François Ghebaly

Friday January 15, 2021
11am PST • 2pm EST • 8pm CET

Christine Sun Kim will give a walkthrough of her current exhibition Trauma, LOL, presenting a new body of drawings that contemplate the shared responsibility of protest, the poetics and rhythms of American Sign Language, and the impacts of internalized Deaf traumas. With ASL interpretation.

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A conversation between Kelly Akashi and Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer on the launch of Kelly Akashi: Figure Shifter, a monograph on her 2019 solo exhibition at the gallery. The conversation will delve into Akashi's conceptual terrain of fossils, geological layers, and the indexing of body and breath.

Em Rooney is joined by artist Molly Zuckerman-Hartung and gallery director Gan Uyeda to discuss Rooney's current exhibition at the gallery "Women in Fiction," which presents a new body of wall-based sculptures alongside a series of photographs in sculptural artist frames. The exhibition is full of art historical, filmic, and natural references in its complex consideration of womanhood.

The talk is presented in conjunction with Jackson's current solo exhibition "My Dark Architect" on view at François Ghebaly through November 21st and his two projects Proposal for a Monument and Head, Hands, and Feet featured in "Made in L.A. 2020: a version" at the Hammer and the Huntington, curated by Lauren Mackler, Myriam Ben Salah and the Hammer's assistant curator of performance, Ikechukwu Onyewenyi.

Christine Sun Kim awarded an inaugural Disability Futures fellowship from the Ford and Andrew Mellon foundations worth $50,000, alongside 19 other disabled artists, filmmakers, writers and creatives.

Christine Sun Kim's "One Week of Lullabies for Roux" (2018)  and "Close Readings" (2015) have entered the collection of The Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Candice Lin's solo show "Pigs and Poison" on view at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth, New Zealand from August 8th to November 15th, 2020.

In collaboration with the Yuz Museum in Shanghai, Sayre Gomez presents "Studio Visit," a video introducing his studio practice within the context of driving in Los Angeles.

Christine Sun Kim's "Close Readings" (2015) has entered the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Busan. Kim's work "Why I Watch With Closed Captions" (2019) has entered the collection of the Williams College Museum of Art.

Friday, May 29, 2020
11am PST • 2pm EST • 8pm CET

Hosted by Bidoun in Collaboration with François Ghebaly

Image: Meriem Bennani, from 2 Lizards, 2020.