Category: Luckman Gallery

The Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State LA’s Luckman Gallery is pleased to present an immersive sound experience with two solo projects by artists Jacqueline Gordon and Richard T. Walker. Each artist utilizes a multidisciplinary approach to making work that explores how sound, objects, and people interact with one another. While Jacqueline Gordon explores the intersections…

The Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State LA is proud to present Permanent Score, an exhibition featuring new works by M.L. Dodge and Jay Lizo. The exhibition showcases the intersection of the two artists with distinctly contrasting approaches and concentrations in their processes. Focusing on the image/idea of the crate, Dodge and Lizo venture into different…

The Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State LA is proud to present Permanent Score, an exhibition featuring new works by M.L. Dodge and Jay Lizo. The exhibition showcases the intersection of the two artists with distinctly contrasting approaches and concentrations in their processes. Focusing on the image/idea of the crate, Dodge and Lizo venture into different…

This first survey exhibition of Los Angeles based artist Kara Tanaka spans her work from 2005-2011. The exhibit will feature a cross section of Tanaka’s work, which has often explored the central themes of transcendence through her own aesthetic synthesis that merges the primitive with the futuristic. Her work often reveals the shared relationship between…

the long-lasting intimacy of strangers is a group exhibition that engages principles of co-evolution. Looking at nature and the social meanings we make around origins and inter-species interactions, the works in the exhibition bring out the fantastical dormant within the seemingly ordinary objects that surround us: stones, plants, animals and bacteria. The artists in the exhibition…

Territories, Left of Center is an exhibition that elaborates on philosopher and cultural critic Walter Benjamin’s claim that “to live is to leave traces.” Focusing on sculptural works and constructions, the exhibition considers the body and its surroundings, and suggests a sculptural language of dissent. The featured artists respond, in diverse ways, to institutional hierarchies,…

Karin Mayr and Martin Sturm formed a multimedia collaborative based out of Vienna, Austria that creates projects that combine their artistic work with their curatorial practice. They developed this unique combination when they co-founded the artist-run space project LOVE_ in Vienna, a composite of art and curation that counteracted the conventional showcasing of their work…

This exhibition highlights the extensive career of Los Angeles-based artist Walter Askin, whose multi-faceted work ranges from sardonic graphic works, large painterly abstractions, to vibrant figurative sculptures. In each of these respective mediums he creates imaginative yet satirical images whose eclectic imagery resist being defined by any distinct movement. The exhibition was on view September…

Employing experimental animation, sculpture, installation, and photography. Melanie Nakaue creates a psychological space that focuses on the use of the figure in sculptural traditions and techniques.  All in a way to reinscribe the depiction of affliction. The works in the exhibition are inspired by historical figurative sculptures. Neolithic Japanese clay figurines (dogū) of the Jōmon…

This is the first large-scale exhibition featuring both individual and collaborative works by Ginger Wolfe-Suarez and Primitivo Suarez. These two artists have been working both independently and collaboratively on writings, sculpture, and installations for the past ten years. This exhibition draws from their interests in architecture, and the psychology and mediation of space and materials.…

This exhibition surveys the works of late Los Angeles-based painter Robert Olsen (1969-2014), whose unique and nocturnal palette centered on the nightscape of Los Angeles. The opening reception took place Saturday, November 8, 6-8 PM. The exhibition was on view November 8 through December 20, 2014.

This exhibition features new photography and video works by Los Angeles-based artist Julie Orser that explores motifs of Alfred Hitchcock’s film Vertigo. Works in this exhibition examine representations of female characters (including the Hitchcock Blonde), the double, cinematic memory, narrative repetition, fear and desire, the possession of images, and the agency of music. An artist…

The Luckman Gallery is pleased to present After Life, a group exhibition curated by Kristine Thompson.  The show features historical and contemporary artwork that examines death, mourning traditions, and memorials, and how our understanding of these ideas and practices has changed over time. The work on view demonstrates a shift from overt representations of death via the…

The Luckman Gallery was pleased to present new work by Los Angeles-based artist Carlos Mollura in his first solo exhibition in nearly a decade. For this exhibition Mollura will feature a new installation of industrial plastic inflatables that respond to and occupy the entire gallery space, a combination of both architecture and interventionist sculpture. Born…

One painter, one sculptor, one video artist, one photographer… This recurring exhibition, Primer lll, focuses on promising artists who are part of Los Angeles’ vibrant art community and provides a space for their work to receive more attention. One painter, one sculptor, one video artist, and one photographer. The exhibition took place Saturday, November 9…

Ground Truths is an exhibition of work that uses reenactment, magic, substitution, and projection to explore the corporeal aspects of remote viewing. Accessing far away places that range from physical locations to psychological states, the works in the exhibition insist on making visible the physicality of shifting consciousness. Consisting of painting, sculpture, and video, the…

SCULPTED PAINTINGS & PAINTED SCULPTURES New Work 2009 – Present This exhibition features paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Antonio Puleo that examine patterns, both man-made and natural, and how paintings can play off of the architecture of an exhibition space. His works are informed by the abstract approaches of artists such as Frank Stella, Josef…

In the 1970s and 80s, iconic pop artist Andy Warhol made thousands of pictures with his Polaroid camera. The subjects range from celebrities to unknown individuals to objects that fascinated him, and many of these photos served as inspiration for his later paintings and silkscreens. This exhibition, made possible by a donation to the Luckman…

 Landmarks is the first critical survey exhibition of Jennifer Bolande, spanning three decades of her work in a wide array of media. Bolande emerged as an artist in the late seventies, working first in dance, choreography, and drawing. Then, in the early eighties, advancing the ideas and strategies of the Pictures Generation, she began working with…

This exhibition features a trilogy of video works by Mexican artist Edgardo Aragón that explores the growing violence and narcotraffiicking in Mexico’s rural regions. From semi-habited locales to abandoned local roads, Aragón poignantly portrays the complicated conditions of the country without sensationalizing its charged context. This is the first solo exhibition for Aragón in Los…