Anat Ebgi is pleased to announce Look Out, a solo exhibition of new work by Los Angeles artist Alec Egan on view at 6150 Wilshire Blvd, May 21 – June 25, 2022. This is the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. An opening reception will take place Saturday, May 21 from 6 – 8pm.

This exhibition, Look Out and Egan’s concurrent solo presentation for Art Basel Hong Kong (May 26 -29), inversely titled Out Look, continue the artist’s sequence of exhibitions that depict a new portion of a singular imagined home. Drawn from his own memory and imagination, the fictitious interiors, and vast atmospheric landscapes speak to tropes of nostalgia, Americana, and the profundity of the mundane.

Egan’s large interiors, decorated with lavish floral patterns, repeatedly use typical domestic items such as furniture, books, and footwear as symbolic motifs that harken back to personal histories while conjuring hypothetical narratives about the absent residents. In the smaller works, object motifs reappear, such as the bowl of spaghetti in Bowl of pasta with flower poster, or the mirrored palms in Green room (waiting room), and underscore a reflective tone in the exhibition, adding emphasis to these symbolic gestures within the works.

The natural world is not confined to Egan’s landscapes of sun drenched skies and wave paintings, rather the lush wallpapers of peculiar buds, blooming bouquets, and fruit-patterned fabrics intricately come together as meditations on the domestic, natural beauty, and fragility of life. Rich with art-historical references ranging from Van Gogh to Hokusai, Egan’s sentimental dreamscapes are simultaneously faithful and inventive engagements with painterly tradition.

In the gallery viewing room will be a painting by LA artist Hopie Stockman, a friend of Egan’s, whose work explores shared themes through still life painting, patterns, and domestic space.

Alec Egan (b. 1984, Los Angeles, CA) completed his MFA at Otis College of Art and Design in 2013, and received a BFA in creative writing and poetry from Kenyon College. Recent solo exhibitions include Miro’s Corner at MAKI Gallery in Tokyo, Japan; The Study at Charles Moffett Gallery, New York, NY; and August, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA. His work has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions at Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, IA; California Heritage Museum, Santa Monica, CA; and the Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA. Anat Ebgi will present a solo booth of work at Art Basel Hong Kong in the Discoveries sector May 26 – 29. Egan lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Anat Ebgi is pleased to announce Lost Hours, a solo exhibition by New York artist Mark Ryan Chariker on view at 6150 Wilshire Blvd, May 21 – June 25, 2022. This is the artist’s first exhibition in Los Angeles. An opening reception will take place Saturday, May 21 from 6 – 8pm.

Lost Hours consists of five oil on canvas paintings made by Chariker during the first half of this year. This new body of work depicts figures caught in moments of stillness and contemplation. Golden and radiant light in his work evokes a frozen-in-time quality, achieved through many applications of glazing and tonal shifts. Although highly intuitive, in the sense that the artist does not work from studies or preparatory drawings, one has the impression that everything in the works has fallen into a precise place from a supernatural reality.

Rife with detail, each section of these angular spaces is active, pulsing with little brush strokes, creating a visceral sense of emotional containment. In Ghost Mantis, this psychological claustrophobia is highlighted by the presence of closed terrariums and a figure sitting in the corner surrounded on all sides by elaborate furniture. Embellishments on clothing, labels on bottles, imaginary text on the spines of books, Chariker’s gothic settings are as mysterious as the characters within them. Through this layered approach, each vignette activates the imagination to conjure its own narratives.

Mark Ryan Chariker (b. 1984, Spartanburg, SC) received a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Boston, MA. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions, including Exhibition 15, PM/AM, London, UK; I have an idea!, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY; Platform, presented by David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY; Red Root, Green Root, The Valley, Taos, NM; and Home Alone, ATM Gallery, New York, NY. Chariker has completed residencies at PM/AM Gallery in London, RAiR Foundation in Roswell, New Mexico, SÍM in Reykjavik, Iceland, and NES in Skagaströnd, Iceland. His paintings have been featured in Artforum International, Artnet News, and Art of Choice. Chariker is represented by 1969 Gallery in New York, NY and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Anat Ebgi is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Los Angeles artist Jay Stuckey titled One Sock at a Time. This will be the artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery and will be on view at 6150 Wilshire Blvd, April 2 – May 7, 2022. An opening reception will take place Saturday, April 2 from 6-8 pm.

Stuckey knows his archetypes. The jester. The romantic. The outlaw. The superhero. The everyman. He uses these characters—captured in a distinct pop and comic style—to marry ideas and emotional states that operate within a dream-logic. His pictographic paintings convey both tenderness and amusement, satire and critique about daily life, human nature, and the inexplicable. With a slapstick zaniness and an eye on the ordinary, Stuckey’s paintings pilot a passage to the profound.

An artist unbound by distinctions between high and low, messy and contained, important and irrelevant, primal and civilized, his work expresses an emotional and complex psychology in which innocence, melancholy, suffering, and exuberance are inextricably mixed. Building up the initial surfaces of his paintings with collaged images clipped from newspapers, penciled shopping lists, and drawings mined from his daily dream diaries, Stuckey bestows each painting with its own mood and subconscious.

Through Stuckey’s paintings, an expansive world emerges capturing the rush of life and evoking a hot allegory for the madness of right now. His union of opposites—the humorous and sinister, the abstract and representational, drawing and painting—generate a tension that makes the hair on the back

of your neck stand up, but reminds you that we all put our socks on one at a time.

Jay Stuckey (b. 1968, Washington, D.C.), received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago, and BFA from Brown University. He has exhibited his work internationally at Deutscher Kunstlerbund, Berlin; Institut Franco- American, Rennes; Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles; Anna Zorina Gallery, New York; Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco; Blank Projects, Cape Town; Goethe Institute, Johannesburg; Green Papaya Art Projects, Manila. His work is included in the public collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA and Collection Majudia, Montreal. Stuckey lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Anat Ebgi is pleased to present the first Los Angeles solo exhibition of Melissa Brown, titled West Coast Paintings. The show will be on view at 6150 Wilshire Blvd, April 2 – May 7, 2022. An opening reception will take place Saturday, April 2 from 6-8 pm.

Mining personal experiences and daily life for metaphysical and symbolic content, Brown depicts scenes that could be lifted from anybody’s memories—a jacaranda tree reflected in a skyscraper or listening to the radio on a road trip. Anonymity is further expressed in these paintings when the figure or face appears; it is obscured, fractured, consumed by its surroundings, hiding the personality of the subject from the viewer—in a cool, detached, and powerfully atmospheric way.

Brown’s work has a diaristic directness that stems from her practice of making plein air oil studies while travelling, which she uses to record color, light, and compositional elements to use in her paintings. Familiar landscapes, interiors, and still lives are transformed into surreal tableaus that straddle multiple realities and perspectives. Her imagery comes together through a collage of techniques, including screen-printed digital photography, oil, and airbrush. The artist invites viewers to peer through the window of her world, simultaneously holding a mirror up to our own. Although place and landscape have always informed much of Brown’s practice, this is the first time she is focusing on California as a subject.

Melissa Brown (b. 1974) received her MFA in Painting from Yale University and a BFA in Printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design. In 2000 she completed the Skowhegan School of Painting program. Recent solo and two person exhibitions include NYNY2020, and Between States, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY; Melissa Brown and Jamie Bull at Dodd Gallery at University of Georgia, Athens, GA; Going AWOL, Biggins Gallery, Auburn University, Auburn, AL;Tennis Elbow, Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Past Present Future, Magenta Planes, New York, NY; Paper Fortune, CANADA, New York, NY; and Roberto Paradise, San Juan, Puerto Rico. She has participated in group exhibitions at Mass MOCA, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Klaus Von Nichtssagend, Musée International Des Arts Modestes, and Jeffery Deitch, Los Angeles. In 2012 she was awarded the Joan Mitchell Painter’s Grant and a residency at the Joan Mitchell Center in 2019. Her work is in the permanent collections at the Whitney Museum of Art and the New York City Department of Education. She is an associate professor in art at Lehman College, City University of New York and an organizing member of the artist-run gallery Essex Flowers. Brown lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Anat Ebgi is pleased to present A Sun To Come, our third solo exhibition by Palestinian-American artist Jordan Nassar. The exhibition will be on view at 6150 Wilshire Blvd, February 12 – March 26, 2021. An opening reception will take place Saturday, February 12 from 4-6 pm.

In recent years, Nassar’s embroidery-focused practice has expanded to include furniture, metal, and glasswork drawing from techniques and materials used throughout the Arab world. Though materially varied, these bodies of work are unified by the artist’s depictions of imaginary Palestinian landscapes as well as his painterly approach to specific craft practices. Alongside Nassar’s vibrant embroideries, this exhibition debuts his new series of wall-mounted landscapes made from wood and hand-hammered brass, bedazzled with mother of pearl inlay.

The new inlay landscapes collectively titled ‘Third Family’ continue the artist’s interest of incorporating craftwork inspiration from the Levant and Palestine. A triangle, rectangle, pentagon, hexagon, and heptagon form a sequence, exploring ideas of geometry, seriality, reconfiguration, and decoration. The specificity of the woods, each one named in the materials, reads like a list of paint colors: Paradox Walnut, Spalted Big Leaf Maple, Purple Heart, Swiss Pear, Avocado, Jatoba, Padouk, Loquat, Olive. 

Fraught with emotional entanglement and personal longing for place and permanence, the artist considers these landscapes, “versions of Palestine as they exist in the mind of the diaspora, who have never been there and can never go there. They are the Palestine I heard stories about growing up, half-made of imagination; they are dreamlands and utopias that are colorful and fantastical—beautiful and romantic, but bittersweet.”

Meticulously fabricated by hand, with hundreds of thousands of individual stitches in each composition, the embroidered skies and atmospheric horizons in A Sun To Come seem especially remote, rural, and dreamlike. Together the pieces in the exhibition extend provocations of his work to the pan-Arab diaspora in general. By incorporating traditional forms with his unique interpretations, Nassar continues the ways in which these traditions have changed over time, bridging geographical, political, and historical expanses.

Jordan Nassar (b.1985, New York, NY) earned his BA at Middlebury College in 2007. His work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions globally at institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; BRIC, Brooklyn, NY; Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; Abrons Art Center, New York, NY;  Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA; James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY; Evelyn Yard, London, UK, Exile Gallery in Berlin, Germany, and The Third Line, Dubai, UAE. His work was included in the group exhibition Making Knowing: Craft in Art, at the Whitney Museum of American Art. His work has been acquired by museum collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), Dallas Museum of Art, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, and the Israel Museum, Tel Aviv. Nassar lives and works in New York, NY.

Anat Ebgi is pleased to announce Sea Swallow, an exhibition of new work by Los Angeles artist Zoé Blue M.. On view at 6150 Wilshire Blvd, opening Saturday, December 11, 2021. This is Blue M.’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.

Blue M’s paintings address characterizations of Asian women in both western and eastern popular culture drawing upon a range of source materials from Anime, advertising, art history, and ukiyo-e, as well as personal memories and photographs. For this exhibition, Blue M. examined Jorōgumo, a supernatural entity of Japanese Yōkai folklore.

Possessing a cunning intelligence and a cold heart, Jorōmugo is a spider-like creature who lives near water and feeds on men. Skillful deceivers, they can shape-shift into beautiful, young women whose mission can often be perceived as to witness the downfall of a man. Though the story of Jorōgumo provided the spine of her thinking, the exhibition breaks apart this story. Blue M. elevates the central character by presenting an open narrative that incorporates moments of innocence alongside scenes of villainy. 

Atmospheric exterior paintings with dramatic skies and water are playful such as the siren-esque girls swimming in No Shipwreck Needed or the girl walking along the seashore in Playcate. These moods are contrasted by the psychological and contained interior compositions of Waiting for Tomorrow or Behind the Fall. Together these depictions, consider the complexities of emotional burdens, family history, adolescence, and depictions of East Asian women throughout time and their stereotyping as a way of making sense of her own multicultural identity.

Zoé Blue M. (b. 1994, Los Angeles) Blue M. received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and has attended residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Anderson Ranch, Texas. Her work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA; Page NYC, New York; The Gallery @ El Centro; In Lieu, Los Angeles (2019) and group exhibitions include Another Scorcher, Martha’s Contemporary, Austin; Three Oh One, Memorial Hall Gallery, Rhode Island (all 2019). Blue M. lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Anat Ebgi is pleased to announce Angel Food, an exhibition of paintings by Los Angeles artist Amanda Wall. On view at 6150 Wilshire Blvd, opening Saturday, December 11, 2021. This is Wall’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.

Amanda Wall’s sensuous paintings evoke the physicality and gestural spontaneity of Abstract Expressionism, while capturing color and light that feels distinct to Southern California. The self-taught artist frequently depicts exposed or prone subjects giving an air of intimacy and fetishistic quality to her paintings. Using a palette ranging from bright blues and pulsing pinks to deep blacks her paintings have an intuitive intensity that defies singular readings.

In Wall’s recent works, figuration and abstraction are not opposite parts, rather they are complementary elements, which produce a delicate uncertainty; forms, moods, and attitudes becoming something else—pointing to phenomena real or emotional. Energized through mystery and withholding, her repetitive themes and subjects include: cigarettes, glasses of water, cherries, and portraiture. The artist’s use of containment, distorted perspective, and concealment introduces a freshness which heightens the eroticism and psychological spaces she explores.

Wall’s paintings feel instantaneous, like polaroids or snapshots. In this way her works seem to comment on contemporary portraiture, image making, and our ever-expanding digital repository. As viewers, we are made to feel like voyeurs, observing isolated characters, without companions, for our own pleasure or gratification. Her portraits and still lifes are composed of conflicting layers and erected boundaries, subjects revealed through cups or bouquets of flowers, eyes and faces are obscured. These fragments coalesce into a unified whole, addressing sexuality, the body, image making, vision, and a kaleidoscopic range of human emotion.

Amanda Wall (b.1985, Hood River, OR) has shown her work in group and solo exhibitions internationally at galleries including, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles; The Cabin, Los Angeles; Köning Galerie, Berlin; Almine Rech, New York and Brussels; Nino Mier, Los Angeles; and Gana Art, Seoul. Her work is in the public collection of the X Museum, Beijing. Wall lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Anat Ebgi is pleased to announce Apparition, an immersive exhibition by Los Angeles artist Greg Ito. On view at 6150 Wilshire Blvd, opening Saturday, October 2, 2021. This is Ito’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and follows up The Arrival of Spring, a solo presentation at Art Basel Hong Kong earlier this year.

In six new paintings Ito deep-dives into his expansive cinematic compositions. These works contemplate themes of new life, metamorphosis, and the ghosts we live with—personal history, generational trauma, and the invisible weight of being alive. Among Ito’s subjects are flaming hillsides of Southern California, sprawling city streets surveilled by helicopters, and smoky sunsets; this darker imagery is contrasted by blooming poppies, flittering ginkgo leaves, and butterflies.

In his largest painting to date, a five-paneled work titled Motion Picture, Ito depicts a dramatic and layered landscape framed by arched floor to ceiling windows and billowing burning curtains. Fundamentally a storyteller, the artist is driven by the momentum of narrative and repeating motifs—moons, suns, flames, keyholes, clocks, teapots, and horizons—that operate with a dreamlike logic that is playful with scale, superimposition, and silhouettes.

Prominent in a corner of the gallery is a large house with a pristine facade that visitors can enter. Once inside, it is revealed to be damaged and burned out. The house on fire is a recurring symbol for Ito and functions conceptually as a self portrait. It speaks not only to his grandparents’ experience as Japanese-Americans during World War II and their forced removal to internment camps, but also his own experience as a fourth-generation Angeleno with immigrant roots. For immigrant families, home is both where you are and elsewhere; it is a fleeting and fragile refuge from the outside world, where connection to the past is preserved and hopes for the future are nurtured. The idea of home also takes on a new profound meaning for Ito, who became a father earlier this year, speaking to his desire to build a secure and stable life for his new family.

Two sculptures in the exhibition underscore spiritual and mystic elements of Ito’s practice. Placed outside the house is a floating teapot fountain that appears to be infinitely pouring itself into a stone wishing well. Inside the house, a bowl of ramen with a pair of hashi suspended midair, spin clockwise infinitely on a table. Both works draw attention to metaphysical and oppositional forces—presence and absence. 

Greg Ito (b. 1987, Los Angeles, CA) earned his BFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 2008. His work has been exhibited widely in group and solo exhibitions at galleries including Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA; Division Gallery, Montreal, QC; Arsenal Contemporary, Toronto, ON; Jeffrey Deitch New York, NY; Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL; Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA; Et al, San Francisco, CA; and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts – YBCA, San Francisco, CA. A forthcoming solo exhibition at the new Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego will open in 2022. Ito lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Anat Ebgi is pleased to announce the opening of our new exhibition space at 6150 Wilshire Blvd. The new gallery will more than triple our exhibition footprint and will allow us to mount our most ambitious shows yet. It will be used as a second exhibition space in addition to the Culver City gallery.

The inaugural show Good Company: Pt. 1, is a two-part group exhibition co-organized by Anat Ebgi and Paul Schimmel and will be on view from December 5, 2020 through January 23, 2021.

The first part will feature works from 15 gallery artists, anchored by important historic pieces: Euronyme & Ophion (1977-78) a painting diptych by Faith Wilding potent with ideas of genesis, transformation, life cycles and personal mythologies, as well as two installation works by Tina Girouard Air Space Stage (1972) a vibrant canopy of silk fabrics suspended over Blue Hole (1971), four cuts of patterned linoleum arranged in a square, countering austere minimalist art with exuberant color and unorthodox new materials. 

Jen DeNike will present Another Circle, a single channel video production depicting a ballerina rotating in toe shoes in what appears to be an infinite pirouette, which debuted in 2010 at The Company gallery in Chinatown. New paintings from veterans of the gallery roster—elusive abstract depictions of non-inhabited places by Sigrid Sandström and Jay Stuckey’s intricate humorous compositions of everyday people in everyday action. And Elias Hansen will present Until I held it in my hands (2012), a sculpture that is part-chemist lab, part-druggie’s coffee table, and part-DJ booth.

Good Company also includes work from recent additions to the roster. Cosmo Whyte will show a sculpture of mussel-covered life vests that continues the artist’s reimagining of tumultuous passages of displaced and migrant people. Sarah Ann Weber will show a suite of four aqueous paintings—one for each season—teeming with Weber’s signature abstract flora and fauna. Greg Ito’s panoramic window painting As The Curtains Close (2020) reveals the artist’s narrative style with each window depicting the same landscape at different times of day.

Landscape painting continues in the watercolors of Neil Raitt, who will have a solo exhibition in this new gallery April 2021. The exhibition features a wide range of painting styles and conceptual conversations from the emotional and psychological figures in Janet Werner’s portraits, to the luminous and soft gradients of Alec Egan’s southern California skies, to the abstract experimentation of Samantha Thomas dissecting the canvas.

The installation is rounded out with a video and vinyl text poem by Jibade-Khalil Huffman, who uses visual language of exhibition didactic material to play with ideas about information and authority; and a teacup oil painting by Robert Russell who will open a solo exhibition of this new series at our La Cienega space in January 2021.

Paul Schimmel is an independent curator and art historian of contemporary art, formerly the Chief Curator for nine years at the Newport Harbor Art Museum (now the Orange County Museum of Art), Chief Curator for 22 years at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, and Founding Partner of Hauser Wirth & Schimmel. Paul has organized and written the catalogue for the exhibition, Sigmar Polke Photoworks: When Pictures Vanish, and contributed to the catalogue of Bruce Nauman’s comprehensive MoMA retrospective in 1995. Most recently, he wrote for the Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition at Fondation Louis Vuitton as well as Kazuo Shiraga exhibition at the Amagasaki City Culture Promotion Foundation.

After four months of being closed, Anat Ebgi is thrilled to announce the reopening of the gallery and AE2 to the public with a two-person exhibition, featuring Alejandro Cardenas and An Te Liu. This exhibition will take place at AE2 2680 S La Cienega Blvd from July 11 through September 5, 2020.

An Te Liu, a Toronto-based sculptor, will present a curated grouping of new sculptures alongside a suite of recent paintings by Los Angeles-based painter Alejandro Cardenas. These artists are linked through their search of form through the shared interrogation of design and architecture. In their respective practices, each borrows, transforms, and recontextualizes the built and designed world with a sense of humor and playfulness that translates into something simultaneously familiar and mythological.

In Cardenas’s newest “Field House” series, melancholic figures populate a modernist glass country house. One has the sense these figures are trapped inside, gazing longingly at blue skies, only to be enjoyed from a distance. In two works Clear Skies at the Field House 1 and 2, sublimating humanoids repose on Mies Van der Rohe chairs, as uncontested monuments to calm and effortless elegance at the time they were designed and now cult objects for connoisseurs. Cardenas’s work juxtaposes the iconic with the abstract and ineffable.

Liu’s work is frequently contextualized in terms of his borrowing forms from consumer objects and packing materials. However, he takes these sources beyond their utilitarian origins to a precarious unknown, imbuing them with a new lyrical narrative. In the case of Talismaic 2000, Liu cast the reflective interior casing of a headlight from his defunct 2000 Honda Civic. Then taking inspiration from Brancusi’s The Newborn—a sleek bronze ovoid—Liu modeled the backside of this piece after an egg. With Aspira, Liu dissected a handheld dustbuster, stretching and twisting it open, and finishing it with copper leafing. Though the vacuum retained its distinct snout, suspended from the ceiling it is graceful and bird-like, the final form resembling an ancient fossil.

Alejandro Cardenas (b. 1977, Santiago, Chile) completed his BFA at the Cooper Union School of Art in 2000. Cardenas has exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions including at the Hammer Museum (2003), Anat Ebgi (2019), Harper’s Books (2019), and James Fuentes (2008 and 2010). Before becoming a full-time studio painter, Cardenas had a successful career as a multimedia artist, working in illustration, graphic design, and videography. For over a decade, he served as the lead textile designer and art director for the influential fashion label Proenza Schouler. He was also a founding member of Lansing-Dreiden, a New York-based transdisciplinary art collective that produced musical albums, a literary journal, and artworks. Reviews of his art and design projects have appeared in the New York Times, Vogue, and Another Magazine. Cardenas currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

An Te Liu (b. 1967, Tainan, Taiwan) received his Masters in Architecture from Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles and his BA in Art History University of Toronto. Working predominantly within sculpture and installation, Liu’s work has been exhibited in venues including the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, the EVA International Biennial of Ireland, the Venice Biennale of Architecture, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His works are included in the permanent collections of The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Canada and The Art Gallery of Ontario. Liu lives and works in Toronto, Canada.