Alison Saar's sculpture, Fanning the Fire II (1989) is now on view in LACMA's exhibition Afro-Atlantic Histories alongside works by Kerry James Marshall, Hank Willis Thomas, Kara Walker, and many other artists.

Afro-Atlantic Histories charts the transatlantic slave trade and its legacies in the African diaspora. Through a series of dialogues across time, the exhibition features artworks produced in Africa, Europe, and the Americas in the last four centuries to reexamine—from a global perspective—histories and stories of enslavement, resilience, and the struggle for liberation.

To celebrate the opening of Afro-Atlantic Histories, Alison Saar delivered a talk and discussion with curator Rita Gonzalez at LACMA on Sunday, 11 December 2022. (Pictured left)

Histórias Afro-Atlânticas originated at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand  (MASP) and the Instituto Tomie Ohtake in Brazil, in 2018. Touring venues in the U.S. include the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the National Gallery of Art, and the Dallas Museum of Art. This is the only presentation on the West Coast.
 
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MATT WEDEL
PHENOMENAL DEBRIS

TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART
TOLEDO, OHIO
5 NOVEMBER 2022 - 2 APRIL 2023

Matt Wedel: Phenomenal Debris is the first large-scale solo show for the artist in a major art museum. Including well over 100 sculptures and drawings, these works celebrate and span more than ten years of Wedel's artistic career.

See new artwork by Matt Wedel at L.A. Louver now until 7 January 2023.

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Rebecca Campbell, Radiant White, 2020, oil on canvas, 88 x 109 in. (223.5 x 276.9 cm)

REBECCA CAMPBELL
PAINTING FEMININE POWER

NORA ECCLES HARRISON MUSEUM
LOGAN, UT
CLOSING 17 DECEMBER 2022
Rebecca Campbell: Painting Feminine Power is a survey of works from Rebecca Campbell’s prodigious output over the past fifteen years, focusing on the agency she gives the young and adult women in her paintings. For nearly two decades, Rebecca Campbell has created outsized paintings, often encompassing a viewer’s field of vision, that feature figures in dreamlike, allegorical settings in which gender politics, dogmas, and nuanced interpersonal, familial relationships are explored. Fusing abstraction and figuration, Campbell imbues her epic paintings with a vibrating luminosity which she then fills out with figures and settings composed of decisively applied broad strokes of washes and impasto. The exhibition resonates on national and international levels as the cultural and body-politic identities of women around the world are once again under undue surveillance and control.

Rebecca Campbell: Painting Feminine Power is organized by the Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Orange Coast College, and curated by The Doyle’s director and senior curator, Tyler Stallings.

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UPCOMING

Edward & Nancy Reddin Kienholz, Bout Round Eleven, 1982. Mixed media assemblage.

ED & NANCY KIENHOLZ
SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE

SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART
SANTA BARBARA, CA
29 JANUARY - 21 MAY 2023
This exhibition celebrates the recent gift of Edward & Nancy Reddin Kienholz’s Bout Round Eleven (1982) to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. The sculpture is about a relationship that is past the point of fighting, having gone ten rounds. The woman stares into the distance, while the man is engrossed in television violence. Titled Scenes from a Marriage, this exhibition brings together five works by Ed and Nancy that contemplate marriage, family, and sexuality.

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