Liquid Dreams: Group Exhibition

Kelly Akashi
Farah Atassi
Davide Balula
Genesis Belanger
Neïl Beloufa
Lila de Magalhaes
Dorian Gaudin
Sayre Gomez
Patrick Jackson
Koak
Joel Kyack
Mike Kuchar
Candice Lin
Gina Osterloh
Philip Pearlstein
Kathleen Ryan

Heat

Here in the electric dusk your naked lover
tips the glass high and the ice cubes fall against her teeth.
It’s beautiful Susan, her hair sticky with gin,
Our Lady of Wet Glass-Rings on the Album Cover,
streaming with hatred in the heat
as the record falls and the snake-band chords begin
to break like terrible news from the Rolling Stones,
and such a last light—full of spheres and zones.
August,

              you’re just an erotic hallucination,
just so much feverishly produced kazoo music,
are you serious?—this large oven impersonating night,
this exhaustion mutilated to resemble passion,
the bogus moon of tenderness and magic
you hold out to each prisoner like a cup of light?

Denis Johnson
1995

Kelly Akashi (b. 1983, Los Angeles, California) lives and works in Los Angeles.  

Farah Atassi (b. 1981, Brussels, Belgium) lives and works in Paris, France. 

Davide Balula lives and works in Paris, France.

Genesis Belanger (b. 1978) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA from SAIC and her MFA from CUNY Hunter College. Recent exhibitions include Perrotin, New York USA; Mrs., Maspeth, New York; Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, New York; and Invisible Exports, New York. Her work has been recently featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Hyperallergic and the Art Newspaper.

Neïl Beloufa (b. 1985, Paris, France) lives and works in Paris. He has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Pejman Foundation, Tehran; MRAC Sérignan; K11 Art Foundation, Shanghai; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He is the recipient of the Nam Jun Paik Award (2016) and the Meurice Prize for Contemporary Art (2013). His feature length film Occidental has screened at film festivals worldwide and saw wide release in France in 2018

Lila de Magalhaes (b. 1986, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) lives and works in Los Angeles, where she received her MFA from University of Southern California. Her work has appeared in recent exhibitions at Company Gallery, New York; Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angles; Ellis King, Du blin; and Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University, Orange, California. She has been featured in Artforum and Terremoto. 

Lila de Magalhaes (b. 1986, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) lives and works in Los Angeles, where she received her MFA from University of Southern California. Her work has appeared in recent exhibitions at Company Gallery, New York; Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angles; Ellis King, Du blin; and Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University, Orange, California. She has been featured in Artforum and Terremoto. 

Dorian Gaudin (b. 1986, Paris, France) lives and works in New York. Recent exhibitions include Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin; and CLEARING, Brussels. His work has appeared in the pages of Artforum and Observer. 

Sayre Gomez (b. 1982, Chicago, Illinois) lives and works in Los Angeles. Gomez received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and his BFA from SAIC. Recent exhibitions include Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin; Josh Lilley, London; Shane Campbell, Chicago; and Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles. Gomez’s work is held in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Marciano Art Foundation, and the Rubell Family Collection.

Patrick Jackson (b. 1978, Los Angeles, California) lives and works in Los Angeles. His recent exhibitions include the Wattis Institute for Contemproary Arts, San Francisco; Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles; Unclebrother, Hancock, New York; and the Momentum 9 Biennial, Moss, Norway. His work has appeared in Flash Art, Artforum, Mousse Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times. 

Koak (b. 1981, Lansing, Michigan) lives and works in San Francisco, California, where she received her MFA from California College of the Arts. She has recently shown work at Cloaca, San Francisco; Union Pacific, Lonon; Museum of Sex, New York; Alter Space, San Francisco; and Et Al., San Francisco. Upcoming solo exhibition include Walden, Buenos Aires, and Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles.

Joel Kyack (b. 1972, Pennsylvania) lives and works in Los Angeles. He earned his MFA from the University of Southern California and his BFA from RISD. He has exhibited internationally, with recent shows at Workplace Gallery, London; Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles; Praz-Delavallade, Paris; LAXART, Los Angeles; and Rubell Family Collection, Miami. His artist-run space The Meow regularly transforms in form and function. 

Mike Kuchar (b. 1942, New York) lives and works in San Francisco, California. A legend of the underground film world, Kuchar’s  films, frequently produced in collaboration with his brother George Kuchar, have screened widely, with recent series at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Cinema Museum, London; Anthology Film Archies, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. His erotic drawings have also found widespread exhibition in New York, Berlin, London and Los Angeles. He was the recipient of a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship. 

Candice Lin (b. 1979, Concord, Massachusetts) lives and works in Los Angeles. Her exhibition cycle A Hard White Body was shown at Bétonsalon, Paris; Portikus, Frankfurt; and continue this fall at Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago. Lin’s work has been exhibited recently at New Museum, New York; Human Resources, Los Angeles; Ballroom Marfa; and SculptureCenter, New York. She is currently featured in the Hammer Museum’s Made in L.A. 2018

Gina Osterloh (b. 1973, Texas) lives and works in Columbus, Ohio. She has exhibited extensively, including the International Center for Photography, New York; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; National Museum of the Philippines, Manila; and LACMA, Los Angeles. 

Kathleen Ryan (b. 1984, Santa Monica, Callifornia) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Recent international solo exhibitions include Cc Foundation, Shanghai; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles; and Josh Lilley Gallery, London, with an upcoming solo exhibition at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in early 2019. Her sculpture Bacchante (Standing Three Pillars), 2018, entered the collection of LACMA this summer. 

Philip Pearlstein (b. 1924, Pitssburgh, Pennsylvania) lives and works in New York. Since his first solo exhibition in 1955 at Tanager Gallery, New York, Pearlstein has exhibited continuously and extensively. The most significant voice in the history of American Realist painting, his paintings are held in countless  public collections across the globe.