Anat Ebgi is pleased to announce Angel Food, an exhibition of paintings by Los Angeles artist Amanda Wall. On view at 6150 Wilshire Blvd, opening Saturday, December 11, 2021. This is Wall's first solo exhibition with the gallery.
Amanda Wall's sensuous paintings evoke the physicality and gestural spontaneity of Abstract Expressionism, while capturing colour and light that feels distinct to Southern California. The self-taught artist frequently depicts exposed or prone subjects giving an air of intimacy and fetishistic quality to her paintings. Using a palette ranging from bright blues and pulsing pinks to deep blacks her paintings have an intuitive intensity that defies singular readings.
In Wall's recent works, figuration and abstraction are not opposite parts, rather they are complementary elements, which produce a delicate uncertainty; forms, moods, and attitudes becoming something else—pointing to phenomena real or emotional. Energized through mystery and withholding, her repetitive themes and subjects include: cigarettes, glasses of water, cherries, and portraiture. The artist's use of containment, distorted perspective, and concealment introduces a freshness which heightens the eroticism and psychological spaces she explores.
Wall's paintings feel instantaneous, like polaroids or snapshots. In this way her works seem to comment on contemporary portraiture, image-making, and our ever-expanding digital repository. As viewers, we are made to feel like voyeurs, observing isolated characters, without companions, for our own pleasure or gratification. Her portraits and still lifes are composed of conflicting layers and erected boundaries, subjects revealed through cups or bouquets of flowers, eyes and faces are obscured. These fragments coalesce into a unified whole, addressing sexuality, the body, image making, vision, and a kaleidoscopic range of human emotion.
Amanda Wall (b.1985, Hood River, OR) has shown her work in group and solo exhibitions internationally at galleries including, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles; The Cabin, Los Angeles; Köning Galerie, Berlin; Almine Rech, New York and Brussels; Nino Mier, Los Angeles; and Gana Art, Seoul. Her work is in the public collection of the X Museum, Beijing. Wall lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Amanda Wall is an American contemporary figurative painter whose practice addresses conflicts within bodily existence. Using personal photographs as references, Wall's paintings descend into surreal fantasies that frame the body's most vulnerable parts.
Anat Ebgi was founded in 2012 and has since grown to represent a wide array of established artists and emerging talents of international recognition with locations in Los Angeles on Wilshire Blvd. and New York City on a landmarked block in Tribeca. The gallery focuses on presenting an ambitious program of museum-caliber exhibitions and performances, such as our recent, expansive historical survey show commemorating the 50th anniversary of Womanhouse in Los Angeles. Our mission is to showcase artists from multiple generations and backgrounds to address diverse and historical perspectives within the broader context of contemporary culture including the global representation of pioneering eco-feminist artist Faith Wilding and the artist Estates of Tina Girouard and Gloria Klein.
Works by gallery artists are part of the collections of American museums including LACMA, MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, SFMOMA, MOCA Los Angeles, The Hammer, The Getty, Studio Museum in Harlem, ICA Miami, The Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Tufts University Art Galleries, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Dallas Museum of Art, High Museum of Art, Speed Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Blanton Museum of Art, ICA Philadelphia, Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, and the Yale University Art Collection. And international museum collections including Rufino Tamayo Museum, Stedelijk Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario, Moderna Museet, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, X Museum, Beijing, and K11 Art Foundation. The gallery has participated in such selected fairs as Art Basel, Switzerland, Miami Beach and Hong Kong; Frieze Los Angeles, London, and New York; The Armory Show; and The Art Show organised by the ADAA.
Anat Ebgi gallery joined the Art Dealer’s Association of America in 2023.
