Glad You re Here: Brad Woodfin @ Thinkspace Projects, Los Angeles
Thinkspace Projects // April 03, 2021 - April 24, 2021
April 02, 2021 | in Painting
Glad You’re Here, a solo exhibition inspired by songs from decades ago.
Filled with sentimentality and a bittersweet melancholy, the paintings for
Glad You’re Here take cues from the moods of certain old songs, including the particular language around sadness: being blue. Woodfin reflects this in the colours of the portraits, the symbolism, and iconography. A self-described fan of devotional art, the experience Woodfin creates is nothing short of poetic. Pulling from an audio medium to a visual one, Woodfin manages to preserve the nostalgic feeling of “Golden Moments,” a grief that buzzes through speakers rising like smoke rings to meet every era. The title only feeds into the experience, intentionally chosen as something that may be a bit disarming to say out loud.
Giorgiko: What Is (and what is not) @ Thinkspace Projects, Los Angeles
Thinkspace Projects // April 03, 2021 - April 24, 2021
April 01, 2021 | in Painting I am inspired by children’s books. I love that words and images can play off each other in a way that can be simple yet lovely, clever, and rich in meaning, says Trisha Inouye, one half of the husband-wife duo (with Darren) that makes up Giorgiko. Their new solo show,
What Is (and what is not), will open at Thinkspace Projects in Los Angeles on April 3, 2021, a culmination of work that is a result of the 2020 apocalypse.
As Thinkspace notes, A perfect pairing, Trisha brings a cuteness and sweet innocence to Giorgiko’s characters while Darren incorporates an underground influence stemming from his love of hip hop dancing and graffiti. Together, blending and juxtaposing street and cute, they create the Giorgiko universe, full of relatable images for wanderers of all ages.
Nigerian art sensation Ken Nwadiogbu is set to debut in the United States with his first solo exhibition at the reputable Thinkspace Projects space located in the burgeoning Los Angeles’ West Adams District.
Nwadiogbu who won the The Future Awards Africa in the Arts (Visual & Applied) catgory will stage his first US solo art exhibition from Saturday March 6, to Saturday March, 27, 2021.
With an eye for uncommon young talents such as Nwadiogbu, the LA based gallery has been at the vanguard of showcasing new contemporary art talents connecting them with the enlightened US art audience comprising curators, collectors, enthusiast and scholars among others.
Ken Nwadiogbu: UBUNTU @ Thinkspace Projects, Los Angeles
Thinkspace Projects // March 06, 2021 - March 27, 2021
March 04, 2021 | in Painting
“My love for drawing faces of everyday people through ripped paper was born from a need to identify Africans in major global contexts,” Ken Nwadiogbu says on the eve of his new solo show,
UBUNTU, at Thinkspace in Los Angeles. “There’ll always be a need to understand and represent people in a different way. This becomes our way of discovering and revealing who we truly are.”
In a truly seminal era for young painters from the African continent, the Nigerian-born Nwadiogbu focuses much of this body of work on the concept of coming full circle. He notes that UBUNTU, the title of the exhibition, can be expressed or translated as the phrase, “I am because we are.” There is weight to this. It speaks to the idea that, as a society and a culture, we share qualities that are passed down through centuries and generations. As we have had
Look Toward the Future, But Not So Far As to Miss Today: Fumi Nakamura @ Thinkspace Projects
Thinkspace Projects // March 06, 2021 - March 27, 2021
March 03, 2021 | in Painting
While Samurai warriors did not make plans for the future, they steadily worked on process, on improvement. Closely associated with cherry blossoms, they also embody that evanescent bloom, as well as the concept of hanakotoba, which, for us, roughly translates into “say it with flowers.” Fumi Nakamura also makes her revelations through flowers in a new solo exhibition, Look Toward the Future,
But Not So Far As to Miss Today, opening March 6th at Thinkspace Projects.