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Andrew Wingler, and Ilona Berger, Drywall, mixed media, 2014

Exhibitions

Liz Walsh: Shadow Force August 14th - Sept 11, 2014
Solo Exhibition
Painting, Sculpture, Video, Installation

Shadow Force is an investigation into what is invisible, and living tandem to our consciousness.
It is about aspects of the metaphysical and geophysical worlds. It is simultaneous and is given power by our belief or close observation in the unknown. These forces can be cited in creation and destruction, also pain and joy.
They are a world of will and chance, but ultimately we are connected through the strings that extend out beyond our sight.

For the group show, A Colonial Penchant, artists Karl Jean-Guerly Pétion, Adrienne Heloise, and Paul Lewin have created work that asserts alternative and mythic identities through the appropriation of popular and historical forms of representation. Haitian American artist, Pétion's paintings, collages, prints and "found object" sculpture addresses and challenges historically constructed notions of beauty, sexuality, class and racial identity with humor and gravity. Oakland based artist, Adrienne Heloise works in the medium of cut paper collage and uses the decorative features of office and common art materials with imagery derived from folk art and early 19th century history and genre painting to create a unique formal language of images that explore narratives of gender, intimacy, and power. San Francisco based Jamaican American artist, Paul Lewin's paintings combine an aesthetic of Sci-fi and Fantasy illustration with imagery and themes from West Indian and African folklore in a precise painterly realist style.

Adrienne Heloise is a cut paper collage artist based in Oakland Ca. She received her BFA in Psychology at Humboldt State University and has exhibited extensively in the Bay Area. She creates cut paper works that explore intimacy, gender, and power that reference imagery from early Americana, Napoleanic battles, and medieval jousts. She recently finished a two month residency at the De Young Museum in San Francisco. adrienneheloise.com
Karl Jean Guerly Pétion is an interdisciplinary artist with a painting ,assemblage sculpture, collage, film and performance art practice. Born in Port au Prince, Pétion grew up surrounded by the vernacular visual culture of open air galleries and colorful hand painted advertisements . He moved to NYC as a teen in the early eighties and received his BFA from Kansas Art Institute and his MFA from Cal Arts. "Pétion's assemblage works interact with his arresting unframed paintings that confront emotionally charged first and third world issues via theoretical texts and compelling images." Diane Calder https://jeanguerlypetion.see.me/
Paul Lewin was born in Kingston and moved to Miami at the age in 1977 at the age of 4. Lewin's art has been shaped by his love of sci fi and Fantasy art as well as by indigenous folklore,tribal cultures, world religion,and ancient societies. He is currently working on a series of paintings entitled 'Roots of the Cotton Tree', inspired by the folklore of the Caribbean Islands and Africa." , which will be featured at LAST Projects. http://www.paullewinart.com/

LAST Projects proudly presents:

Rachid Bouhamidi: Moving Still

January 24th—February 14, 2015

Opening Reception January 24th 7-11pm with musical performance by White Woman

Rachid Bouhamidi cross-germinates representation and abstraction in order to suggest states of transformation and becoming in the experiences of quotidian life. With varying degrees of verisimilitude and theatricality, his paintings peer into private and public environments while attempting to render transitory and often fragmented moments into stable pictorial reality.

6546 Hollywood Blvd #215 90028 Thurs–Fri, 2–7PM, Sat, 3-7pm and by appt.

323-356-4225 or info@lastprojects.org 

Closing Reception: Thursday, January 15th, 7–10PM
Musical Performance by Walt McClements/ Lonesome Leash

"Veronica De Jesus makes paintings that look like mechanical drawings or etchings but are at the same time spiritual and psychedelic. They resemble what a groovy Inter-dimensional spirit craft would look like if plans were drawn by Renault designers or General Motors. Thats what I really love about them is that they are actual cars that have existed in the world and hold a personal value to the artist. The artist travelled in every sense of the term, in these crazy contraptions. These are the spirit crafts from her own life. - Andrew Wingler

Veronica De Jesus: Cars For Your Life
December 12—January 16, 2015
Closing Reception,  Thursday January 15th, 2015 7-10pm

LAST Projects is pleased to present
 

Siphonophore Collective: 
‘third space’ exhibition

April 17–25, 2015 

Neither one nor the other, the third is a shifting position. The theme of ‘third space’ is a metaphor for transcending existing binaries: interior/exterior, transience/stasis, freedom/captivity, virtual/real, land/borders. The ‘third space’ exhibition contains individual and collaborative works across mediums of still and moving images, prints, installations and performance by artists from all corners of the globe. 

Siphonophore collective consists of women from diverse cultural backgrounds who locates themselves through inevitable translations in Los Angeles.

BCBG: Portraits

May 28th to June 7th, 2015

Opening

Thurs May 28th, 2015 7-11pm

Seraphim:
Craig Calderwood & Dorian Wood 

April 30 to May 23rd, 2015 

Dorian Wood and Craig Calderwood's exhibition of new drawing and mixed media work  explore resistant bodies, blooming in extremis, tender and monstrous.

Dorian Wood has been featured at LACMA, REDCAT, UCLA, The Stone (New York), Mousonturm (Frankfurt), Matadero Madrid and the Stockholm Fringe Fest.  In 2011, Dorian was commissioned by LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) to present a new work for the performance series Los Angeles Goes Live, part of Pacific Standard Time. His performance installation, Athco, Or The Renaissance of Faggot Tree, incorporated over 30 performers, and was presented at Barnsdall Art Park. That same year, Dorian performed with Marina Abramovic in her piece An Artist's Life Manifesto, presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). Dorian Wood was born in Echo Park, CA and educated in Costa Rica.  Dorian lives and works in Los Angeles.

"As a manner of awakening from a state of fear-ridden unconsciousness, my two large-scale works, Pillows of War and First 400 Years MMXV, each encapsulate data from this intimate state. Two pasts waving at each other from distant docks, both refusing to coincide. While one is intended to remain and be viewed as a unified body, the other is to be sold off in pieces: each piece a horrible daily truth from my own life." - D.W


A self-taught artist, Craig Calderwood'sobsessively intricate ink drawings and sculpture deal with Trans/Queer identity, Biodiversity, and continued attempts to “normalize” desire. Maneuvering through non-verbal representation, Calderwood employs bright, intricate patterns of hidden (and sometimes blatant) symbolism in her work to portray complex narratives engaging in the highly personal to the fantasized. Calderwood has exhibited at ASC Projects, SOMArts, Root Division, and ONE archive in California and has been featured in Juxtapoz, Radar, and dot429. Calderwood grew up in the Central Valley of CA and currently lives and works in San Francisco. 

Calderwoods' series of drawings engages the learning of shame in Clovis, CA as a queer child. The series explores the often unseen or ignored realities of childhood sexuality and how the Closet gets formed around you.

Founded by a lake in Los Angeles, Barbara Grossman’s Breakfast Club (BGBC) is a group of ten women exploring what it means to be a female artist and how to push + pursue individual + collaborative practices.
 
BGBC Presents: Portraits brings together the seemingly disparate mediums of all 10 members for the first time. In an effort to showcase the range of work that comes from women artists working today, animation will fuse with painting, photography with sculpture, performance with video, and karaoke will tie it all up in a closing night performance on Sunday, June 7.

 

Invisible Day: Kyle Ranson, Jovi Schnell, & Alex Theodoropulos

a three person show of paintings, drawings and animation:

Closing: Friday, June 19th, 2015  7-10pm

Exhibition on view through July 11th, 2015

In the  world  of distraction we are blind to beauty and we are blind to danger. The magical things that are happening out of reach of everyday, some sinister forces, some benevolent are out of sight and hidden from us. They conceal themselves for unknown purposes.

 

Kyle Ranson,Spaghetti & Peas, acrylic & gesso,19x24" 2015       Jovi Schnell, Night Song, acrylic guache & flashe,30x19" 2015

 

 

 

July 17th until July 25th Wed + Thurs 3 to 7pm Sat 3 to 7pm and by appt.. Baby Wild Oscar David Alvarez Devin Andersen Svetlana Durel Arts Faculty Edgar Isaac Chavez Joanna Skumanich  William Lemon ||| Jack Rabbitt Alex Sanchez Skip Snow  Joey Wolf Curated by Alex Sanchez and Jack Rabbitt "All the tropes of discovery are tried and lost. I want to step on your feet. She woke up in a basket. I slept all afternoon. He finally got out of jail after the deal was finalized. Do what you want I'll survive." - Alex Sanchez -

Jack Rabbit, Gender Terrorist, Mixed Media 2015

 

Joey Wolf, Irvine, oil on canvas, 2015

 

Diverse multimedia artist R.K. Shuquem has immersed himself in the challenge of creating 50 original 6" x 6" art panels in 50 days, an ambitious undertaking begun on June 8, 2015. He will be debuting the full set of 50 pieces at Blue Moon 2015 on Friday, July 31st at LAST Projects in Hollywood. For the series of 50 panels, Shuquem explores the theme of "jail cells" as contemplated through psychological and spiritual perspectives, crafting bleak yet mystically evocative black-and-white pieces from India ink on 6" x 6" panels.Blue Moon 2015 also offers a chance to see the full set of four 5.5’ x 5’ Pantocon album covers Shuquem recently completed for his multimedia Medieval Crimes project. The pieces, entitled Earth, Air, Fire and Water serve as the initial stages of the project which will eventually culminate in the formation of the dystopian black metal band Pantocon. 

In addition to Shuquem's work, Blue Moon 2015 will feature new original pieces by LA-based psychedelic artist Nora Keyes. Set to be positioned between collections of Shuquem's pieces, Keyes' work will be comprised of large portals of collage art serving as spiritual transit aids.

 

Blue Moon R.K Shuquem 2015

 

 

Nora Keyes, Portal, Mixed Media, 2015

 

 

Tomorrow Girls Troop,  Girls in the Far East,  2015 NORMAL FAMILY Wednesday  August 12th, 2015 8:00pm - 10:00pm  A screening of short videos by emerging Korean and Japanese artists, curated by Minkyung Choi.   The screening is followed by a presentation of Takako Oishi-Marks and Minkyung Choi, introducing the current feminist issues in Japan and Korea, and their collaborative works as Tomorrow Girls Troop. The featured videos employ humor as a tool to challenge the idea of normality, which is deeply linked with one’s desire for social acceptance, especially within the context of the strong patriarchal culture of Korean and Japanese societies. These works suggest looking beyond the oppressive framework dictated by heteronormative ideologies, and question what is often dismissed from it. Participating artists: Jaeyoung An, Goeun Bae, Woohee Cho, Minkyung Choi, Kang Seung Lee, Takako Oishi-Marks, Tomorrow Girls Troop

 

Art Knox: Opening Reception Friday  August 28th 7 to 11pm On view through September 11th, 2015 thursday thru saturday 3 to 8pm and by appt. Colin Ambulance, Greg Gomberg,Andrew Arduini, Christy Creepydolls, Kt Flanagan, Ami Tallman, Billie Austin, Ben Hirschkoff. Peter Hurley. Craig Calderwood, Jeff Roysdon. Cameron Tyme Edison curated by Colin Ambulance and Andrew Wingler Music Nite on Thurs Sept 10th 8pm with Deadpanzies and Cardboard Lamb  .  Turn of the century California was once glorified by painters and writers alike as a location of vast beauty and majesty. A land of possibilities. Hollywood -rightfully so- upended the apple cart of dreams, as it began transmitting a new image of itself to America and the world, of a California under a nefarious influence. Tragedies, both real and imagined, blended with hope, joy, lust, and the quest for power. Inheritors of this legacy carry on with their work in a post-beat California; using the neighborhoods where they reside and their communities at large as a lens to examine and interrogate Popular Culture.  They employ black humor, feminist art tactics, slapstick, and other methods of resistance, impulsively, compulsively, and convulsively. While several of the provocateurs have been exiled up North - " It's just too hot there!" "Fuck that!" - their psyches have been infused with an indelible So Cal response to their environment. - Wingler

 

Reading Sets Your Imagination Free, Colin Ambulance 2015

Colin Ambulance, Marshall Applewaite 2015

Untitled, Colin Ambulance, 2015

 

Installation and Sound Performances by: Eugene Moon & Matthew Clough Hunter   September 19th. 2015 - 7 to 11 PM  Eugene Moon's Sympathetic Response is a series of stringed instruments or zithers that hang on a wall or walls and the audience interacts with the piece by talking, screaming, singing, or playing an instrument towards the piece. The piece uses sympathetic resonance, where a sound producing part of an instrument, e.g. strings, vibrate from an external sound source and produce sound in response to the activating sound. This type of acoustic phenomenal can be found in Indian and Pamiri music that has multiple sympathetic strings on their instruments that produce an ethereal sound. The concept behind this project revolves around the questions of what defines a musical instrument as an object, can a musical instrument be autonomous, what other types of relationship can a musical instrument have with a musician and/or audience, and how can an audience be both listener and musician or performer

Up Your Alley '87 Sahar Khoury and Mario Ayala September 25th thru October 14 2015 Opening Reception: Friday September 25th 7-11PM LAST Projects Gallery  is excited to announce an exhibit of new work by Sahar Khoury and Mario Ayala entitled Up your Alley '87. Mario Ayala will show paintings  as well as  towel and soap sculptures and Sahar Khoury will show ancient artifacts. Sahar Khoury works in paper/ textile mache, ceramic, steel, screen print, concrete and inkjet printing/ collaging onto 3d forms. She combines  materials  to create installations or objects that vacillate between wall, ground and ceiling.  Sahar Khoury  received her BA in Anthropology from UC Santa Cruz in 1996 and her MFA From UC Berkeley in 2013. She lives and works in Oakland, California. Mario Ayala,  works in painting and sculpture, collaging narrative and abstract elements.  Ayala's practice  has been in a transitional phase since recently moving from Oakland to Los Angeles. His materials for the exhibition cast a shadow of familiarity in subject matter found in his paintings, and have taken a physical form in the objects that they are. Ayala's work will consist of configured vanity decor, towel origami, soap carvings, and  paintings. Ayala received his BFA in painting from SFAI in 2014 where he was awarded a fellowship to Yale's Norfolk program in 2012. He was also a recipient at Skowhegan's school of painting and sculpture in 2014.

Mario Ayala, Vanities, 2015, oil and enamel on canvas

 

DARK PARADISE Friday, October 23rd through Friday, November 13th, 2015 Opening reception October 23rd, 7pm-11pm Discussion panel October 29th, 7pm-9pm Ritual Drawing with Ma'ja D'Aoust and Screening with Astral Eyes, November 5th, 7pm-11pm Closing reception November 13th Astral Eyes, Detail, Into the White Yolk of Thee One Shell, 2015 Featured artists include: Ariana Papademetropoulos, Arrington de Dionyso, Astral Eyes, Buckley, Bunnie Reiss, China Faith Star, Elena Stonaker, Kime Buzzeli, Kristin Trammell, Meagan Boyd, Meegan Barnes, Natalie Yang, Peter Makela, and Ron Regé Jr. Art as magical ritual? Los Angeles-based artist and curator Yin Shadowz and emerging mystical arts organization The Applied Mythology Project have joined forces to launch the upcoming exhibition Dark Paradise, a three-week event celebrating transcendence, the ethereal, and the spiritual. In a city known for the avant-garde, the occult, and the folk-esoteric revival of the 60’s and 70’s, today’s radical creatives are joining together to pick up where their forebears left off.  Dark Paradise will take place Friday, October 23rd through Friday, November 13th at Last Projects gallery in Hollywood. The exhibition will include a panel discussion on the archetype of the new perennialist, the search for authenticity through expressive culture, the role of magic in everyday life, and the role of ritual in artmaking practices. Additionally, there will be a drawing workshop, a film screening, a performance ritual and tarot readings. Artists and co-curators Kristin Trammell and Meagan Boyd explain the exhibition’s vision: “Dark Paradise is one side of a utopian oasis, a realm illuminated by the moon as opposed to the sun. It is accessed through the practice of creative meditation, the end result being a work of art. In this exhibition, the artists hint at the dawning of an esoteric revival, exploring the interplay between the spirit and the mundane. Capturing transcendent moments of reflection, the work explores the creation of a personal mythology to redefine the idea of a collective unconscious.” Ariana Papademetroupolos, Picnic at Hanging Rock, oil on canvas, 2015 Arrington De Dionyso, Untitled, 2015, acrylic ink, 17x22 " The Future is Neither  Kat Genikov and Svetlana Durel Opening, December 4th, 2015 7-11 PM on view until December 19th 2015 Thurs thru Sat 3-7pm and by appt.  musical performances by: Kat Genikov Nora Keyes with Rebecca Lynn Los Angeles based author and artist Anthony Ausgang reads selections from his novel-in-progress Dude Descending a Staircase, backed by ambient/soundscape musicians Victor Balogh and Jim Within.   Kat Genikov b. 1987 is a multi-media artist whose work combines traditional media such as painting with sound, performance and other time-based disciplines. Her work uses a personal poetic-image making process that involves collage and drawing and musical composition. It concerns itself with phenomenology of trance states and their function within a collision of cultural, political and personal realities.Genikov received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and lives and works in Los Angeles CA. She has exhibited at the LAB and Human Resources. http://katherinegenikov.com/   Svetlana Durel, b.1989, is a Russian-American artist who grew up in St Petersburg before moving to Los Angeles as a teenager where she currently lives and works. Durel primarily work in oil and mixed media, skirting the line between the figurative , and the entropic in paintings based on her own photographs. She received her BFA at Otis and studied at the Ecole des Beaux Artes in Paris. http://svetlanadurel.com/

 

Kat Genikov, Crimson Po, oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches 2015

Svetlana Durel, Untitled, oil on canvas, 48x48 inches 2015