September 2019
Theaster Gates at Regen Projects
On view: September 14–November 2, 2019 “How do you catalogue the everyday, especially as the phenomena of the everyday is changing?” Theaster Gates asked this question a couple of years ago, and for his new exhibition at Regen Projects in Hollywood, he’s taken a unique approach to answering. The primary material used to create this new body of work was his own wardrobe. He transformed all of his clothes (T-shirts, suit jackets, and everything in between) into a collection of…
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Catherine Opie at Regen Projects
On view: February 27–April 4, 2020 At Regen Projects in Hollywood, photographer Catherine Opie juxtaposes austere photographs of swamps in the south to political animations that play on large iPhone-like screens. The exhibit is called Rhetorical Landscape, and for the animations, Opie has been clipping images from a wide array of media sources to present the post-Trump American landscape. Political candidates appear next to gun toters, saints, hamburgers, and soccer players building to create satirical animated compositions that get at the…
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Raymond Pettibon at Regen Projects
In his current show at Regen Projects, “Pacific Ocean Pop,” Raymond Pettibon made much of the works on view since the lockdowns began in March. While Pettibon has been working in a distinctive style for over 30 years — a blend of illustrative drawings of American Pop references with poetic text lifted from books, culture, or the artist’s own mind — the urgency of the pandemic’s isolation can be felt in these particular drawings. There is a rushed energy to them,…
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Liz Larner at Regen Projects
At Regen Projects in Hollywood, a motley amalgam of plastic materials—water bottles, yogurt cups, take-out containers—floats across the gallery floor. The sculpture, titled “Meerschaum’s Drift,” was made with three years worth of plastic collected by the artist Liz Larner, who painted the work in sea-like greens and blues. The title (the first word of which translates to “seafoam” in German) evokes the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a floating plastic island composed of 1.8 billion pieces of plastic refuse in the…
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Kevin Beasley at Regen Projects
At Regen Projects in Hollywood, a layered soundtrack of whirring machinery, chirping crickets, and the occasional screech of a car fills the gallery. This layered audio track emanates from a central utility pole installed in the middle of Kevin Beasley’s solo exhibition “On Site.” LEDs and various poles sprout off of the central wooden post, which also spawns audio cables strung through the gallery and connected to speakers, each playing a different field recording that the artist took at a…
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Catherine Opie at Regen Projects
Catherine Opie is undoubtedly one of the most prolific photographers of her generation, capturing subjects ranging from the marginalized LGBTQ+ community to glamorous Hollywood idols, most notably Elizabeth Taylor. harmony is fraught, her new exhibition at Regen Projects, presents sixty never-seen photographs taken in and around Los Angeles over the course of thirty years, with an emphasis on her work in the 1990s, when Opie was emerging in her career. At first glance, there appears to be little formal connection…
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