13ThingsLA: June 24
Weird Science for your art calendar
It’s #BigSummerGroupShow season already, at least according to Band of Vices, The Loved One (new gallery alert!), Angels Gate Cultural Center, Tarfest, LACE, and the Loft at Liz’s. But there’s still a spectrum of more philosophical deep dives with historical, history-making, and harmony-chasing solo shows at Matthew Marks Gallery, Lisson Gallery, Wonzimer, Vielmetter, Mt. Wilson, Winslow Garage, and OCHI.
Plus here’s your gentle reminder to come by the Art Wolf gallery at the PDC on Wednesday afternoon, for a check-in with SND and artists of the emerging matriarchy.
FEATURE
REVIEW: Adrienne Maki: Volume at OCHI. This completely confounding work—essentially paintings on shaped canvas, but actually so much more—is not normally the kind of thing I’m drawn to. A high-octane palette of cartoon buttercup, hunter green, danger-zone red, flagrant fuchsia, an aggressively sculptural formal motif, an impossibly smooth surface, taut, and interrupted with bright flares of expressionist abstraction and hints of 1970s and ‘80s New York. But in the room, it’s engrossing how the saturated color fields are altered by the shadowcasting of the armatures, which thus become active, phenomenological elements of each composition, and that beget change with changing inflections of light and motion. While the art-historical memory is thus engaged, the pareidoliac, pattern-seeking mind will pick up femme-coded optical intentions of everything from faces to violins, hourglasses, corsets, chalices, and wooden ships. The journey from skepticism, to bemusement, to appreciation, to obsession happens in the lingering. On view in Melrose Hill through July 3; ochigallery.com. —SND
