Artist Conversation with Jared Buckhiester and Hilton Als: April 11 | 6 PM 5130 W. Edgewood Pl., Los Angeles RSVP Required No heaven, no how is the first solo exhibition of sculptures, paintings, and works on paper by Jared Buckhiester in Los Angeles, curated by Hilton Als. In a text accompanying the exhibition, Als describes his first time encountering Buckhiester’s work: “Truth to tell, I don't believe I've seen anything like his sculptures before in American art, and with such pretty, little booted feet, too. Torsos, heads that are somewhere between a horse’s and a human’s—or a combination of both—threw me off at first, even as they delighted and mystified me. How can the top half of his sculptures not topple over? Isn't that dreamlike figure on top—in addition to being like something you may have only seen in a dream before—too much for the base (or your mind)? But then you look at Jared’s various sculptures’ bottom half, their base, with their solid little legs—sometimes—wrapped around or growing out of it, and you know how it works even if you don’t. The point is, Jared knows how to put these various elements together with such elegance and authority that he frees us from worry and there they go, his sometimes cowboy-hatted figures entering the wild west space of your mind.”