Abigail Ogilvy Gallery's Los Angeles location will be open late on Saturday, January 13th from 6-8 pm PST. Stop in to see our current exhibition, Under this mask, another mask, curated by Sam Adams.
Location: 1923 S Santa Fe Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90021
About Under this mask, another mask:
Under this mask, another mask is a group exhibition organized by Sam Adams, featuring works by Seuil Chung, Leah Guadagnoli, Jen P. Harris, Julia Kunin, Leeza Meksin, and Scott Vander Veen. Spanning painting, fiber sculpture, textile, and ceramics, the twenty-nine works in this exhibition convey intimacy and vulnerability through meticulous processes of layering, suturing, and abstracting.
The gender-fluid Surrealist Claude Cahun quipped, “Under this mask, another mask; I will never finish removing all these faces.” Following Cahun, the artists in this exhibition fuse interiority and exteriority, recombining architectural elements and body parts in liberatory ways. Thresholds become places to stop and rest. Load-bearing structures are reduced to ornaments. Exits double as entrances. Signs are depleted of fixed meanings. Bright and kaleidoscopic, the works evoke bodies but none render a body whole. The artists offer exquisite corpses of spinning legs, monumental breasts, throbbing eyes, and skin-like surfaces–stretched and punctured. These bodies-in-pieces subvert the gridded architectures surrounding them, refusing facile narratives and normative expectations of gender and sexuality.
Under this mask, another mask is curated by Sam Adams, Ellen Johnson '33 Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Allen Art Museum.