GAVLAK

GAVLAK Los Angeles is pleased to present These Are a Few of My Favorite Things, a group exhibition curated by Michael Sherman featuring Devin Morris, Taha Heydari, Latoya Hobbs, Curtis Talwst Santiago, Tony Shore, Shan Wallace, Amani Lewis, Taina Cruz, Jordan Greenblatt, Ariston Jacks, Monsieur Zohore, James Williams II, Antonio Scott Nichols, Lindsay Adams.

These Are a Few of My Favorite Things is an exhibition regarding vantage, that particular claim on perspective and position that suggests a more effective view. Invested in geographical matters and spatial realities, this exhibition asks how location and sensation orients space. Noting the constructed sway and significance of places of birth and belonging, gestures, arrangements, mediums, materials and colors at play in the artworks within this exhibition lean towards the moods, pitches and affects of places elsewhere. This can be read as an affirmation of not merely the discursive spaces generated around celebrated city centers of various locales, but also the fortuitous presence generated in the presentation of artwork from “elsewhere,” and in doing so, bringing these places of longing and belonging to the gallery. Alternatively, These Are a Few of My Favorite Things supposes that the engineering necessary in fostering both artistic careers and aesthetic endeavors is, in fact, a structure defined by its mutable design and un-locatableness: A thing which is about site, but not located in-situ. The vantage invoked by the exhibition-making points to this redirection, moving land, memories, and the textures of making to(wards) here, reminding us that there is still more to see.