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1819 3rd Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90019 United States

July 2021

“Jupiter Finger” at Real Pain

July 3, 2021 - August 7, 2021
Real Pain, 1819 3rd Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90019 United States

Just in time for the rising heat of summer, or “fire season,” as it’s now referred to in the Southland, the group show at Real Pain muses on ecological shifts in our climate and bodies as the world warms and industrializes.  “If all the iron in our body were collected, we’d get a small cog, just large enough to hold together a wristwatch,” the press release terrifyingly states. Throughout the show, manmade and organic materials mix and molt together —…

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October 2021

Ted Gahl at Real Pain

October 23, 2021 - December 4, 2021
Real Pain, 1819 3rd Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90019 United States

Ted Gahl’s new group of paintings, Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea, at Real Pain feel dreamily nostalgic. Some works have a tender paint application akin to Monet, or a figurative style that recalls the decorated women depicted in Art Nouveau, yet others feel nostalgic in more intimate ways, as if Gahl were retriggering some long-forgotten memory. Many of the paintings are divided into thirds or fourths, with various scenes depicted within the segments — a hazy floral…

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