Renee Petropoulos: Like a Street Full of Friends: Studies for Speculative Monuments
1117 Venice Boulvard, Los Angeles 90015
Wednesday, January 13 at 11:00 AM 5:30 PM
Ends Jan 30, 2021
Veteran Los Angeles artist Renee Petropoulos exhibits a new body of work at as-is.la. Here Petropoulos takes a set of elite cultural references —— the artworks often allude to literary figures important to the 20th century avant-garde —— and sets this sophisticated content into tension with simple, demotic forms —— seventeen elegant, if modestly scaled, works on paper and a single sculptural maquette. The result is a presentation that holds the artist's almost bombastic promise of monuments and monumentality temporarily in abeyance and slyly offers a richer, more subtle experience in its place. On view November 1, 2020 - January 30, 2021 by appointment.