The exhibition is being held in conjunction with the Santa Monica gallery 5 Car Garage. This is an artist who fuses an adept use of paint, colors and materials with subjects that are funny and tragic as well as smutty and smart. Paintings made from found bedsheets, pillows and curtains feature gauzy images of intimate and erotic activities. Max Maslansky, “Jouissance,” at Honor Fraser. The paintings lie in between, with their loose brushwork and their wistful imagery, conveying the feeling of a dream. The show is bookended by a pair of installations: a sculpture of a young boy with tears dripping into a pool, and another boy trapped in a birdcage.
In his fourth show at the gallery, the Cuban-born painter (who is based in Los Angeles) is showing a new body of his ruminative works. Mission Road, downtown Los Angeles, 356mission.Įnrique Martínez Celaya, “Lone Star,” at L.A. Tribe is the artist behind one of the most teeth-grittingly mesmerizing videos I’ve ever seen: “H.M.,” from 2010, which tells the story of a man who is left without memory as the result of an experimental operation. For her latest project, she looks at the neurological condition of aphasia, in which the language centers of the brain are damaged - hindering a person’s ability to communicate (even as a person’s personality and intellect remain unaffected).
Tribe has long used film to explore aspects of perception and cognition.
Kerry Tribe, “The Loste Note,” at 356 Mission. Plus: wild abstractions, sculptures made of salt and collages of flowers crafted with gold leaf. A film about aphasia in downtown, poetic paintings in Venice, bedsheet erotica in Culver City and zines, zines, zines in Long Beach.
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