Description: Luis De Jesus Los Angeles is a contemporary art gallery committed to regional and global art discourse with a particular focus on intersectional diversity. We nurture and support emerging and mid-career artists using traditional, interdisciplinary, and new media methodologies. These artists use conceptual and formal strategies as a critical lens to address a myriad of fundamental and urgent concerns including the social constructs of gender, racial, and subjective identity, the power of aesthetic frameworks
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Sherin Guirguis’s latest body of work has its roots in the 12th-century Sufi poem The Conference of the Birds (Manṭeq al-ṭayr) by Farīd al-Dīn Aṭṭār, which recounts the story group of birds who embark on a journey to find God. During the pandemic, Guirguis and a collective of female and female-identifying artists, writers, and activists would meet regularly to read the work together. For her solo show A’aru // Field of Reeds: Gathering , the Egyptian-born artist uses the story as a jumping-off point for he
Co-organizers Meg Onli and Chrissie Iles select fellow filmmakers, artists, and curators to help develop the unprecedented Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing , opening March 20, 2024. The Whitney Museum of American Art announces the addition of five curators to help lead the film and performance program for the 2024 Whitney Biennial. Co-organizers Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli have invited Korakrit Arunanondchai, asinnajaq, Taja Cheek, Greg de Cuir Jr, and Zackary Drucker to join them in d
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles is very pleased to announce the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's acquisition of two works by Ken Gonzales-Day: Run Up , 2002, a photograph from the Searching for California's Hang Trees series, and Untitled (After Hale Woodruff, Giddap, 1935) , 2021, from the Anti-Lynching Drawings (with Figures Removed) series.
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