Luis De Jesus Los Angeles unveils its September/October exhibitions. They include: Laura Krifka: Carousel, Tristram Lansdowne: Burrito Plane, as well as UNLOCKING THE MIND: Nathan Gluck’s Early Surrealist Collages. The exhibitions officially opened for viewing for the public on September 14, 2024, however, the art party takes place on Saturday, September 21, from 4pm to 7pm.
Laura Krifkat Carousel
Carousel is the Laura Krifkat’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. The solo show spotlights a new series of provocative figurative paintings that question the social constructs of desire. Focusing on the interaction between monotony and shifts in perspectives, Krifka explores cycles and breakdowns of feminine identity. She draws attention to how females are looked at both as objects of beauty as well as the discriminatory view of women aging.
Laura Krifka, In Bloom, 2024, oil on panel, 36 x 36 in (91.4 x 91.4 cm)
The paintings in Carousel continue Krifka’s examination of popular culture’s obsession with gender and desire amid heated political agendas. Thus presenting a deeper investigation into how these portrayals affect our perception. Krifka’s subjects exist in candid moments, framed by psychologically charged vignettes of domestic interiors, provoking conversations of power and agency. The works revel in ambiguity with figures cropped by the edges of the canvases, shadows, or architectural details, deliberately fracturing spaces and bodies. Patterns and forms repeat across multiple canvases, with each painting offering inconspicuous motifs that do not immediately reveal themselves. Throughout, Krifka’s inquiries echo and call us to consider, “Who has the power to decide the fate of our bodies? How does our framing create our identity and, ultimately, who holds the lens?”
Tristram Lansdowne Burrito Planet
Burrito Planet opens in Gallery 2, and will be Tristram Lansdowne’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Known for his watercolors, the exhibition name name was adapted from a now closed halal burrito restaurant in Toronto. In this series, Lansdowne examines the painterly relationship between surface and volume as they pertain to our visual world. Thematically unstable, the works in this exhibition juxtapose methodologies from the Western art historical canon with pictorial structures of our daily environment, creating a series of vitrine-like spaces that shift genres and subjects repeatedly.
Nathan Gluck UNLOCKING THE MIND
In Gallery 3, UNLOCKING THE MIND by Nathan Gluck features a selection of early artworks from 1918-2008. The works on view reflect the young artist’s deep appreciation of modern surrealist masters like Max Ernst, Man Ray, as well as Domenico de Chirico, and include experiments with narrative prose and original poetry. His artworks exhibit various stages of his life from a post-depression household between the First and Second World Wars. As a young man, he was inspired by surrealism while attending Pratt Institute.
On view: September 14, 2024 – October 26, 2024
What: New Exhibitions
Where: Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, 1110 Mateo Street LA, 90021
When: September 21, 2024, 4-7pm
Website: https://www.luisdejesus.com
CLICK HERE for additional upcoming art exhibitions, along with performances and foodie events.
