THE THING Quarterly, Pamona College
April 11
FRIENDS!
Come to Pomona College Friday,
April 11, @bentonatpomona4:30pm.
We are restarting THE THING Quarterly’s sometimes lecture series called “Two or Three Things,” where we invite artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers to talk about the thing they think about when they are not working.
This iteration includes artists David Korty, Liz (@lizeon )Walsh and Brian (@brianroettinger ) Roettinger, who will present on topics ranging from fly fishing in the LA River, to prehistoric mammals, to things that come to mind while driving from LA to Pomona.
Artist, Mark (@markallenartjams ) Allan, will be creating 50 posters for the event to be given away. THING editors Will Rogan (@_sunset_club_ ) and @jonnherschend ) will emcee the festivities.
This is part of the Benton Museum’s retrospective exhibition of THE THING Quarterly entitled One Last Thing, Again
FELIX ART FAIR
Roosevelt Hotel, LA, CA
2/19-2/23
VOLOSHYN GALLERY, Miami/Kiev
La BEAST,
LA, CA
The Rite of Spring Group Show ••••• Saturday, February 1, 6-9 pm la Beast gallery 831 Cypress Ave, Los Angeles Through March 8, 2025 ••••• Inspired by the infamous ballet and orchestral concert by Igor Stravinsky, this dynamic group curation examines the inescapable dichotomy present in today’s world. The ecstasy of spring, though vivid and full of bliss, is invariably counterbalanced by an equally potent force: violent upheaval. In this polarizing exhibition, the artists earnestly present an existence of growth and decay, showcasing the tension between renewal and destruction.
Featuring:
Liz Walsh
Jonathan Ryan
Marco Minaya
Chyrum Lambert
Justin N. Kim
Alyss Estay
Zaki Christensen
Albert Kyu
Hyun Choi
Troy Barrett
Shadows
at LAST Projects, LA
10/18-11/3
Drawing inspiration from psychologist Carl Jung’s concept of the Shadow self, Walsh's new artworks illuminate themes of duality and the hidden dimensions of the psyche. The Shadow encompasses the darker aspects of the unconscious, including repressed emotions, fears, desires, and traits we often deny or overlook—elements that, when left unexamined, can shape our behavior and perceptions in profound ways.
Walsh works predominantly in the language of painting, and includes animation and sculpture to create a complete world of objects and imagery, similar to the conscious environment we experience. Both analogue and digital references find their way into her depictions of strong and meek beings as well as symbols of self.
Liz delves into the interplay between our external world and our inner selves, exploring the duality of light and darkness, the action of reclaiming the darker parts of her own psyche through the creation of these works is attempting to bring self-awareness and healing to a greater audience. Inviting a deeper connection for the viewer to both ourselves and the world around us.
“The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate. That is to say, when the individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner contradictions, the world must perforce act out the conflict and be torn into opposite halves.”
― C.G. Jung, Aion
WATER AND FLOWER AT
WILDING CRAN
LA,CA
6/29-7/27
Alex Becerra, Billy Al Bengston, Theodore Boyer, Virginia Broersma, Lily Clark, AJ Collins, Chris Cran, Gerald Davis, Francesca Gabbiani, Edward Givis, Robert Gunderman, Olivia Hill, Salomon Huerta, Jasmine Little, Matthew Nichols, Jackie Rines, Ben Sakoguchi, Moral Turgeman, Liz Walsh and Sterling Wells
Midnight Lamp at Face Guts
LOS ANGELES 5/19-6/9
FACE GUTS is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition with American born, Los Angeles-based artist Liz Walsh.
Primarily known for her dream evoking surrealist landscapes which drip with entropic overgrown gardens, Walsh is conducting a takeover of Face Guts, a project space and gallery by Tim Biskup. Midnight Lamp, taken from the Jimi Hendrix song, is the obsessive viewing of sleep as the subconscious world of dreams, magic, and fire. The Sun never stops burning even when we sleep.
AS A SEED IMAGINES A FLOWER
Liz Walsh and Holly Coley
Liz Walsh Phantasy, 2023, Acrylic, Gouache, and Airbrush on Canvas,
60 x 48 in, 152.4 x 121.9 cm
ELEANOR HARWOOD GALLERY, SF, CA
5/11-6/22
Walsh's painting and Coley's ceramics contain imagined prehistoric flora and fauna painted and made of clay. Both artists use materials to better understand inner and outer worlds of the human into a world where centaurs roam portals of lush prehistoric still life.
Both artists play with ideas of reimagined history fed by imagination and past experiences. These articulations include fantastical creatures and landscapes that blend seamlessly with elements of antiquity and plant worlds through paintings and developed forms and objects made of clay.
Liz’s intricate tableaux transport us to a realm where plant and animal motifs are intertwined. By pushing the boundaries of the space and filling the compositions with pop elements and overgrown gardens, Walsh represents an internal landscape that is filled with spirits, technology and sometimes the entropy of our world. These themes appear in her work in the depiction of cockpits, mythicanimals and exaggerated fauna. These combinations hope to entice and repulse the viewer, leading to a familiar yet unreal portrayal of the world.
Holly delves into the depths of reimagined history, infusing her creations with a sense of genesis. Her work challenges us to reconsider our notions of the past, a glimpse into a world where ancient creatures and icons are laid into new reliefs of clay. Her playful forms manifest into strong vessels which have a classical quality.
Together, these artists play with the boundaries of reality and notions attached to certain objects. They are exploring the inner and outer worlds of the human experience, through their creations, and they prompt us to question our assumptions and delve into the possibilities that exist at the intersection of art and history. These narratives hope to transcend time and space, considering the different states of the human condition and the possibilities that lie within our imaginations.
NOMAD 3
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.
Featuring work by:
Liz Walsh @lizeon
Nate Zoba @natezoba
Gretchen Batcheller @gbatcheller
Richard Ankrom @richard.ankrom
Micke Tong @micke_tong
VIP preview Friday October 27 4-6pm
The Passage
Curated by Liz Walsh
“The Passage”
at Discount Mirrors Gallery
LA,CA
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
LIZ WALSH & THOMAS LINDER
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.
P
Guerrero Gallery, LA
Mindfield
April 29 to June 3, 2023.
curated by Lawrence Rinder
Mindfield, a group exhibition includeing 15 artists: Ashwini Bhat, Kyle Ranson, Liz Walsh, Benji Whalen, Tom Ward, Anne McGuire, JPW3, Rosie Lee Tompkins, Tyler Cross & Kyle Lypka, DL Alvarez, Zach Harris, JD Green, Elana Cooper, Doug Sheran, and My Tong curated by Lawrence Rinder. The exhibition considers how basic formal elements such as shape, line and color can evoke a vast array of psychological and mental states. From clay to textile, black and white drawings to brilliantly colored carved relief painting, the works within Mindfield veer between the bodily and cerebral, and from darkness to effervescence, portraying simultaneously the beauty and darkness of the human mind..
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
”Soft Magic”
at Parklife Gallery
San Francisco CA
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
Ring 60”x60” gouache on velum, 2015
“I like to look”, Curveline Space ,
LA , CA
August-October 2021
Cheap n’ Tacky group show “Celebrity Centre”, Torrance, CA
opens August 21st