October 2019
Jonathan Ryan at the Landing
On View through November 2nd. Artist Jonathan Ryan has been busy. All 20 works in his solo show at the Landing gallery (save one) were made in 2019. As such, the paintings, made using oil paint and sand, feel like a tight and intimate group, all picking away at a similar concern. Despite their strong sense of grounding architecture (like an aerial view of Mexico’s ancient Teotihuacán), the off-kilter way shadows fall across his geometric shapes lands the work in the…
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Martín Nuñez at the Landing
In the small back gallery at the Landing, artist Martín Nuñez unfolds a mystical surrealist world in which fantastic creatures commune with humans in a technicolored dream space. The exhibit is titled “Across the Paradise” and is curated by Michael Slenske. The exhibition is an interspecies romp in which amphibians, aliens, humans, and animals become intermixed, commingled and anthropomorphized. One work, titled “Saturno,” relates directly to Francisco Goya’s infamous painting, “Saturn Devouring his Son.” In the mythology, Saturn ate his…
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Yevgeniya Baras at the Landing
In “I Sit by the Window” at the Landing Gallery, Yevgeniya Baras has presented dozens of new paintings. Each one is a sculptural puzzle. Built up on burlap fabric, the artist embeds rope, paper pulp, wood, and other mixed material to create idiosyncratic and textural surfaces that she then layers on top of with gloopy paint. Inspired by recent time spent in Texas, Baras uses a colorful yet muted color palette across the exhibition. Bright ochres melt into muddy browns and…
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Matt Phillips at the Landing
At the Landing in West Adams, Matt Phillips’ quiet abstract paintings span the large space, each one a unique portal into form, color, and light. In each work, geometric shapes are fragmented and reassembled; the slight fissures where they don’t quite line up creates an odd sensation, as if we are able to see multiple sides of a shape from a singular viewpoint as it unfolds before us. The artist mixes silica sand with pastel-hued pigments, applying thin layers of…
Find out more »September 2021
Jonathan Ryan at the Landing
Johnathan Ryan’s new exhibition at the Landing, “Earthbound,” is aptly named. The artist mixes sands and gravel with paint to create unique textural surfaces. In previous shows, Ryan’s work took on an architectural aura, like stepped pyramidal formations viewed from an aerial perspective. But the forms here feel much more rooted in the body. than geometric and linear edges, Ryan has embraced the curve, and his paintings each contain squiggling organic forms that undulate across the canvas. A prime motif…
Find out more »February 2022
Thaw: Winter Group Show at the Landing
The title of the bustling group exhibition at the Landing, Thaw, is a cheeky riff on Frieze, the LA art fair that took place the weekend the exhibition opened in February. It’s also a nod to the chill of winter that opens up into spring. As the exhibition has remained on view well past the hubbub of the fair week, the word “thaw” evokes a kind of slow uncovering from the proverbial freeze of fair week. The show includes 18…
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Chris Fallon at the Landing
Chris Fallon’s paintings pull you in with their colorful palette and array of painted styles—the figures and objects in his bizarre scenes range from cartoonish to hyper-realistic. His figures often are painted simply with squares for noses, small black dashes for eyes, and graphic blue, purple, or pink skin, while the scenes they are set within, whether cramped interiors or foliage-filled landscapes are rendered in a more realistic style. The figures often feel like paper dolls, stuck within a more…
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