13ThingsLA: January 14
Attunement for your art calendar
This week’s energy for your art calendar is not exactly calm—but it does encourage us to seek attunement with our neighbors, our planet, and ourselves. Visit exhibitions and events at Tierra del Sol Gallery, Karma Los Angeles, David Kordansky Gallery, LACMA, Walter Maciel Gallery, the Hammer, Regen Projects, Night Gallery, Baert Gallery, Roberts Projects, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Photo Walk, and BLOOM for the benefit of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.
FEATURE
Elliott Hundley curates Model World, opening Saturday, January 17, 6-9pm at Tierra de Sol Gallery. As part of a foundation supporting adults with disabilities through, among other things, their signature visual arts programs, the gallery has a well-earned reputation for placing the idiom formerly known as Outsider firmly within the contemporary art discourse—consistently centering affecting, skillful, unique perspectives on material and subject matter. And while they’ve invited guest curators before, this foray with Elliott Hundley—an artist and maker who is one of the most zestful, ardent proponents of meaningful maximalism I’ve ever met—marks the first time artists are included who are not part of the TDS cohort (Tanya Brodsky, Claire Chambless, Pippa Garner, Karl Haendel, Lauren Halsey, Shana Lutker, Kristen Morgin, Ed Ruscha, to name a few.) The pageant of expressively rendered, passionately worked trucks, houses, castles, streets, monuments, cosmological and/or personal landscapes, and beguiling talismans of inscrutable meaning does not chart differences or hierarchies—if anything, it’s the opposite. What holds the show together is a shared insistence on model-making as a way of thinking, where whimsy is not (or not only) a tone to be decoded, but a fully functional methodology. On view in West Hollywood tierradelsolgallery.org. —SND
