Category: Luckman Gallery

Past Exhibition This exhibition closed on May 21, 2016. 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,…

Past Exhibition This exhibition closed on March 27, 2010. 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…

Past Exhibition This exhibition closed on March 12, 2016. 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…

Past Exhibition This exhibition closed on December 19, 2015. Utilizing stereoscopic projection and computer graphic techniques appropriated from contemporary Hollywood production, Andy Fedak augments the world around him into surreal narrative vignettes focusing on anxiety, consciousness, anarchism, and revelation.  Some macabre, others humorous, each piece digs deeper into an unknown territory that is uncanny, yet…

Past Exhibition This exhibition closed on October 24, 2015. 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…

Past Exhibition This exhibition closed on May 23, 2026. 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…

Past Exhibition This exhibition closed on March 14, 2015. 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…

Past Exhibition This exhibition closed on December 20, 2014. 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. Past Events: Opening Reception The opening reception took place Saturday, November 8, 6-8 PM. The opening reception took place Saturday, November…

Past Exhibition This exhibition closed on October 24, 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…

Past Exhibition This exhibition closed on May 24, 2014. 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…

Past Exhibition This exhibition closed on March 15, 2014. 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,…

Past Exhibition This exhibition closed on November 9, 2013. One painter, one sculptor, one video artist, one photographer…This recurring exhibition, Primer III, 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…

Past Exhibition This exhibition closed on October 26, 2013. Ground Truths is an exhibition of work that uses reenactment, magic, substitution, and projection to explore the corporeal aspects of remote viewing. Accessing faraway places that range from physical locations to psychological states, the works in the exhibition insist on making visible the physicality of shifting…

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 the architecture of an exhibition space. His works are informed by the abstract approaches of artists such as Frank Stella, Josef Albers, Paul Klee, Ad Reinhardt, and Robert Ryman, and the Italian…

Past Exhibition This exhibition closed on March 23, 2013. 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…

Past Exhibition This exhibition closed on December 15, 2012.  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…

Past Exhibition This exhibition closed on June 2, 2012. 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…

Past Exhibition This exhibition closed on March 24, 2012. Galería Perdida: La Carne de Burro no es Transparente utilizes a multi-disciplinary approach in the artistic process. Their cooperative employs a variety of media, including films, photography, and sculpture. In addition, they organize curatorial projects that focus on the slippages that happen across cultural and historical…

Past Events This exhibition closed on January 14, 2012. Los Angeles-based artist, educator, and curator John Souza has produced a significant body of artwork over his 30-year career. This exhibition draws attention to this important artist who incorporates personal history, cult fantasy, dystopian ideas, and digital surrealism in works that span many different artistic mediums.…

Past Events This exhibition closed on October 11, 2011. One painter. One sculptor. One photographer.  One filmmaker. One designer… Primer ll focuses on artists who are part of Los Angeles’ vibrant art community, and provides a space for their work to reach a wider audience. This recurring exhibition introduces one artist per discipline, and one work…