François Ghebaly

Frieze LA: X-TRA presents Views from Los Angeles with panelists Kelly Akashi, Kori Newkirk, Eamon Ore-Giron, and Mary Weatherford.Moderated by Naima Keith and Diana Nawi.

Directly engaging the film-set site, multi-faceted artist Patrick Jackson utilizes the tools of the film trade to create a set within a set. Acknowledging the artifice of the situation, Alley on the Inside (2019)—a made-up psychological term referring to “the dark corners of the mind”—simulates a classic cinematic trope, the outdoor urban back alley, built inside an interior set. Deepening the uncanny atmosphere, several of Jackson’s large-scale wall reliefs, which the artist compares to ectoplasm, spirits pulled from the body and made solid, hang on the faux brick walls.

Kelly Akashi will be an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts at Fort Barry in the Marin Headlands.  Akashi was also awarded the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Art Prize, which includes an unrestricted grant, a residency in Ojai, and a solo exhibition at the Foundation currently slated to run from June to September of this year.

Kathleen Ryan will exhibit a number of new works in a solo exhibition opening February 8th at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The Los Angeles Times reviews Christine Sun Kim's Finish Forever, on view until January 19th. Read the full review here.

Marius Bercea included in a group exhibition at Muzeul de Arta Cluj-Napoca titled "Tradiții Active II" or "Active Traditions II," on view from December 19, 2018 through February 3, 2019.

Cassi Namoda's Sasha and Zamani’s Tropical Romance was acquired by the Pérez Art Museum Miami with its NADA acquisition fund. Read the full article here.

Cambrai Museum presents a solo exhibition by Farah Atassi, on view from November 24, 2018 through March 17, 2019.

Patrick Jackson's summer exhibition "DUM MUD" was reviewed by Lauren Mackler in Artforum's October, 2018 print issue. Read the full review here.