ONE “PUNCH”! 33 ‘Pop Art Avengers’ assembled in Los Angeles Exhibition
BOLD AND FEARLESS
DEVAN SHIMOYAMA Roses Are Falling, 2019 Image by Jeffrey Deitch
Chicago born contemporary visual artist Nina Chanel Abney, active in New York art industry, world renowned by her bold and colourful artworks broaching controversial topics such as race, gender, politics and religions. In her artworks, she infiltrates her beliefs and ideology via the unapologetic abstraction. Recently she teamed up with Jeffrey Deitch Los Angeles and curated a summer exhibition “PUNCH”, gathering 33 Los Angeles based contemporary artists to discuss the connections and disconnections between culture and subculture.
PAT PHILLIPS You May Not Drive A Gravy Cadillac, 2018 Image by Jeffrey Deitch
PAT PHILLIPS Korean Fingertrap / Summer Madness, 2018 Image by Jeffrey Deitch
The exhibition brings diversity to the artist community by featuring artists who explores contemporary culture through the lens of figuration and abstraction. Though sharing the background of growing up in the digital age, they take different approaches to painting.
LUCIA HIERRO Mandao #3, 2019 Image by Jeffrey Deitch
LUCIA HIERRO Mandao #3 Tied, 2019 Image by Jeffrey Deitch
GABRIELLA SANCHEZ Peer / Peer, 2019 Image by Jeffrey Deitch
Like Gabriella Sanchez, who immerses her artworks in digital language influenced by popular culture and digital streaming service, whereas Arcmanoro Niles chooses a more classic composition with fresh elements in his paintings. Among the versatility art forms, the Nava Acrylic and grease pencil strokes painting on Tigress Snake, 2019 by Robert Nava undoubtedly making a strong impression with its pop art chimera, giving a tease on the modernised people losing creativity when the world is full of search engine helping system, that can obtain information at one's fingertips.
ROBERT NAVA Tigress Snake, 2019 Image by Jeffrey Deitch
Every piece shows precedent elements of pop art and expressionism, integrating various mediums and different designs, cartoons, graffiti of which aims to portray a snapshot of a modern society of new media and pop culture presented with a visual ‘PUNCH’, on view through August 17.
CHEYENNE JULIEN Plein Air, 2019 Image by Jeffrey Deitch
GABRIELLA SANCHEZ Peer / Peer, 2019 Image by Jeffrey Deitch
Here is the list of artists for those who are interested in visiting the art gallery:
Nina Chanel Abney
Trevor Andrew aka GucciGhost
Greg Breda
Amoako Boafo
Jordan Casteel
Jonathan Lyndon Chase
Caitlin Cherry
Jeffrey Cheung
Theresa Chromati
Kenturah Davis
Danny Fox
Monica Kim Garza
Georgina Gratrix
Lauren Halsey
Lucia Hierro
February James
Khari Johnson-Ricks
Cheyenne Julien
Austin Lee
Jaime Muñoz
Narcissister
Robert Nava
Arcmanoro Niles
Matthew Palladino
Pat Phillips
Umar Rashid
Gabriella Sanchez
Koichi Sato
Tschabalala Self
Alake Shilling
Devan Shimoyama
David Shrobe
Henry Taylor
Punch, curated by artist Nina Chanel Abney
Jeffrey Deitch
925 N Orange Dr
Los Angeles, CA 90038
