Hard 'n’ Soft at Brodin Gallery: West Hollywood, Los Angeles (Offsite)
Framed: 41 x 41 x 2 in.
This collaborative exhibition is co-curated by art_works and Abigail Ogilvy Gallery and hosted by Brodin Gallery at their Los Angeles space location in West Hollywood.
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 26th from 5:00 - 9:00 PM
Location: Brodin Gallery, 1128 North Highland Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90028
Gallery Hours: Monday–Friday, 10 am–4 pm; Saturday–Sunday by appointment
Exhibiting Artists: Mishael Coggeshall-Burr, Tallulah Dirnfeld, Yasmine Esfandiary, Cassandra C. Jones, Wilhelm Neusser, Alison Croney Moses, Katrina Sánchez, Elspeth Schulze, Leigh Suggs, Kelly Witmer, Natalia Wróbel.
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.
