This collaborative exhibition is co-curated by art_works and Abigail Ogilvy Gallery and hosted by Brodin Gallery at their Los Angeles gallery space. Join Formed For and Brodin Gallery as they open their shared space presenting contemporary sculpture design alongside fine art works during the Hollywood Design Walk and Frieze LA.
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 26th from 5:00 - 9:00 PM
Location: 1128 North Highland Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90028
RSVP: RSVP@eclatpublicrelations.com
Hard n' Soft at Brodin Gallery explores the contested boundary between rigidity and flexibility in contemporary art, bringing together artists who deliberately subvert the expected properties of their materials. Through bronze rendered weightless, stone veiled in delicacy, fiber assuming geometric precision, and paint dissolving solid form, these works challenge the material hierarchies that have long structured art historical discourse.
The exhibition centers on artists who refuse categorical certainty. Rather, the assumed behaviors of media become sites of transformation: rigid materials yield and soften, solid forms turn fluid, soft substances achieve architectural presence. By inverting our expectations of how materials should perform, these artists invite us to reconsider not only the nature of their chosen media but the perceptual frameworks through which we encounter contemporary art itself.
Exhibiting Artists:
Mishael Coggeshall-Burr
Yasmine Esfandiary
Tallulah Dirnfeld
Cassandra C. Jones
Wilhelm Neusser
Alison Croney Moses
Katrina Sánchez
Elspeth Schulze
Leigh Suggs
Kelly Witmer
Natalia Wróbel