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5130 W Edgewood Pl
Los Angeles, CA 90019 United States

October 2019

Tala Madani at David Kordansky Gallery

October 12, 2019 • 8:00 am - October 19, 2019 PDT
David Kordansky Gallery, 5130 W Edgewood Pl
Los Angeles, CA 90019 United States

On View: September 7–October 19, 2019 In Tala Madani’s paintings, babies often run amok. They play with bodily fluids, break windows, and prance around under the neon lights of a disco. Shit Moms, the title of the artists new show at David Kordansky works two ways...alluding to both a bad mother, as well as actual women made of feces which appear alongside the “bad babies” in her paintings. While this may sound pretty base, across the show more robust themes…

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January 2020

Lauren Halsey at David Kordansky Gallery

January 28, 2020 - February 4, 2020
David Kordansky Gallery, 5130 W Edgewood Pl
Los Angeles, CA 90019 United States

On view: January 25–March 14, 2020 At David Kordansky Gallery, walking into Halsey’s untitled installation is a shock to the system. Stacks and stacks of painted boxes and signage have been installed to create a strangely-scaled fantasy city. As the installation tumbles and moves, the eye desperately races around to take in the visual cues. Text dominates. Each phrase is faithfully reproduced from hand-painted signs that Halsey spots around the city, rooting her visual language in the streets. Each stack of boxes…

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September 2020

Linda Stark at David Kordansky Gallery

September 19, 2020 - October 24, 2020
David Kordansky Gallery, 5130 W Edgewood Pl
Los Angeles, CA 90019 United States

From KCRW's Art Insider, Lindsay Preston Zappas: "I’ve always responded to the slow wit of Linda Stark’s textural paintings. At first glance, some of the work might read as cheeky pop, like the cartoon Minion eye in “Cyclops Fountain” (2020) that dramatically sobs rivers of silvery-blue tears. Yet, Stark’s work builds emotionally, conceptually, and literally. To create the paintings, the artist painstakingly builds up layers and layers of oil paint (some of the modestly-sized works take her years to produce),…

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January 2021

Richard Tuttle at David Kordansky

January 23, 2021 - March 6, 2021
David Kordansky Gallery, 5130 W Edgewood Pl
Los Angeles, CA 90019 United States

As a young art student, when I first came across Richard Tuttle’s work (particularly his “Wire Pieces” that consist of a thin piece of wire next to two delicate pencil markings applied directly on the wall), I remember thinking, “you can do that?” Tuttle has always been a boundary pusher, creating evocative works with minimal moves, and expanding the definition of what constitutes an art material. David Kordansky Gallery is currently exhibiting the artist for the first time and touts…

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May 2021

David Altmejd at David Kordansky Gallery

May 15, 2021 - July 2, 2021
David Kordansky Gallery, 5130 W Edgewood Pl
Los Angeles, CA 90019 United States

Heads and busts feature prominently in "The Enlightenment of the Witch," a solo show by David Altmejd at David Kordansky Gallery. Spread across four rooms, Altmejd presents a cast of sculptural characters that includes trolls, Smurfs, unicorns, and witches. The figures progress with various states of transmutation—what the press release calls "primal states of unknowing."  The angelic figure who peers inquisitively at her hands in the first room soon makes way for a Smurf-man who is split down his center…

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“The Beatitudes of Malibu” at David Kordansky Gallery

May 15, 2021 - July 2, 2021
David Kordansky Gallery, 5130 W Edgewood Pl
Los Angeles, CA 90019 United States

A packed multi-generational show at David Kordansky Gallery celebrates nature and the sublime. Artworks from the early 1900s, by Millard Sheets and Charles Burchfield, ground the show in a tradition of plein-air landscape painting, while abstractions and more contemporary riffs on the subject matter bring the concept to a more expansive view of nature. The inclusion of one of the gallery’s artists, Lauren Halsey, who creates sculptural installations using ephemera found in South Central LA, loops in the urban landscapes…

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July 2021

Raul Guerrero at David Kordansky Gallery

July 17, 2021 - August 28, 2021
David Kordansky Gallery, 5130 W Edgewood Pl
Los Angeles, CA 90019 United States

In “Fata Morgana,” Raul Guerrero’s paintings blend history, personal narrative, and surrealism to reimagine histories of the American West. Using a blend of imagery pulled from Southern California, South Dakota, and Latin America, the artist mines colonial histories through the lens of Hollywood and his own Mestizo ancestry.  In one series, the artist focuses on the settler-colonial conflict between 1832 and 1885, depicting the South Dakota tribes and locales that are often pictured in Western films, collapsing history with America’s…

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November 2021

Mary Weatherford at David Kordansky Gallery

November 13, 2021 - January 8, 2022
David Kordansky Gallery, 5130 W Edgewood Pl
Los Angeles, CA 90019 United States

For about a decade, Mary Weatherford has been integrating neon with abstract paintings, adhering neon tubes directly onto the surfaces her painted canvases. Her new show Mountains Mud Prisms Air utilizes neon in some works and totally abandons it in others, allowing its inclusion to feel intentional and compositional. In the exhibition's largest works — neither of which contain neon and which span 24 feet — paint dances across the canvas in pools, spills, and swirls of exuberant color.  The…

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July 2022

Anthony Pearson at David Kordansky Gallery

July 23, 2022 - August 27, 2022
David Kordansky Gallery, 5130 W Edgewood Pl
Los Angeles, CA 90019 United States

Walking into Anthony Pearson’s solo exhibition at David Kordansky, I delighted in the stillness and playfulness of the forms on view, which are at once minimal and spontaneous. Made of pigmented plaster cast in fabric, the pieces retain textures and fibers in their hardened surfaces, giving them a fuzzy and gentle patina. They also take on the folds and curves of their cloth molds, and Pearson creates tender relationships between various shapes in each work, nesting them together like caressing…

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September 2022

Ruby Neri at David Kordansky Gallery

September 17, 2022 - October 22, 2022
David Kordansky Gallery, 5130 W Edgewood Pl
Los Angeles, CA 90019 United States
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In Ruby Neri’s new exhibition, bluntly titled “Wall Works,” a gaggle of ecstatic women span the gallery. This body of work, featuring curvy women made in ceramic and spray painted with bold colors and black lines contouring their bodies, is significantly wall-bound. It’s an unusual format for ceramics to inhabit, bringing the pieces into the realm of painting or pictorial narrative and further away from the vessel form with which ceramics are often associated. Neri’s mostly-nude figures kick, jump, and…

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May 2023

Delfin Finley at David Kordansky

May 13, 2023 - June 16, 2023
David Kordansky Gallery, 5130 W Edgewood Pl
Los Angeles, CA 90019 United States
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In Delfin Finley’s hyper-realist paintings, the artist’s friends, family, and himself pose with thick red, white, and blue rope, each representing the story of being Black and brown in the United States. The ropes drape over each person with a bit of heft, as if to suggest that the bulky strands have been carried for generations. Some subjects appear relaxed, others fatigued, all sharing in the notion of the rope’s burden as an inevitable constant in their lives. Finley’s masterful…

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