David Kordansky Gallery is celebrating 20 years in business with a new group exhibition that chronicles its rapid ascension in the Los Angeles area and the art world at-large. Ceremoniously dubbed 20, the show will include paintings, sculptures and installations by Chase Hall, Valentin Carron, Jonas Wood, the late-Sam Gilliam, Lesley Vance, Fred Eversley, Adam Pendleton, Torbjørn Rødland, Matthew Brannon, John Armleder, David Altmejd, Mario Ayala, Rashid Johnson, Guan Xiao and many more.
Founded in 2003 in LA’s Chinatown neighborhood, the gallery still operates with an artist-first mentality, which has translated in fruitful dialogues between creatives of varying backgrounds which persists to this day. For 20, there will be a number of artworks specially made for the occasion, including new paintings by San Diego-based artist Raul Guerrero and LA-based artist Mary Weatherford, along with a series of emphatic works from the likes of Ruby Neri, Betty Woodman, Lucy Bull and Shahryar Nashat, as well as art by Tom of Finland and Lauren Halsey.
From moving spaces to Culver City in 2008 and Mid-City in 2014 to opening a brand new location in New York in 2022, the gallery has continued to expand its horizons, while maintaining a clear bridge between disparate cultures, backgrounds, mediums and time periods as the driving force behind its programming. “For the entirety of its twenty-year history, David Kordansky Gallery has sought to provide a container whose clarity, care, and heart enable artists to engage in such communication as openly and as fearlessly as possible,” wrote a release by the gallery. “20 is, in this respect, no more and no less than another show. Inasmuch as it commemorates the past and posits new directions for the future, the exhibition is primarily oriented toward making space for what its four dozen artists have to say today, about today. It is, in other words, a celebration of the current moment.”
The exhibition is currently on view at David Kordansky’s flagship gallery until August 9.
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David Kordansky Gallery
5130 W Edgewood Pl
Los Angeles, CA 90019
