Surface Streets: Curated by Russell Ferguson

Marian Goodman Gallery is pleased to present Surface Streets, curated by Russell Ferguson, a group exhibition of recent paintings made in Los Angeles. The title of the exhibition, a term that contextually denotes Los Angeles streets (but not freeways), is intended to evoke both the specificity of the local environment and the tactility that is integral to painting. The intergenerational group of artists chosen by Ferguson for this exhibition traces a variety of aesthetics, strategies, and traditions, yet at the same time pays close attention to the physicality of the painted surface which unites them. While many works in Surface Streets depict familiar scenes of everyday urban life, others reach beyond, to a movie set, to an ancient fossil, or even into spaces of fiction and fantasy. 

Surface Streets includes works by Hye-Shin Chun, Kirsten Everberg, Owen Fu, Anna Glantz, Robert Gunderman, James Iveson, Becky Kolsrud, Tidawhitney Lek, Manuel López, Nihura Montiel, Paige Jiyoung Moon, Paul Sietsema, Wilhelm Sasnal, Henry Taylor and Tristan Unrau.

Ferguson will host a public conversation with Glantz, Lek and Unrau at the gallery on Saturday, 13 September at 3 pm.