Off-Site Exhibition: A Shape That Stands Up
Mar. 19–Jun. 18, Art + Practice
A multigenerational exhibition that considers the gray area between figuration and abstraction, as mediated through humor and the grotesque.
A Shape That Stands Up examines the gray space between figuration and abstraction in recent painting and sculpture. The artists in this cross-generational show treat the figure as material, and the history of representation as one, long open-ended question with many possible answers. The body is often depicted in the state of becoming else, with shapes, light, and shadow taking on ambiguous forms. Influenced in part by the controversial 1978 exhibition Bad Painting (organized by Marcia Tucker for the New Museum in New York), the exhibition considers what our own subjectivities may bring to the discussion and practice of abstraction, and what motivates artists to decenter the figure’s dominance in the visual field.
Exhibition Dates: Mar. 19–Jun. 18
Opening Reception: Saturday, Mar. 19, 3 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, Noon–6 p.m.
Venue: Art + Practice
Price: Free
Art + Practice is located at 4339 Leimert Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90008.