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OPEN NOW: “FROM COMMON GROUND” FEATURING MARWA ABDUL-RAHMAN’S “ALWAYS COMING HOME” @ SIDECAR GALLERY

On view through August 23, 2025

Images: Marwa Abdul Rahman, “Always Coming Home” 2023-2025
Photo: Nik Massey

Image: “Small Santa Butt Plug,” Paul McCarthy. 2022. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen Studio @fns.bsky.social

BURN ME! EXTENDED THROUGH JULY 19TH

Please note: The gallery will be closed on Friday, July 4.
We will resume normal hours the following day, Saturday, July 5.

Amazing turnout for our “Burn Me!” Artist Talk last Saturday!

Special thanks to John Joyce, Mara McCarthy, Paul McCarthy, Molly Tierney, Sean Townley, and Johanna Went

Photo: Fredrick Nilsen Studio @fns.bsky.social

BURN ME! ARTIST TALK
WITH JOHN JOYCE, PAUL MCCARTHY, MOLLY TIERNEY, SEAN TOWNLEY AND JOHANNA WENT

JUNE 28, 2025, 2PM
805 TRACTION AVE. LOS ANGELES, CA 90013

Join us next week for an exclusive talk with select artists from Burn Me!
Light refreshments will be served.

Hope to see you there.

A slide show conversation about art and reproduction (with a photocopy machine).
In conjunction with the MAF Library exhibition “Barbara T. Smith: Xerox 914”, curated by Jenelle Porter.

Tickets $20 - Link in Bio

SAVE THE DATE:
The Library at Marciano Art Foundation Presents: Kathleen Hanna in conversation with Jenelle Porter

June 10, 2025 | 7:30pm

Photo: @fns.bsky.social

Artist Laura Soto @lauracatherinesoto.bsky.social is in the summer 2025 edition of Artforum!

"In the harmonious symbiosis she cultivates, one object’s wound becomes another sculpture’s body, trash retooled as treasure, trauma as ornament."
- Andrea Gyorody

Link in bio to read the full review!

Opening Reception
Saturday, May 17 5-8pm
805 Traction Ave

Artist Talk
Saturday, June 28 2pm

SAVE THE DATE
“Burn Me!” featuring John Joyce, Nastya Klychkova, Lee Lozano, Robert Mallary, Damon McCarthy, Paul McCarthy, Jason Rhoades, Jasmine Rudolph, Molly Tierney, Sean Townley, Johanna Went + more!

May 17 - July 5, 2025

Image: Laura Soto, “concentrate, consecrate” 2022-2024.
Photo: Frederick Nilsen Studio @fns.bsky.social

fixation : process : ritual CLOSING DAY
APRIL 12, 2025, 11-6PM
805 TRACTION AVE. LOS ANGELES, CA 90013

Enjoy the final day of the exhibition with @lauracatherinesoto.bsky.social in attendance.

Images:
1: Laura Soto, “the cave,” 2024. Photo: Fredrick Nilsen Studio
2: “Our Externalized Frieze Booth,” 2025, installation view.

Stan VanDerBeek’s experimental illuminations, including one watercolor with sorbet oranges and pinks announcing ‘A World of Two Dimension Love.’ I loved it.”
- Andrew Berardini for Artforum

OUR EXTERNALIZED FRIEZE BOOTH

“The magical post-Fluxus noise and color of Ursula Reuter Christiansen, the black-and-white (and sometimes red) sculptural majesty of Sarah Conaway’s photographs (in which a cat seemed to wander and fall asleep amid the serious artmaking), ...

LAURA SOTO - FIXATION : PROCESS : RITUAL

“Creatures from Laura’s hands seem to never cease moving and changing. Her challenge is to shape what does not have a final
shape and in so doing produces an enchantment hard to resist.”
- Rosanna Albertini for the kite

EXHIBITIONS EXTENDED | NOW OPEN THROUGH SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 2025.

I Am Abandoned I Am Abandoned documents a little-known, but visionary performance by Barbara T. Smith. Taking place in 1976, it featured a conversation in real time between two psychoanalytic computer programs (know...

get your copy here!
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The Box LA and Primary Information are pleased to announce the release of Barbara T. Smith's I Am Abandoned, which documents a little-known, but visionary performance by the artist!

EQUINOX CELEBRATION WITH LAURA SOTO
MARCH 22, 2025, 3-6PM
805 TRACTION AVE.

Come for our Spring Equinox Celebration!

Bring an offering for the altar.
Enjoy some refreshments.
Spend some time with Ash Allard’s ethereal sounds.
Let Laura Soto’s creations settle in.
@lauracatherinesoto.bsky.social

Image: Laura Soto, “December 2024,” 2024, acrylics, oils, glues, resins, wax, silicone, paper, plastic, plaster, pigments, mirror fragments on acrylic panel.

Photo: Fredrik Nilsen Studio
@fns.bsky.social

Stop by and see Laura Soto’s @lauracatherinesoto.bsky.social “fixation : process : ritual”
Open now through March 29th

Laura Soto will be at The Box during open hours this Friday, February 21st.
Stop by and say hi!

We will also be open extended hours this week
Tuesday 2/19 - Sunday 2/23
11am-6pm

Photo courtesy of Maya Fuhr

SPECIAL FRIEZE HOURS:
open this week Tuesday - Sunday 11am-6pm
Stop by and see "Our Externalized Frieze Booth," open now through March 29.

From left to right: Sarah Conaway,"Cat and Velvet," 2025. Stan VanDerBeek, "Untitled," circa 1955. Ursula Reuter Christiansen, "Bali #2," 1992.

and will remain open until the end of Laura Soto's exhibition, March 29th.
We believe these actions of community care, and practices of presenting work we care about to our community, are equal imperatives.

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In respect to our original enthusiasm to exhibit the work of Stan VanDerBeek, Sarah Conaway, and Ursula Reuter Christiansen, we will be installing Our Externalized Frieze Booth in the auxiliary rooms of The Box, open during the fair week from Tuesday, February 18th to Sunday, February 23rd [cont.]

The Box has chosen to withdraw from this edition of Frieze Los Angeles. [read more below]

install begins @theboxla.bsky.social