13ThingsLA: January 22

Dynamics for your art calendar

Annie Briard (artwork detail) at Royale Projects

Even as Los Angeles is still coming to terms with what has befallen our beloved city, the unsinkable art world delicately continues to unfold—at a Royale Projects show with benefits, and at new openings at Spy Projects, Angels Gate Art Center, MOAH Lancaster, SPARC, Simard Bilodeau, Rhett Baruch Gallery, Gabba Gallery, and The Chapter House. Plus performances, conversations, and screenings (lots of dance but also puppets!) at The Wallis, Friidom at Highways, a homeLA residency, and the return of Dance Camera West at both the Philosophical Research Society and Barnsdall Gallery Theater.

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Annie Briard (installation view) at Royale Projects

Annie Briard: Through the Walls of Gold is now open at Royale Projects. In large scale photographs augmented with colorful translucent structural elements, Annie Briard conjures otherworldly landscape images that deconstruct the difference between sight, perception, and reality. Using a proprietary bit of lenscraft that spreads the spectrum of visible light across the vistas in a way both painterly and ethereal, Briard evokes the energetic, psychological, philosophical, cognitive, and even spiritual experience of existence in the High Desert as much if not more so than its appearance. A special print release of Briard’s haunting image Fire Lake benefits the Grief and Hope fund. On view in downtown through February 8; royaleprojects.com. —SND

Annie Briard, Fire Lake benefit print (Courtesy of the artist and Royale Projects)

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