13ThingsLA: July 10

Interesting Times for your art calendar

Eli Russell Linnetz: Monuments is now open at Jeffrey Deitch (Photo: Shana Nys Dambrot)

Firstly, we want to thank our readers for what’s been incredible support. We hit 500 subscribers last week, which is an exciting start for our independent art writing project! We quite literally couldn’t do it without you, friends. And if you’re a paid subscriber, watch for some pretty cool special events and activations coming up later this summer! In the meantime, this week’s art adventures take you through my review of the current show at Jeffrey Deitch, as well as hearty recommendations for Los Angeles Center of Photography, Sidecar/Night Gallery, Keystone Art Space, Julien’s Auctions, every gallery at Bergamot Station, the Getty Center, BLUM, CadFab Creative, Roberts Projects, Pace Gallery, Subliminal Projects, and Descanso Gardens.

Plus: Me again! Will I ever stop talking? Don’t answer that—and anyway no, not when there are so many incredible artists out there still to be interviewed! I’ll be with painter Cara Tomlinson at NÜART at 3pm on the 13th, and again at Art Division on the 14th with some excellent pals in support of their ongoing Art+Sol fundraiser. —SND

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Eli Russell Linnetz: Monuments is now open at Jeffrey Deitch (Photo: Shana Nys Dambrot)

Review: Eli Russell Linnetz: Monuments is now open at Jeffrey Deitch. Get ready for some serious cognitive dissonance at the gallery’s astonishing current exhibition. Linnetz—a permanently youthful creative better known for his absolutely epic music videos, mega-concert sets, and fashion designs—has transformed the gallery into a maximally minimalist masterwork of competing sensory triggers across sight, sound, scale, occasionally taste, and either lingering or possibly psychogenerative scent. Experiencing curiosity, nostalgia, irony, wonder, whimsy, and despair, viewers don’t so much cycle through these emotions (and a sudden pizza craving) as find themselves awash in them all at once; it’s disorienting. But it’s precisely this roiling mass of contradictions which characterizes the state of America today, and that, unlike trying to figure out what to do with all of these feelings you were not expecting, is crystal clear. Linnetz accomplishes this with about three total colors, a haunting elegiac soundtrack, and a quasi-functional pizza oven that is both a comfort and a reminder of just how easily distracted we are, all centering around two monumental sculptures of actual monuments—one a temple to our problematic national mythology, and the other an Ozymandian ode to broken promises. On view through August 3 in Hollywood; deitch.com. —SND

Eli Russell Linnetz: Monuments is now open at Jeffrey Deitch (Photo: Shana Nys Dambrot)