Los Angeles: Your Concise Art Guide for April

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March 30, 2022 • View in browser

Your Concise Los Angeles Guide for April 2022

Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very Los Angeles art events this month, including Lee Alexander McQueen, Troy Montes-Michie, and more. | Caroline Ellen Liou

There’s a bit of a common thread running through this month’s list of exhibitions in Los Angeles, drawing upon the craft and conceptual history of textiles, costume, and fashion design to express new ideas around self-fashioning. There are also plenty of shows that are decidedly not about any of those things, from sound art by Latinx artists to photographs documenting the effects of the Cold War.

A Family of Artists Finds a Home in Graphic Arts

“Kalli” means home in Nahuatl, and that theme guides much of the work by Adriana Carranza and Alfonso Aceves’s Kalli Arte Collective. | Eva Recinos

Husband-and-wife artists Adriana Carranza and Alfonso Aceves used to make art at their dining room table. In 2021, the duo, known as Kalli Arte Collective, found a studio, but many of their creative goals were on hold because of COVID-19. Now, they have settled into Self Help Graphics as part of the Beyond the Press artist-in-residence program.

These Ramen Bowls Are a Feast for the Eyes

A new exhibition at Japan House Los Angeles indulges its viewers in the visual gratification of looking at artisanally designed ramen bowls. | Jasmine Liu

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ON VIEW

Christina Forrer & Rebecca Morris
Parker Gallery through April 9

Dorian Ulises López Macías: Hasta Que Te Conocí
LaPau Gallery through April 16

Kevin McNamee-Tweed: Fiction Workshop
Steve Turner through April 16

Womanhouse
Anat Ebgi through April 16

EJ Hill: Wherever We Will to Root
Oxy Arts through April 22

Abraham Cruzvillegas: Tres sonetos
Regen Projects through April 23