13ThingsLA: June 18

Afterimage for your art calendar

Nancy Buchanan with Baxter, the Irish wolfhound, ca.1974 (Photo by Ransom Rideout, courtesy of Nancy Buchanan)

In this week’s issue: a review of Karma’s gorgeous current exhibition, and new happenings at The Brick, CAAM, Timothy Hawkinson Gallery, Z83, Moskowitz Bayse, Face Guts, Keystone Art Space, 1301PE Gallery, Highways Performance Space, Pace Gallery, ICA LA, and Philosophical Research Society.

Enjoy a week in which more than one artist uses her drawings to work out big ideas; more than one venue hosts all-day Solstice and LA history symposia; more than one group show celebrates the value of community and persistence; more than one variety of one-on-one art experiences; plus goods for the home, music for your eyes, Light and Space—oh, and there’s pie. BONUS: on Friday, June 20 at 6pm Shana & Craola are in conversation at KP Projects, come through!

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Feature

Nancy Buchanan, Page from Criss Cross Double Cross, Issue 1, 1976. Nancy Buchanan, WOLFWOMAN. (Courtesy of artist)

Truthfully, Nancy Buchanan opens Sunday, June 22, 2-5pm at The Brick. Few artists have been as prolific, expansively curious, expressively interdisciplinary, influential, and yet largely underrecognized as Nancy Buchanan. For six decades, her conceptual engagement with everything from intimate drawing to performance and emerging media has yielded works of dark wit and whimsy, feminist critique, experimental flair, and scholarly foundation. For this, Buchanan’s first proper career survey—organized by the gallery and her former student, the artist Laura Owens—the ambition is to tap into all the many aspects of her omnivorous practice, but with a meaningful focus on her drawings, a less dramatic but comprehensive archive of the thoughts that tie it all together. Watch for public programs, screenings, performances, and rock and roll during the course of the show. On view in Melrose Hill through September 20; the-brick.org. —SND

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