Kohn Gallery - Los Angeles Times

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The writing was on the wall -- scrawled, repeatedly, in black ink and projected onto the sides of the tent: “I will not make any more boring art.”

The sentiment -- from a 1971 John Baldessari lithograph -- was a fitting homage to the 83-year-old artist, who was honored Saturday night at the Museum of Contemporary Art gala in Los Angeles.

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Kohn Gallery - Los Angeles Magazine

Everything You Need to Know About L.A.’s New and Future Museums

Not so very long ago, venues for art in Los Angeles were somewhat limited. LACMA, MOCA, and the Getty dominated the scene, with a few significant galleries dotting the landscape, here and there. But now, with a new injection of gallery energy into central Hollywood, and the enormous and extraordinary undertaking that is the Broad, along with many other moving and changing art venues, art in L.A. is truly on the verge. As Suzanne Isken at the Craft and Folk Art Museum puts it, “There is no center in L.A.—it is a multi-action city for art.”

Kohn Gallery

Don’t miss the Kohn, just around the corner from Regen on Highland Boulevard: this 12,000-foot space has three gallery spaces, as well as an external space that is planned for future sculpture exhibits. With soaring 22-foot ceilings, Kohn has played host to some the West Coast’s most important artists: Joe Goode, Ed Ruscha, Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner. Michael Kohn is a fixture in the Los Angeles art scene, and checking in at Kohn is a good way to keep current. Now showing at the Kohn: Tom LaDuke. Coming up: Simmons and Burke and Lita Albuquerque. - See more at: http://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/everything-you-need-to-know-about-l-a-s-new-and-future-museums/#sthash.nFPAHEKT.dpuf

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Mark Ryden - Artnet news

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Cut from neo-Victorian cloth, painters Mark Ryden and Marion Peck are the king and queen of the Lowbrow/Pop Surrealism art scene. A long time cult figure, Ryden's latest show in LA was “The Gay 90's: West," at Kohn Gallery in 2014. Nearly two years in the making, the show drew over 2,000 attendees the first day. Fellow artist Marion is the yin to Ryden's yang; stylistically one can see how each influences the other's work. They are the arbiters of fantasy and exaggerated kitsch, wrapped up in a colorful Victorian epitaph. Collectively, the artists have nearly half a million followers on social media, and their collector roster includes Cliff and Mandy Einstein, singer Katy Perry, and actor Leonardo DiCaprio.

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Joe Goode - Observer

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Los Angeles in the early ’60s was a blank canvas for a new generation of artists. It was a city almost completely devoid of an art scene; unencumbered by the artistic history that haunted Paris and New York.

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Lita Albuquerque - Artsy

Gerald Peters Gallery and Peters Projects have joined forces with New Mexico’s Spatiotemporal Modeling Center (STMC) and Los Alamos National Laboratory to present “Inventory of Light,” a group exhibition that integrates works in a variety of media with microscopic, scientific images. Art and science—two disciplines more often viewed separately than in direct relation to one another—intermingle in this exhibition, in the form of a synchronistic look at infinite space and phenomenology.

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Lita Albuquerque - Lets Do More

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For the last of the series, we spoke with internationally acclaimed environmental artist Lita Albuquerque. Utilizing a variety of mediums, Albuquerque's work is often executed within natural landscapes — paint, installation and sculpture, transforming exotic climes such as Antarctica, the Arctic, Death Valley, the Mojave Desert and South Dakota's Badlands — into transformational works of art.

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Troika @ NC Arte, Bogotá

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Troika has been selected for a solo exhibition at NC Arte, Bogotá in 2015.  NC Arte is a cultural gallery with an educational program funded by Neme Foundation. Its main purpose is to contribute to the development of the visual arts in Colombia and Latin America.

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Kohn Gallery - Huffington Post

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The Broad Museum is about to open its doors this September, and by doing so it's going to explode a U.S. military style daisy cutter on the Los Angeles art scene. Then comes Hauser Wirth and Schimmel (HWS) a few blocks away in LA's undeniably burgeoning Arts District. The Museum of Contemporary Art's former chief curator, Paul Schimmel, will take command of the 100,000 square foot super fortress with a dynamic multi-disciplinary arts center. Its palatial grounds, amidst the growing number of galleries, will cement LA as the new capital of the art world, what I simply call ArtWorldInc.

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Joe Goode - TimeOut New York

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Goode is probably not that well-known to New York’s current art audience, but he was a seminal figure in the development of the Los Angeles art scene in the early 1960s. A colleague of Ed Ruscha, Goode was included in one of the very first exhibitions of Pop Art in America, “New Painting of Common Objects,” curated in 1962 by Walter Hopps at the former Pasadena (now Norton Simon) Museum. Goode’s work evolved over the ensuing years to include expansive painted views of the sky, which he then defaced by tearing away or gouging substantial portions of the image. Much like the slashed canvases of Italian abstractionist Lucio Fontana, Goode’s work focused on the space behind the painted surface. This show presents a small selection of his “Torn Cloud” and “Vandalism” series, dating between 1967 and 1976.                            

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Troika - Forthcoming Exhibitions

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‘Drawing Biennial 2015’ at the Drawing Room

London / 5 March- 30 April 2015

‘Shortcuts’ at Kunsthaus Centre PasquArt

Biel/Bienne / 19 Apr. - 14 Jun. 2015

‘Walk the Line. New Paths in Drawing’ at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg

Wolfsburg / 26 Apr. -16 Aug. 2015

‘Limits of a Known Territory’ at NCarte (solo show)

Bogota / 13 Jun. - 5 Sept. 2015

‘Globale. Renaissance 2.0’ at ZKM / Centre for Art and Media

Karlsruhe / 21 Jun. 2015 - Spring 2016

Troika - KCRW

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This is the last week to see the fascinating Cartography of Control, the first stateside exhibition by Troika, the UK-based artist collective Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki and Sebastien Noel. This brainy show uses drawings, installations and sculptures to explore the idea that society has become “increasingly governed by rational thinking and scientific methodology” —  through maps that offer “different accounts of the same territory” and an installation that appears to change shape depending where the viewer is standing.

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Troika @ Haus Konstrucktiv

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The show examines the topic of order and disorder combining constructivist-concrete or digital art with fields of mathematical research, exploring the similarities and differences between artistic and scientific approaches.

The exhibition includes works by Thomas Baumann, Cod.Act, Attila Csörgő, Alexandre Joly, Peter Kogler, Pe Lang, Carsten Nicolai, Troika and Semiconductor.

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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.