Night Gallery at the Armory Show
Amy Adler, Nice Girl , 2024, oil pastel on canvas, 24" x 18"
For the 2024 Armory Show, Night Gallery is delighted to present work by Amy Adler, Anthony\ Olubunmi Akinbola, Sarah Awad, Barrão, Sarah Blaustein, Carla Edwards, Nasim Hantehzadeh, Tomashi Jackson, JPW3, Grant Levy-Lucero, Sarah Miska, Anna Rosen, Elaine Stocki, Claire Tabouret, Andy Woll, and Clare Woods. The presentation examines how artists draw upon histories of camouflage via strategies of obscuration, concealment, and disguise. Visual artists first developed camouflage patterns during World War I. They drew on Cubist notions of disrupting line and form as they designed military wear to help soldiers evade recognition. Camouflage allowed troops to blend into their surroundings instead of standing out amid the day’s new aerial photography.
Sarah Miska After the Hunt , 2024 acrylic on canvas 40 x 30 in (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
Sarah Miska plays with such tensions between pattern and rupture, fitting in and standing out. She captures the imperfections and grotesqueries of the high-end equestrian world: a mud- spattered blazer and mask, for example, or the stray hairs around a red bow. Miska’s patterns and clothing suggest sartorial traditions such as tartan, used to signify family allegiance.
Amy Adler, Extras, 2023, oil pastel on canvas, 84" x 132"
Adler’s oil pastel works on canvas examine cinematic tropes. Extras—based on a photograph of background actors—features hunky soldiers wearing camouflage pants. The composition explores the performance of masculinity in entertainment and the military. Nice Girl depicts a young woman taking a selfie with a camouflage-covered phone. The device simultaneously hides her from the viewer and exposes her to a greater public.
Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola, Galapagos , 2024, durag on wooden panel, 72" x 72" x 3"
In Akinbola’s “CAMOUFLAGE” series, durags are stretched and sewn beyond recognition. The series title reflects durags’ association with Black identity and evokes how individual durags blend into larger, complex abstractions.
Sarah Awad Sunslip , 2024 oil and vinyl on canvas 66 x 44 in (167.6 x 111.8 cm)
Awad’s paintings feature figures emerging from pictorial space. Bold geometric washes are teased out as anatomy, faces, and appendages. The resulting paintings house fractured bodies camouflaged by abstraction. In an age of ever-increasing scrutiny and surveillance, these artworks reconsider the pleasures and perils of being seen.
About Night Gallery
Night Gallery is the leading platform for emerging artists in Los Angeles. Davida Nemeroff founded the gallery in 2010 in a strip mall storefront of the city’s Lincoln Heights neighborhood. The 10 PM - 2AM openings gave the space its name. In 2013, Night Gallery moved to its current location near LA’s downtown arts district. In January 2022, Night Gallery doubled its footprint by launching Night Gallery North. This expanded, neighboring gallery space comprises 14,000 square feet and supports ambitious installation and sculpture programming. Night Gallery remains the locus of the city's flourishing visual arts community, maintaining its commitment to artists of diverse backgrounds and points of view. The gallery embraces the joyful, experimental approach of its early years while continuing to support its thriving artists in the city and abroad. In 2025, the gallery will celebrate its 15th anniversary.
The Night Gallery will be at The Armory Show at Booth 303 from September 5 to 8, 2024. For more information about the Night Gallery, please visit their site here. Additional information about the Armory Show can be found here and on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Artsy.
