Los Angeles: The Energy and Anxiety of Being in Paint

With the numerous self-portraits Alyssa Monks has painted throughout her career she offers her "self" to the viewers while also generating a sense of dissolution. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

Los Angeles September 28, 2022 • View in browser   Alyssa Monks Captures the Energy and Anxiety of Being in Paint With the numerous self-portraits Monks has painted throughout her career she offers her “self” to the viewers while also generating a sense of dissolution. | John Seed Monks is a skilled realist who has managed to both embrace and work past the possibilities of hyperrealism. Her art is energized by the paradoxes and tensions generated by her uncanny hybridization of refined and abstracted visual elements. Her paintings, in which she often appears, have a kind of anxious and revelatory glamour.      Support Hyperallergic's independent journalism Become a member today to help keep our reporting and criticism free and accessible to all. Become a Member     WHAT TO CATCH THIS WEEKEND Breastplate (© Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) and figurative ocarina (© Los Angeles County Museum of Art) showing powerful individuals in centered positions, against a backdrop of the Caribbean coastline, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia (photo © Jota Arango) The Portable Universe: Thought and Splendor of Indigenous Colombia Los Angeles County Museum of Art through October 2 Featuring several objects on loan from El Museo del Oro in Bogota, the exhibition is an attempt to move away from a Western-centric framework and is informed by a collaboration between curators and members of the Arhuaco of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.   Mika Rottenberg Hauser & Wirth through October 2 Argentine-born Mika Rottenberg satirizes the global commercial network of manufacturing and consumption with her own absurd DIY production lines. This is her first major solo show on the West Coast.   FROM THE ARCHIVE Catherine Opie on Her First Monograph, “a Map of My Mind” For Opie, photographing is about “understanding what it is to be inclusive.” | Anne Wallentine   CLOSING SOON Kaari Upson, "Untitled" (2015–21), graphite and ink on paper, 102 1/2 x 209 inches (photo by An Xiao Mina/Hyperallergic) Kaari Upson: never, never ever, never in my life, never in all my born days, never in all my life, never Sprüth Magers through October 8 Lee Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse Los Angeles County Museum of Art through October 9   ON VIEW IN MUSEUMS & GALLERIES Stars Don’t Stand Still in the Sky: A Tribute to Lawrence Weiner Regen Projects though October 22 Martin Roemers: Relics of the Cold War Wende Museum through October 23 The Medium is the Message: Flags and Banners Wende Museum through October 23 Ray Anthony Barrett: …of frontiers and phantoms Wilding Cran through October 29 Broadway to Freeway: Life and Times of a Vibrant Community Santa Monica History Museum through December 23      Forward to a friend.   This email was sent to spaproductsavailable.bigglassofwine@blogger.com.  Update your email preferences   ​​Hyperallergic, 181 N 11th St, Suite 302, Brooklyn, NY 11211 Click below to stop receiving all Hyperallergic emails. Unsubscribe