I met Jennifer King and her ceramics for the first time last night, August 10, at The Pit gallery in Los Angeles, CA. Her works are part of the group show Wild Range—on view through September 2024. There couldn’t have been a better day for the encounter.

Richard Serra – Hitchcock, and Isamu Noguchi – Galvanized Steel Sculptures exhibition currently on view at Gemini G.E.L. (through November 2024, Los Angeles, CA) is a feast for the eye. For several reasons, and not all apparent.

The show unfolds like clockwork through Frank Gehry architecture. Climbing the slightly off-axis staircase with its rhythmic shadows—cast by the exposed wood structure—seems to prime the viewer for what would soon unfold upstairs.

The second-floor landing is very much the vestibule of a shrine where light and shadow are praised by the works of Serra and Noguchi.

Both artists are concerned with space. Through sculptural drawings—Serra— and steel sculptures—Noguchi—a very specific space is explored: the liminal space, the space at the edge.

Reality is observed while looking with one eye closed. Like we playfully do when we reduce the subject to its 2-dimensional essence reading its volume as a cut-out, as the shadow cast by its body.

Notes, intuitions, markings on an extroverted surface of clay.

In these dramatic assemblies of clay tablets, the raw greenware acts as a seismograph recording signs, icons, lacerations, and caresses carved in liquid blue engobe.

Studio Exhibition | On view July 26 – 27, 2024 | Opening reception Friday July 26th, 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm

July 26, 2024, Los Angeles, California—The exhibition Raw Marks by Livio Stabile explores the corporeal context of the creative act. The three works invite meditation on how the body orients itself in space: Bearings opens to the multiplicity of directions and choices, Eyes witnesses to the otherness in ourselves, and My Right Hand demonstrates how the human body intervenes in reality to alter things for its own purposes.