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Conrad Egyir

Conrad Egyir presents Inauguration, an exhibition of all new paintings and drawings, including four monumental paintings that stand seven feet tall. The works build upon the Ghanaian artist’s transnational practice, which deftly blends West African and American sensibilities, iconographies, and styles. Elaborating upon the school motifs found in his past work, Egyir returns to the idea of education as a site of growth, individuality, and success, especially for immigrants.

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Maya Seas

Maya Seas presents Between Us, an exhibition of new paintings that invoke intimacy and ritual as a means of protection and inner fortitude. Seas’ paintings draw inspiration from her personal experiences and memories: women adorning each other with henna, close figures sharing secrets and inside jokes. Through the closeness and bonds between the figures depicted, the artist examines moments within her own search for a sense of belonging.

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Literary Muse Curated By Myrtis Bedolla

Literary Muse is a group exhibition inspired by Black literary novelists, poets, and scholars, curated by Baltimore-based Myrtis Bedolla of Galerie Myrtis. The powerful presentation brings together paintings, photographs, prints, and sculptures by twelve contemporary artists working across the United States: Lavett Ballard, Tawny Chatmon, Wesley Clark, Alfred Conteh, Larry Cook, Morel Doucet, Monica Ikegwu, Ronald Jackson, M. Scott Johnson, Delita Martin, Arvie Smith, and Felandus Thames.

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A Moment In Time

A Moment In Time is a deeply personal solo exhibition by the Grammy-nominated, visionary artist Blitz Bazawule (b. 1982, Accra, Ghana). The exhibition is the first major visual project since the artist co-directed Beyonce’s Black Is King in 2020, and follows the news of Bazawule’s role as director of Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple musical.

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Beyond the Looking Glass Curated by Zuzanna Ciolek

"Beyond the Looking Glass" is group exhibition of surrealist takes by women about women. Beyond the Looking Glass is curated by gallery director Zuzanna Ciolek, one of the first members of the UTA Fine Arts team when it was established in 2015. The ambitious exhibition fills all three gallery spaces with bold works by a cross generational group of fourteen woman-identifying artists: Firelei Báez, Tawny Chatmon, Charlotte Colbert, Kim Dacres, Florine Démosthène, Genevieve Gaignard, Sanam Khatibi, Klara Kristalova, Shannon T. Lewis, Jesse Mockrin, GaHee Park, Hiba Schahbaz, Kiki Smith, and Jessica Stoller. 

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Stormscape

Stormscape is an exhibition of new paintings of land and seascapes accompanied by large-scale sculpture by the Cuban American painter and sculptor Manny Castro. The exhibition narrative centers on a lone figure on a raft at sea, symbolizing the pilgrimage of Cuban exiles and the bravery of all immigrants venturing into the unknown across shores.

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Positions of Power

Blurring the lines between abstraction and figuration, Ferrari Sheppard creates mid to large-scale paintings depicting cultural figures and friends in the Black community. He incorporates gold leaf, adding a religious iconographical effect throughout his pieces, catching light and accentuating the presence of certain figures in his work. The large acrylic color, charcoal, and velvet on canvas paintings entail a sense of movement through the colors and brushstroke used, allowing the viewer to feel immersed in the painting.

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Yashua Klos

Yashua Klos, a Brooklyn-based Chicago native, created this body of work while living in Los Angeles during the pandemic. His works are full of illusionistic depth and space, appearing to be images of sculptural forms built from wood scraps, crystals and brick. Klos’ figures challenge singular notions of identity, as he often merges his own features with those of his models.

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Sites of Memory

Sites of Memory curated by Essence Harden in her first collaboration with the venue, featuring artists Noel W Anderson, Gideon Appah, Natalie Ball, Pamela Council, Janvia Ellis, Anique Jordan, Lebohang Kganye, Basil Kincaid, John A Rivas, Adee Roberson, and Muzae Sesay.

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Ernie Barnes

Liberating Humanity From Within features works from the Estate of Artist Ernie Barnes, and was curated by Ernie Barnes himself prior to his death in 2009 and was never formally presented as an exhibition until now. Barnes is best known for creating some of the twentieth century’s most iconic images of African American life, which include The Sugar Shack (1976), The Graduate (1972) and Portrait of Mrs. Wiggles (1975).

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Emergency on Planet Earth: In a Time Close to Now

Emergency On Planet Earth: In A Time Close To Now featuring Parker and Clayton Calvert, Manny Castro, Todd DiCiurcio, Daniel Fuller, Iva Gueorguieva, Heather Haynes, Jamiroquai, Glenn Kaino, Jason Nichols and Felipe Griebel, Ellen Page, Rob Reynolds, Toni Scott, Ai Weiwei, and Nathan Wong. Including video, sculpture, painting, and photography, this multi-sensory exhibition will address both the environmental and human impact of our current times.

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Arcmanoro Niles

UTA Artist Space is pleased to announce Arcmanoro Niles’ first solo show on the West Coast, titled I Guess By Now I’m Supposed To Be A Man: I’m Just Trying To Leave Behind Yesterday. Niles debuts a series of seven large-scale paintings that explore personal journeys at various stages of life. Niles additionally presents a series of new small-scale portraits depicting friends and family members, and a number of paintings he has made over the past three years.

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Disembodiment

Disembodiment, an exhibition featuring six young, emerging Black American Artists, opens Friday, November 22, 6-8PM at UTA Artist Space and will be on view through January 25th. Curated by Mariane Ibrahim Lenhardt, director of Mariane Ibrahim, Disembodiment features Jarvis Boyland, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Jerrell Gibbs, Marcus Jahmal, Clotilde Jiménez and Vaughn Spann, a collection of artists whose work upends established narratives around race and identity in order to reshape the viewer’s understanding of reality.

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Dark Fantasy

UTA Artist Space and Carpenters Workshop Gallery are pleased to announce their collaboration on a new group exhibition, Dark Fantasy on view in Beverly Hills from October 11 - November 16, 2019. This exhibition showcases a selection of artists from the Carpenters Workshop Gallery’s influential program, curated by gallery director Ashlee Harrison. This marks the first exhibition of Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Los Angeles, as well as the LA debut of Virgil Abloh’s Acqua Alta series, a new site-specific installation by Studio Drift, a major work by Nacho Carbonell, and the premiere of Reclining Nude, 2019 by Atelier Van Lieshout.

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Meet Me In The Bathroom: The Art Show NYC

The Hole and UTA Artist Space are pleased to announce Meet Me In The Bathroom: The Art Show, presented by Vans. On view at The Hole gallery in New York from September 4-22, 2019, the exhibition is a visual counterpart to Meet Me In The Bathroom, Lizzy Goodman’s best-selling book that delves into the rock-and-roll revival that emerged from New York City in the 2000s.

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The Decorator’s Home

UTA Artist Space is pleased to present The Decorator’s Home, a solo exhibition by Marco Castillo, curated by Neville Wakefield. After 26 years as part of the world-renowned Cuban artist collective, Los Carpinteros, this is Castillo’s first show in the U.S. as a solo artist. The Decorator’s Home personifies the vision of a fictional interior designer, tracing their style evolution from the commercial, North American-influenced Modernist design of the 1950s to the revolutionary, Soviet-influenced style of the 1960s and 1970s.

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UTA Artist Space and Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean present DREAMWEAVERS

UTA Artist Space and Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean are proud to present DREAMWEAVERS , a group exhibition curated by Nicola Vassell that contemplates the surreal in society against a vigorously shifting 21st century.

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CAO / HUMANITY

UTA Fine Arts is proud to present Cao / Humanity, a new exhibition by the acclaimed Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei. Cao / Humanity, in tandem with two other Los Angeles exhibitions, marks an exciting milestone for both Ai and the city of Los Angeles, where he is exhibiting for the first time.

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Thomas Downing: 1960-1979

A leader of the Washington Color Field School that included Morris Louis, Gene Davis and Kenneth Noland (his teacher and mentor), Downing explored formal relationships between space, color and shape. In his series of "Dial," "Grid," and "Dots" paintings he produced poignant abstract images that instill a sense of movement, while also suggesting infinite space based on geometric systems.

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One Shot

ONE SHOT is a group exhibition of select Color Field artists working from the late 1950s through the early 1970s. The gallery’s first exhibition in its new Ai Weiwei-designed Beverly Hills home, includes works by Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis, Sam Gilliam, Thomas Downing, Gene Davis and Jules Olitski.

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CAM WORLS

Since 2007, Cortright has also been creating short videos with her computer's webcam, performing for herself and then world-wide audiences.