Luis De Jesus Los Angeles is very pleased to announce Liz Collins: Cosmologies, an exhibition of mixed-media textile works on view from November 4 through December 22, 2023. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, November 4, from 4 to 7PM. Liz Collins has long challenged the boundaries of art, fashion, and design with a decades- long commitment to experimenting, innovating, and deconstructing the shape-shifting potentials of textiles. Deeply informed by counter-cultural, punk, and pop movements in fashion and its everyday role in facilitating self-expression, her practice is rooted in a queering of expectations and normative functions. In Cosmologies, Collins materializes her ruminations on origin stories of the universe, mythologies of ethereal forces and energies imbued in objects, signs, and attitudes — the visible and invisible animation of life forces; the vibrations of motion and emotion informing intuition and unspoken communication. ____ Luis De Jesus Los Angeles is very pleased to announce LIA HALLORAN: Warped Side, a new series of paintings exploring the curiosities of warped space-time, on view from November 4 through December 22, 2023. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, November 4, from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. Lia Halloran created over 500 paintings during a 13-year period while making the book The Warped Side of Our Universe: An Odyssey through Black Holes, Wormholes, Time Travel and Gravitational Waves, co-authored by Halloran and Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Kip Thorne. The paintings in Warped Side are a cumulation of the friendship and collaboration between Halloran and Thorne to mobilize science, art, and poetry to explore aspects of the universe that many people are curious about: black holes, wormholes, and other strange phenomena. The exhibition features a selection of paintings published in the book alongside new larger-scaled works representing an expanded view of each chapter in the book. ____ Luis De Jesus Los Angeles is very pleased to announce SHERIN GUIRGUIS: A’aru // Field of Reeds: Gathering, an exhibition of carved paper, mixed-media paintings. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, and her first in Los Angeles since 2018. The exhibition will be on view from November 4 through December 22, 2023. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, November 4th from 4 to 7PM. Sherin Guirguis’ new works are an expansion of A’aru // Field of Reeds which the Egyptian-American artist exhibited during her 2023 residency at Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design in Honolulu, Hawaii. Continuing her dialogue with contemporary and historical antecedents, Guirguis posits cultural identity and intersectional feminisms through an integration of oral histories, abstracted motifs and a consideration of minimalism and ornamentation in non-Western aesthetics.