13ThingsLA: August 7

Survival Strategies for your art calendar

Camila Varon Jaramillo, Where the Wild Roses Grow, 2024, Acrylic / oil on canvas, 36 x 48 in (Courtesy of The Pit)

Reviews and recommendations in Los Angeles this sun-baked week take us by The Pit (Happy Anniversary!), the Armory Center for the Arts, Anat Ebgi Gallery, BLUM, Gallery 825 (catalog essay alert!), CadFab Creative, Artist In Residence/MOAH Lancaster, American Cinematheque, MOCA Grand, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Chuck Arnoldi’s studio, Winslow Garage, and CalState Dominguez Hills. Sorry about all the apocalypse stuff.

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Anders Scrmn Meisner, Amateur Boat Race, 2024, Acrylic on canvas. 39.37 x 47.24 x 1.57 in (Courtesy of The Pit)

Wild Range opening reception & 10th Anniversary summer party, Saturday, August 10, 4-7pm at The Pit LA. It’s the beloved indie gallery’s 10th anniversary in Los Angeles, and celebrating that—especially with tacos, DJs, and free merch—is reason enough to head over this weekend. But it’s also the opening reception for James Hayward’s solo show, and the joyfully feral nature-inspired big summer group show, Wild Range. In painting, ceramics, and inventive in-between mediums, a coterie of artists express visceral, emotional appreciation for the beauty and danger of wilderness in its enduring mythologies and in our fruitless attempts to conquer it. On view through September 14 in Atwater; the-pit.la. —SND

Jennifer King, now take my hand and we’ll stare into the glare of the sun, 2024, stoneware, glaze, moonstones, 19½ x 15 x 13 in. (Courtesy of The Pit)

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