FACEGUTS LA CA

MAY 19th 2024

Featuring work by:
Liz Walsh @lizeon
Nate Zoba @natezoba
Gretchen Batcheller @gbatcheller
Richard Ankrom @richard.ankrom
Micke Tong @micke_tong


The Torrance Art Museum (TAM) presents TRYST, The world’s largest art fair for alternative galleries and artist-run initiatives.TRYST invites artists run initiatives from around the world to present projects for the weekend of October 27th in The Del Amo Crossing Buildings in the heart of the South Bay, Los Angeles.

TRYST presents a panorama of diverse artistic voices addressing a range of issues from different types of artist groups, with various structures, that exemplify the myriad ways that these initiatives support and grow the art world. From the newly founded to the ‘established’ groups across LA, with international and national groups invited to join us, TRYST offers a wider view of the current developments in emerging contemporary art as well as insight into the many ways artists form and run grass-roots organizations and art spaces.

NOMAD II is the return of TAM's innovative contemporary art pop-up.

NOMAD II will be a sculpture, installation, and performance focused program. The unoccupied medical building will host works by emerging, mid-career, and established contemporary Southern California based artists.

TAMA ODYSSEY fundraiser will also be hosted the throughout the weekend. TAMA (Torrance Art Museum Advocates) is a non-profit, community-based volunteer organization that serves to support TAM endeavors. All artworks will be priced at $100 and is designed to encourage collectors while supporting the museum’s efforts.

TRYST & Nomad 2 are free and open to the public on Saturday, October 28 and Sunday, October 29 from Noon-6pm.

VIP preview Friday October 27 4-6pm

Curated by Liz Walsh
“The Passage”
at Discount Mirrors Gallery 

Sept1-Oct 2

Opening September 1 6pm-9pm

Adam Scott

Alex Sanchez

Amber Jean Young

Brad Eberhard

Daniela Soberman

Francesca Bifulco

Jay Erker

Johanna St. Clair

Jovi Schnell 

Jon-Paul Villegas

Kyle Ranson

Max Oppenheimer

Thomas Linder

Veronica de Jesus

THOMAS LINDER & LIZ WALSH
at Praz-Delavallade

Portals

Los Angeles
8 July - 5 August 2023

Praz-Delavallade Los Angeles is pleased to present Portals, a duo exhibition with two Los Angeles based artists and their process-driven cosmologies. Thomas Linder’s cropped wall hangings of ephemeral and abstract swathes of color counterbalance Liz Walsh’s tableaux of plant and animal motifs. One artist creates spatial illusion through the use of color and materials, while the other skirts the edges of perception by connecting flora, fauna, and humanity through fantasy. They each consider the viewer in providing insight into their own environments and alternative universes.

At first glance, it might appear as though the two present a strict contrast of approaches to the notion of reality and perception—Linder’s macroscopic view of the earth and its human intervention to Walsh’s symbolic introspection and minute observance of nature—but nothing’s ever that simple. The aluminum frames that surround Linder’s works are less a structure that limits the space it contains, but an opening to the perceptual multitude that space invites. Walsh’s two-dimensional figures, set to intricate, expansive backdrops draw in and then out into the vastness of the universal Mind at Large.

Both bodies of work were developed organically over time. Linder obfuscates the line between sculpture and painting in this, the latest of an ongoing series of two-paneled wall hangings made up of fiberglass color fields, overlaid with poured resin casts off of a sheet of glass. Looking past its construction, its frame disappears, leaving the viewer to get lost in the region between refracted light and their reflection on the textured surface of these double-paned windows. Walsh adds and layers elements to her figurative compositions of gouache “body color” in increments, taking months, even a year to load each infinitesimal cosmos—a looking glass into the beholder’s own imagination, offset by bursts of epic light and spray painted detail.

Linder and Walsh draw on vastly different influences and inspirations, while responding directly to their shared Los Angeles environment in different ways. Linder brings his past in Midwestern farming and a present of evening walks along the LA River into these experiments in capturing light and changing color through his translucent pieces. Here, the abundance of Minnesota’s lakes and wetlands meets Los Angeles’s water politics, where the greenhouses and irrigation of Linder’s youth inform his perspective on the manmade disasters of Mulholland’s dam and the “phantom lake” of Tulare in California’s Central Valley.

Walsh brings the materiality and intricacy of previous work with clay and weaving into themes of emotionality, excess, and transformation through large-scale botanical landscapes laced with pop symbols. The subjective reality of underrecognized Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington also inspires her, in what Cecilia Alemani describes as “a magical world where life is constantly re-envisioned through the prism of the imagination.” Perhaps, that is where the throughlines of both Linder and Walsh’s practices intersect, in building the exhibition’s titular portals for their viewers to step through.

STORM BEFORE THE CALM , Praz-Delavallade, LA CA
17 September - October 29, 2022

“One’s mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion,” wrote Robert Smithson in his seminal 1968 essay A Sedimentation of the Mind.“The actual disruption of the earth’s crust is at times very compelling, and seems to confirm Heraclitus’s Fragment 124, ‘The most beautiful world is like a heap of rubble tossed down in confusion.’” As these disruptions, far beyond any of those de-differtiations anticipated (or executed) by early land art pioneers, have increased over the decades, the confused beauty of the natural world has taken the form of what the British artist Marc Quinn has called the “toxic sublime.” As global temperatures increase, so does the disorder of the planet’s unleashed kinetic energy. We’re in a high entropy moment that is unleashing a new physical, but also metaphysical, landscape onto the planet. Artists, from the Hague School to the Florida Highwaymen to the ecological art movement that took form alongside Smithson and his contemporaries, have always responded to the earth’s weather patterns, seasons, and thermodynamic changes in real time. But how do artists concerned with landscape respond to a planet in a state of high entropy that cannot be reversed, one trapped in a political climate where, to quote Yeats, “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.” But when the center cannot hold we’re often left with what Mike Kelley might have called “a less elevated beauty.” And this is the concern at the center of Storm Before the Calm, a multimedia group show at Praz-Delavallade Los Angeles focused on work that embraces—without any didactical prescriptions— this entropic (geo-political) climate that is constantly reshaping itself, and somehow creeping toward equilibrium. It’s a journey into the sublime of the time, a time when tomorrow will likely be more chaotic than today.

JPW3
Charles Arnoldi
Natalie Arnoldi
Rachid Bouhamidi
Helen Chung
Jason David
Brad Eberhard
Yaron Michael Hakim
David Hicks
Olivia Hill
Tom LaDuke
Miguel Machado
Jake Kean Mayman
Ken Gun Min
Richard Nam
Jordie Oetkin
Patricia Iglesias Peco
Alicia Piller
Pam Posey
Alberto Regueira
Jackie Rines
Max Hooper Schneider
Jeremy Shockley
Cole Sternberg
Lani Trock
Kelly Wall
Liz Walsh
Marnie Weber
Emma Webster
Ben Wolf-Noam
Bari Ziperstein

February 11, 2022
”Soft Magic” at Parklife Gallery
San Francisco CA :)

Soft Magic"
February 11-March 20
Park Life Gallery
220 Clement St SF CA 94118

Park Life is pleased to announce the opening of Soft Magic, an exhibition of new paintings by Liz Walsh.

Looking at the world of plants as a guiding force, where one sees their own reflection in the spirits and energies found in the dark spaces, Liz’s works attempt to interpret the power found in the natural world, possibly harnessing these elements as divine guides. The imagery aspires to stimulate internal paths that suggest ideas of revelation, self-love, acceptance and rebirth, sometimes felt but not seen.

Liz Walsh lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Inspired by the plant life and city sprawl of California, Liz's practice is focused on the mix between technology and the entropy of the natural world.

Liz received an MFA in Painting from CCAC, and a BFA in Painting from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has attended the Headlands Center of the Arts residency as well as a residency at Cooper Union in NYC.

We also are releasing a limited edition screen print for the exhibit. Available beginning Feb. 11.
Liz Walsh Screen Print Edition.
8 x 10 inches. 4- color. Edition of 40.
Printed by Nat Swope.

LA LOMA PROJECTS LA, group show “Goals”
Opens October 2nd 2021

“I like to look”, Curveline Space , LA , CA
August-October 2021

Cheap n’ Tacky group show “Celebrity Centre”, Torrance, CA
opens August 21st