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In a New York Times article featuring Tala Madani’s solo exhibition at our LA gallery, Aruna D’Souza writes, “Madani plumbs the lives of her characters, and taboos, with absurd humor and a strange tenderness. The work feels almost existential. And if it grosses you out, well, that’s kind of the point, too.” Read more here.

Maia Cruz Palileo spoke with Vogue Philippines about their process, archival research, and their trip to the Philippines that inform their upcoming exhibition The World Tangled in You. Read more here.

The latest issue of The Brooklyn Rail features Tala Madani on its cover, with an in-depth conversation between the artist and Andrew Paul Woolbright around her upcoming exhibition Control X. In the article, Woolbright writes, “Her smoldering humor glows with alluring irreverence, somehow finds comedic use of what Julia Kristeva referred to as the ‘black sun,’ and turns the bottomless depths of melancholy into something that ridicules, unveils, and ultimately destabilizes power.” Read more here.

On September 24, Maia Cruz Palileo will join The Brooklyn Rail contributor Christopher Alessandrini for a Zoom conversation discussing their exhibition The World Tangled in You at our NY gallery. RSVP here.

Ahead of their exhibition at our NY gallery, Maia Cruz Palileo spoke with Brainard Carey on Yale University Radio about their use of archival materials and family oral histories to address themes of displacement and colonization. Listen more here.

Galerie names Maia Cruz Palileo an "Artist to Watch," highlighting their upcoming solo exhibition at our NY gallery and a shift toward dreamlike compositions rooted in family archives, oral history, and immigration. Read more here.

 

Sam McKinniss was commissioned by Cultured Magazine to paint a portrait of Troye Sivan for the cover of its latest issue. Read more here.

The New York Times includes Lauren Halsey’s Metropolitan Museum of Art rooftop commission The Eastside of South Central Los Angeles Hieroglyph Prototype Architecture (I) among "The 25 Sculptures That Define the Modern Age,” selected by a panel of artists and curator including Firelei Báez, Charles Gaines, Adam Pendleton, Arlene Shechet, and Ruba Katrib. Read more here. 

Jenna Gribbon: Entwined, the artist’s first major solo museum exhibition, is currently on view at the Rose Art Museum. In a studio visit with Harper’s Bazaar, Jenna Gribbon spoke with Quinn Moreland about her evolving approach to intimacy and portraiture ahead of the exhibition. Read more here.