Past
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Paris Photo 2024 - In Collaboration with Fellowship
Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst and Trevor Paglen 5 - 10 Nov 2024 Louise Alexander Gallery/AFP, in collaboration with Fellowship, is delighted to present a showcase at Paris Photo 2024. This exhibition delves into the transformative potential of AI in art, offering a visionary exploration of creativity and technology that challenges the conventions of artistic expression. When approaching a new artistic medium like... Read more -
Ardeshir Tabrizi: King of Light
AF Projects, Los Angeles 7 Sep - 31 Oct 2024 This new body of work truly signifies a breakthrough moment in the arc of the artist’s career. His new show includes the use of new materials to complement his signature language composed of textile, silk-screening, intricately layered collaged embroidery to now include mosaic mirror on canvas. This new medium signals... Read more -
Apple of Discord
Louise Alexander Gallery, Porto Cervo 5 Jul - 8 Sep 2024 This summer, Louise Alexander Gallery is pleased to present 'Apple of Discord', a group exhibition bringing together over twenty established and emerging artists, each pushing the boundaries of traditional aesthetics to explore the complexities of beauty and form. Opening on 5 July and on view until 8 September, new and... Read more -
Sometimes it Snows in April
AF Projects, Los Angeles 17 Apr - 31 Aug 2024 AF Projects is proud to announce the upcoming group exhibition, 'Sometimes It Snows in April,' opening this season in Los Angeles. Inspired by the evocative Prince song of the same name, this unique showcase explores profound themes of longing, mourning, hope, and potential, translating the emotional depth of the song... Read more -
Erica Mahinay: Only Constant
AF Projects, Los Angeles 14 Feb - 31 Mar 2024 We are excited to announce that AF Projects will be hosting a solo exhibition featuring works of Erica Mahinay during Frieze Los Angeles, from February 14 to March 31, 2024. Erica Mahinay’s work sits at the intersection of painting and sculpture. Her corporeal language is sinuous and sublime, dissolving into... Read more -
Paris Photo 2023
Elman Mansimov, Joel Meyerowitz, Laurie Simmons, Roope Rainisto, Simon Raion, Yatreda 7 - 12 Nov 2023 Louise Alexander Gallery/AFP, in collaboration with Fellowship, is delighted to present a showcase at Paris Photo 2023. This exhibition is a testament to the groundbreaking fusion of photography, video, and AI, redefining the boundaries of visual art. This year, the exhibition prominently features esteemed photographers who have embraced innovation, merging... Read more -
Ardeshir Tabrizi: The Golden Hands of Time
AF Projects, Los Angeles 3 Sep - 21 Oct 2023 Los Angeles, September 26, 2023 – The LA art world is abuzz with anticipation for the fall season and a highlight exhibition in the city is a solo exhibition entitled The Golden Hands of Time. Ardeshir Tabrizi is truly one to watch. AF Projects in Hollywood unveils the most recent... Read more -
Roope Rainisto: REWORLD
Louise Alexander Gallery, Porto Cervo 3 Jul - 12 Sep 2023 In Roope Rainisto's 'REWORLD,' he delves into society's complexities using AI-generated images, scrutinizing individual identities and the interplay of cultures. Rainisto's innovative application of machine learning denotes a paradigm shift in visual communication, mirroring our tech-centric epoch. His world seems familiar, but the minute details showcase how visual representations have... Read more -
Ken Tisa: The Color of Sound
AF Projects, Los Angeles 1 Apr - 31 May 2023 Ken Tisa is one of the most important artists living today to emerge from the downtown artistic community of New York City in the early 1970’s. He is best known for his brilliant beaded textile wall-hangings and his incredible paintings that have an indefatigable attention to detail. His work is... Read more -
High seas (Glenn Kaino and Dave Sitek): Invisible Embrace
AF Projects Los Angeles 8 Dec 2022 - 31 Jan 2023 Glenn Kaino and Dave Sitek's collaboration High Seas will stage the installation 'Invisible Embrace' at AF Projects in Hollywood, opening December 8, 2022, in their West Coast debut. High seas is an American art and music collective founded by artists Glenn Kaino and David Sitek. High Seas manifesto reads: 'A... Read more -
John Divola: Blue with Exceptions
AF Projects, Los Angeles 15 Oct - 30 Nov 2022 Louise Alexander Gallery/AF Projects is pleased to announce Blue with Exceptions, an exhibition of new works by John Divola from the George Air Force Base (GAFB) series. Divola photographed the abandoned housing area at the decommissioned George Air Force Base in Victorville, California. We are shown scenes of dereliction -... Read more -
Ian Trout: Private Property
AF Projects, Los Angeles 1 - 30 Sep 2022 Ian Trout’s first solo exhibition at AF Projects continues his ongoing investigation of painting's dialogue with the ubiquity of graphic symbols in modern society. Opening September 10th - 6 to 8pm 7503 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles Police departments regularly park empty police cruisers on the street as a strategy... Read more -
Land of the Lotus Eaters
Louise Alexander Gallery, Porto Cervo 2 Jul - 4 Sep 2022 The epic poem 'The Odyssey' contains a reimagined map, illustrated by vividly transporting the reader on a grand voyage across land, sea, and air while entwining a tapestry of mythologies, literature, and art history. In the central portion of Homer's famous work, King Odysseus retells his ten-year quest home to... Read more -
Peter Shire: Just ask around
AF Projects, Los Angeles 1 May - 30 Jun 2022 Peter Shire is an LA-based artist whose work eludes all attempts at categorization. He has created ceramics, furniture, toys, interior designs, and public sculptures, that seem to at once reference and parody influences such as Bauhaus, Futurism, Art Nouveau and Art Deco. This subversive humor and playfulness extend throughout his... Read more -
Fritz Chesnut: Floating Windows
AF Projects Los Angeles 19 Feb - 2 Apr 2022 Fritz Chesnut 'Floating Windows' - 02/19/22 to 04/02/22 Opening February 19th - 6 to 8pm 7503 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles AF Projects is pleased to present Floating Windows, an exhibition of process-driven abstract painting by Los Angeles based artist Fritz Chesnut. The exhibition features a series of paintings that... Read more -
Michele Asselin: Exposure
AF Projects Los Angeles 5 Dec 2021 - 21 Jan 2022 Michele Asselin 'Exposure' - 12/05/21 to 01/21/22 Opening December 12th - 2 to 4pm 7503 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles Louise Alexander Gallery/AF Projects is delighted to announce the first solo exhibition of LA based photographer Michele Asselin at AFP, entitled 'Exposure' and featuring a body of new works. The... Read more -
Kristin Calabrese: How things feel
AF Projects Los Angeles 8 Oct - 21 Nov 2021 'It's easy for me to forget after so many years how there was never any choice for me. I wanted to find something that wouldn't hurt anybody. Art seemed the most harmless and most life affirming thing I could think of - a labile dance through the air. I became... Read more -
Josue Thomas: Riot
AF Projects Los Angeles 6 Aug - 8 Sep 2021 Josue Thomas is a Los Angeles based artist and designer. This year, during the protests in Los Angeles and beyond, one would see Josue's posters and graphics reiterated time and again throughout the cityscape. Thomas has produced a new series of collages and photographs based on the ethos of this... Read more -
Tiger in a Tropical Storm
Louise Alexander Gallery, Porto Cervo 1 Jul - 2 Sep 2021 In the painting 'Tiger in a Tropical Storm', the viewer has happened upon a scene, perhaps hiding from the growling shiny-toothed tiger or sheltering beneath the palm trees from the blustering monsoon. The self-taught artist, Henri Rousseau, created this work without ever leaving Paris. With the taxidermized animals and exotic... Read more -
Alice Lang: Cool Story Bro
AF Projects, Los Angeles 14 Feb - 5 Mar 2021 Cool Story Bro is a new body of work by Alice Lang which incorporates text, symbols and slogans from recent history and popular culture, to explore ways in which language, speech and text can be used to oppress or liberate a body. This work taps into the fraught historical relationship... Read more -
Rick Lowe: New Paintings & Drawings
Art League Houston, 2020 Texas Artist of the Year 26 Sep 2020 - 24 Apr 2021 Art League Houston is honored to announce long-time Houston resident, artist, educator and community activist Rick Lowe as the 2020 Texas Artist of the Year. Born in rural Alabama, Lowe is a distinguished artist whose remarkable achievements in the art world are mirrored by his championship of people and communities... Read more -
BITTER MEDICINE #02
:mentalKLINIK @ Borusan Contemporary (Istanbul, Turkey) 17 Sep 2020 - 31 Jan 2021 A Bitter Medicine for the Pandemic Conditions at Borusan Contemporary
Borusan Contemporary will greet the new season with BITTER MEDICINE #02, presented by the artist duo :mentalKLINIK as a prescription for the art world pushed to make drastic changes under the circumstances created by the COVID-19 pandemic. The exhibition reveals an urgent perspective on the precautions taken for the sake of protecting public health and is an infinite and unrepeated movement of a performative installation that streams onto the digital realm 24/7 from Borusan Contemporary. Read more -
BITTER MEDICINE #01
:mentalKLINIK @ Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade 6 May - 7 Jun 2020 PUFF OUT is a Bitter Medicine to museums under lockdown, initiated by the artist duo :mentalKLINIK and curated by Carl De Smet for the Museum of Contemporary Art of Belgrade as the first host. As we are now more online than ever, :mentalKLINIK offers us a bitter pill to fill... Read more -
Thomas Lawson - Attending to the Bats
AF Projects, Los Angeles 1 Feb - 31 Mar 2020 'I am drawn to the images I use for a variety of reasons. Sympathy can be one. Sometimes it is the resonance of a gesture through history. Sometimes it is an aesthetic response, sometimes the result of a search for an image to flesh out an idea. The work done... Read more -
Remaking Sculpture
Barry X Ball @ Nasher Sculpture Center 25 Jan 2020 - 3 Jan 2021 Barry X Ball: Remaking Sculpture presents sculptures created out of rare and delicate stones with the help of 3D scanning technology and CNC milling machines. Using these state-of-the-art techniques and a vast knowledge of art history and portraiture over 20 years, Ball has created two predominate and ongoing series, Portraits... Read more -
Rick Lowe: From the Humility Table
AF Projects, Los Angeles 14 Nov 2019 - 26 Jan 2020 The paintings and drawings I make are deeply rooted in the experience of what I call “domino culture”. While dominos is a board game like many other board games played around the world, I find that dominos in particular generates a kind of culture in communities where it is played.... Read more -
Paris Photo 2019
Sarah Conaway, Mélanie Schiff, Guy Bourdin 5 - 10 Nov 2019 For its participation to Paris Photo, Louise Alexander Gallery is pleased to present a selection of historical photographs by Guy Bourdin in relationship to recent works by Melanie Schiff and Sarah Conaway, two American artists who, in different yet complementary contexts, have explored the secular theme of still life. These... Read more -
Gail Stoicheff: Bad Actor
AF Projects, Los Angeles 19 Oct - 12 Nov 2019 Bad Actor is the first solo Los Angeles exhibition of New York based artist Gail Stoicheff. The corpus of the new paintings are formal, feminist and funny. The exhibition gestures to the legal and political construct of a “bad actor” or troublemaker. Each painting is a “portrait” of a female... Read more -
Smoke & Mirrors
AF Projects Los Angeles 11 Jul - 16 Sep 2019 Nearly a decade ago, I was a workaholic Angeleno with an Obama-era baby in the back seat of my car. One day a smart phone changed the trajectory of our lives. I received new information that day. In an instant cutting through waves of panic, fear and shock I said... Read more -
Scoli Acosta: To Ward The Setting Sun
AF Projects, Los Angeles 20 May - 13 Jun 2019 AF Projects is pleased to announce the launch of its program with a solo exhibition by LA artist Scoli Acosta. This marks the first LA solo exhibition of Acosta since his 2011 showing at the Armory in Pasadena 'Rippling: An Earnest Moire Effect' and his 2008 exhibit 'Bountiful' at LAXART.... Read more
