August 2020
Senga Nengudi at Sprüth Magers
Opening at Sprüth Magers today (Aug 18) is a solo exhibition by Senga Nengudi which includes two large scale installation works. Nengudi is known for her performance and dance alongside her infamous “R.S.V.P.” sculpture series, which includes nylon stockings filled with sand and displayed in ways that evoke an abstract human form. Refreshingly, this exhibition highlights two lesser-known installations: “Bulemia” (1988/2018) and “Sandmining” (2018). For “Bulemia,” a room plastered wall-to-wall with newspaper clippings, Nengudi culled pages from her mother’s newspaper collection…
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John Baldessari at Sprüth Magers
At Sprüth Magers, the last body of work made by the late John Baldessari is on view. As a key figure in the conceptual art movement (often called the father of postmodernism), Baldessari helped to define a more humorous West Coast style of conceptual art-making that contrasted New York’s more self-serious tradition. The exhibition, titled “The Space Between,” adds text below found film stills that have been redacted with white or black paint so only certain parts of the image…
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Kaari Upson at Sprüth Magers
“I’m not trying to get to a finished point,” artist Kaari Upson said once before her untimely death in 2021. “There is no finished point. I just want to let it accumulate.” A posthumous solo exhibition of work by Upson (her first in LA in a decade) is on view at Sprüth Magers, and highlights the vigor and curiosity that Upson brought into her robust oeuvre. Several of the works begin as miniatures (either painted, whittled, or found) that are…
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A posthumous solo exhibition of work by multidisciplinary artist Kaari Upson (her first in LA in a decade) is on view at Sprüth Magers, highlighting the vigor and curiosity that Upson brought into her robust oeuvre. Several of the works begin as miniatures (either painted, whittled, or found) that are then enlarged to create idiosyncratic cast objects laced with memory and pathos. I talked to Greater LA’s Steve Chiotakis about the body of work and Upson’s interest in the banality…
Find out more »October 2022
Nancy Holt at Sprüth Magers
You’re likely familiar with Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels (1973–76), but a new show at Sprüth Magers offers a look into the full breadth of the practice of the self-proclaimed “perceptionist.” The act of looking was paramount for Holt and serves as a guiding focus across the variety of media on view. For her Locator series, Holt painted or projected shapes in the gallery that, when viewed through rudimentary viewfinders, coalesce into perfect circular shapes — the viewer’s own perspective becomes…
Find out more »September 2023
Analia Saban at Sprüth Magers and Tanya Bonakdar
Spanning two galleries across the city, Analia Saban’s exhibition Synthetic Self explores the humanness that can be found in the crosshairs of AI, technology, and climate change. Across the show, Saban’s penchant for material exploration can be found in new bodies of work that use encaustic — particularly novel are a series of photographic works made on encaustic (a mix of pigment and wax) and graphite grounds, each one etched using a laser cutter. One work, titled Prompt Drawing: Deep…
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