David Kordansky Gallery is pleased to present 20, a group exhibition celebrating the gallery’s twentieth anniversary, on view in Los Angeles at 5130 W. Edgewood Pl through August 19, 2023.
Since 2003, when it first opened in the Chinatown neighborhood of Los Angeles, David Kordansky Gallery has grown into one of the defining galleries of its generation, as well as one that comprehensively embodies concurrent transformations in the Los Angeles art world and beyond. 20 provides an up-to-the-moment snapshot of the gallery’s program, highlighting the dialogues, correspondences, and distinctions between the members of its diverse community of artists. Featuring many works created especially for this occasion, the exhibition provides windows into the minds of artists who interact with the world, their chosen materials, and their ideas and impressions in singular ways; it also provides a window into a collective experience of artmaking at this particular time, when the world of art has undergone profound structural, geographic, economic, and social changes.
Because David Kordansky Gallery’s evolution directly informed the evolution of Los Angeles as a global hub for contemporary art, 20 tells the story of transformations that are larger and more profound than those contained in any one institution. It also shows how each iteration of the gallery remains present and alive in its current—and still-changing—state. The gallery’s ability to represent the tight-knit, community-based ethos of its first years of activity in Chinatown at international art fairs, for instance, was instrumental in fostering dialogues between young artists in Los Angeles, London, and continental Europe—conversations that are very much ongoing among the artists included in this exhibition.
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