January 2020
Laura Owens at Matthew Marks
On view: October 26, 2019–January 25, 2020 At Matthew Marks in West Hollywood, there’s no art on the walls. Instead, wooden tables throughout the gallery display artist-made books. One table mysteriously hums with electricity, and when a gallerist knocks on the surface, a set of drawers promptly pops open, each one holding a perfectly fit hand-made book. Another table is outfitted with a magnetized surface, causing several books on its surface to appear as if they are floating about. Each…
Find out more »October 2021
Julia Phillips at Matthew Marks
The sculptures on view in Julia Phillip’s solo show Between Love and Loss involve ceramic casts of various body parts — think a globby form holding the imprint of a squeezed hand, or a smooth cast of a clavicle glazed in fleshy reds and tans. The latter appears in Mediator II (2021), a sculpture in which a metal cast of a microphone sits between two clavicle casts affixed to the horizontal ends of a metal cross. The piece evokes the…
Find out more »April 2023
Ron Nagle at Matthew Marks
Ron Nagle infuses his small-scale sculptures and drawings on paper with a curious allure that’s at once otherworldly (in its unexpected shapes and colors) and familiar (with nods to Brutalist architecture and the Japanese aesthetic philosophy of shibui). Each of the artist’s 18 sculptures are under seven inches in size, but their cheeky titles and charming presence make them feel larger than life. Stucco-like textures evoke the exteriors of buildings, while offbeat shapes and intimate sizes feel more aligned with…
Find out more »