13ThingsLA: May 14
Plowshares for your art calendar
If like us you’ve been pondering the body/land/spirit/community nexus lately, then have we got a week of art for you! New exhibitions and events at Oxford House Projects, Timothy Hawkinson Gallery, Rhett Baruch Gallery, Branded Arts, Southern Guild, Vielmetter Los Angeles, Tierra del Sol Gallery, The Box LA, a comedian’s first art popup, LACMA, Marian Goodman Gallery, Skylight Books, and Clockshop in the park.
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Christopher Noxon: Terra Incognito opens Saturday, May 17, 7-9pm at Oxford House Projects. Is “Pastoral Fauvism” a thing? Because if it’s not then it ought to be, as Ojai-based painter Christopher Noxon both faithfully channels and utterly transforms the bucolic vistas that surround him there. Though the wild inventions of gymnastic perspective, kaleidoscopic palette, and fractal gesture pulse with the energy of hallucination or fantasy, anyone who has been to Ojai can attest to the recognizable cartography of his landscapes. As fields and hills and mountains and sky all collude in a riot of space and hue, the effect is both dizzying and radiant; his renderings of trees emote like portraits. Germinating in the rich soil of Noxon’s maximalism is a proliferation of turquoise, lavender, amber, saffron, sage, scarlet, ivory, and day-glo ribbons, frolicking across fields of untamed details, seeking the never-ending surprises nature has to offer. PS: The gallery space is a warmly unconventional quasi-domestic setting and in a way that’s even more perfect, since these paintings are all about bringing that unbounded energy inside. On view in Hollywood all summer; instagram.com/noxonart. —SND
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