13ThingsLA: July 16
Sorry Not Sorry for your art calendar
Sometimes you just have to let it all out so you don’t go crazy. Apropos of which, please enjoy a review of the ravishing new Tamara de Lempicka doc, plus opportunities for essential expression at openings and events both massive and micro from Dorado 806 Projects to Sean Kelly Gallery, Perrotin Los Angeles, SCI-Arc, TAG Gallery, Brand Library, Central Library, DON’T LOOK Projects, Art+ Practice, the hilltops of Barnsdall/LAMAG, the streets of LBC/Long Beach Walls, and the peaks of Mt. Wilson/the earth and stars. Watch for feisty crosscurrents around field recordings, architecture, landscape, rebellion, and the revenge of the Big Summer Group Show.
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Aya Takano: how deep how far we can go, and Jin Meyerson: Safe Space open Saturday, July 19, 5-7:30pm at Perrotin Los Angeles. Aya Takano’s work threatens wonderment and joviality, offering a pretense of simplicity that soon gives way to a multiplexity of sharply whimsical symbols, elements of nature, unfamiliar emotions, and inexplicable harmonics. Figures and creatures frolic, abundance luxuriates in itself, strangeness looms, and at every turn her mastery of paint and range of styles cavort with intentionality, juxtaposition, and enactment. “What I try to depict in my work is an invitation to a more organic, interconnected, and harmonious world,” Takano explains. “A place not centered around humans alone,” but one that honors “the radiance of all life.” Jin Meyerson explores the interdimensional spaces between sound, image, landscape, psyche, and whatever androids dream of. The exhibition is accompanied by an original score that also, like the paintings themselves, combines nature and weird science to arrive at something more. On view in Mid-City through August 29; perrotin.com. —SND
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