Simmons & Burke - Cry Me A River Installation

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Thank you! to the all the artists that participated and supporters of Cry Me A River!

Simmons & Burke, Zoe Crosher, Jen DeNike, Todd Gray, Tanya Haden, Janet Levy, Rachael Neubauer, Ariana Papademetropoulos, Alia Penner, Fay Ray, Jim Shaw, Penny Slinger, Lola Rose Thompson

Special Thanks to: The Masons from Etoile Polarie #1 who lent a hand and gave their support. ANR Transport LLC, Carol Martori and Yogi Proctor, Thomas and Tanya Black, Ian Adams, Shelly Halcomb, Dorian Bennett, Charles Whited, Jr, Todd Erlandson and Sherry Hoffman, Laura Whitcomb, Mary Jo Thatcher, Marc Loeliger and Ilinca Manaila,Miraya Surya, Aaron R Collier, Chris McLellan, Christopher J. Alfieri, April Siese, Nina Schwanse, Eve Melvan, Blum & Poe, Michael Kohn Gallery, John d' Aaddario, Franklin Sirmans

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Troika - New York Observer

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Troika - New York Observer

Relinquishing control is the central theme of London-based trio Troika’s “Cartography of Control.” It’s the first stateside show for the collective formed by Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki and Sebastien Noel, who employ a distinctly scientific approach to their work. The eloquently heady exhibition, currently on view at Kohn Gallery’s 12,000-square-foot space in Hollywood, uses experimental procedures to question the really big stuff, like the laws of gravity or the path of least resistance. Though their work nods to mid-century mathematicians like Alan Turing and Einstein who were masters of prediction, Troika feel at ease leaving the outcome of their own experiments to fate.

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Rosa Loy @ Friedman Benda

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Empire of the Senseless

February 2015 through April 2015           

In “Empire of the Senseless” the world is populated by new age humanoids, and punctuated by random violence; punky kids are terrorists, secret agencies viciously plot, and ethnic groups
are displaced.  When reading American author Kathy Acker’s 1988 apocalyptic novel, some plots don’t seem like fiction anymore.
As with the anesthetized emotions of Acker’s new age humanoids, it seems that emotions of individuals in 2014 have equally fallen silent.

Our exposure to an endless stream of violent news has made us equally resilient to emotion.Prone to processing the world mechanically, the individual today becomes submerged in the mass.  In his influential book “The Revolt of the Masses” by Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset, written in 1929, he describes the phenomena of the mass: “To be different is to be indecent. The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated.”  These words find expression in our society close to a century later.  

In the exhibition “Empire of the Senseless”, Friedman Benda invites five painters, all of them women, to react to the world around us and to show us their reaction to the world we live in.The works that we will compile will illustrate each artists’ quest for conceptual and empriric realitiy amidst their own unique exploration of identitiy through art.

Troika - artdaily.org

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LOS ANGELES, CA.- Kohn Gallery presents Cartography of Control, the first solo exhibition by Troika in North America. This new exhibition brings together both existing and new works including drawings, installation and sculpture.

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Troika - T Magazine

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The European artist collective Troika will make its North American debut with “Cartography of Control,” a new exhibition at Kohn Gallery that explores the roles that systems and serendipity play in contemporary life. One series of works, for example, consists of thousands of black-and-white dice laid out in coordination to create machine-like patterns.

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Troika - Widewalls

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Troika - Widewalls

When it comes to the universe or nature, can we really talk of control? Human being have been relying on their developing notion of knowledge in order to understand and practice the way of governing forces we might not truly understand. And, what of it? We have managed to gain control over the vastness of the ocean, travelled to the Moon and harnessed the power of electricity? But what does this control entail? How far can our scientific methods lead us in this quest for control? Find out at Kohn Gallery in the upcoming period…

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Troika - Artnet

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Troika - Artnet

Los Angeles's Kohn Gallery will host the first North America solo exhibition for European artist collective Troika. Titled "Cartography of Control," the show is inspired by the increasingly rational and scientific precepts that seem to govern society. Through a series of sculptures, drawings, and installations, Troika hopes to challenge the idea that there is only one way to interpret human experience.

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Bruce Conner - ArtForum

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Bruce Conner - ArtForum

Watching the recent digital restoration of Bruce Conner’s thirty-six-minute film Crossroads, 1976, which depicts 1946 footage of the first underwater atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll, is a vertiginous experience of telescoping back in time. Conner obtained this government-shot film from the U.S. National Archives and with minimal interventions (editing and, most notably, the addition of music), turned it into a resonant meditation on the apocalyptic sublime, rendering the familiar nuclear mushroom cloud strange again. The mushroom cloud is one of Conner’s signature images, appearing in A Movie, 1958, and briefly in Cosmic Ray, 1961, as well as in his collage works and drawings, some of which are also on display here.

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Kohn Gallery - ArtNews

In October 2013, Esther Kim Varet, director of the Venice Beach–based gallery Various Small Fires, placed a bid on 812 North Highland Avenue in Hollywood, a more than 5,000-square-foot lot containing a temple-like Art Deco edifice. The listing had gone up the night before, and Kim placed one of the first offers—by that afternoon, there were seven others bidders.

“It’s a landgrab right now,” Varet said of the situation in Hollywood. It was once “tranny-hooker corner,” she joked, but over the last few years, the neighborhood has established itself as a gallery district with North Highland Avenue recast as its main drag. Regen Projects claims to have spearheaded the eastward shift in 2012, when the business moved just blocks from Overduin & Co. andKohn Gallery, and was soon followed by new venues like Hannah Hoffman. Within the last year alone, a number of emerging galleries have migrated closer to the Hollywood Hills; David Kordansky moved nearby in September, Various Small Fires opened on Highland in October, and LAXART will officially open again in January 2015 on Santa Monica Boulevard.

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Lita Albuquerque - Complex

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In 2006, Lita Albuquerque planted 99 fiberglass spheres onto a surface of ice, arranging them as if they were points on a star map, for a project now known as Stellar Axis. Even though the large-scale work received international acclaim, it's unlikely you or anyone you know were able to see these works up close and personally. That's because Stellar Axis took place in Antarctica. Albuquerque and a team of artists and scientists went to the icy continent to create a “reverse sky,” a mirror of the South Pole's night sky on ice. Now, however, four photos of Albuquerque's groundbreaking installation is on view at Kohn Gallery so viewers will have a chance to experience her project through photography.

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Bruce Conner - Los Angeles Times

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Bruce Conner - Los Angeles Times

When Stanley Kubrick made the blistering 1964 satire “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,” one main target was the John Birch Society.

In the screenplay, the group’s Cold War hysteria about fluoride in drinking water being a Communist plot to poison Americans triggers a nuclear holocaust.

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Joe Goode @ Contemporary Art Museum St Louis

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Joe Goode traces half a century of selected works by one of America’s most innovative yet under-recognized painters. Often identified with Southern California pop art, Goode ultimately transcends this classification, creating bodies of work with influences ranging from Midwestern iconography and environmental destruction to pop culture and the sublime.

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Kohn Gallery - KCRW

L.A. Galleries Head to Art Basel Miami Beach

At least 70,000 people are expected to descend on Miami Beach for four days of partying, viewing and art buying at Art Basel Miami Beach. But why does this fair matter so much? And what are art fairs doing to the experience -- and business -- of art? Is the art world mostly producing “inoffensive tchotchkes for billionaires?”

DnA got some answers, from L.A. gallerists Tim Blum (Blum & Poe), Michael Kohn (Kohn Gallery) and Mieke Marple (Night Gallery), and critics Shana Nys Dambrot and Carolina Miranda.

Source: http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/des...

Lita Albuquerque & Bruce Conner - KCRW

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Lita Albuquerque & Bruce Conner - KCRW

There is one in LA who has long been concerned with creating installations in the landscape and conducting relevant works of performance art: Lita Albuquerque. There are now two opportunities to see her more recent work.

At Kohn Gallery, a selection of large photographs document her ambitious 2006 project called Stellar Axis. This is also the subject of a seriously gorgeous new book by Skira/Rizzoli, published with the Nevada Museum of Art, which presents the exhibition of her work through January 4, 2015.

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Troika @ IUCN

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Troika @ IUCN

This November in London, the international contemporary art exhibition ‘Here Today…’explores the current state of our environment through diverse perspectives and media: painting, installation, wallpaper, sound, video, dance, music, sculpture and photography.

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Lita Albuquerque - Los Angeles Magazine

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Lita Albuquerque - Los Angeles Magazine

In 2006 Los Angeles conceptual artist Lita Albuquerque ventured to the South Pole and created the extraordinary Stellar Axis land art installation, arranging 99 blue fiberglass spheres of varying size in the Antarctic snow to reflect the configuration of stars in the night sky. “Light Carries Information,” a new show at the Kohn Gallery, features four large photographs of details from this unique work as well as a wordless eight-minute video presenting Stellar Axis in its geographic context.

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