Afters in LA
April 5th - April 18th 2025
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Curated by
Paulette S. Hartman & Emma Aronoff-Aspaturian
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“I wouldn't leave L.A. if the whole place tipped over into the ocean.”
― Eve Babitz, from Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A
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Through mixed media works, ceramic arts, and traditional paintings, Afters in LA explores the unique ecology, fantastical star-studded lore, and rich cultural tapestry of the City of Angels. Some artists in this exhibition have called LA home for their entire lives; others arrived no more than a year ago; all contribute their distinct observations of a metropolis transforming, sprawling, and surging forward into the future.
(Words by Eli Ricanati)
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Artist Featured:
Susan Kaufer Carey
Celine Cuadra
Vannesa De Anda
Dini Dixon
Maya Fuhr
Jake Goelman
Israel Jimenez
Michelle Kim
June Ku
Evan Mendel
Noah Ray
Cal Tabuena-Frolli
Marina Weiner
Gideon Webster
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Featured works (from Right to Left); Evan Mendel's Your Smile Weighs a Ton (2025),
Jake Goelman's Window Shopping (2025), Evan Mendel's Santa Monica Blvd (2024), Vannesa De Anda's The Container (2024), Noah Ray's Seven Bit Silence (2025)
Featured works (from Left to Right);
Michelle Kim's Skirball (2023), Evan Mendel's Midnight Blues (2024), June Ku's Tree of Heaven (2025), Celine Cuadra's A LAbor of Love (2023), Gideon Webster's Wallflower (2024), (from Center) Dini Dixon's Course and Gentile (2024), The Sound of Gravel (2024), We are the Same (2024), Dear One, (2024)
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Featured works (from Left to Right); Jake Goelman's Window Shopping (2025), Susan Kaufer Carey's The Intersection of Here and Now (2025), Israel Jimenez's Fantasmas y Caricaturas (2025)
All photographs are © Emma Aronoff-Aspaturian and may not be used, reproduced, or distributed in any form without prior written permission.