Drew Dodge: At The Rainbow's End | Gabby Rosenberg: Kishkas | Zachary Ochoa: Manifest Destiny
6830 Santa Monica Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90038
Saturday, October 21 at 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Ends Nov 18, 2023
Steve Turner is pleased to present At The Rainbow’s End, a solo exhibition by New York-based Drew Dodge that feature new paintings which depict his animal-human figure within a landscape of volcanic rock formations, stalagmite caverns, canyons, cenotes and crystal geodes. Each painting includes a prominently placed skull, which represents both the spiritual and corporeal nature of the figure and landscape. According to the artist, “‘At The Rainbow’s End’ is a sublime place that is both vivid and void, where spirit touches earth, and optimistic imagination meets concrete doom, all within a beautiful illusion.”
Drew Dodge (born 2001, Monterey, California) earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (2022) and has had solo exhibitions at Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2021 & 2022); L21, Palma (2021) and 1969 Gallery, New York (2023).
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Steve Turner is pleased to present Kishkas, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based Gabby Rosenberg which features three new abstract paintings that revisit colors and geometric forms that have appeared throughout past works. For this new series, Rosenberg enlarged details of previous works, and in doing so, created compositions that allude to the body without depicting its exact form. Working without a rigid agenda, the paintings are born from Rosenberg’s more visceral feelings about color and composition. Kishkas, which in Yiddish means gut or intestine, explores how emotion comes to be stored in the body, with the gut serving as a vessel for human instinct.
Gabby Rosenberg (born Chicago, 1992, lives Los Angeles) earned a BA from Hampshire College (2014) and an MFA from CalArts (2018). She has had solo exhibitions at Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2019, 2020 & 2021) and her work has also been included in group exhibitions at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco (2019); Untitled, Miami Beach (2019) and Expo Chicago (2022). This is Rosenberg’s fourth solo exhibition with Steve Turner.
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Steve Turner is pleased to present Manifest Destiny, a solo exhibition by Zachary Ochoa which features recent paintings that conflate the artist’s lived experiences as an Afro-Latinx queer person with the escapades of cartoon characters such as Popeye, Donald Duck and Tweety Bird. According to the artist, “I use the imagery of American cartoons to address the disappearing American Dream and the rise of teen suicide and depression. The characters are stand-ins for me, both psychologically and physically as they also bear my scars and tattoos. They embody darkness and violence, but they are also funny and playful. They enable me to find inner peace and power amidst a constant onslaught of ghetto aggressions.”
Zachary Ochoa (born 1998, Aurora, Illinois) earned a BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (2020). They have had solo exhibitions with Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2021 & 2022) and have had works included in group exhibitions at Spring Break, New York (2021) and Woaw, Hong Kong (2022).