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Daniel Gibson
Chasing the Black Bird 16 Nov - 21 Dec 2024 Nazarian / Curcio is pleased to present Chasing the Black Bird, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Daniel Gibson. This will be the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Daniel Gibson has long explored the natural world in his paintings as a means to address notions of hardship,... Read more -
Vincent Pocsik
Could be Gardens 16 Nov - 21 Dec 2024 Nazarian / Curcio is pleased to announce Could be Gardens, an exhibition of new sculpture by Los Angeles-based artist Vincent Pocsik. This is the artist’s debut exhibition with the gallery. Could be Gardens features eight new wall and floor-based sculptures crafted in oak and walnut, including a unique sculpture that... Read more
Past
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Naama Tsabar
Friction 21 Sep - 2 Nov 2024 Nazarian / Curcio is pleased to present Friction, an exhibition by New York-based artist Naama Tsabar. This will be her third solo exhibition at the gallery, on view from September 21 through November 2. Building upon two major series explored in her current exhibition titled Estuaries, on view at the... Read more -
Annie Lapin
Unwilded 21 Sep - 2 Nov 2024 Nazarian / Curcio is pleased to present Unwilded, a series of eight intimately-scaled paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Annie Lapin. This will be her third solo exhibition at the gallery, on view from September 21 through November 2. Lapin is known for her genre-bending paintings that draw from art history... Read more -
Reuven Israel
One Eye Shut 27 Jul - 31 Aug 2024 Nazarian / Curcio is pleased to present One Eye Shut, a solo exhibition of new wall and free-standing sculptures by New York-based artist Reuven Israel. This will be his fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. Israel is known for his ongoing exploration of the physical and conceptual boundaries of sculpture... Read more -
Material Matters
Jamal Cyrus, Vaughn Davis Jr., Aryana Minai, Fay Ray, and Tori Wrånes 27 Jul - 31 Aug 2024 Nazarian / Curcio is pleased to announce Material Matters, a group exhibition featuring works by Jamal Cyrus, Vaughn Davis Jr., Aryana Minai, Fay Ray, and Tori Wrånes. These artists are united through their use of abstraction and materiality as a means to explore personal narrative, address pertinent political histories, and... Read more -
Charles Snowden
Stray Animals 8 Jun - 13 Jul 2024 Nazarian / Curcio is pleased to announce Stray Animals, a show of new free-standing and wall-based ceramic sculptures by Los Angeles and Barcelona-based Charles Snowden. This will be the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. The menagerie of animals, insects, goblins, and gnomes that appear in Snowden’s work are... Read more -
Bridget Mullen
Trojan Horses 8 Jun - 13 Jul 2024 Nazarian / Curcio is pleased to present Trojan Horses, a group of seven new paintings by New York-based Bridget Mullen. This will be the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery and the first major body of work in which she has used oil, rather than Flashe or acrylic, as... Read more -
Daniel Gordon
Orange Sunrise with Flowers, Fruit, and Vessels 20 Apr - 25 May 2024 OPENING RECEPTION SATURDAY, Apr 20, 6-8PM Nazarian / Curcio is pleased to announce Orange Sunrise With Flowers, Fruit, and Vessels, an exhibition of new photographs and sculptures by Brooklyn-based artist Daniel Gordon. This will be the artist’s debut exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition’s title serves as a reference to... Read more -
Summer Wheat
Fertile Ground 24 Feb - 6 Apr 2024 Nazarian / Curcio is pleased to announce Fertile Ground, by Brooklyn-based artist Summer Wheat. This will be the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Set in a mythical and lush gardenscape, the paintings and sculptures in this exhibition continue the artist’s longstanding interest in depictions of labor and leisure,... Read more -
Aryana Minai
Soft Waters Heard Here 6 Jan - 10 Feb 2024 Opening Reception: Saturday, January 6, 6-8pm Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to announce Soft Waters Heard Here, Los Angeles-based, Iranian artist Aryana Minai’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Presenting a new group of paper pulp paintings, Minai continues her investigation into the sensory dimensions of memory, reflecting on the details... Read more -
Tanya Aguiñiga
Telar Terrenal / Earthly Loom 6 Jan - 10 Feb 2024 OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, JANUARY 6, 6-8PM Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Telar Terrenal / Earthly Loom, a solo exhibition of new textiles by Los Angeles-based artist Tanya Aguiñiga and her first showing with the gallery. Aguiñiga’s practice is heavily influenced by the traditional crafts of Mexico and pre-Columbian Latin... Read more -
Anastasia Komar
von Neumann's Dream 6 Jan - 10 Feb 2024 Opening Reception: Saturday, January 6, 6-8pm Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present von Neumann’s Dream, an exhibition of new works by New York-based artist Anastasia Komar. This marks Komar’s first solo presentation in Los Angeles, and her first with the gallery. The exhibition’s title, von Neumann’s Dream, is inspired by... Read more -
Ken Gun Min
Sweet Discipline from Koreatown 11 Nov - 20 Dec 2023 Opening Reception Saturday, Nov 11 6-8pm Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Sweet Discipline from Koreatown, an exhibition of new works byKen Gun Min. In the artist’s newest paintings, lush, floral landscapes and sensitively rendered, imaginative portraits are adorned with beads and embroidery. Born in Seoul, South Korea, Min has... Read more -
Cammie Staros
Monster in the Maze 16 Sep - 28 Oct 2023 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Monster in the Maze, an installation of new sculptures by Cammie Staros. The artist explores the tropes of classical art history and mythology by appropriating and transforming the visual language of Greco-Roman architecture and artifacts. For her third solo exhibition with the gallery, Staros... Read more -
Dickon Drury
An Egg In Your Shoe 16 Sep - 28 Oct 2023 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to announce the opening of An Egg in Your Shoe, the gallery’s first solo exhibition by UK-based painter Dickon Drury. The artist’s thematically rich, meticulously detailed paintings mine diverse corners of art history and the genre of still-life painting to delve into themes of self-sufficiency, preservation,... Read more -
Wendell Gladstone
Spooky Action 15 Jul - 19 Aug 2023 Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles is pleased to announce Spooky Action, an exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Wendell Gladstone. This marks the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Wendell Gladstone’s figurative compositions examine the indescribable psychic impact of human relationships. Drawing from elements of Jungian psychology and... Read more -
Friends and Lovers
15 Jul - 19 Aug 2023 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Friends and Lovers, an exhibition that brings together over twenty artists exploring ideas of kinship. Featuring painting, drawing, photography, and sculpture, the exhibition spans eight decades, uniting a cross-disciplinary and intergenerational group of artists. FEATURing Alina Perez Alex Bradley Cohen Anthony Iacono Charles Snowden... Read more -
Maria A. Guzmán Capron
Pura Mentira 27 May - 1 Jul 2023 Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new quilted, stitched, and painted textile wall works, alongside custom functional sculptures, by Oakland-based artist Maria A. Guzmán Capron. For her second solo exhibition with the gallery, Capron draws from the beyond-believable narratives of the telenovela, presenting new... Read more -
Mikey Yates
Overtime 27 May - 1 Jul 2023 Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles is pleased to announce Overtime , an exhibition of new paintings by Kansas City, Missouri-based artist Mikey Yates. This marks the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and his first in Los Angeles. Sourcing from memory and family photographs, Mikey Yates’ paintings illustrate the tender... Read more -
Coady Brown
Rabid Heart 8 Apr - 13 May 2023 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to announce Rabid Heart, an exhibition by Philadelphia-based artist Coady Brown. This exhibition marks the artist’s second solo show with the gallery, on view from April 8 through May 13, 2023. Coady Brown’s paintings thoughtfully orchestrate psychologically charged environments that pulse with a sense of cinematic... Read more -
Fay Ray and Daniel Gibson
Seeds 8 Apr - 13 May 2023 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to announce Seeds, a two-person exhibition featuring the works of Los Angeles artists Fay Ray and Daniel Gibson, on view from April 8 through May 13. Joining Ray’s suspended sculptures with Gibson’s mixed-media works on paper, Seeds unites two gallery artists for their congruous approaches to... Read more -
Amir H. Fallah
A War on Wars 15 Feb - 25 Mar 2023 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present A War on Wars, an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Los Angeles-based artist Amir H. Fallah. This will be the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from February 15 through March 25, 2023. The exhibition title , A War... Read more -
Naama Tsabar
Breaks and Suspensions 15 Feb - 25 Mar 2023 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to announce Breaks and Suspensions, an exhibition by Israeli-born, New York- based artist Naama Tsabar. This exhibition marks the artist’s second solo show with the gallery, on view from February 15 through March 25, 2023. The exhibition title, Breaks and Suspensions, references colloquial terms for two... Read more -
Bridget Mullen
Sensory Homunculus 7 Jan - 10 Feb 2023 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Sensory Homunculus, an exhibition of new paintings by New York-based artist Bridget Mullen. This will be the artist's second solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from January 7 through February 10, 2023. Known for paintings that combine decisive mark-making with experimentation, Mullen’s intuitive... Read more -
The future perfect will have arrived, curated by Bridget Mullen
Lucas Blalock, Lindsay Burke, Sophia Flood, Autumn Knight, Dana Lok, Kenny Rivero 7 Jan - 10 Feb 2023 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present The future perfect will have arrived, a group exhibition curated by New York-based artist Bridget Mullen. Featuring works by Lucas Blalock, Lindsay Burke, Sophia Flood, Autumn Knight, Dana Lok, and Kenny Rivero, the exhibition will run concurrently with Mullen's solo exhibition Sensory Homunculus. For... Read more -
Annie Lapin
Contours of the Vast 12 Nov - 17 Dec 2022 Through December 17 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Contours of the Vast, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Annie Lapin. This will be the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from November 12 through December 17. This presentation will span both exhibition... Read more -
Trenton Doyle Hancock
Good Grief, Bad Grief 17 Sep - 29 Oct 2022 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Good Grief, Bad Grief, a solo exhibition by the Houston-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock. This will be the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from September 17 through October 29. Exploring a mythology that spans over twenty-five years, Hancock has created... Read more -
Charles Snowden
Senescent Stone 17 Sep - 29 Oct 2022 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Senescent Stone, a new series of free-standing and wall-based ceramics by Los Angeles-based artist Charles Snowden. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Using symbolic imagery from antiquity and everyday life, Snowden’s ceramic sculptures reflect on the cycles of life... Read more -
10 Years
9 Jul - 27 Aug 2022 Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles is pleased to present 10 YEARS, a special group exhibition celebrating this milestone anniversary for the gallery. To mark the anniversary, founder Shula Nazarian and co-owner Seth Curcio have selected works by more than twenty artists from the gallery’s program. The exhibition will be on view... Read more -
Midnight Murmurs
Janaye Brown, Nicole Coson, Dickon Drury, Masako Miki, Emma Safir, Mikey Yates 21 May - 25 Jun 2022 Opening Saturday, May 21, 5–8pm Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Midnight Murmurs, a group exhibition featuring Janaye Brown, Nicole Coson, Dickon Drury, Masako Miki, Emma Safir, and Mikey Yates. The artists in Midnight Murmurs ruminate on the quiet and intimate moments, secrets, and untold stories that occur behind the... Read more -
Ken Gun Min
Silverlake Dog Park 21 May - 25 Jun 2022 Opening Saturday, May 21, 5–8pm Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles is pleased to present Silverlake Dog Park, a solo exhibition by Korean-born, Los Angeles-based artist Ken Gun Min. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. Silverlake Dog Park draws equally from real and imagined locations in Los Angeles.... Read more -
Wendy White
Low Relief 26 Mar - 7 May 2022 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Low Relief, New York-based Wendy White’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. The artist will present two new bodies of work: the After Calder series and a group of new epoxy resin floor sculptures. Also on view will be a large-scale mobile situated at... Read more -
Manal Kara
Conjectures 26 Mar - 7 May 2022 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Conjectures, a solo exhibition by Moroccan-American, Gary, Indiana-based artist Manal Kara. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. As a self-taught interdisciplinary artist living outside of a city center, Kara is immersed in the forests that surround their studio. Chronicling a... Read more -
Summer Wheat
Fine Line – Online Exhibition 25 Feb - 25 Mar 2022 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Fine Line, an online solo presentation featuring four new paintings by New York-based artist Summer Wheat. Fine Line continues the artist’s interest in depicting the quotidian as monumental. These works celebrate domestic labor and bring attention to that which is often overlooked, both historically... Read more -
Tori Wrånes
Mussel Tears 29 Jan - 12 Mar 2022 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Mussel Tears, a solo exhibition featuring Oslo-based Norwegian artist Tori Wrånes. The artist has been featured in numerous group shows at the gallery since 2016, however this is Wrånes’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. As a synesthete, a person with a condition of... Read more -
Daniel Gibson
Valley of the Moon 13 Nov 2021 - 8 Jan 2022 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Valley of the Moon, a solo exhibition of paintings by Los Angeles-based Daniel Gibson. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. Gibson's paintings explore a lexicon of symbols that relate to his familial past and his identity as a Mexican-American.... Read more -
Maria A. Guzmán Capron
Celaje 13 Nov 2021 - 8 Jan 2022 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Celaje, a solo exhibition of new textile sculptures by Oakland-based artist Maria A. Guzmán Capron. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Through a combination of hand-sewn textiles and paints, Capron joins together an array of patterns and striking colors... Read more -
Amir H. Fallah
Reflections and Returns – Online Exhibition 12 Oct - 12 Nov 2021 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Reflections and Returns, a solo presentation of early paintings from 2008–2011 by Los Angeles-based artist Amir H. Fallah. These works, which have never before been exhibited in the United States, illuminate the development of his acclaimed Veiled Portrait series, a body of work that... Read more -
Reuven Israel
W.A.L.L. (Wooden Arrangeable Linear Lamellations) 18 Sep - 30 Oct 2021 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present W.A.L.L. (Wooden Arrangeable Linear Lamellations), a solo exhibition of new sculptures by Israeli-born, Brooklyn-based artist Reuven Israel. This will be the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. W.A.L.L. will be presented concurrently with a solo museum exhibition by the artist at the Center... Read more -
Coady Brown
Only in the Darkness Can You See the Stars 18 Sep - 30 Oct 2021 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Only in the Darkness Can You See the Stars , a solo exhibition of new paintings by Philadelphia-based Coady Brown. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Brown’s paintings examine how groups, couples, and solitary figures navigate self-presentation in private... Read more -
Miguel Arzabe
Tejido Cultural 18 Sep - 30 Oct 2021 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Tejido Cultural, a solo exhibition of weavings by Oakland-based artist Miguel Arzabe. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Arzabe sources paper ephemera and promotional materials from art exhibitions in specific locales, such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York,... Read more -
Bridget Mullen
Birthday 10 Jul - 28 Aug 2021 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Birthday, a new series of paintings by New York-based artist Bridget Mullen. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The paintings in Birthday utilize two distinct parameters to guide the creation of 32 iterative works: a vertical orientation at an... Read more -
Intersecting Selves
Elliott Jerome Brown Jr., Maria A. Guzmán Capron, Amir H. Fallah, Wendell Gladstone, Julie Henson, Ellen Lesperance, Ebony G. Patterson, and Tori Wrånes 10 Jul - 28 Aug 2021 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Intersecting Selves, a group exhibition featuring Elliott Jerome Brown Jr., Maria A. Guzmán Capron, Amir H. Fallah, Wendell Gladstone, Julie Henson, Ellen Lesperance, Ebony G. Patterson, and Tori Wrånes. Each of the artists in Intersecting Selves considers the body as a barrier between the... Read more -
Cammie Staros
Horizon Lines – Online Exhibition 10 Jun - 10 Jul 2021 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Horizon Lines, a series of new neon sculptures by Cammie Staros. Continuing research from her 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship, Staros focuses on exploring classical art historical tropes by upending the visual language of Greco-Roman architecture and artifacts. In this series, Staros explores stone as a... Read more -
Fay Ray
Lacuna 15 May - 26 Jun 2021 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Lacuna, a series of new sculptures by Los Angeles-based Fay Ray. This will be the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Lacuna continues the artist’s exploration of sculpture that exists between the terrestrial and the intangible. Through a vocabulary of symbols, the artist... Read more -
Star Montana
By the rivers, I stood and stared into the Sun 15 May - 26 Jun 2021 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present By the rivers, I stood and stared into the Sun, a solo exhibition by Star Montana. Born and raised in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles, Montana’s photographic practice reflects her family history, as well as the varied physical and cultural landscape... Read more -
Summer Wheat
Anything Can Happen 20 Mar - 1 May 2021 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Anything Can Happen, a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Summer Wheat. This will be the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.
The paintings in Anything Can Happen continue the artist’s exploration of gendered archetypes found in history, relationships to labor, and the monumentalizing of the quotidian. Expanding upon these interests, this body of work considers how the destabilization of our present moment can inspire a more wondrous experience of the everyday. Read more -
High Contrast
Diana Al-Hadid, Sarah Peters and Sue Williams. Curated by Summer Wheat. 20 Mar - 1 May 2021 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present High Contrast, a group exhibition curated by New York-based artist Summer Wheat. Presented in the gallery's second exhibition space, High Contrast features works by Diana Al-Hadid, Sarah Peters and Sue Williams. It will be on view concurrently with Wheat's solo exhibition, Anything Can Happen,... Read more -
Michael Stamm
“so super sorry sir!” 16 Jan - 6 Mar 2021 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present ”so super sorry sir!”, a series of new paintings by New York-based artist Michael Stamm. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.
The paintings in “so super sorry sir!” revel in their idiosyncratic, contradictory attitude toward morality, sexuality, mental health, and the contemporary political landscape. An unlikely cast of characters––ranging from the Devil to an anthropomorphic hand––play at virtuosity, aspire towards goodness, and attempt to experience a coherent feeling. At once clinging to life and hurtling toward annihilation, the artist questions what self-actualization looks like in the face of an overly righteous and emotionally precarious world. Read more -
Cammie Staros
What Will Have Being 16 Jan - 6 Mar 2021 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present What Will Have Being, a series of new sculptures by Los Angeles-based artist Cammie Staros. This will be the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.
The artworks in What Will Have Being draw the relics of fallen empires into discourse with contemporary political and environmental instabilities, considering the legacy of our species on this planet. Creating a throughline between ancient past and possible future, the works suggest a museological exhibition of antiquities that has been forgotten and reclaimed by nature. Through twists on Greco-Roman works in ceramic and stone, and gestures that upend traditional display tactics – such as melting light fixtures, architectural interventions, and submerged vessels – the artist asks us to consider how we understand both the objects and ourselves along an unfixed or perhaps unmoored timeline. Read more -
Wendell Gladstone
Safe Haven 14 Nov - 19 Dec 2020 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Safe Haven, a series of new paintings by Los Angeles- based Wendell Gladstone. This will be the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.
The new paintings in Safe Haven continue the artist’s interest in surreal and psychologically charged spaces, often populated with a cast of humans, animals, and hybrid forms. Expanding upon the idea of a ‘haven’, or a place of refuge, this exhibition conjures the varying degrees in which tenderness and precariousness overlap. Binaries blur between intermingled bodies— what is understood as interior and exterior, bound and liberated, giving and receiving, fluidly shift within a single work. This series examines an unfolding relationship between human connection, power, and safety through notions of gazing and physical contact.
Giving license to his subconscious to guide the narratives and structure, the paintings allow for Jungian archetypes and parables of the past to mix with the artist’s personal experience and the zeitgeists of today—culminating in a body of work which shifts mythologically into the present and champions the potential for lucidity to provide a sense of clarity in unsettling times. Read more -
Amir H. Fallah
Remember My Child... 12 Sep - 31 Oct 2020 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present a series of new large-scale paintings by Amir H. Fallah. Titled, Remember My Child..., this will be the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Read more -
I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within
Daniel Gibson, Todd Gray, Amanda Ross-Ho, and Francis Upritchard. Curated by Amir H. Fallah 12 Sep - 31 Oct 2020 Gallery hours by appointment: Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm *Please note, the gallery will be open Saturday and Sunday, September 12 & 13 to mark the opening of this exhibition. Visitation is by appointment, scheduled in 30 minute increments for up to 4 people in the same... Read more -
Hold on Tight
11 Jul - 22 Aug 2020 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Hold on Tight, an exhibition of works by Annie Lapin, Mark McKnight, Naudline Pierre, Fay Ray, Michael Stamm, Cammie Staros, Summer Wheat and Wendy White. Our current moment is filled with uncertainty. Much of our daily life is now encompassed by a sense of... Read more -
Turn back, Turn Back!
14 Mar - 27 Jun 2020 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Turn Back, Turn Back! an exhibition of works by Diana Yesenia Alvarado, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Rainen Knecht, Lila de Magalhaes, Elham Rokni, Summer Wheat and Tori Wrånes. These artists explore narrative structures that resonate with a deep history of storytelling found in ancient myths, fables, and folktales. Read more -
Naama Tsabar
Inversions 10 Jan - 29 Feb 2020 Naama Tsabar has become known for her ambitious installations, performances, and sculptures that parse the boundaries of spaces that surround us—both physical and metaphorical—for which we normally have no access. Cutting into walls and treating hidden interiors as sculptural and musical spaces, Tsabar considers the venues themselves as structures of power, enabling a display of fantasy, sexuality, and bravado. Tsabar upends the implicit gender roles and coded behavior of music and its related subcultures. Read more -
Annie Lapin
Strange Little Beast 9 Nov - 21 Dec 2019 Annie Lapin’s paintings call attention to the human desire for meaning making–our effort to create order out of chaos. In Strange Little Beast, Lapin’s paintings use her interest in art history, perception, and the materiality of painting itself to examine the role of digital technology and narrative building in our contemporary moment. Read more -
The Procession
Shulamit Nazarian at Vacation, NY 11 - 27 Oct 2019 Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles is pleased to present The Procession, a group exhibition on view at the gallery time-share VACATION in New York’s Lower East Side. This will be Shulamit Nazarian’s first pop-up presentation in New York City. The exhibition features new and recent works by gallery artists Trenton Doyle... Read more -
Naudline Pierre
For I Am With You Until the End of Time 7 Sep - 26 Oct 2019 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present For I Am With You Until the End of Time, an exhibition of works that range in scale from the intimate to the monumental by Brooklyn-based Naudline Pierre. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.
Naudline Pierre’s paintings and works on paper serve as portals into a mysterious world. Informed by her religious upbringing, Pierre’s works conflate the aesthetics of centuries-old traditions found in Western art history with the artist’s personal narrative. Read more -
Roommates
Chris Bogia, Woody De Othello, Rachel Granofsky, and Michael Stamm 20 Jul - 31 Aug 2019 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Roommates, an exhibition of works by Chris Bogia, Woody De Othello, Rachel Granofsky, and Michael Stamm. These artists investigate the domestic space as a psychological, and at times psychedelic realm. Drawing from a variety of sources and forms that evoke a sense of home, these artists embed objects and environments with the peculiarities of living beings, illustrating our relationship to possessions that share our most intimate spaces. Like the dancing furniture in Disney’s Fantasia, subject and object wiggle back and forth with a magical realism. The home dweller melts into the sofa, while objects begin to take on a life of their own – all achieved through means similarly found in cartoon animation: flatness, movement, and artifice. Read more -
The Project Room
Amir H. Fallah, Nasim Hantehzadeh, Jennie Jieun Lee, and Fay Ray 1 Jun - 13 Jul 2019 Shulamit Nazarian is proud to present The Project Room, an exhibition featuring new works by Los Angeles artists Amir H. Fallah, Nasim Hantehzadeh, Jennie Jieun Lee, and Fay Ray.
Reconsidering the gallery’s interior architecture, The Project Room subdivides the exhibition space into four individual solo presentations, each centered on a new large-scale drawing, painting, or sculpture. Project rooms have long played a pivotal role in allowing artists to experiment with new modes of artistic production and methods of display. With this in mind, the exhibition brings together multiple, disparate visions under one roof, illustrating the various ways in which this context allows for conceptual liberties and new insights into an artist’s practice. Read more -
Wendy White
Racetrack Playa 13 Apr - 25 May 2019 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to announce representation of New York-based artist Wendy White. The artist’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Racetrack Playa, will feature new paintings, sculptures, pigment prints, and a site-specific installation.
The exhibition takes its name from a three-mile dry lakebed in Death Valley National Park where sliding rocks or “sailing stones” have inscribed mysterious linear imprints on the landscape. Using this scarred landscape as a metaphor for our current times, the works in Racetrack Playa explore power, entitlement, and imperialism via the aesthetics and evolution of American car culture. Read more -
Close to Home
Erica Deeman, Mark McKnight, Eva O'Leary, and Larry Sultan 2 Mar - 6 Apr 2019 Shulamit Nazarian is proud to present, Close to Home, a group exhibition of four photographers that mine their personal experiences–past and present–to express moments of intimacy within larger social and political structures. Engaging with the deep and complicated history of photographic portraiture, each artist renders his or her subjects in part as extensions of themselves, coded with personal and cultural references. Read more -
Trenton Doyle Hancock
An Ingénue’s Hues and How to Use Cutty Black Shoes 5 Jan - 17 Feb 2019 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present An Ingénue’s Hues and How to Use Cutty Black Shoes, Houston-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. The new drawings, paintings, and sculptures in this show expand upon the artist’s saga of The Moundverse, a constructed world that has propelled his artistic practice for the past twenty-five years. Read more -
Reuven Israel
In Four Acts 3 Nov - 20 Dec 2018 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present In Four Acts, a solo exhibition of new sculptures by Israeli-born, Brooklyn-based artist Reuven Israel. This will be the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.
In Four Acts features a series of new works that occupy the floor and walls of the gallery. Each sculpture originates in a flat, compact state, but is modular and has the potential to expand to form multiple variations of itself. Read more -
Summer Wheat
Catch and Release 8 Sep - 27 Oct 2018 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Catch and Release, a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Summer Wheat. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles.
Wheat’s paintings present a tradition in which women were the original hunters, technologists, and artists, and Catch and Release continues her exploration of this archetype and its many variations. The series depicts women catching and releasing fish as a symbol of fertility, creation, and transformation. In connecting to water and its creatures, the subjects demonstrate an inherent link to natural elements and to the intricate depths of the unconscious. Read more -
From Pangs to Pangolins
2 Jun - 14 Jul 2018 "The pangolin is an actual creature that seems to be the stuff of childhood myth. It bears a resemblance to an armadillo and a lizard, but is neither. It also seems to be prehistoric—a living fossil. I swear I've seen this creature attached to essays on dinosaurs. Maybe it's a baby dragon-thing. Pangolins also would fit right in with descriptions of cryptids and other mythological beasts. The artists in this show are pangolins.”
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Fay Ray
I AM THE HOUSE 7 Apr - 26 May 2018 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present I AM THE HOUSE, a series of new photographs and sculptures by Los Angeles-based Fay Ray. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.
I AM THE HOUSE continues Ray’s interest in the fetishization of objects and the construction of female identity through high-contrast, monochromatic photomontages and suspended metallic sculptures. Throughout this series, she situates the body as a vessel, one that carries life, physical memories, and emotional fortitude. Read more -
By The Lights Of Their Eyes
3 - 31 Mar 2018 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present By the Lights of Their Eyes, an exhibition featuring six artists whose works employ tropes from fantasy, mysticism, science fiction, and horror. Informed by diverse sources from religious stories to contemporary cinema, the artists in the exhibition draw from personal experience to create fictional narratives that examine social and political issues. Read more -
Wendell Gladstone
Fever Pitch 6 Jan - 17 Feb 2018 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Fever Pitch, a series of new paintings by Los Angeles-based Wendell Gladstone. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.
Over the past decade, Gladstone has produced figurative paintings that evoke dream-like spaces, free from the logic that typically governs traditional representation. He uses allegory and metaphor to examine a wide swath of cultural references—from art history to contemporary politics and personal experience—and allows his subconscious to guide the narratives. Read more -
Cammie Staros
les vases communicants 11 Nov - 27 Dec 2017 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Los Angeles-based artist Cammie Staros’ first exhibition with the gallery, les vases communicants. The exhibition’s title references surrealist André Breton’s 1932 essay by the same name, which in turn borrows it from the scientific principle of “communicating vessels.” Looking specifically to the shapely vessels of Classical Greece, the artist’s hand-built objects marry ancient ceramic techniques with modern industrial materials such as neon and machined metals. The resulting sculptures are rooted in history, yet disarmingly present. Read more -
Amir H. Fallah
A Stranger In Your Home 23 Sep - 4 Nov 2017 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present A Stranger In Your Home, a series of new works by Amir H. Fallah. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.
Working with the diverse immigrant community in his home city of Los Angeles, the artist creates portraits that investigate feelings of being an outsider in the very place you call home. In these paintings, Fallah deftly integrates both personal and collective narratives. Against the backdrop of a growing national sentiment that immigrants do not belong in this country, he mines the precarity of belonging in the United States. Read more -
Not/Normal
12 Aug - 9 Sep 2017 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Not/Normal, a group exhibition curated in collaboration with Ceci Moss, including works by David Berezin, Janaye Brown, Kevin Jerome Everson, Steffani Jemison, Owen Kydd, and Nicolas Provost. Read more -
Doublespeak: Yale 2017 MFA Graduates
8 Jul - 5 Aug 2017 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Doublespeak, a selection of over fifty new works by Yale University’s 2017 MFA Photography graduates. The exhibition features work by Farah Al Qasimi, Bek Andersen, Lance Brewer, Harry Griffin, Matthew Leifheit, Walker Olesen, Res, Anna Shimshak, Danna Singer, and Chau Tran, who explore moments between fact and fiction, evidence and artifice, through the medium of photography. Read more -
Broken Language
25 May - 1 Jul 2017 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Broken Language, an exhibition featuring four artists whose works operate within coded systems of visual communication. These artists utilize fractured letterforms, emojis, trademarks, commercial illustrations, and icons in a process that dismisses linear narrative in favor of non-hierarchical structures of language. Collectively, the work builds on millennia of visual storytelling—from hieroglyphs to narrative paintings to corporate logos— transcending cultural boundaries and linguistic constraints. Read more -
Escape Attempts
17 Feb - 8 Apr 2017 Inaugurating its new Hollywood location, Shulamit Nazarian presents Escape Attempts, a group exhibition of seven international artists working in dialogue with the legacy of minimal art. Carmen Argote, Susan Hefuna, Cindy Hinant, Alex McQuilkin, Sarah Meyohas, Virginia Overton, and Naama Tsabar present work that both acknowledges and subverts the practice of their predominately male forebears including Sol Lewitt, Donald Judd, and Larry Bell.
The artists in Escape Attempts employ the formal elements associated with Minimalism. Reduced color palettes and the repetition of simple geometric forms, as well as industrial materials that have a symbiotic relationship to architecture, create new mash-ups that mix formal rigor with sensuality, subjectivity, personal narrative, and contemporary sexual politics. Read more -
Reuven Israel
As Above, So Below 14 Sep - 11 Nov 2016 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present As Above, So Below, a solo exhibition of new sculptures by Brooklyn-based artist Reuven Israel, marking the artist’s first solo presentation in Los Angeles.
In this new body of work, Israel continues his sculptural practice that directly engages with form and color, drawing from myriad cultural references that range from religious monuments to science fiction. These sources amalgamate into autonomous abstract sculptures that simultaneously feel familiar––due to the employment of a rich range of signifiers––yet unhinged to any particular context. Read more -
Phantom Limb
4 Aug - 9 Sep 2016 Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Phantom Limb, an exhibition featuring five artists whose works operate between figuration and abstraction. The term phantom limb describes the illusion of feeling a body part when the actual limb is missing, and the works in this exhibition speak to the felt presence of the body released from a representation of the figure. The artists explore constructions of personal narrative, specific moments of cultural upheaval, the complexity of human psychology, and the physicality of the body itself. Read more -
Shapeshifters
4 Jun - 22 Jul 2016 Curated by Tim Goossens, Shapeshifters is an intergenerational exhibition that features the work of artists, activists, and musicians who use alter egos as tools for change and survival. The artists included in this exhibition have created personas in their visual or performative practices in order to discuss feminism and the making of difference beyond anthropocentric or gender politics. Shapeshifters focuses on contemporary production alongside a selection of influential historical works. Read more
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