13ThingsLA: July 29
Who’s There for your art calendar
New and noteworthy exhibitions and programs in which various strategies are employed to figure out our place in the invisible order of the universe. Visit James Fuentes Gallery, KP Projects, the Middle Room Gallery, Dove Biscuit Studio, Cannibal Flower, LACE, Now Instant Image Hall & Laemmle, Open Mind Art Space (with Shana!), Parrasch Heijnen Gallery, Make Room, Getty Center, Kristina Kite Gallery x Michael Benevento Gallery, and the Philosophical Research Society.
FEATURE
Susan Te Kahurangi King: The Page Before Me opens Saturday, August 1 at James Fuentes Gallery. Spanning from the late 1950s to very nearly the present, this survey presentation (and first West Coast solo show) maps a lifetime of compulsive, materially rollicking mark-making. Even with the surprising moments where iconic pop culture fragments—Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, the Fanta Clown—emerge from within dissolute geometric grids and color fields, King’s work exists primarily in an abstract landscape manner that renders narrative and figuration entirely porous. Working across intimate scraps and monumental, multi-paneled scrolls, King treats line, shape, and symbol as raw energies rather than semiotic signifiers, expanding the informational empathy of drawing beyond conventional bounds. On view in Melrose Hill through September 12; jamesfuentes.com. —SND
