Exhibition
Read No Read
23 Jul 2022 – 10 Sep 2022
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- 1010 North Highland Avenue
- Los Angeles
California - 90038
- United States
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is pleased to present READ NO READ, a group exhibition organized by Lisa Williamson. Artists included are: Sarah Conaway, Sid M. Duenas, Merideth Hillbrand, Nicole Miller, Ragen Moss, Chadwick Rantanen, and Rosha Yaghmai.
About
READ NO READ brings together the work of seven artists based in Southern California. The artists and the respective artworks presented in this exhibition, while distinct from one another, share a layered approach to language and a concentrated relationship to form. Whether an object, an image, a text, or an amalgamation, the ways in which artists choose to articulate or obfuscate carries meaning — it has weight.Artworks are strange containers, forms authored by the artist to convey some thing or idea, while also maintaining a certain resistance. This negotiation between visibility and concealment, between what is legible and what is left intentionally obtuse, is perhaps one reason that art remains such an infinite and compelling read. In certain instances within this exhibition, meaning(s) rest on the surface of an artwork, worn on the sleeve of a form, while in other moments there is the embedding of intent, a language that is held on to, or in keeping with metaphor — kept close to the vest. Moving from the immediate read to the slow, from transparency to opacity, the ability for artists to construct language and to embody ideas is seismic, grounding, and vast.