Candida Alvarez: Palimpsest GAVLAK Los Angeles September 18 - October 30, 2021 (pictured) GAVLAK is delighted to present Palimpsest, Candida Alvarez’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Born in New York and now based in Chicago and Michigan, Candida was the recipient of the Helen Frankenthaler Award for Painting from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2021, as well as a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant in 2019. Over the past three decades, Alvarez has explored and expanded her conceptually rich, intuitive process of building abstract paintings. ---------------- Paul Stephen Benjamin: Black Is A Color GAVLAK Los Angeles September 18 - October 30, 2021 GAVLAK Los Angeles is pleased to present Atlanta-based artist Paul Stephen Benjamin in his first solo exhibition with the gallery, Black Is A Color. Benjamin’s multimedia practice includes painting, photography, and sculpture, foreground in a conceptual exploration of Blackness.