13ThingsLA: July 9
Brokedown Palace for your art calendar
Life feels exhausting right now, we know. But we also know life is better when you spend time with art—it’s our favorite survival strategy—so here is a new week of thoughtful, engaged visual culture, and we hope it helps. We recommend exhibitions and et cetera at Fernberger, Louis Stern, Fahey/Klein, Commonwealth & Council, House of CoHit, Robert Berman, Galerie XII, Tanya Bonakdar, Descanso Gardens, David Kordansky, MAK’s Mackey Apartments, TAM’s alternative art fair, and all the cats at NHM.
Plus as proof that we take our own advice to get out there, on the evening of Thursday, July 10, Shana will be in conversation with the artists in The Craft at KP Projects; and she’s back in Laguna on Saturday evening, July 12 chatting all things punk and art with Jenny Doh and the legendary Exene Cervenka to celebrate the closing of the museum’s scorching hot Carole Caroompas show. Hope to see you!
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Liorah Tchiprout: Dead tired from the burden of a dream opens Saturday, July 12, 6-8pm at Fernberger Gallery. Painter Liorah Tchiprout’s enchanting, melancholy character portraits appear both folkloric and richly art historical—but are also fantastical and profoundly personal. In her poetic depictions, she builds anatomy and physiognomy from slaps of gestural paint, a reserved earthy palette dramatically punctuated when it counts, and an enigmatic theatricality that includes pets and occasional costumes. The heady mix of memory and invention, dream and literature, people known to her and those in which she sees herself, when taken together as a portrait gallery, moves with a strange spirit of the familiar and the haunting. On view in Melrose Hill through August 23; fernbergergallery.com. —SND
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