November 2019
Annie Lapin at Shulamit Nazarian
On view: November 9–December 21, 2019 There’s something familiar about Annie Lapin’s paintings. The compositions look almost like ripped up paper—as if someone tore up images from an art history textbook, a Grateful Dead concert, and a family vacation, and threw them together into a pile. The familiarity comes into play with art historical landscapes—e.g. Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass—that the artist faithfully reproduces alongside psychedelic cloudscapes that give way to raw canvas and more abstract marks. When working, the artist…
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Naama Tsabar at Shulamit Nazarian
On view: January 10–February 29, 2020 At Shulamit Nazarian Gallery in Hollywood, large monochrome felt wall works are not as they seem. They appear to be austere, minimal color field works, but they are in fact instruments embedded with mics and attached to amplifiers, awaiting musicians or curious gallery-goers to activate them. Inversion #1 take this one further, embedding one of Tsabar’s custom instruments (culled from guitar, banjo, harp, and violin parts) directly into the gallery wall. A set of tuning pegs…
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Amir H. Fallah at Shulamit Nazarian
At Shulamit Nazarian in Hollywood, Amir H. Fallah’s new paintings cull references from various histories and cultures to create compositions that read like narrative tapestries. Figures pulled from Iranian culture (where the artist was born) sit alongside Greek architecture or scenes of Americana. Out-of-date maps detail geographies that have long been debunked. Beautifully rendered patterns and florals are punctuated by cartoony woodland creatures that the artist appropriates from his son’s children’s books. Fallah commandeers the style of each reference he renders —…
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Cammie Staros at Shulamit Nazarian
After endless months of home-bound isolation, I have been experiencing a bit of over-stimulation when I leave the house. Graciously, Cammie Staros’ current exhibition at Shulamit Nazarian slowly brings viewers into a soothing and mystical realm where fish swim with waving vessels and colored neons slowly shift our perception of color over time. The artist riffs off of museum-displays with a series of dramatically spotlit aquariums set into pedestals or walls. A ceramic sculpture resides submerged into each watery landscape,…
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Fay Ray at Shulamit Nazarian
At Shulamit Nazarian in Hollywood, Fay Ray’s large aluminum mobiles hang throughout the gallery. Some suspend from the ceiling, their metal tendrils kissing the ground, while others are bound to the wall, hanging on oversized metal hooks. The works feel modernist (think Alexander Calder) yet approachable—various stones and pieces of driftwood mix into these creations, mitigating their monolithic nature. To soften and add dimension to her metal pieces, Ray applies various salts and chemicals to their surfaces and exposes them…
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Miguel Arzabe at Shulamit Nazarian
Miguel Arzabe’s paper weavings blend exhibition ephemera, posters, show cards, and publications with traditional Bolivian weaving techniques to create intricate tableaus that explore traditional craft alongside the Western art canon. Arzabe’s techniques create an abstraction of the didactic source material, which gets pixelated into a barrage of form, color, and pattern. Still, looking across Arzabe’s works at Shulamit Nazarian, snippets of other artist’s work can be picked up. Images of works by the more canonized Frank Stella make an appearance…
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Coady Brown at Shulamit Nazarian
In “Rabid Heart,” the artist’s second solo show with the gallery, Coady Brown brings an air of charged mystery to her paintings. Figures, both feminine and androgynous, are rendered in shadowy settings lit with dynamic, cinematic spotlights. Whether the figures are engaged in dance-floor embraces or sharing intimate moments atop a kitchen counter, Brown imbues these scenes with a sense of privacy, too — as if the subjects are controlling what we see, and ultimately, how they’re perceived. Upon closer…
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Cammie Staros at Shulamit Nazarian
At Shulamit Nazarian, Cammie Staros’ wobbly ceramic amphora jars aren’t the only thing that disorients. The gallery has been structured like a maze — walls built to guide the viewer through an orchestrated pathway on which one discovers Staros’ work scattered throughout. The series of amphora sculptures, which look as if they have been warped or melted, contain painted imagery, each rooted in patterns and figures found on traditional Greek vessels (Minotaur, Poseidon, and Athena can all be spotted). Yet,…
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Aryana Minai at Shulamit Nazarian
For her first solo show at Shulamit Nazarian, Aryana Minai presents a new body of paper pulp work that straddles the line between painting and sculpture. Including a range of sizes, several of the pieces in Soft Waters Heard Here present a color palette that is arguably more vivid than we have previously seen from the artist. Her work, which appears at once fragile and thin, yet strong and bulky, is meant to evoke vernacular architectural forms and decorative patterns,…
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