October 2019
Allison Miller at The Pit
On View: September 8–October 19, 2019 The Pit Gallery in Glendale occupies a set of small spaces along Ruberta Avenue. In their main gallery, Allison Miller’s paintings feel intimate and personal, but allow room for interpretation from the viewer. The artist is heavily invested in the process of painting, valuing her own personal experience while making the works: adding marks, strokes, and different techniques until the work arrives in a place she might have never predicted. For this particular body…
Find out more »January 2020
Miyoshi Barosh at The Pit, Night Gallery, Luis De Jesus
On view: The Pit Jan 12 - Feb 22 Night Gallery Jan 11 - Feb 8 Luis de Jesus Jan 11 - Feb 15 Throughout L.A., three galleries have teamed up to honor artist Miyoshi Barosh, who passed away last year. Barosh’s fiber-based work is exuberant and joyful. "LOVE!,” one proclaims, next to a giant oversized yarn tassel. At Night Gallery, a collection of pink oversized and fabric cartoon legs called “Large Legs” spew off the wall. At Luis De Jesus, “I ♥ Kitties”…
Find out more »March 2021
Erik Frydenborg at The Pit
At The Pit in Glendale, Erik Frydenborg’s solo show “Shear Stress” plays with language, form, and knowability. The title itself is a play on words, relating both to geological pressure and the sheer anxiety that we’ve all experienced of late. Frydenborg’s sculptures also slide between forms, remaining obscure while dancing between architectural models, sci-fi beings, and abstract sculptures. The wooden sculptures are painted with delicate patterns that appear extruded from a comic book’s dot matrix, adding a digital flatness to…
Find out more »September 2021
Heather Rasmussen at The Pit
At The Pit in Glendale, Heather Rasmussen’s solo exhibition “Animal, Vegetable, Mineral” muses on the human form with poetic self-portraits that feature various vegetables between ripeness and decay. Wrapped around her lithe limbs in several photos, the tromboncino zucchini mimics the human form with its bulging bottom and curving spine. In “Untitled (Pile of squashes on skin),” a detail of the artist’s own flesh is blown up and used as a seamless backdrop for the lyrical squashes, each cased in…
Find out more »