13ThingsLA: May 6
Extrapolations for your art calendar
This week art is staking out a more expansive terrain—moving through and beyond the galleries to radiate across the stage, screen, and even the sky. Find gallery exhibitions that pull apart the armature of reality at Gemini G.E.L., Philosophical Research Society, Art/Space 114, Richard Heller Gallery, Tierra del Sol Gallery, Don’t Look Projects, and Shoshana Wayne Gallery; plus art-infused dance, performance, avant-garde animation, and more at The Wallis, ICA LA, Clockshop, MAK Center, Fais Do-Do, and then it’s back to PRS for a suitably unhinged Mothers Day.
FEATURE
Analia Saban: Data Center and Tacita Dean: Eclipse Drawings open Saturday, May 9, 5-8pm at Gemini G.E.L. Saban remixes digital-age neuro-entrails into new patterns that make both more sense and less, thinking through the nebulous wet-tech infrastructure of the information economy—circuit boards, cooling systems, and server racks—in meticulously debossed paper and tactile ink. Like a metabolic audit of the internet, she maps the heavy, heady material reality of the “cloud” through a labor-intensive process that transforms the ephemeral data stream into a series of compromised topologies. Dean captures the astronomical friction of the 2024 total solar eclipse through a suite of lithographs that prioritize the erratic, atmospheric shifts of the celestial event over its operatically cliche climax. Working from drawings made in the field during those minutes of occlusion, Dean records the sudden, nauseous transition of light and the eerie shadows that are the harbingers of such glorious environmental glitches. On view in West Hollywood through September 4; geminigel.com. —SND
