ALISON SAAR
Hygiea (2020) installation at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
 
L.A. Louver is delighted to share that Alison Saar's multimedia installation, Hygiea (2020), acquired by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) and on view in their current exhibition, is featured in Hilarie Sheet's New York Times article, What Would Ben Franklin Say? Artists Weigh the Dream of Democracy.

Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America is a groundbreaking exhibition that features new art installations spread across multiple galleries at PAFA and the African American Museum in Philadelphia. Visitors will see how each artist engages with the theme of the rising sun in a time when perspectives about human rights, equality, free speech, and other democratic principles are radically disparate. Viewers are invited to reflect on, challenge, and expand their own understanding of democracy in the process.

Rising Sun is now open across PAFA and the African American Museum in Philadelphia and will be on view until 8 October 2023.?

GAJIN FUJITA
Honored at the American Friends of the Israel Museum 2023 West Coast Gala

On Tuesday, 21 March, Gajin Fujita was honored at the American Friends of the Israel Museum's annual West Coast Gala.? ?At the event, in conversation with Founding Director of L.A. Louver Peter Goulds, Fujita discussed the trajectory of his career from early work created at Otis College and the University of Las Vegas, to a selection of his paintings belonging to significant collections, in addition to other notable moments leading up to his exhibition at L.A. Louver, Gajin Fujita: True Colors.

LEON KOSSOFF
Soutine | Kossoff at Hastings Contemporary

On view 1 April - 24 September 2023: Soutine | Kossoff at Hastings Contemporary in Hastings, East Sussex, UK.
 
Soutine | Kossoff is the first ever museum exhibition to explore the artistic relationship between British artist Leon Kossoff (1926-2019) and Belarus-born painter Chaim Soutine (1893-1943). Undertaken with the full support of the Kossoff estate, the exhibition brings together around 40 important loans from public and private collections in the UK, USA and beyond. Aside from Soutine Portraits (Courtauld, 2017) at around 20 works, this is the largest group of Soutines shown together in UK since 1982, and the first since then to show both portraits and landscapes, providing a fascinating follow-up to The Barnes Foundation’s 2021 show Soutine / De Kooning.

MATT WEDEL
Phenomenal Debris catalogue book signing at the Toledo Museum of Art

The catalogue published for Matt Wedel's solo exhibition at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio, Phenomenal Debris, is now available for purchase. The hardcover 8 1/5 x 10 1/4 in. book was created by Diane C. Wright and includes contributions by Halona Norton-Westbrook, Tony Marsh, and Matt Wedel.

Today, 30 March at 6 p.m., TMA will host a book signing with Matt Wedel to celebrate the publication of the exhibition catalogue and the success of Phenomenal Debris, closing 2 April 2023.

Michael C. McMillen, Fin de Siecle (detail), 1992, painted wood and metal construction,
67.5 x 39.5 x 9 in. (171.45 x 100.33 x 22.86 cm)

MICHAEL C. MCMILLEN
Fin de Siecle (1992) acquisition by the Autry Museum of the American West

L.A. Louver is delighted to share that Michael C. McMillen's sculptural work Fin de Siecle now belongs to the permanent collection of the Autry Museum of the American West.

This painted wood and metal construction of 1992 can be read as a visual meditation on the history of the Pueblo de Los Angeles from its Spanish founding in 1781 into the late 20th century.

Fin de Siecle, 1992
Painted wood and metal construction
67.5 x 39.5 x 9 in.
(171.45 x 100.33 x 22.86 cm)

Scenes from a Marriage: Ed & Nancy Kienholz installation at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2023.

ED & NANCY KIENHOLZ
Scenes from a Marriage at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art
 
Scenes from a Marriage: Ed & Nancy Kienholz is on view until 21 May 2023 at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

This exhibition celebrates the recent gift of Edward & Nancy Reddin Kienholz’s Bout Round Eleven (1982). This assemblage work tells the story of a relationship that is past the point of fighting, having gone ten rounds; the woman stares into the distance while the man is engrossed in television violence. Scenes from a Marriage presents a selection of other works alongside Bout Round Eleven by Ed and Nancy Kienholz that provoke contemplation of marriage, family, and sexuality.