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OPENING: KATE BONNER | ANDRE HEMER | TRISTRAM LANSDOWNE | CHRIS ENGMAN

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Saturday, 17 September 2022 to Saturday, 29 October 2022
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Saturday, 17 September 2022 - 5:00pm

Luis De Jesus Los Angeles is very pleased to announce four new exhibitions by KATE BONNER, ANDRE HEMER, TRISTRAM LANSDOWNE, and CHRIS ENGMAN on view from September 17 through October 29, 2022. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, September 17, from 5:00 to 8:00 pm.

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Kate Bonner’s works are anchored in digital processes in dialog with drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, and collage. In her third solo exhibition with the gallery, titled The space in things, she continues to redefine the photographic genre vis-à-vis her exploration of painting and drawing. Bonner creates digital brushes and paint with photographic material. The photograph becomes a meditative action that claims a present moment, making a mark and moving through a duration of thought and feeling. As paint, the photograph is dragged across a digital space and applied to a surface through a motion. “I’m drawing with photographs,” she says. “When I draw, my hand moves without me, acting before I think, tracing the outline of space and time in a different way than a camera can.”

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Andre Hemer’s newest body of work, and his third solo exhibition with the gallery, was conceived while the artist was in residence at the SARP Foundation in Sicily during 2022 – a program which facilitates artists to develop work onsite at Palazzo Previtera, built in 1649 at the foothills of Mount Etna. The works in this exhibition represent this beautiful but complex environment as both a moment in time, but also as a palimpsest of nature and contemporary artifact; incorporating the backdrop of the continually smoking volcano, a European heatwave, as well as the occasional sandstorm carried across the Mediterranean from the Sahara.

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The impetus behind Tristram Lansdowne's first solo show with the gallery, Digressions, was his read of Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, an 18th century novel after which he is named. Lansdowne was particularly struck by the novel’s innovative nonlinear narrative in which humorous digressions are incorporated within the plot to reveal essential truths about the protagonist. Intrigued by this structure, the artist sought to engage this format on a visual scale and applied this practice to his own work. The viewer’s experience of spatial depth makes or breaks these paintings which largely hinge on the edges and transitions between images.

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Originally created by Chris Engman between 2002-2006, this is the first time this series of black and white photographs is being presented in Los Angeles. These works read differently now than when they were produced 15-20 years ago. Certainly, we have all become accustomed to images that lie more boldly or more insidiously, and as a result, the flaws in the illusions these works create will for some be more readily apparent in 2022. For Engman, however, a complete illusion is an uncompelling one—and he has always been more interested in the flaws than in the fooling. The flaws allow the viewer to enter the image and better understand the process behind it, which was conceived at the time by the artist as a performance.

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For further information, including images and previews, please call 213-395-0762, or email: gallery@luisdejesus.com.

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213-395-0762
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1110 Mateo Street, Los Angeles, CA 90021

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