Past
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Odds & Ends
Samantha Greenfeld 24 Oct - 21 Nov 2020 James Wright Gallery is pleased to present “Odds & Ends,” a solo exhibition by LA-based artist Samantha Greenfeld. Comprising three sculptures and six works on paper, the exhibition chronicles Greenfeld’s ongoing investigation of our relationship with and definition of “trash.” The artist utilizes discarded objects to create arrangements that are... Read more -
Make It Make Sense | group exhibition
Amelia Lockwood, Brent Estabrook, Polly Shindler, Terry Hoff, Wyatt Mills, Jahlil Nzinga, Matt Ross, Kate Bieschke, Nevena Binney, Thomas Muller, Celest Voce, Travis Whiteneck 27 Aug - 26 Sep 2020 JWG presents Make It Make Sense, a virtual exhibition examining the works of 13 artists through the lens of their individual clashes with 2020. An interview with each artist about their life during the COVID-19 pandemic revealed distinctive ways of coping, thinking, and surviving; each work was selected to echo... Read more -
Houseplants
Wyatt Mills 22 May - 26 Jun 2020 Like houseplants, we are tugging our stems towards the vast air, light, and network of life outside our walls. The life of indoor flora is perpetually governed by spatial limits. Once torn from its vast network of familiar roots and domesticated in a pot, a houseplant is irrevocably disconnected from... Read more -
WILD
Brent Estabrook 8 Feb - 21 Mar 2020 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. --1 Corinthians 13.11 James Wright Gallery is pleased to present WILD, new paintings by Brent Estabrook. Since... Read more -
Sweet Primal Things
Group Exhibition 15 Nov - 21 Dec 2019 SWEET PRIMAL THINGS is a cross-disciplinary exhibition comprising twelve contemporary California-based artists’ relationships with their quotidian surroundings, explored through the use of modern tools that become the media of the artworks. Roused by the struggle of incessant adaptation required from all of us in order to exist in contemporary social... Read more -
Mariposa
Terry Hoff 15 Sep - 31 Oct 2019 Mariposa Street, Hoff’s childhood street in central California has left an undeniable imprint with the surrounding colors, flavors and nature. This body of work has evolved through technical loose airbrushing and patterns drawing from a blown HEMI (hemispherical) engine. Each unique canvas is constructed of laminated plywood, rubber and coated... Read more -
Natural Behavior
Juliane Hundertmark 20 Jul - 23 Aug 2019 A theatrical display of three bodies of work that reveal the dark comedy of consumerism through distorted depictions of an imagined reality. Formerly a Director of several European showrooms known as Knights Webb Gallery in London, Galerie Contrast in Barcelona, and Gallerie Hundertmark in Berlin, Juliane’s curatorial direction of her... Read more -
Bittersüß
Christoph Rode & Benjamin Burkard 26 Apr - 20 Jun 2019 Reality competes with closed eyes The infinite montages of senses reassigned A painful pleasure The bittersweet taste lingers Of lust, violence, melody and silence A symphony that brings the sky to its knees And humans to the machine. Together in their approach to muddle the truth based off recollective pasts,... Read more -
I EXIST
Matt Ross 15 Mar - 19 Apr 2019 ‘I Exist’ nudges the viewer like the coded curbs that delineate a parking space. Pulling closely to these borders and operating as a part of a larger, external material are the most vulnerable to surface wear. Heavily trafficked spaces accumulate evidence of the relationship between mortal and material. Ravages of... Read more -
_topia
Group Exhibition 8 Feb - 8 Mar 2019 Defining the subjectivity of one’s place results in using affixes; a way to enact and hone-in, to indicate further and to be closer to or to control the presentation of. _topia. That dash. That space. That absence of a prefix; _topia alone leaves a space open for subjectivity. Breaking the... Read more -
'NAUGHT'
Matt Ross 1 - 30 Jan 2019 Read more -
MIAMI BEACH
Art Fair 5 - 9 Dec 2018 Read more -
‘Pareidolia’
Wyatt Mills 15 Sep - 26 Oct 2018 I want to paint beyond what one thinks portrait traditionally should look like. I want to portray an honest snapshot of a perception in the present. --Wyatt Mills This will be Mills’ first solo- exhibition since returning from a two year residency in Berlin. Exploring the complexities of human perception,... Read more -
'ToyBox'
Brent Estabrook | Soho New York 1 - 27 May 2018 Captivated by the endless aesthetic and compositional possibilities of the materiality of childhood toys, Estabrook manifests a visceral tactile impression though his use of brushstroke, color, and texture. This NY experience will feature the artist live at work — creating monumental oil paintings imbued with a sculptural dimensionality and depth... Read more -
'the ANIMALS'
Brent Estabrook 14 Oct - 11 Nov 2017 Brent Estabrook has filled the downtown LA gallery space with his compositions of gigantic stuffed animals which have been executed to perfection in a signature style that combine traditional renaissance era techniques with contemporary influences from Jeff Koons, George Condo, and KAWS. Capturing our inner child with these vibrant paintings,... Read more -
'Caliber Abstractions'
Nicholas Hunt 3 Jun - 16 Jul 2017 Born February 4th, 1985 in Newport Beach, California. Nicholas Hunt grew up surrounded by business minded entrepreneurs and Southern California art icons Billy Al Bengston, Peter Alexander, Chuck Arnoldi, Laddie John Dill, Andy Moses, Joe Goode, and Ed Ruscha. These experiences in business, art, California culture, and the unmistakable beauty... Read more