LETICIA MALDONADO @ PILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL In this highly-anticipated workshop, Maldonado will cover neon fundamentals, leading into freehand bending three dimensional shapes using a combination of references that will be translated into neon! PILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL, AUGUST 2024
November 8 through December 6, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 8, 5-8 pm
HARBINGERS OF PROPHECY’S TOMORROW September 6 through October 4, 2025 Opening Reception: Saturday, September 6, 6-9 pm Bermudez Projects is proud to present Harbingers of Prophecy’s Tomorrow, a new group show on view at its Cypress Park gallery from September 6 through October 4, 2025. Featuring the works of over 15 artists working throughout [...]
TIME BANDITS Emerging Art by Gen Alpha July 19 through August 16, 2025 Opening Reception: Saturday, July 19, 2-5 pm A remarkable and enviable aspect of children is the inexhaustible, unfettered imagination they demonstrate early on in their lives. When nurtured by parents, family, friends, and their extended community, this creativity bears fruit to [...]
WE NOW INTERRUPT OUR SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING: New Editions ’25 June 21 through July 12, 2025 Opening Reception: Saturday, June 21, 6-9 pm Continuing its year-long series of transformational, forward-looking exhibits leading up to the gallery’s 15th anniversary celebration scheduled for May 2026, Bermudez Projects is excited to announce it newest exhibit, WE NOW INTERRUPT [...]
EXHIBIT ZERO May 17 through June 14, 2025 Opening Reception: Saturday, May 17, 6-9 pm Bermudez Projects is excited to announce the first in a year-long series of transformational, forward-looking exhibits leading up to the gallery’s 15th anniversary celebration scheduled for May 2026. EXHIBIT ZERO sets the stage for the next chapter of the gallery’s journey, and [...]
DAYLIGHT Extended through January 25, 2025 Hope. It is that ever-constant feeling of anticipation and yearning for something specific to occur. Hope is a powerful driver of how we navigate many aspects of our lives: friendships, careers, health, well-being, money, happiness, and love just to name a few. Hope informs the ways in which we [...]
LETICIA MALDONADOUnder A Steady MagnificenceNovember 9 through December 7, 2024If there is one indisputable, yet paradoxical axiom, it is that the only constant in life is change. Like the seasons, change brings into our world beginnings and endings; renewals and transformations; ebbs and flows. Working to make sense of the very laws of nature – [...]
FRANCESCA BIFULCO Ignited States of America October 5 through November 2, 2024 Bermudez Projects is excited to present Francesca Bifulco: Ignited States of America, a dynamic, immersive exhibition born in the wake of the current socio-political upheaval wreaking havoc across the United States. In her new body of work – comprised of paintings, sculpture, [...]
SPACELAND VII Return to Spaceland September 7 through September 28, 2024 Opening Reception: Saturday, September 7, 6-9 pm Los Angeles… vast, light, modern. At times, the city is a vibrant metropolis filled with beauty, unity, and optimism; while at others, it is a tragic kingdom replete with natural disasters, congestion, pollution, and high cost [...]
Francesca Bifulco - Studio Portrait 2020 Drawing on themes based in the complexity of human existence, Italian artist Francesca Bifulco passionately displays her view of the world through a multitude of media including painting, performance and sculpture. Through the use of bold, contrasting colors, sharp lines, and moody imagery, much of [...]
Leticia Maldonado’s connection with neon dates back to her youth. Growing up under the dazzling, fantastical lights of The Las Vegas Strip, the artist has forged an artistic career dedicated to this awe-inspiring medium. In her series, The Storytellers Maldonado plays on themes of memory, [...]
LA WEEKEND GUIDE: JEN ROSENSTEIN @ BERMUDEZ PROJECTS Los Angeles magazine’s contributing photographer Jen Rosenstein’s powerful portraiture celebrates transgender men and women in a signature stark yet stunning style. LOS ANGELES MAGAZINE, JULY 2024
MOAH ACQUIRES JOSH PATTERSON’S “BONES OF THE EARTH” Bermudez Projects, Los Angeles is excited to announce that the Museum of Art and History (MOAH) in Lancaster has acquired Josh Patterson’s large photographic print, Bones of the Earth. READ MORE
MOAH ACQUIRES JOSH PATTERSON’S “BONES OF THE EARTH” Bermudez Projects, Los Angeles is excited to announce that the Museum of Art and History (MOAH) in Lancaster has acquired Josh Patterson’s large photographic print, Bones of the Earth. Originally exhibited in the artist's solo exhibition, Big Quiet, Patterson says Bones of [...]
ANDREW NORRIS @ MADE IN VA BIENNIAL The artist's striking painting, All I Ever Wanted Was to Kiss the Sun (2023), is among 87 works by 61 selected artists featured in the museum's biennial.
STEPHEN SEEMAYER: DARK SIDE OF PARADISE The collection of 27 paintings and nine studies are an ode to the shadow self and the two inescapable authorities that aim to rule it—civilization and death. ARTILLERY MAGAZINE, MAY 2024
MEET JULIAN BERMUDEZ | GALLERIST I think what sets me apart from others is my drive to push the art of curating. Having my gallery has allowed me to organize museum-caliber exhibits bringing Blue-Chip Art into the space; and, still be daring enough to curate shows for art museums internationally SHOUTOUT LA, MARCH [...]
DAZZLING Queer Journeys through Photography and Film July 13 through August 10, 2024 Opening Reception: Saturday, July 13, 6-9 pm Photography has long been a vehicle utilized by the LGBTQIA+ community to document proof of our existence. This archiving of our history is crucial to both the people who are creating it, and to [...]
June 1 through June 29, 2024Opening Reception: Saturday, June 1, 6-9 pmBermudez Projects is thrilled to present Jay Bell: A Time, the San Diego-based artist’s debut solo exhibit at our gallery located in the Northeast Los Angeles neighborhood of Cypress Park.In over a dozen paintings, Bell explores his personal narrative through intimate paintings of motor [...]
May 18 through May 25, 2024 Opening Reception: Saturday, May 18, 5-8 pm Bermudez Projects is proud to announce the 2024 Senior Student Art Show, in partnership with the Alliance Leichtman-Levine Family Foundation Environmental Science High School. Over 20 artworks by 14 artists will be exhibited throughout the gallery in support of this year’s [...]
April 13 through May11, 2024 Opening Reception: Saturday, April 13, 6-9 pm In 1822, fur trapper Alexis St. Martin got shot in the stomach. A Dr. William Beaumont saved St. Martin’s life … but kept the wound open for a decade so he could study the human digestive system. In a new series of [...]
Through May 25, 2024 Bermudez Projects is excited to present this online exclusive, supplementing the exhibition Eastside Luv, Part 1 now on view in partnership with LAist/Southern California Public Radio. Los Angeles’ Eastside neighborhoods have a rich history dating back to the 1870s when John Strother Griffin (1816–1898), dubbed “the father of East Los [...]
March 9 through April 6, 2024 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 9, 6-9 pm Bermudez Projects presents as its first show of 2024, Of Flames and Shadows Gone Astray, a group show serving as a multifaceted, cathartic confessional of love, loss, and perseverance. In what is perhaps the most personal exhibition of the gallerist’s career, [...]
Bermudez Projects, Los Angeles is excited to announce that The Neon Museum, Las Vegas has acquired Leticia Maldonado’s work, Electric Hustlers (Seated). Roger Thomas, The Neon Museum Collections Committee Chairperson says of this acquisition: “Leticia Maldonado's work, Electric Hustlers, is an important addition to the permanent collection of the [...]
December 2 through December 23, 2023 Opening Reception: Saturday, December 2, 6-9 pm Bermudez Projects is pleased to announce We Now Interrupt Our Scheduled Programming:: Editions, 2015-2023 on view just in time for the Holiday Season! Since its founding in 2011, Bermudez Projects has been unwavering in its dedication to increasing public access to [...]
Jay Bell is a businessman, artist, printmaker, a founder of Campana Studios art non-profit, and a newly appointed Commissioner for Arts and Culture in San Diego County. This man is a whole orchestra of different roles. https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-art-scene/episodes/S8-E7---San-Diego-artist-and-non-profit-founder-Jay-Bell-on-creating-economic-opportunities-for-artists-e27rm64
With an appreciation for both poetry and spectacle, a fearlessness when it comes to collaborating with formidable found and natural materials, and an emotional patience for close attention to her subjects, Bifulco treats her palm trees as anthropomorphic portrait subjects, stand-ins for her own fraught journey to America, and as [...]
Through January 6, 2024 Bermudez Projects is excited to announce a new partnership with LAist and Southern California Public Radio by producing specially-curated exhibits for its corporate offices, welcoming back its employees. In Afro Futures, this multimedia group show discusses how Black artists have contributed greatly to the larger cultural landscape of the United States. [...]
October 14 through November 11, 2023 Extended through November 25 Opening Reception: Saturday, October 14, 6-9 pm Emmanuel Crespo, who joined the gallery in 2014 has been wickedly fun to watch develop as a man and an artist. In Sacred Spaces, which opens Saturday, October 14th at Bermudez Projects gallery in Cypress Park, the artist [...]
September 9 through October 7, 2023 Opening Reception: Saturday, September 9, 6-9 pm How do you reclaim history? Use the very means that spread the historical lies in the first place! In a new show at Bermudez Projects, South Central LA native Delano Dunn does just that for America’s fraught history of discrimination against Blacks. [...]
July 22 through August 12, 2023 Opening Reception: Saturday, July 22, 6-9 pm In his debut Los Angeles solo show at Bermudez Projects, Richmond, Virginia-based Andrew Norris reflects on the spectacle of celebrity and the vicarious experience of loneliness and queer longing in All I Ever Wanted Was to Kiss the Sun. Norris’ work is [...]
June 24 through July 15, 2023 Opening Reception: Saturday, June 24, 6-9 pm “Memory is like a phantom mirror. It sometimes shows things too distant to be seen, and sometimes it shows them as if they were here.” - Yukio Mishima, Decay of the Angel Reach up onto that top shelf in the closet and [...]
May 27 through June 17, 2023 Opening Reception: Saturday, May 27, 6-9 pm Bermudez Projects is excited to announce La Reina de los Sueños, presenting a new body of work by the formidable Chicana artist, Yolanda González. These dreamlike apparitions are some of González’s most personal works, telling the story of her rebirth through sensual [...]
Emmanuel Crespo Wrestling an Angel, 2020 Acrylic on panel 24 x 18 inches Portraying a more violent transition of power, Wrestling an Angel depicts two bodies occupying the same space, and fighting vehemently to conquer the other. The angelic element, depicted by a black crow, struggles to take flight while its counterpart grasps [...]
April 22 through May 13, 2023 Opening Reception: Saturday, April 22, 6-9 pm Bermudez Projects is very excited to announce No Parking on PalomaresBLVD, the debut solo exhibition by its newest artist, Francisco Palomares, one of today’s most exciting emerging Chicano artists. At the opening, we’ll also be toasting the acquisition of a Palomares artwork [...]
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 [...]
Bermudez Projects is excited to announce that Leticia Maldonado will have her first-ever museum solo exhibit at the Museum of Neon Art (MONA) in Glendale, California! Leticia Maldonado | The Storytellers opens Saturday, October 8, 2022 from 6-8 pm. The opening reception is FREE and open to the public. In this exhibition, life-size sculptural [...]
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 [...]
GALLERY ROUNDS: Leticia Maldonado Bermudez Projects by Leanna Robinson | Aug 17, 2021 Neon is a medium that has been used over time to beckon, and Leticia Maldonado’s work viewed through the large glass windows of Bermudez Projects in Cypress Park does exactly that. Maldonado’s “Autonoetic” is a collection of mixed media that [...]
September 11 through October 30, 2021 Opening Reception Hosted by Alfred Fraijo Jr. and Arturo Becerra-Fraijo Saturday, September 11, 6-9 pm With six monumental body sculptures, Enrique Castrejon’s new exhibit “Mind Heart Rectum” puts the Bermudez Projects art gallery in Cypress Park at the crossroads of the human response to cancer, aging, masculinity, and the [...]
KAMARIA SHEPHERD | She Learned Herself Awake July 10 through August 28, 2021 Opening Reception: Saturday, July 10, 6-9 pm Bermudez Projects is pleased to present Kamaria Shepherd | She Learned Herself Awake, the second exhibit in the gallery's new series of installation-based exhibits dedicated solely to BIPOC + LGBTQIA artists. Composed with layers of [...]
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 [...]
THIS IS BERMUDEZ PROJECTS! 10TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY 2011-2021 May 29 through June 26, 2021 Opening Reception: Saturday, June 5, 6-8 pm In late May of 2011, 150 people took two creaky elevators eight stories above downtown LA’s Garment District and crammed themselves into 360 sweaty square feet for the first exhibit at a new gallery: [...]
March 20 through April 24, 2021 Extended to May 15, 2021 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 20, 5-8 pm NELA/Cypress Park Bermudez Projects is excited to present Ana Serrano | a sense of place, the artist's second solo exhibition at the gallery. At the age of 9, Ana Serrano and her mother moved from her grandparents' [...]
March 20 through April 24, 2021 Extended to May 15, 2021 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 20, 5-8 pm NELA/Cypress Park Inaugurating a new series of installation-based exhibitions dedicated solely to BIPOC + LGBTQ artists, "Del Cielo Caen las Hojas" is a site-specific installation questioning the concepts of destiny versus free-will. Comprised entirely of corn-based materials, [...]
March 21 through April 10 This is an Artsy Online Exclusive Bermudez Projects is proud to present No Woman Stands Alone, the gallery's first Artsy Online Exclusive exhibition. Uniting these three Los Angeles-based artists for the first time, this exhibition highlights the physical prowess of each one's printmaking practice. Woodblocks, linocuts, and etchings demonstrate the shared skill and [...]
May 8 through May 29, 2021 DTLA Bermudez Projects is excited to present We Now Interrupt Our Scheduled Programming, launching the release of Series 3 of its Bermudez Projects Editions. This exhibition of special never-before-seen limited-editions prints will feature works by gallery favorites. Each print is hand-signed and numbered by the artists and includes the [...]
January 23 through February 27, 2021 Bermudez Projects is pleased to present Forgotten, Josh Patterson’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. In this latest series, Patterson comprises a collection of photographs documenting places that have fallen off historical record – a tram tower in Saline Valley; Death Valley petroglyphs; an old mining cabin; and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]