13ThingsLA: May 27
Hospitality for your art calendar
This week a lot of folks are finding meaningful and inventive ways to take care of themselves and others, with wellness, women, and rehabilitated histories of power at the center. Visit KP Projects, Hospital of Emotions, Rele Gallery, Ghebaly Gallery, Roberts Projects, Feia Studios, Timothy Hawkinson Gallery, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, The Autry, Barnsdall Art Park, Craft Contemporary, Now Be Here (ten year anniversary!), and Hauser & Wirth LA (ten year anniversary!)... Plus it’s our anniversary, too—we’re celebrating two years on Sunday morning! Come through, all are welcome!
FEATURE
Camille Rose Garcia: The Orphaned Nihilist Hospital for Dolls opens Saturday, May 30, 6-9pm at KP Projects. Occupying the fertile, hallucinatory borderlands between narrative world-building and cultural critique, Garcia’s latest project anchors her shadow-work cosmology within a deeply personal lexicon of survival and refuge. The exhibition expands a new serial graphic novella—set in a dystopian landscape where imagination is outlawed—into a tangible visual environment, embodied in delicate watercolors and larger wood-panel paintings rendered in her distinctive palette of acid pastels and smoky jewel tones. As Garcia populates a signature landscape of gothic, ornate decay with smoking toys, haunted dollhouses and their enchanted denizens, and the occasional wandering poet donkey, she processes a period of profound disillusionment with global events by conjuring the power to resist the violence of collapsing empires. On view in Hollywood through June 20; kpprojectsgallery.net. —SND
