February 25 through April 15, 2023 Opening Reception: Saturday, February 25, 6-9 pm More than any other city, Los Angeles is shaped by the immigrants who make it their home. So it’s fitting that, in a new show at Bermudez Projects, an immigrant is breathing new life into another transplant that has been a ubiquitous [...]
January 28 through February 18, 2023 Opening Reception: Saturday, January 28, 6-9 pm Joshua trees are the sentinels of the Mojave, standing like scarecrows. But now, they’re more like storm crows, waving their arms to warn of impending doom, for us and for them. And in the new show, Joshua at the Bermudez Projects gallery [...]
December 17, 2022 through January 14, 2023 Opening Reception: Saturday, December 17, 6-9 pm Bermudez Projects in Cypress Park, never a safe space for art snobs, is about to open what may be its most shocking exhibit: “Thrifty,” a serious tribute to thrift store art, co-curated by the Los Angeles Times’ Patt Morrison and 89.3-KPCC’s [...]
November 12 through December 10, 2022 Opening Reception: Saturday, November 12, 6-9 pm Over the 9 years Erynn Richardson has been showing at Bermudez Projects, she has achingly portrayed the destruction humans have wrought on the natural world. In her new show, Future Fables, it turns out humankind has succeeded in destroying all animals that [...]
September 3 through October 29, 2022 Extended through October 29, 2022 Opening Reception: Saturday, September 3, 6-9 pm The war is over, the artists have regrouped and rebuilt, and can now finally take stock of what was lost. It turns out, a lot. Following iterations like Aftermath, Unification, and War, Bermudez Projects’ long-running biennial, SPACELAND, [...]
July 30 through August 27, 2022 Opening Reception: Saturday, July 30, 6-9 pm The fifth and final part of Bermudez Projects’ groundbreaking series FAST FORWARD is finally here! The first four exhibits in the series broke down artists by race, gender, and sexuality. But FAST FORWARD | The Future Is Equal, which opens July 30 says “Fuck that [...]
June 25 through July 23, 2022 Opening Reception: Saturday, June 25, 6-9 pm The fourth installment of Bermudez Projects’ groundbreaking look into the future of art arrives Saturday in Cypress Park, with FAST FORWARD | The Future is Queer. America is finally beginning to open up to treating art by women, people of color, and [...]
May 21 through June 18, 2022 Opening Reception: Saturday, May 21, 6-9 pm The Future is Brown saw the juxtaposition of Chicano legends like Carlos Almaraz and Frank Romero and their literal and figurative artistic progeny. The Future is Female showed how long-gone Blue Chip artists like Louise Nevelson are still conversing with women working [...]
April 16 through May 14, 2022 Opening Reception: Saturday, April 16, 6-9 pm With barely a pause to catch its breath after The Future Is Brown, which paired the works of veteran Chicano and Latino artists with up-and-comers, Bermudez Projects opens the second installment of its audacious FAST FORWARD series with FAST FORWARD | The [...]
March 19 through April 9, 2022 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 19, 6-9 pm Bermudez Projects is excited to announce the first installment of an ambitious 5-part series of exhibitions looking at the future of art. FAST FORWARD | The Future Is… presents works by key figures in Black, Latinx, Women, and Queer art history, juxtaposed with [...]
January 15 through February 26, 2022 Opening Reception: Saturday, January 22, 6-9 pm Carlos Almaraz (1941-1989) painted murals and giant oils, works that burst with color and images of Echo Park, car crashes, and other aspects of life in LA. Most of these original works are out of reach of the common man now. But [...]
December 4, 2021 through February 26, 2022 Opening Reception: Saturday, December 4, 6-8 pm. Bermudez Projects is proud to present Robert Martin: TWO BUCKS, the third exhibit in our gallery’s new installation-based space dedicated solely to BIPOC + LGBTQIA artists. In TWO BUCKS, Martin creates an imagined queer space which stakes claim over certain Midwestern dive bar aesthetics. [...]
November 13 through December 31, 2021 Opening Reception Saturday, November 13, 6-9 pm As the climate emergency progresses inexorably, we’re going to have to adapt to the changes it will bring to our world. And we’re going to have to learn to mourn the things it kills. It’s not going to be pretty. In A Wake [...]
Robert Martin, Marty's Ring, Mother's Shame + Truvada, 2021 Robert Martin’s works bring forward the myriad aspects of queerness in the pedagogy of Wildlife art. By utilizing already established iconography and then tilting the narrative through the inclusion of queer symbology, the artist subverts the visual language of this romanticized [...]
LETICIA MALDONADO | Autonoetic July 10 through August 28, 2021 Opening Reception: Saturday, July 10, 6-9 pm Why does Leticia Maldonado work in neon? Maybe it’s because of the pizzazz of Vegas, where Maldonado grew up. "My mom was a cocktail waitress whose shift finished at 3am. Even on school nights, my stepdad would wake [...]
November 14 through December 26, 2020 Extended through January 16, 2021! Opening Reception: Saturday, November 14, 6-9 pm Bermudez Projects is excited to present Metamorphosis, an exhibition of paintings and prints by LA artist Yolanda González. This is the artist’s first solo show at the gallery. For more than four decades, Yolanda González’s paintings and [...]
September 12 through October 24, 2020 Opening reception: Saturday, September 12, 6-9 pm SPACELAND began 8 years ago as a biennial outgrowth of Bermudez Projects, Los Angeles’ ultrainnovative art and performance venue. At the time, Bermudez said “I wanted the artists to capture LA, so I simply gave the them three key words that sum [...]
August 1 through August 29, 2020 This Side of Eden, a group exhibition featuring the works of 7 artists, including Carlos Almaraz, Emmanuel Crespo, Cody Norris, Josh Patterson, John S. Rabe, Frank Romero, and Ana Serrano, explores the myriad interpretations of natural, urban, and hybrid environments. Directing their attention to landscapes, each artist brings to [...]
Dear Friends, I hope that you and your loved ones are at home, safe and healthy. My thoughts and prayers go out to all those affected by the Coronavirus pandemic – from the victims to everyone suffering economically from all the shutdowns. To say that the past few weeks have been filled with uncertainty and [...]
Jesse K. Phillips’ ontological creations question the very meaning of “being” itself and of our experience of reality as well. His multimedia sculptural installations integrated with light and sound serve as an entrance into the cusp of transition, a threshold of consciousness – a middle stage full of ambiguity around points of reflection. [...]
Josh Patterson’s photographic material often leaves people asking, “How did he get that shot?” – the mist burning off the forest floor, the haunted cabin, the elusive Mustang. Naturally, as spectators enraptured by his innate skills, we can sense Patterson by our side on that trip, guiding us to his discoveries. He [...]
There is a palpable tension that is inescapable when confronting Norris’ paintings. This tension is felt most strongly when encountering a painting that has much of its surface charred away or has been blurred, resembling an old daguerreotype. The driving force behind Norris’ poignant, atmospheric oil paintings of endangered landscapes in America [...]
Maximiliano Navarrete fearlessly expresses several of his own sexual encounters, which have left long-lasting marks on his life. From his first threesome to his first anonymous encounter outside in an overgrown field, each moment was faced with some level of danger. Navarrete is able to work through the challenges of these experiences [...]
Leticia Maldonado’s mastery over shaping (known in neon parlance as bending) is visible throughout her artistic oeuvre. Intricate roses, delicate birds, and hard sgraffito’d surfaces illustrate a passion for the craft, as well as an innate understanding of transforming emotions into sculpture. A relative newcomer to the Los Angeles art scene, Maldonado [...]
Popular culture, queer iconography, politics, sex, and images of beauty all inspire Enrique Castrejon’s mesmerizing artworks. Through mathematical equations, the artist meticulously transforms graphic imagery into geometric abstractions by measuring distances between points. In creating rigid shapes – fragments – Castrejon challenges our perceptions of what is real, forcing us to think [...]
Dear Friends, This message is to update you about the status of Bermudez Projects as we are working to prevent COVID-19. As you know, our openings are always fun and affectionate events. However, given the current situation, this might not be the safest thing to do, now. Therefore, upon careful consideration - and great regret [...]
JOIN US AT THE GALLERY! | VIEWING APPOINTMENTS NOW AVAILABLE THURSDAY | FRIDAY | SATURDAY 1:30 / 2:30 / 3:30 / 4:30 / 5:30 FACE MASKS MUST BE WORN BY EACH GUEST & PHYSICAL DISTANCING OF 6 FEET BETWEEN VISITORS AND EMPLOYEES AT ALL TIMES 6 GUESTS PER VISIT MAKE AN APPOINTMENT Emmanuel Crespo [...]
January 11 through February 29, 2020 Opening reception: Saturday January 11, 7-10 pm In 2018, Josh Patterson took Bermudez Projects on a medium-focus Sojourn to the wilds around Southern California, in a show that often left us asking, “How did he get that shot?” – the mist burning off the forest floor, the haunted cabin, the elusive Mustang – and we [...]
November 9 through December 28, 2019 Opening Reception: Saturday, November 9, 7-10 pm For half a dozen years, artist Erynn Richardson has been best known for her somber explorations of the boundary between people and nature and the lethal interaction it can represent. Often, in her work, she has “reanimated” the creatures slain by hunters [...]
October 5 through November 30, 2019 Opening Reception: Saturday, October 5, 7-10 pm Bermudez Projects | DTLA Bermudez Projects is proud to present Wilfredo Santana Magic Queerdoms: Drag Deities, the artist’s debut solo exhibit at our DTLA space. In Magic Queerdoms, Santana channels the transformative (and healing) power of the Drag Queen while simultaneously articulating their otherworldly qualities [...]
September 7 through October 26, 2019 Opening Reception: Saturday, September 7, 7-10 pm “My grandmother used to say, ‘When fear comes to visit, you invite it in so you can sit across from it and learn its face,’” says artist Nanci Amaka. In her new exhibit at Bermudez Projects NELA/Cypress Park, Amaka uses her grandmother’s [...]
July 13 through August 31, 2019 Opening Reception: Saturday, July 13, 7-10 pm Bermudez Projects is proud to present Leticia Maldonado Should you need us…, the artist’s debut solo exhibit at our NELA/Cypress Park space. The exhibit presents an array of large scale neon sculptures, as well as smaller, intimate pieces offering viewers a chance for [...]
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June 8 through July 27, 2019 Opening Reception: Saturday, June 8, 7-10 pm As we celebrate Los Angeles Pride Month, Bermudez Projects is excited to present our latest exhibit, Luke Reichle | Covet, featuring a series of field paintings and sketches by the artist as he examines the physical and psychological aspects of desire, pleasure-seeking, [...]
April 20 through May 25, 2019 Opening Reception: Saturday, April 20, 7-10PM With his debut solo exhibit here in the United States, Mexican artist Maximiliano Navarrete addresses the myriad facets of peripheral sexualities, gender identity, and new masculinities through his explicit (and highly arousing) homoerotic illustrations. In the series, Memorias del Campo (Field Memories), Navarrete [...]
March 9 through April 27, 2019 Extended through May 18, 2019 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 9, 7-10PM Bermudez Projects is proud to present Gordon Henderson | Unknown Landmarks, a new exhibit of over 20 paintings on view at Bermudez Projects | NELA/Cypress Park through April 27, 2019. With his keen eye and mindful sensibility, Henderson [...]
February 2 through 23, 2019 Opening Reception: Saturday, February 2, 7-10 pm Bermudez Projects is excited to present We Now Interrupt Our Scheduled Programming, featuring the newly-released series of limited-edition prints published exclusively by Bermudez Projects | Editions. Artists include Emmanuel Crespo, John S. Rabe and Ana Serrano. Each print is numbered and signed, by [...]
November 10 through December 29, 2018 Extended through January 26! Opening Reception: Saturday, November 10, 7-10PM Bermudez Projects is delighted to present To the Moon and Back, Emmanuel Crespo’s latest exhibit and book launch party at Bermudez Projects | NELA/Cypress Park on Saturday, November 10 from 7-10 PM. With his first-ever children’s book, Crespo takes [...]
September 8 through October 8, 2018 Opening Reception: Saturday, September 8, 7-10PM Bermudez Projects proudly presents SPACELAND IV | Unification, the fourth iteration of the multi-exhibit SPACELAND Biennial series. On view through October 27, 2018, the exhibit highlights the binding thread that aesthetically, artistically, and philosophically unifies the ethos of Bermudez Projects. Through paintings, photography, [...]
By Chris Greenspon, Features Writer, Bermudez Projects The Vincent Price Art Museum’s Soul Mining show takes on a difficult subject: Asian assimilation in Latino communities and countries. The pain and isolation of it should make you feel like an outsider upon entry. Your first pan around the gallery includes all the right geography to [...]
Ana Serrano’s Urban Oases Words by Marc Haefele, Senior Arts Writer, Bermudez Projects So charming and evocative are Ana Serrano’s creations that you want to knock on their little doors, then peer inside – curious at what they may contain. Serrano terms them sculpture. You might call them “habitations.” They [...]
Words by Marc Haefele, Senior Arts Writer, Bermudez Projects Johnny Taylor’s paintings reiterate a lifetime of travel and study, meditation and movement. There is a Japanese aesthetic, a classical Chinese modality, and an overlay of pure nature, such as suffuses both Japan and his home base in Vancouver, British Columbia. His [...]
Topsy Transmuted Words by Marc Haefele, Senior Arts Writer, Bermudez Projects “Oh Lord, Miss Eva, I is tryin’!” said Topsy, wiping the tears from her eyes. “But Lor’ it is so hard to be good! `Pears like I ain‘t used to it, no ways.” “Jesus knows it, Topsy; he is very sorry for you; [...]
April 14 through June 16, 2018 Extended through July 14, 2018 Opening Reception: Saturday, April 14, 7-10PM Hosted by Brad and George Takei For nearly a decade, former public radio personality John S. Rabe has been documenting the gritty and sublime of Los Angeles. This new show, Come and Get It!, samples works from throughout Rabe’s [...]
March 24 through May 26, 2018 Extended through June 23, 2018 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 24, 7-10PM Bermudez Projects’ latest exhibit takes you into the woods … and into the desert … and into the mountains, with Josh Patterson, whose photographic eye matches his urge to be where people aren’t. In 15 mostly black-and-white photographic [...]
February 17 through March 31, 2018 Opening Reception: Saturday, February 17, 7-10PM Bermudez Projects is proud to announce Ana Serrano’s La Yarda, the artist’s debut solo exhibit at Bermudez Projects | NELA/Cypress Park. Spanglish for “front yard,” La Yarda presents a series of new sculptural works – both three-dimensional and two-dimensional, relief style – highlighting [...]
November 11 through December 30, 2017 Extended through January 27, 2018 Opening Reception: Saturday, November 11, 7-10PM Bermudez Projects, in partnership with the AltaMed Art Collection, proudly presents Ghetto Gloss | The Chicana Avant-Garde, 1980-2010 as part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA’s Participating Gallery Program. Ghetto Gloss, on view at Bermudez Projects | NELA/Cypress Park, [...]
October 7 through November 25, 2017 Extended through February 24, 2018 Opening Reception: Saturday, October 7, 7-10PM What motivates an artist’s work? In the case of Cody Norris, the driving force behind his poignant, atmospheric oil paintings of endangered landscapes in America is questioning what gets lost along the way of life – in progress [...]
With exacting precision and attention to detail, Los Angeles-born Ana Serrano has become widely known for her cardboard constructions of dwellings and urban landscapes. A first generation Mexican American, Serrano is inspired by the dual cultural contexts of her upbringing. Utilizing various media, including acrylic, paper, collage, and cardboard, Serrano’s artworks capture [...]
September 9 through October 28, 2017 Opening Reception: Saturday, September 9, 7-10PM Before he became a constellation, the mythical Orion was a giant hunter with a big club and a propensity for forcing himself on chaste goddesses like Artemis. A Bronze Age Hemmingway, he came to a bad end after he vowed to kill every [...]
July 8 through August 26, 2017 Opening Reception: Saturday, July 8, 7-10PM It is obvious that Jesse K. Phillips’ family is quite important to him. The ambient sound installation that fills the entire gallery at Bermudez Projects | NELA/Cypress Park includes the heartbeat of his newly-born daughter, recorded while she was still in utero. Aptly [...]
June 10 through July 29, 2017 Opening Reception: Saturday, June 10, 7-10PM The bust is a form of statuary originating in ancient times. For more than 3,300 years, ever since the Creation of the famous image of Nertiti, it has served as a kind of anecdotal statue – a head, neck, and shoulder portrait in [...]
May 13 through June 24, 2017 Opening Reception: Saturday, May 13, 7-10PM Bermudez Projects proudly presents Johnny Taylor | Hidden Cities, the artist's third solo exhibit in Los Angeles. Taylor’s paintings reiterate a lifetime of travel and study, meditation and movement. There is a Japanese aesthetic, a classical Chinese modality, and an overlay of pure [...]
March 11 through April 29, 2017 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 11, 7-10PM After more than five years of hosting leading-edge gallery shows in the heart of Downtown LA, Bermudez Projects has announced the opening of an expansive second exhibition location in a brand-new building in Northeast LA’s trendifying Cypress Park. It is just a block [...]
Bermudez Projects Announces Spacious New Arts Venue, Ambitious Program, in Northeast Los Angeles Words by Marc Haefele, Senior Arts Writer, Bermudez Projects After more than five years of hosting leading-edge gallery shows in the heart of Downtown LA, Bermudez Projects has announced the opening of an expansive second exhibition location in a brand-new building [...]
James Turrell’s Light Reignfall at LACMA Words by Katrina Mohn, Arts Writer, Bermudez Projects Seeing is seeing. There is no place where that is more apparent than in James Turrell’s Light Reignfall. The piece, which pulls directly from the artist’s investigations into sensory deprivation from the 1970s, situates the viewer isolated, prone, and encapsulated in [...]
Words by Marc Haefele, Senior Arts Writer, Bermudez Projects Eleven years after his death at 41, legendary installation artist Jason Rhoades finally has his first big retrospective in his adopted home town of Los Angeles. Covering two-thirds of an acre at Hauser, Wirth & Schimmel’s sprawling DTLA showplace, it will amaze many and, as Rhoades [...]
Dreamland: A Frank Romero Retrospective at MOLAA Words by Katrina Mohn, Arts Writer, Bermudez Projects Frank Romero is defined by a multitude of identities throughout his retrospective at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach (up now through May 21, 2017). He is a painter, an activist, a sculptor, a Chicano muralist – [...]
Currently no exhibitions on view. Please view our Upcoming Exhibitions or Past Exhibitions.
December 10, 2016 through January 14, 2017 Opening Reception, Saturday, December 10, 7-10PM We’ve known it from childhood as a fairy tale with a happy ending, but scholars say that the Hansel and Gretel story is really rooted in the tragic European past of over 700 years ago, in a scary time when famine was [...]
October 29 through November 26, 2016 Opening Reception: Saturday, October 29, 7-10PM Kellan Shanahan tells us that “Nature itself is the greatest teacher.” He is an astronaut of the universe within us. His ink-on-paper renderings – both in color and black and white – suggest correspondences between the smallest of organisms, patterns and perceptions and [...]
The Sex Columnist, PR Guru, and Author of Porn Again: A Memoir Goes in Deep About His Coming-of-Age Story Words by Julian Bermudez, Director, Bermudez Projects Editor's Note: A Blind Date is our newest feature presenting interviews with special guests working in the creative fields. By their very nature, book covers are designed to attract attention. [...]
The London School Continues Rattling the Cage Words by Katrina Mohn, Arts Writer, Bermudez Projects A criticism that has been leveled at the London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, and Kitaj exhibit, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum through November 14, 2016, is a lack of standardized style and absence of a [...]
Kellan Shanahan Illustrates How Nature is Still the Greatest Teacher Words by Marc Haefele, Senior Arts Writer, Bermudez Projects Kellan Shanahan tells us that “Nature itself is the greatest teacher.” He is an astronaut of the universe within us. His ink-on-paper renderings – both in color and black and white – suggest correspondences between the [...]
Artists Assemble at the Museum of Latin American Art Words by Chris Greenspon, Features Writer, Bermudez Projects “There’s a certain Mexican way of telling a joke, a really dramatic kind of irony,” said Felipe Flores, founder of Trabajo Press. “There’s this kind of ‘the world’s against me’ type thing, like we just can’t win, but [...]
Bermudez Projects Steps in with a Razor-Sharp Biennial Exhibit Words by Katrina Mohn, Arts Writer, Bermudez Projects In a moment of loosely outlined biennials, Bermudez Projects steps in with a razor-sharp focus on what a biannual group exhibition can be. Not only does SPACELAND, now on its third chapter, coalesce around a theme – it [...]
October 29 through November 26, 2016 Opening Reception: Saturday, October 29, 7-10PM Kellan Shanahan tells us that “Nature itself is the greatest teacher.” He is an astronaut of the universe within us. His ink-on-paper renderings – both in color and black and white – suggest correspondences between the smallest of organisms, patterns and perceptions and [...]
September 10 through October 8, 2016 Opening Reception, Saturday, September 10, 7-10PM Bermudez Projects proudly presents SPACELAND III | Aftermath, the third chapter in what is now the SPACELAND Biennial series. In this follow up to 2014's SPACELAND II | Escape from Spaceland – which presented a view [...]
Words by Marc Haefele, Senior Arts Writer, Bermudez Projects The two and a half acres of galleries at Hauser, Wirth & Schimmel, spread over a full downtown city block and among several buildings, feel measureless to man. The spaces themselves seem to be on display. Skylights and clerestories ascend from roofs several stories up and [...]
Words by Chris Greenspon, Features Writer, Bermudez Projects "Tonight is really about play,” says Caledonia Curry, the artist known as Swoon. “Vanity was kind of a playful reference, because we wanted to use human beings as canvas.” Vanity is the theme of Swoon’s collaborative exhibit at Superchief Gallery L.A., Pearly’s Beauty Shop, curated by Superchief [...]
Words by Marc Haefele, Senior Arts Writer, Bermudez Projects "Telling artists that you do collage is like an insult – like saying you do scrap-booking,” asserts Long Island-based collagist Amanda Beckmann. “They feel it is crafts-fair stuff.” But to Beckmann, collage is great art – just as it was to greats like George Braque and [...]
Words by Marc Haefele, Senior Arts Writer, Bermudez Projects In an interview not long ago, Los Angeles painter Alison Saar said of African American artists that “there is some tendency toward their taking the real heavy stuff and adding some levity to it.” Certainly this has been true of her work in the past. But [...]
Made In L.A. 2016: a, the, though, only @ The Hammer Museum Through August 28, 2016 Don’t let its esoteric subtitle fool you. This third iteration of the Hammer Museum’s biennial exhibit highlights the methodologies of artists working throughout Los Angeles. Extending beyond traditional visual culture, the exhibit includes other disciplines such as dance, literature, [...]
Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium @ The Getty Center Through July 31, 2016 One of the most influential visual artists of the 20th century, Robert Mapplethorpe’s retrospective is so huge, it requires two museums to show it (the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is the other)! This show at The Getty Center examines [...]
Words by Marc Haefele, Senior Arts Writer, Bermudez Projects Emmanuel Crespo’s broad-spectrum personal iconography includes whales, paper boats, grasshoppers, goldfish, umbrellas and other images drawn from the bottomless depths of his imagination and memory. It is the juxtaposition of these immaculately rendered creatures and objects, sometimes conjoined and sometimes simply hovering in space, that [...]
Words by Marc Haefele, Senior Arts Writer, Bermudez Projects Wave your hand at a bright object like a small desklamp and out pours a generous stream into the greenish crystal sink of the master bathroom of the Sheats-Lautner-Goldstein house. If you remove the long glass prism that serves as the plug, the water drains [...]
Words by Chris Greenspon, Features Writer, Bermudez Projects “F**k if I know.” That’s what Andy Morahan said when Rolling Stone asked him what Axl Rose meant by the symbolism in a trio of bizarre Guns N’ Roses videos he directed. When asked if I liked Guns N’ Roses enough to analyze this trilogy for [...]
April 23 through June 4, 2016 Opening Reception: Saturday, April 23, 7-10PM Emmanuel Crespo’s broad-spectrum personal iconography includes whales, paper boats, grasshoppers, goldfish, umbrellas and other images drawn from the bottomless depths of his imagination and memory. It is the juxtaposition of these immaculately rendered creatures and objects, sometimes conjoined and sometimes simply hovering in [...]
Emmanuel Crespo | The Mythmaker April 23 through June 4, 2016 Opening Reception: Saturday, April 23, 7-10PM Emmanuel Crespo’s broad-spectrum personal iconography includes whales, paper hats, grasshoppers, goldfish, umbrellas and other images drawn from the bottomless depths of his imagination and memory. It is the juxtaposition of these immaculately rendered creatures and objects, sometimes conjoined [...]
THE REVIEW ISSUE 001 | The First Issue Editor’s Note Welcome to our first issue of The Review, Bermudez Projects’ new online magazine! Since presenting our first exhibit back in 2003, our commitment to providing you greater access to visual art and culture has continued through our multi-platform programming. Our exhibits, publications, events, video/sound [...]
Catherine Opie: 700 Nimes Road @ MOCA Pacific Design Center Through May 8, 2016 Catherine Opie’s latest body of work, inspired by William Eggleston’s images of Graceland, presents a deeply intimate portrait of one of the world’s most fascinating women, Elizabeth Taylor. Taken over the course of six months at the late-actress’ Bel-Air residence, [...]
Words by Marc Haefele, Senior Arts Writer, Bermudez Projects Missouri-born Sean Sullivan’s artworks can remind you of the Action paintings of 60 or 70 years ago. It particularly partakes of the work of Action Abstract creators like Jackson Pollack, whose “canvas as an arena” connected the viewer with the subconscious inner self. There is [...]
Words by Marc Haefele, Senior Arts Writer, Bermudez Projects Architects Kohn Pedersen Fox’s Petersen Museum is mostly about externals. It looks like a great heap of molten peppermint candy. Like Tom Wolfe’s “The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby,” you think: cars as sweets. What could be better than a Meta-Modern confectionary box to confine all [...]
Words by Lloyd Galbraith, Guest Writer, Bermudez Projects Camilla Taylor’s artwork demands introspection. Her recent exhibition at the Bermudez Projects space in Downtown Los Angeles offered viewers an opportunity to connect with it and, ultimately her, on a deeper, visceral level. Upon entering the gallery, the first thing noticeable was the unconventional placement of [...]
Sean Patrick Sullivan | Blur February 20 through March 26, 2016 Opening Reception: Saturday, February 20, 7-10PM Sean Patrick Sullivan, Ascension, 2015. Oil and gesso on panel. Courtesy of the Artist and Bermudez Projects, Los Angeles. Sean Patrick Sullivan, Ascension, 2015. Oil and gesso on panel. Courtesy of the Artist and Bermudez Projects, [...]
February 20 through March 26, 2016 Opening Reception: Saturday, February 20, 7-10PM Bermudez Projects is proud to present the debut solo exhibition of Sean Patrick Sullivan | Blur, opening February 20, 2016 at its sky-lit space in Downtown Los Angeles. Missouri-born Sullivan’s painting can remind you of the Action painting of 60 or 70 years [...]
Camilla Taylor, Waiting Shadows, 2015. One is a suite of 12 intaglio (etchings). Ink on cotton rag. 10 x 8 inches. Courtesy of the Artist and Bermudez Projects, Los Angeles. All rights reserved. Opening Reception Saturday, November 7, 7-10PM RSVP at info@bermudezprojects.com (Note our new email address) The hauntingly beautiful and brooding artworks of Camilla [...]
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November 7 through December 19, 2015 Opening Reception: Saturday, November 7, 7-10PM The hauntingly beautiful and brooding artworks of Camilla Taylor beckon audiences to draw ever closer toward them in order to achieve a deeper understanding of their own thoughts or desires. Inciting profound introspection and analysis, each artwork serves as a catalyst, actualizing feelings [...]
Bermudez Projects is proud to announce that Enrique Castrejon is one of the participating artists in the Craft & Folk Art Museum's "Paperworks" exhibition opening this September. Curated by Howard Fox, LACMA's Curator Emeritus of Contemporary Art, the exhibition features a wonderful range of contemporary artists who use cut paper to create visually stunning works [...]
Vol. 90 August 27, 2012 – Print the August 27, 2012 Issue AUGUST 27, 2012 Light Years is an non-cynical look at Los Angeles, a great starting point for new arrivals, and refreshing for long-time residents. Opens September 1 at Bermudez Projects. […]
Call her “The Re-Animator.” In her new show at Bermudez Projects in Downtown Los Angeles, Erynn Richardson brings back to life the deer that hunters across America stalk, kill, stuff, and display; and turns them into nigh-religious icons. Richardson, who earned her MFA at California State University, Long Beach, says, “In my artistic practice I [...]
September 5 through October 24, 2015 Opening Reception: September 5, 7-10PM Call her “The Re-Animator.” In her new show at Bermudez Projects in Downtown Los Angeles, Erynn Richardson brings back to life the deer that hunters across America stalk, kill, stuff, and display; and turns them into nigh-religious icons. Richardson, who earned her MFA [...]
July 18 through August 15, 2015 Private Collectors Reception: Saturday, July 18, 7-10PM […]
Erynn Richardson’s intricately constructed mixed-media etchings and beautiful ink and watercolor drawings belie the truth that the artist is indeed a reluctant romantic. Through her artworks, the artist attempts to capture the very essence of objects she struggles not to be attached to. Yet, by the extremely elaborate nature of her work process, [...]
From 2006-2017, as host of 89.3-KPCC’s Off-Ramp, John S. Rabe delighted local public radio listeners with broadcasts combining the best journalistic practices with his highly personal style. Through his photography, Rabe mirrors his broadcast style and offers a take on Los Angeles never seen before. These images can only be described as psychedelic, [...]
Emmanuel Crespo’s fantastical imaginings are dreamlike apparitions of his own personal journey. Through his body of work, the artist uncovers and interprets symbolic meanings and narratives in his life and the world around him. Each painting presents a cast of recurring characters created to uncover these narratives, which according to the artist, [...]
Amanda Beckmann’s beautifully rendered artworks are like spending a long, lazy afternoon in the best vintage store imaginable, leafing through dog-eared books and magazines, stroking old silk Rooster® ties and the Bakelite cabinets of vintage radios, picking up gold-leafed barware and imagining the cocktails they held. Each mixed-media collage is a visual kaleidoscope [...]
Nanci Amaka is an interdisciplinary conceptual artist exploring ideas surrounding trauma, memory, and the liminal space between experience and language. Working from the theory that traumatic events challenge perceptions of power, autonomy, and identity; her work explores displacement due to widespread ecological destruction and global warfare – as well as the effects [...]