GROUP EXHIBITION

Among the exhibition’s highlights are a recent work by the Pakistani-born, New York-based artist Huma Bhabha, whose figurative objects evoke ancient and futuristic totems alike; parabolic lens sculptures by Fred Eversley, a key member of the Southern California Light and Space movement since the 1960s; and recent objects by Beijing-based artist Guan Xiao, who joined the gallery earlier this year and whose first Los Angeles solo exhibition will take place in 2023. Los Angeles-based artist Evan Holloway, who contributed to the city’s renaissance as a centre of contemporary art in the late 1990s and early 2000s, will present a major new bronze tree branch sculpture, the typology for which he is best known. The paintings on view highlight a variety of approaches to the medium. A recent abstraction by Adam Pendleton, for instance, emerges from the New York-based artist’s work with archival materials, while ‘Pour’ paintings by the pioneering Swiss conceptualist John Armleder exemplify his use of chance and humour. A new painting by Shara Hughes continues the artist’s visionary approach to the landscape genre, creating a dreamy composition that features snake-like trees against a moody blue environment. A sand mandala painting by Los Angeles-based Jennifer Guidi (whose first solo exhibition in China is on view now at the Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai) embodies the liminal realm where perception, imagination, and intuition meet. Hilary Pecis’s observational landscape painting depicts a sun-drenched Southern California yard sourced from the artist’s everyday life in Los Angeles.

Established in 2003 as part of a burgeoning artistic community in Los Angeles’s Chinatown neighbourhood, David Kordansky Gallery began as a cutting-edge incubator for emerging talent. It quickly grew into a widely respected voice in the international conversation surrounding new and recent art, and moved to its second home, in Culver City, in 2008.

David Kordansky Gallery now represents more than fifty artists, who are among the most influential artists working today, and operates a 20,000-square-foot facility in Los Angeles and a 5,000-square-foot space in New York, both designed in collaboration with Kulapat Yantrasast and his architecture firm, WHY. In September 2020, the gallery opened an expanded Los Angeles campus, its third home in the city, which encompasses three exhibition spaces across two buildings with a landscaped courtyard between them, allowing for three separate shows to be mounted simultaneously and for diversity in cultural programming, including artist talks, performance, film, and outdoor sculpture. Its gallery space in the Chelsea neighbourhood of New York opened with an acclaimed solo exhibition by Lauren Halsey in May 2022.

The gallery’s artists, who work across a wide range of media and genres, have been the subjects of solo exhibitions at renowned museums worldwide and regularly appear in landmark biennials and thematic group shows. David Kordansky Gallery’s exhibition program is dedicated to presenting artists’ work with passion and intellectual rigour, and to bringing the utmost care and precision to the showcasing of their visions. In addition to presenting exhibitions, art fair presentations, and cultural programming, David Kordansky Gallery produces an ever-growing range of exhibition catalogues and limited edition artist’s books.