Past Exhibitions
Holly Coulis — March 3 - April 28, 2012
In a collection of new paintings, Holly Coulis presents large scale still-lifes and landscapes in broad and subtle color. She cleverly employs the simplicity of traditional genres as a framework for a complex exploration of the language of painting. Read more »
Art Brussels — April 19-22, 2012
Cherry and Martin presents two booths for Art Brussels: a solo exhibition of Matt Connors’ paintings and, in the stand directly adjacent, the sculptures and wall works of Erik Frydenborg and Nathan Mabry. Read more »
Art Cologne — April 18-22, 2012
At Art Cologne, Cherry and Martin exhibits important new works by Florian Morlat and Amanda Ross-Ho alongside pieces by the major American artist Robert Heinecken (1931-2006). Read more »
The Armory, New York: Pier 94, Stand #724 — March 8-11, 2012
Brian Bress, Jack Dale, Erik Frydenborg, Robert Heinecken, Nathan Mabry, Amanda Ross-Ho Read more »
Brian Bress: Under Performing — January 7 - February 25, 2012
The title of Brian Bress’s second solo exhibition at the gallery, Under Performing, suggests multiple interpretations. By it, does Bress mean to imply that he is not up to the task he has set for himself? That failure is an unavoidable part of artistic expression? Or is he simply describing a working method, one in which everything invariably occurs under something else, be it a set of assumptions, the mask of a performer, his or her costume, or just the quiet eye of the video camera that runs silently in Bress’s studio. Read more »
Solo Presentation at ARCO, Madrid: Mari Eastman — February 15-19, 2012
Mari Eastman is one of several artists who, over the course of the past ten years, has transformed painting in Los Angeles. Eastman’s work deals directly with the experience of making paintings; at the same time, it is concerned with the history of painting and the medium’s place in an image-driven society. Read more »
Solo Presentation at Art LA Contemporary: Nathan Mabry — January 19-22, 2012
For Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Nathan Mabry will premiere four new sculptures that investigate traditions of figuration and the visual language of minimalism. Read more »
Erik Frydenborg: Dr. (illegible) — November 5 - December 17, 2011
In his second solo exhibition with Cherry and Martin, Erik Frydenborg develops a sustained examination of a single, found scholastic illustration. Read more »
Solo Presentation at FIAC, Booth #1.H09: Robert Heinecken — October 20-23, 2011
At FIAC, Cherry and Martin will present the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of works by the major American artist Robert Heinecken (1932-2006) seen in Europe in the past twenty years. Read more »
Photography into Sculpture — September 10 - October 22, 2011
Cherry and Martin will re-stage the landmark 1970 exhibition Photography into Sculpture, originally curated by Peter Bunnell. Read more »
Matt Connors, Robert Cumming and Florian Morlat — July 9 - August 6, 2011
Opening Reception
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The Lifestyle Press: Roe Ethridge, Hannah Whitaker, Sam Lewitt, Noah Sheldon and Nicolás Guagnini, organized by Gil Blank — May 14 - June 25, 2011
“The Lifestyle Press” is pejorative shorthand for a genre of magazines that market the ideal of the good life as a perpetual buy-in. Read more »
ROMA Contemporary — May 6-8, 2011
Two-person presentation of new work by Erik Frydenborg and Amanda Ross-Ho.
Mari Eastman: Objects, Decorative and Functional — April 2 - May 7, 2011
Mari Eastman’s paintings, drawings, installations, and sculptures willfully engage the fictions of the world around us. Read more »
Art Brussels Contemporary Art Fair — April 28 - May 1, 2011
Presentation of work by Matt Connors, Erik Frydenborg, Robert Heinecken, Nathan Mabry, Florian Morlat and Amanda Ross-Ho.
Robert Heinecken: Object Matter — February 19 - March 26, 2011
Revitalized interest in Robert Heinecken (1932-2006) has placed his work at the center of a conversation about the materiality of the photograph and the function of image and reproduction in contemporary society. Read more »
Nathan Mabry: Armature — January 8 - February 12, 2011
Nathan Mabry’s work transforms the known into the new and the unexpected. In doing so Mabry asserts artistic agency while at the same time engaging with both art history and normative objects as readymades. A Duchampian trajectory is balanced by an art-making urge that springs from other early Modernists such as Brancusi, Lipchitz and Picasso, whose visual avarice led them to a range of “exotic” cultural material in an effort to create their own visual language. While the borrowings of the Early Modernists from Native American, Pre-Columbian and African art are quite direct, our thinking about the complexity of their interactions with their source material usually is not. Working with both threads in mind is interesting to Mabry, who is ultimately focused on the integrity of his own art objects. Mabry's fascination with how objects function in the public mind and his desire to address the totality of culture, both high and low, fuels an urge to make relevant, holistic objects that engage with the inherent complexities of the world in which we live. Whether we experience Mabry's pieces through art history, or other modes of consumption, is a topic that allows for humor and surprise, complexity and contemplation. Read more »
Amanda Ross-Ho: A STACK OF BLACK PANTS — November 6 - December 22, 2010
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Art Basel Miami Beach — December 2-5, 2010
Solo exhibition by Brian Bress.
Seven Card Stud — September 18 - October 23, 2010
New work by Brian Bress, Matt Connors, Mari Eastman, Peter Harkawik, Nick Herman, Alex Klein and Nathan Mabry Read more »
Freedom / Information / Act — July 22 - August 14, 2010
An informal, rotating exhibition featuring works by Matt Connors, Mari Eastman, Erik Frydenborg, Leigh Ledare, Amanda Ross-Ho and Robert Heinecken. Read more »
They Have Not the Art to Argue with Pictures: Robert Heinecken, Erik Frydenborg, Nicolás Guagnini, Wade Guyton, Leigh Ledare, Amanda Ross-Ho, Collier Schorr — May 22 - July 17, 2010
In addition to asking viewers to reconsider Heinecken, this exhibition posits affinities between Heinecken’s interests and methods and those of a number of contemporary artists working today. Read more »
Erik Frydenborg: 'DISTANTS' by THE DISTANTS — April 9 - May 15, 2010
'DISTANTS' by THE DISTANTS presents an anomalous terrain of shaped pedestals, cast plastic sculptures and digital prints adapted from the pages of used books. Employing both physical and digital processes, Erik Frydenborg reconfigures elements of concrete data, integrating the results into lyrically edited tableaux. Read more »
Matt Connors: Dromedary Resting — February 27 - April 3, 2010
Cherry and Martin is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in Los Angeles of Matt Connors’ abstract paintings. Read more »
ARCO Madrid / Spain — February 17-21, 2010
New work by Matt Connors, Mari Eastman and Erik Frydenborg.
Daniel Dove — January 16 - February 20, 2010
Cherry and Martin presents its second solo exhibition of Daniel Dove’s large-scale oil paintings dealing with pictorial construction and the manipulated environments of contemporary America. Read more »
Noah Sheldon — November 7 - December 12, 2009
Cherry and Martin presents Noah Sheldon’s second solo exhibition at the gallery consisting of sculpture, photographs and sound works that allow a free association of sound and vision, memory, landscape and bodily sensation. Read more »
Art Basel Miami Beach — December 3-6, 2009
Two person presentation by Amanda Ross-Ho and Noah Sheldon
Brian Bress: The Royal Box — September 12 - October 24, 2009
Cherry and Martin presents Brian Bress’s unapologetic exploration of human nature, relationships and desires. His performances filmed and edited for single-channel video will accompany objects realized in sculpture, photography and collage. Read more »
Bellows and Whispers: Claude Collins-Stracensky, Mari Eastman, Erik Frydenborg, Noah Sheldon & Torbjorn Vejvi — July 11 - August 15, 2009
Bellows and Whispers brings together painting, sculpture and installation by five artists interested in abstraction as a day-to-day experience. Read more »
Antonio Adriano Puleo: I Am a Bird Now — May 23 - June 27, 2009
Cherry and Martin presents Antonio Adriano Puleo’s exhibition I Am a Bird Now, featuring ecstatic murals, paintings and sculpture that possess a bold fusion of natural history and modern abstraction. This will be the first solo exhibition at the gallery’s new location at 2712 S. La Cienega Blvd. Read more »
FIRST SHOW — April 18 - May 16, 2009
Cherry and Martin announces the inaugural exhibition at the new gallery space at 2712 S. La Cienega Blvd. This first show will feature works by Brian Bress, Holly Coulis, Daniel Dove, Nathan Mabry, Antonio Puleo and Amanda Ross-Ho. Read more »
The Armory Show, New York — March 4-8, 2009
New work by Brian Bress, Nathan Mabry and Amanda Ross-Ho.
Art LA / Los Angeles — January 25-28, 2009
New work by Holly Coulis and Amanda Ross-Ho.
Holly Coulis: Men — November 8 - December 20, 2008
Cherry and Martin presents its second solo exhibition of oil paintings by Holly Coulis. Read more »
Art Basel Miami Beach — December 4-7, 2008
Solo exhibition by Nathan Mabry - Supernova section.
Amanda Ross-Ho: HALF OF WHAT I SAY IS MEANINGLESS — September 20 - November 1, 2008
Cherry and Martin presents Amanda Ross-Ho’s highly anticipated second solo exhibition of installational sculpture, photographs and works on paper. Read more »
Matt Connors, Marc Hundley, Michael Stickrod — July 12 - August 16, 2008
Cherry and Martin presents a three-person exhibition featuring new paintings by Matt Connors, posters/paintings by Marc Hundley and videos by Michael Stickrod. Read more »
Noah Sheldon — May 31 - July 5, 2008
Cherry and Martin presents the first West Coast solo exhibition of New York based artist Noah Sheldon’s installation, sculpture, video and photography. Read more »
Daniel Dove — April 19 - May 24, 2008
Cherry and Martin presents its first solo exhibition of Daniel Dove’s large-scale oil paintings dealing with pictorial construction and the manipulated environments of contemporary America. Read more »
Nathan Mabry — March 1 - April 5, 2008
Cherry and Martin presents the highly-anticipated second solo exhibition of new bronze sculptures and works on paper by Nathan Mabry. Read more »
The Armory Show — March 27-30, 2008
New works by Elad Lassry and Amanda Ross-Ho.
Ruby Osorio: Looking Through The Blind — January 12 - February 16, 2008
Cherry and Martin presents new works on paper by Ruby Osorio. The gallery also announces the release of Osorio’s first suite of hand-colored, hand-stitched lithographs. Read more »
Yuh-Shioh Wong: The Marsupial Project — January 12 - February 16, 2008
Cherry and Martin presents the first West Coast exhibition of Taiwanese-born, New York-based artist Yuh-Shioh Wong’s sculptural and painterly constructions. Read more »
Art LA / Los Angeles — January 25-28, 2008
New work by Whitney Bedford, Daniel Dove, Elad Lassry, Amanda Ross-Ho and Sara VanDerBeek.
Elad Lassry: She Takes These Pictures of His Wife Silhouetted on a Hillside — November 3 - December 15, 2007
Cherry and Martin presents its debut exhibition of Israeli-born, Los Angeles-based artist Elad Lassry’s filmic and photographic work. Read more »
NADA Art Fair / Miami — December 4-10, 2007
New work by Amanda Ross-Ho.
Artissima Art Fair / Turin — November 9-11, 2007
New work by Elad Lassry.
Whitney Bedford — September 12 - October 27, 2007
This intimate and powerful show continues Bedford’s concerns with heroic myths and acts of bravado. Known for her stimulating paint handling and vitality of line, this new work contains the artist’s stylistic virtuosity within two main topics: portraits of Harry Houdini and maritime disasters. Read more »
Zoo Art Fair / London — October 11-14, 2007
John Johns Prize. New work by Nathan Mabry and Elad Lassry.
Art Forum Berlin — September 29 - October 3, 2007
New work by Daniel Dove, Nathan Mabry and Amanda Ross-Ho.
Radiant City — June 30 - August 11, 2007
Michael BAUER, Walead BESHTY, Luke DOWD, Anton HENNING, Rebecca MORRIS, Mai-Thu PERRET, Anthony PEARSON, Sara VANDERBEEK,Tyler VLAHOVICH
Cherry and Martin brings together nine different artists whose work in various media relates in some sense to that made in the early decades of the twentieth century. The exhibition, Radiant City, addresses one of the most important questions confronted by any artist: their attitude towards the past. Read more »
Max Maslansky — May 24 - June 23, 2007
Cherry and Martin presents its first solo exhibition of Los-Angeles based artist Max Maslansky’s paintings, watercolors and drawings. Read more »
VOLTA03 / Basel, Switzerland — June 11-16, 2007
New work by Elad Lassry, Nathan Mabry and Amanda Ross-Ho.
Daniel Dove / Tom McGrath — April 7 - May 12, 2007
Cherry and Martin presents a two-person exhibition of large-scale oil paintings by Daniel Dove and Tom McGrath depicting modern American existence. This is the first time that the works of the Southern California-based Dove and the New York-based McGrath have been paired together. Read more »
Amanda Ross-Ho: Nothin Fuckin Matters — February 17 - March 24, 2007
“WE CAN’T GET ENOUGH, BECAUSE THERE'S TOO MUCH,�? states Amanda Ross-Ho. Using images pulled from a wide range of cultural material—drug-seizure websites and self-help books, newspaper clippings and holiday craft manuals—Amanda Ross-Ho locates sites within culture’s representational flow, carving out designated points of focus. Recognizing that contemporary culture moves not as a linear narrative, but rather as a string of analogies, Ross-Ho proposes intersections between seemingly unrelated images and objects. Read more »
LA Art in New York / New York — February 23-25, 2007
New work by Holly Coulis, Nathan Mabry, Kim McCarty and Amanda Ross-Ho.
Antonio Adriano Puleo: Birds and Beasts — January 6 - February 10, 2007
Antonio Adriano Puleo’s paintings and works on paper draw their motifs from a variety of art historical sources including Persian and Indian miniatures, Japanese prints and the work of Florentine master Fra Angelico. Read more »
Art LA / Los Angeles — January 25-28, 2007
New work by Kim McCarty, Amanda Ross-Ho and Augusta Wood.
Marcelino Gonçalves — November 4 - December 16, 2006
Marcelino Gonçalves’ paintings and drawings explore, in SFMOMA curator Josh Shirkey’s words, “the troubling, and pleasurable, problem of male artists making pictures of men.' Read more »
NADA Art Fair / Miami — December 6-10, 2006
New work by Nathan Mabry
Artissima Art Fair / Turin — November 10-12, 2006
New work by Max Maslansky, Kim McCarty, Antonio Adriano Puleo, Amanda Ross-Ho and Augusta Wood. Read more »
Ruby Osorio: Extreme Unction — September 16 - October 28, 2006
Ruby Osorio’s works on paper address identity as an unresolved narrative in which allegory, myth, and fantasy play central roles. Osorio’s distinctly feminine imagery explores one's ability/desire to transcend physical and psychological limitations; her technique of dense patterning, stitching and repetition invokes ritual as a formal, tactile and symbolic presence. Read more »
Zoo Art Fair / London — October 12-15, 2006
New work by Holly Coulis, Nathan Mabry, Ruby Osorio, Amanda Ross-Ho and Augusta Wood.
Augusta Wood: leaning on the margin — June 24 - July 30, 2006
Augusta Wood’s 'leaning on the margin' is an exhibition of colorfully directed, suggestively performative photographs taken by the artist in a variety of locations, both public and private. Upending our sense of the photograph as a neutral document, Wood’s square-formatted works include passages of handwritten text. In a work like 'unfolding in pieces,' (2006), the text is entwined with the image; here, written in the sand of a vast secluded beach like a castaway’s desperate SOS. In 'i used to live outside new memory,' (2006), the writing is penned by a finger smearing leftover oil paint on the glass palette in an artist’s studio surrounded by ephemera and unfinished paintings. Read more »
El Dorado: Holly Coulis, Alison Fox, Angelina Gualdoni, Portia Hein — May 13 - June 17, 2006
The title of the main gallery exhibition, El Dorado, suggests that art-making is a journey, if not a quest, to the limits of the imaginable. The history of painting, in particular, has been defined by the idea of painting as an artistic epic and that painterly practice is an arena in which individuals prove themselves and leave their mark. Read more »
Amanda Ross-Ho: Don't Front (You Know I Got Cha Open) — May 13 - June 17, 2006
Amanda Ross-Ho's interest in individual experience is interpreted through the lens of contemporary culture’s mass-consumer, product-driven flow. Her exhibition in the rear gallery locates sites of artistic action and personal significance, proposing relationships between a range disparate objects and experiences. Read more »
Kim McCarty — April 1 - May 6, 2006
Kim McCarty’s watercolors depict young people, girls and boys, at fragile moments. Uncertain about life and what it holds, McCarty’s subjects are delicate, yet enigmatic individuals, full of promise and mystery, captured at a point in their lives in which the future stretches out before them and any outcome is possible. Writing in the catalogue for the Hammer Museum’s important 2003 exhibition, International Paper, curator Claudine Isé comments that McCarty’s adolescent and preadolescent children “hover between presence and absence, innocence and wisdom. Read more »
MACO Art Fair / Mexico City — April 26-30, 2006
New work by Nathan Mabry, Ruby Osorio Amanda Ross-Ho and Augusta Wood.
Nathan Mabry — February 18 - March 25, 2006
Nathan Mabry’s sculpture throws into relief the assumed divide between “ethnographic' sculptural works and those of such American Minimalists as John McCracken, Sol LeWitt and Carl Andre. Juxtaposing formal, material and conceptual elements, Mabry encourages the viewer to explore a range of topics including the place of the artist in society, the role of technology and the relationship of a civilization to its past, present and the always-changing vicissitudes of popular culture. Read more »
LA Art / New York — March 10-12, 2006
New work by Holly Coulis, Nathan Mabry, Max Maslansky, Kim McCarty, Ruby Osorio and Augusta Wood.
Holly Coulis — January 7 - February 11, 2006
Holly Coulis’ new paintings depict passing moments snatched from the flow of time and held up for exploration and appreciation. Slowed down, these moments are like scenes from Noh drama or a film by Akira Kurosawa—elevated, aestheticized and made to suggest quiet elegance and grace, subtle meaning and fleeting beauty. In addition to traditional Japanese aesthetics, Coulis draws heavily on the images of Western art history and the composition and techniques of American painters like Milton Avery and Fairfield Porter. Read more »
Max Maslansky — January 7 - February 11, 2006
Coulis’ interest in the importance of unheralded moments finds a parallel in the work of Max Maslansky, several of whose new paintings depict fallen or failed heroic male archetypes, such as cowboys and sportsmen, painters and composers, kings and superheroes. Max Maslansky uses an unusual technique in which the absorbent ground he applies to his work alternately absorbs and repels the pigments from his brush, creating an uneven surface of drips and brushstrokes that adds to the sense of his depiction of tentative scenes. Read more »
Nathan Mabry — November 4 - December 11, 2005
A new work by Los Angeles artist Nathan Mabry, Conversation Piece (Jackin’, Stackin’ and Crackin’), continues the connection between traditional ritual experience and contemporary culture and art. Read more »
Jeremy Shaw: DMT — November 4 - December 11, 2005
An 8-channel work DMT (2004) presents Shaw and 7 others taking the drug derived from the Ayahuasca vine. In recounting their short but intense experience on DMT—the text of which Shaw has overlaid on the original film—the artist and his fellow imbibers fall back on images and metaphors provided by mass-media, consumer driven youth culture. DMT raises questions about youth culture, its ability to address ‘real’ experience and the role of the artist—as shaman?—within that culture. Read more »
Whitney Bedford — September 17 - October 23, 2005
Whitney Bedford's violent, beautiful brushstrokes build up and destroy underlying drawings of shipwrecks, islands and volcanic masses. Updating classic academic paintings of maritime scenes and iconic views of cataclysmic eruptions, these metaphors for impending doom are cathartic interpretations of the chaotic forces of our time. Bedford reworks preexisting cultural frames of reference to explore deeper emotions and political realities at work in our collective consciousness. Read more »