Final Picks: Our Top Two LA Exhibition Recommendations for the Year Featuring Walead Beshty and Oluwatobi Adewumi

As we head into the holiday break, here are Jody's final exhibition recommendations for the year for everyone who fancies seeing some art. Walead Beshty's "Profit & Loss" at Regen Projects delivers a visually and conceptually rich experience, and Oluwatobi Adewumi's "Journeys of Belonging" at Von Lintel Gallery offers deeply compassionate portraits that explore the immigrant experience. Catch these before they close.

Walead Beshty's current exhibition at Regen Projects is tight, sophisticated, and thoughtful. "Profit & Loss" presents a visually and conceptually rich experience. On view are small-scale black and white photographs, modestly-sized oil pastels, and small concrete sculptures with radio antennas. It also features large-scale mixed media pieces, including collages of actual newspaper pages, textual reproductions from found signs, and commercially printed billboards.

Oluwatobi Adewumi is a Nigerian-born artist who now resides in McNeil, Arkansas. He immigrated to the U.S. after completing a degree in computer science in Nigeria. Although mostly self-taught as an artist, Adewumi is extremely skillful and perceptive. His representational works are beautiful and compassionate portraits of friends and acquaintances, tracing their journeys and the cultural struggles they faced as Black immigrants. These portraits are more of an investigation into people, personalities, and the stories he was told, than about a specific place or time.

Read Jody Zellen's full review for Walead Beshty: Profit & Loss at Regen Projects here, and for Oluwatobi Adewumi: Journeys of Belonging at Von Lintel Gallery here.

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