Los Angeles: Your Concise Art Guide for July

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July 6, 2022 • View in browser

Your Concise Los Angeles Art Guide for July 2022

Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very Los Angeles art events this month, including Pope.L, Beatriz Cortez, Mika Rottenberg, and more. | Matt Stromberg

These ten Los Angeles shows to see in July remind us that art is not only a refuge or escape, but can also offer critical engagement and strategies of resistance. From group shows that imagine radical possibilities, to solo exhibitions that upend the status quo with humor and wit, this month’s selections reaffirm the role of art to challenge, question, inspire, and empower.

WHAT TO SEE THIS WEEK

Beatriz Cortez, “One eye yes, one eye no” (2022) (courtesy the artist and Commonwealth & Council)

Beatriz Cortez: One Eye Yes, One Eye No
Commonwealth & Council, opening July 7

Beatriz Cortez recreates pre-Columbian objects and sites in steel, bridging ancient and contemporary, ritual and aesthetic.

Clifford Prince King: Raspberry Blow
STARS, opening July 9

Clifford Prince King’s photographs are candid, poetic reflections of queer Black experiences. With Raspberry Blow, King takes a more elegiac tone.

Lyrical Cool: A Tribute to Shirley Berman
Kohn Gallery, opening July 9

Lyrical Cool will feature portraits of Berman, as well as works from her personal collection, providing an artistic tribute to this underappreciated artist.

Aboriginal Screen-Printed Textiles From Australia’s Top End
Fowler Museum at UCLA through July 10

This ambitious exhibition not only showcases Aboriginal screen-printed textiles from Australia but also highlights how community-based practices are woven into the very fabric of the artwork.

REVIEWS & FEATURES

Anja Salonen’s Surrealist Paintings of Existential Unease

Salonen’s paintings point to a location in which reality is slippery, ill-defined — a dream or place of play. | Jennifer Remenchik

One Artist’s Scathing Indictment of a Crooked Supreme Court

Hundreds of copies of the LA-based guerrilla poster artist Robbie Conal’s latest work, “Supreme Injustices,” were pasted up from Venice to Los Feliz. | Matt Stromberg

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CLOSING SOON

Tavares Strachan, “Robert,” neon, Pyrex, transformers, and MDF box, installation view at the Getty (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)

Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy
Getty Research Institute through July 10

Radical Dawn
Luna Anaïs through July 10

Cute Gloom
Lauren Powell Projects through July 15

Hanne Darboven: Six Books on 1968
Sprüth Magers through July 16

Uta Barth: Figure/Ground, Figure Ground
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery through July 16

Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art through July 17

Pope.L: The Ritual is for All of Us
Vielmetter Los Angeles through July 23

Edgar Ramirez: I’ve Been Dreamin’ Too Long
Chris Sharp Gallery through July 23