December 2019
April Street at Vielmetter Los Angeles
On view: November 16, 2019–January 11, 2020 At Vielmetter in Downtown Los Angeles, April Street has created a cohesive body of sculptural paintings that seem to embrace art history while also being irreverent towards it. Beginning with dimensional canvases made of pantyhose that bulge and pucker to create uncanny indentations across the picture, the paintings embody several painting strategies simultaneously: landscape, still-life, abstraction, and figuration. In places, Street dutifully depicts Flemish Renaissance-style landscapes that give way to melting forms and…
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Paul Sepuya at Vielmetter
Paul Sepuya’s solo exhibition at Vielmetter, “a conversation about around pictures,” opened on March 14 alongside the gallery shutdowns. It’s been extended through July 18. From Lindsay Preston Zappas, KCRW's Art Insider: "Sepuya’s work centers around portraits that are taken in his studio, and are made by pointing a camera directly at a mirror. The portraits include his own body and often another, posed in delicate yet casual interactions. The photos also include the camera that is used. In this…
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Sadie Benning at Vielmetter Los Angeles
Sadie Benning’s paintings begin in a space that many have become all too familiar with this year: their iPhone. Each painting, some of which span up to six feet in the gallery, begins as an iPhone drawing within the limited conditions of pressing a finger to screen. The abstract doodles are then transferred to large sheets of plywood where the artist cuts each piece out before applying layers of aquaresin and paints, creating a pillow-like dimensional surface around each element.…
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Hayv Kahraman at Vielmetter
Hayv Kahraman’s solo show at Vielmetter investigates the body alongside issues of otherness, migration, war, and medicine. Potently, Kahraman connects the medical notions of virus and antibody to her own immigrant experience. “I was a virus before the virus,” she writes in the press release. In the large paintings, female bodies overlap and acrobatically entwine with each other. In several, the women hold animals that have historically been used as methods of communication (snails, rabbits, and pigeons). Subtly, the overlapping…
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Yunhee Min at Vielmetter Los Angeles
At Vielmetter, Yunhee Min departs from her traditional canvas and uses glass as a luminous painting surface. The artist pours pastel colored paint on the back side of the glass, making the colors appear flat and harmonious, even as they spill and drift into each other. In several floor works, Min sandwiches two such glass paintings together, held in place in a metal base. This display method both creates a three dimensional painting, viewable in the round, and allows for…
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