Night Gallery's New Group Show is a Marriage of 'Form and Feeling'
Works that are anything but surface-level.
Night Gallery presents Form and Feeling, a dynamic group exhibition featuring the works of Tony Bluestone, Strauss Bourque-LaFrance, Tomashi Jackson, Sahar Khoury, RJ Messineo, Marisa Takal, Zoe Walsh and Sarah Zapata. Across a suite of sculptures and paintings, the show invites viewers to critically consider how emotions are encoded into materiality and find life in the objects we create.
Infused with the modernist ethos, where form served both as a method of controlling expression and a channel for new means of feeling, each work indulges in its own affective realm. From melting textiles to thick, buttery brushstrokes sprawled across canvases, the exhibition faces this journey of emotion, headfirst, unafraid and daring in its visual approach.
Curated by Ashton Cooper, Form and Feeling takes a captivating lean into the sensory charge of artistic form and embraces the questions and answers that come along the way. Writing on these questions of affection, Cooper notes, “In meandering ways, I found myself continually moving back toward them, wanting to take them seriously, wondering how to talk about embodied feeling and phenomenological experience without being suffocated by the foundational myth of the expressive artistic genius.”
The exhibition is now on view in Los Angeles through January 18, 2025.
Night Gallery South
2276 E 16th Street,
Los Angeles CA 90021
