13ThingsLA: April 9

Miracles Grow for your art calendar

HyunAe Kang: Mauve Serenity 2A24 (Courtesy of Shatto Gallery)

“Nature's own inexhaustible fertility is manifest exuberance, and never less than the elemental poetry of all her structure," wrote Frank Lloyd Wright. As springtime rages on, things are getting a little rewilded in the galleries, too. For example, exhibitions at Shatto Gallery, Tyler Park Presents, Karma Los Angeles, Lisson Gallery, The Getty, MutMuz Gallery,M+B Fine Art, Wilding Cran Gallery, David Zwirner Gallery, Charlie James, The Huntington, and CAAM all champion abundances in life force; while performance art at REDCAT challenges the dominant paradigm in its own way. On a personal note, as 13ThingsLA is coming up on our one-year anniversary in just a few weeks (I know, right?!), we want to say thank you times infinity to all of those whose thoughtful support at any level makes this work possible. Let’s be like gardens and keep growing together!

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HyunAe Kang: Spacetime 1E23 (Courtesy of Shatto Gallery)

HyunAe Kang: Phos Hilaron (Radiant Light) opens Saturday, April 12, 2-5pm at Shatto Gallery. Creating art is sometimes thought of as a meditative act, even devotional; painting, calligraphy, and other forms of flowstate mark-making as well. There’s a certain magic to a kind of repetitive gesture that is not obsessive or emotional but instead measured, patient, slow, and organic. That’s the kind Kang practices—doing her actions as a cheerful, soulful, ethereal almost-prayer in the form of a painter’s toolkit. It’s like spellcasting, but what comes alive is radiant color, thickets of illegible but meaningful words, dynamic layering, and a light like sun glinting on a lake or the brightest part of the sunset. Ultimately, the realest story of each piece is a gentle, open mystery for each viewer to solve for themselves. On view in Koreatown through May 3; shattogallery.com. —SND

HyunAe Kang: Ambience W24 (Courtesy of Shatto Gallery)

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