation, and “global domination,” there are indeed elements of lightness, wonder, and curiosity in Rottenberg’s work. | Matt Stromberg 

CLOSING SOON

Matthew Thomas: Enlightenment at the California African American Museum (all photos by Elon Schoenholz, all images courtesy the California African American Museum)

Laggardism
Canary Test through August 4

Beatriz Cortez: One Eye Yes, One Eye No
Commonwealth & Council through August 6 

Matthew Thomas: Enlightenment
California African American Museum through August 7

Blake Daniels: Triumph of the Southern Suburbs
Matthew Brown through August 13

ON VIEW IN MUSEUMS & GALLERIES

Adam Parker Smith: Crush
The Hole through August 20

Deborah Roberts: I’m
Art + Practice and California African American Museum through August 20

Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898–1971
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, August 21–April 9, 2023

Ozzie Juarez: Por Debajo
Ochi Aux through August 27

All Opposing Players
David Kordansky Gallery through August 27

Clifford Prince King: Raspberry Blow
STARS through August 27 

Score for Here: Jimena Sarno
Los Angeles Historic State Park through August 31