Read our pick of the best Los Angeles art exhibitions to see this month, from 50 years of ‘Jaws’ at The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures to foresty goings-on at Oxy Arts in Highland Park
Annie Lapin
Nazarian/Curcio, 13 September until 25 October 2025
The devastation of the Los Angeles wildfires last winter led LA-artist Annie Lapin to reconsider landscape painting and the way she responds to it in her practice. Focusing more specifically on her own experience of the California landscape, these paintings mark several shifts in this new body of work. Previously engaged with unraveling Romantic depictions of landscape, for this exhibition Lapin leans into a new language that draws on contemporary web-sourced photographs of her home state and harnesses collage and abstraction to make compositional choices that echo Transcendentalist landscape painting pre-WW2. The style that emerges retains the digital fragmentation of her previous works and flashes of a wide variety of art historical allusions, but aims at transmitting something more personal for Lapin about our encounters with landscape and the way we hold nature in our mind now.
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