This week, Artist Jackie Amézquita will lead a caravan across LA with the names of migrants who’ve died deaths in state custody, plus reviews of two exhibitions at Helen J Gallery, and more.
Los Angeles
March 22, 2023 Artist Jackie Amézquita will lead a caravan of trucks with the names of the deceased to LA sites representing systems of oppression and solidarity for immigrants. | Matt Stromberg CRITIC'S PICK Where Kim Mikyung’s process suggests an obsessive burrowing into the self, Kim Hyung-dae casts his gaze upward and outward into the sky. | Alex Paik Kim Mikyung: In Stillness Like a Mirror and Kim Hyung-dae: Five-Colored Light
Feb. 11–Apr. 1, 2023
Helen J Gallery, 929 Cole Ave, Hollywood, Los Angeles (helenjgallery.com) Become a member today to help keep our reporting and criticism free and accessible to all. Become a Member ON OUR RADAR Kade Twist: To Keep a Fire
Through April 16
Grand Central Art Center, 125 North Broadway, Santa Ana (grandcentralartcenter.com) In his own multi-media work, and as a member of art collective Postcommodity, Kade Twist explores the intersection of Indigenous cultural expression, neoliberal capitalism, and decolonization with biting wit and keen insight. To Keep a Fire arranges five works as a “fragmented ceremonial ground” that illustrates the complexity of these crossovers. In these sculptural installations, fire is depicted as a symbol of both group collaboration and righteous fury, a DIY engine hoist champions human inspiration against corporate interests, and the hemispheric solidarity of working-class BIPOC communities takes the shape of a 40-gallon tub of Fabuloso cleaner. Kenturah Davis: Dark Illumination
Through April 29
Oxy Arts, 4757 York Boulevard, Highland Park (oxyarts.oxy.edu) Kenturah Davis uses letter forms and words to build up her revealing portraits, forging a link between language and representation. In Dark Illumination, the culmination of her OXY ARTS residency, works that incorporate drawing, photography, and printmaking explore another in-between space: that of darkness and light. Inspired by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s 1933 essay “In Praise of Shadows,” Davis challenges conventional associations of darkness with obscurity and confusion, stressing its importance in the construction of meaning. |
