Hauser & Wirth Downtown LA invites art lovers to kick off Frieze LA 2024 Art Party on Tuesday February 27, 2024 from 6-9pm. The celebration will be held in the courtyard – see below for RSVP info for this free event.
Hauser Wirth Frieze
In addition to a nod to Frieze LA, the art party commemorates the opening Catherine Goodman. New Works, RETROaction (part two), as well as Jason Rhoades. DRIVE. Cocktails and also food will be for sale via cash bars, and the gallery’s onsite restaurant Manuela. Then dance the night away with special DJ set by KCRW’s Novena Carmel.
Catherine Goodman. New Works
In the South Gallery, enjoy the work of Catherine Goodman. This is the artist’s first body of predominantly abstract works. This is a distinct development for the Goodman whose art will be represented on the largest scale canvases to date.
Catherine Goodman, Girls, 2023 © Catherine Goodman; Photo by Damian Griffiths
Goodman’s career has spanned four decades. Her artistic process is rooted in a daily practice of observational drawing sourced from life, film and old master paintings. These striking new compositions feature her longstanding exploration of memory, place and the mystery of the unconscious.
RETROaction (part two)
This is the 30th anniversary of Theater of Refusal—in a social and political context that bears many similarities. This exhibition looks back at that seminal project and continues the theoretical investigation to understand its resonances today. Co-curator Homi K. Bhabha has called this process ‘retroaction.’
RETROaction spotlights works from the early 1990s by Charles Gaines, Lorna Simpson as well as Gary Simmons. These artists all participated in the original Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism, and a new iteration of the exhibition. The new show subtitled Black Art and Reconstitution, features the work of ten artists who all embrace abstraction and materiality in their practice, selected by art historian, Ellen Tani, together with Gaines.
Jason Rhoades. DRIVE
This exhibition runs through January 14, 2025. The year-long exploration of Rhoades divulges his love of cars and car culture through his art. The pic-scaled installations of Rhoades (1965–2006) made him a force of the international art world in the 1990s while he was based in Los Angeles. DRIVE unfolds over a series of thematic iterations, an ever-changing exhibition of Rhoades’ sculptures, drawings, videos and multiples—enriched by archival materials, public programs and contemporary perspectives.
Jason Rhoades with the Caprice overlooking Los Angeles International Airport, 1996 © Courtesy the Estate of Jason Rhoades and Hauser & Wirth
Additional Events
Throughout the year, the line-up for DRIVE will feature a range of public programs. A film series centered on cars and the city of Los Angeles will be curated by film historian and critic Elvis Mitchell. Hauser & Wirth’s Performance Project will present a theatrical staging of Charles Mee’s ‘Under Construction,’ inspired by Rhoades’ art and depicting America today through collage.
Organized as an investigation in real time, DRIVE invites people to approach the exhibition like a garage of art and ideas, in which cars are coming and going and tinkering is a productive state of mind. Rhoades, as an artist keenly attuned himself to sources of cultural power and weakness. When he put the internal combustion engine on art’s pedestal, was he presciently placing the car where it belongs for a greener tomorrow? The car as a subject in Rhoades’ art continues to drive and trouble the imagination today.
History
Jason Rhoades (1965 – 2006) is known for monumental, room-filling installations. These idiosyncratic sculptures incorporate a wide range of objects including products of mass culture combined with hand-made items and biographical references.
Drawing on the history of assemblage, Rhoades imbues his materials with powerful formal, narrative and allegorical links, encouraging viewers to connect and interpret the associative chains. Rhoades often drew inspiration from the city of Los Angeles where he lived and worked as well as The Great American West, informed by his rural upbringing in Northern California. His work has been exhibited internationally since the early 1990s.This exhibition runs through January 14, 2025.
On view: February 27 – May 5, 2024 (except for Jason Rhoades – January 14, 2025)
What: New Exhibitions
Where: Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, 901 East 3rd Street, LA, 90013
When: Running through May 5, 2024
Website: http://www.hauserwirth.com
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