Category: Painting

With so much action going on in LA this week and weekiend, there is a solo exhibition of new paintings by Canyon Castator called Cannon Fodder, openings as an off-site installation presented during Frieze Week Los Angeles, in collaboration with Diane Rosenstein Gallery.

Camilla Engström’s paintings feel like a return—a quiet surrender to the rhythms of nature. Her dreamlike landscapes do not merely depict the land; they embody its movement, its warmth, its breathing stillness. Like Mary Oliver’s poetry, Engström’s work suggests a deep attunement to nature, where color, light, and form merge into something both intimate and expansive.

Public Gallery is pleased to present HangTime, a solo exhibition of new works by Taylor Simmons, and the artist’s second presentation with the gallery. Across two floors of the gallery’s new expanded space, Simmons’ tightly framed and heavily layered compositions shift from referencing sourced imagery, often found photographs and viral video clips, to a series of familial portraits, conveying the artist’s personal specificity and domestic space. His depictions of everyday life, distinct for their vibrant tones and balance of acrylic, oil and spray paint, demonstrate a newfound immediacy and casual intimacy that welcome the viewer into his perspective — the most direct, detailed and explicit series of works that speak without prevarication from the artist’s home.

Plato is excited to present Karen Seapker’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, Stirring. Based on Seapker’s observation of the garden outside her studio and her reflections on the current historical moment, Stirring is dedicated to winter as a time to heal, reset and plan. 

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