13ThingsLA: May 20
You Must Remember for your art calendar
Lots of art is about remembering the past, but this week, it seems like everyone is caught in-between dreams of elusive yesterdays and uncertain tomorrows. Visit new exhibitions and creative events featuring artists trying to sort it all out—at Sebastian Gladstone, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, WeHo Pride Arts Festival, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, MOCA Grand Ave, Los Angeles Nomadic Division, Matter Studio Gallery, Philosophical Research Society, California African American Museum, Night Gallery, Lisson Gallery, EPOCH, and LA Dance Project. Plus save the brunchy date of May 31… because you are invited to our 2-Year Anniversary Party!
FEATURE
Joey Terrill: Chisme y Memorias opens Friday, May 22, 6-8pm at Marc Selwyn Fine Art. Terrill’s new paintings map decades of a life through a kind of cultural and personal snapshot memory bank, evolving the crisp black outlines and illustrative color that have defined his work since his early zines into radiant, surreally familiar scenarios. Terrill frames his sense of history around chisme—enjoying gossip and intimate conversation as a tool for queer Chicano survival. The works are based on archives of personal photographs, charting everything from quiet moments with peers like poet Marisela Norte or collector Joan Quinn, to glitzy, inscrutable family milestones, and grief-soaked scenes of New York in the early days of the AIDS epidemic. Rather than generic pop tropes, Terrill uses a flat, cartoon-influenced clarity to anchor these memories in time, offering a quiet, un-romanticized world of friendship, addiction, and persistence. On view in Beverly Hills through July 2; marcselwynfineart.com. —SND
