You See LA: Spring / Summer 2016
Five things to see and do around LA, handpicked by Ali Subotnik
Ali Subotnick joined the Hammer Museum as a curator in late 2006. Most recently, she organized the mid-career survey, UH-OH: Frances Stark 1991 – 2015. Other exhibitions and projects include: The Afghan Carpet Project (2015), LLYN FOULKES (2013), Mark Leckey: On Pleasure Bent (2013), Made in L.A. 2012 (co-curated with Anne Ellegood and the LA><ART team) among others. Subotnick has also curated numerous Hammer Projects and oversees the Hammer Museum’s Artists Residency program. She has written about art and culture for publications including Frieze, Parkett, ARTnews, and ArtReview.
Julian Hoeber
Julian Hoeber, Curtain Wall After City Tower, 2016, Plywood and poplar with acrylic, string, nails, and glue, 80 x 56 x 6 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo.
May 13–Jun. 25
Blum & Poe
2727 S. La Cienega
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles-based artist Julian Hoeber never fails to dazzle, mystify, and destabilize viewers with his paintings, sculptures, videos, and installations. Since his explorations of gravity via walk-in sculptures and Vertigo-inspired vortex paintings, the artist has been mining the fields of optical illusion, perspective, and architecture and how we interact with built environments. For his latest exhibition, Hoeber intends to turn the gallery into an imaginary airport, from which travelers never actually arrive or depart, but rather takes viewers on an existential journey.
Paul Lee
Paul Lee, TBT, 2016, tambourine, acrylic, and canvas, 20.5 x 20.5 x 2 inches (52.1 x 52.1 x 5.1 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Maccarone.
May 21–August 21
Maccarone Los Angeles
300 S. Mission Rd.
Los Angeles, CA
In his works, Paul Lee reconstitutes everyday objects such as washcloths, beer cans, light bulbs, and tambourines into poetic assemblage sculptures. For his first exhibition in Los Angeles, the New York-based artist presents a series featuring tambourines that have been sliced up and disrupted with subtle gestures and interventions. Breathing new life into humble materials, Lee’s haunting works have an aura of mystery, romance, and vulnerability. Also on view will be a show of new photographs by New York-based Swedish photographer Hanna Liden.
Lutz Bacher
May 21–Jul. 31
356 Mission
356 S. Mission Rd.
Los Angeles, CA
Former Bay Area resident Lutz Bacher returns to California for her first solo exhibition in Los Angeles featuring a new large-scale installation. Bacher, a deeply admired “artist’s artist” makes witty, sometimes searing, and often ambiguous works in a variety of media. The works often feature images and subjects from pop culture and bestow new meaning onto familiar public figures and icons. Bacher consistently evades categorization and explanation of her work, leaving it to the viewer to make sense, or not, of her challenging objects, images, films, and installations. But taking the time to try to decode the work has its rewards.
Alex Da Corte
Alex Da Corte, A Night in Hell, Part II (video still), 2014 Standard digital video, TRT 10:16. Courtesy of the artist.
Jul. 9–Sep. 17
Art + Practice
4339 Leimert Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90008
Up-and-coming Philadelphia-based artist Alex Da Corte is known for his elaborate installations that combine elements of Pop Art, Surrealism, art history and consumerism, among other themes. Using found objects alongside original paintings, sculptures, and videos, Da Corte creates immersive environments that transport viewers into his dynamic and colorful universe. For his first solo exhibition on the West Coast, Da Corte will create a new, site-specific, multimedia installation.
London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, and Kitaj
Francis Bacon (British, born Ireland, 1909 - 1992), Triptych - August 1972, 1972, Oil on canvas, © The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved. / DACS, London / ARS, NY 2016, Photo © Tate, London 2016
Jul. 26–Nov. 13
J. Paul Getty Museum
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, CA
This will be the first major exhibition in the U.S. of the so-called “School of London,” which included Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Leon Kossof, Michael Andres, Frank Auerback, and R.B. Kitaj—a group of painters who rejected the movements and trends of abstraction, minimalism, and conceptualism, opting to instead explore new approaches to figurative and representational painting. Most of the works on view are lent from the Tate in London, and will provide a rich background to today’s contemporary painters—abstract and figurative alike.
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