Alma Haser: Cosmic Surgery

DE SOTO GALLERY | ABBOT KINNEY | NOVEMBER 6 - DECEMBER 31, 2016

De Soto Gallery presents Alma Haser’s Cosmic Surgery — 2D portraits, 3D portraits, and free standing paper sculptures. Cosmic Surgery imagined as a medical procedure that people can choose in the not so distant future for aesthetic enhancement, mood alteration, and to thwart increasingly pervasive methods of surveillance. Combining photography with collage and origami, Haser's playfully odd portraits consider the link between identity and image in a culture of visual bombardment. She suggests a fundamental shift in the way we understand ourselves and the world around us, picturing the possibility of a trans-humanist future.

Brian Paumier: Up, Down, Up, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, and Start

DE SOTO GALLERY | ABBOT KINNEY | SEPTEMBER 11 - OCTOBER 23, 2016

De Soto Gallery presents works by Brian Paumier — a series of prints and light boxes that mix photography with reworked 80’s video game graphics and custom motorcycle fabrications. Paumier’s work addresses the mechanics of memory and nostalgia, how recollections are reconstructed over time, and become iconic through repetition. 

Denis Darzacq & Anna Lüneman: Doublemix

DE SOTO GALLERY | ABBOT KINNEY | NOVEMBER 6 - DECEMBER 31, 2016

De Soto Gallery presents Doublemix, an exhibition by gallery artist, Denis Darzacq, and Anna Lüneman. Lüneman’s sculptural abstractions are embedded directly into Darzacq’s laser-cut photographs. The arbitrariness of the photo/sculpture pairings has a neutralizing effect that short-circuits the usual process of reading an image. Selections from Darzacq’s La Chute series are featured upstairs.

Sadie Wechsler: Part 1: Redo

DE SOTO GALLERY | ABBOT KINNEY BLVD | FEBRUARY 27 - APRIL 30, 2016

De Soto Gallery presents photographs by Sadie Wechsler. Part 1: Redo, a collection of images that follows disparate threads of possible futures, picturing an off-kilter world that tends toward extremes.