October 2020
Sean Townley at Kristina Kite Gallery
From KCRW's Art Insider, Lindsay Preston Zappas: At Kristina Kite in Mid-City, Sean Townley’s exhibition, “Bad News from the Colonies,” which is co-presented by Night Gallery, feels like a strange dream in which found objects merge with political ones to create imposing imperial talismans. In the main gallery, a set of found objects anchor the room, each one transformed into a new arrangement via sculptural intervention. The found wooden objects feel Byzantine or regal in nature — a carved coffee table, two…
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Hanna Hur at Kristina Kite
At Kristina Kite, Hanna Hur’s paintings match the gallery’s signature checkered floor. Yet, unlike the floor, Hur’s paintings, many of which include delicately laid checker-boards and grids, are sensitive portals which carry a delicate and mystical energy. Anges Martin comes to mind — work in which a firm dedication to linear space doesn’t eschew a spiritual bent. “It’s a struggle to keep our perceptual step in sync with the metronome of her enveloping canvases,” reads a statement accompanying the show.…
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