Join artist Peter Williams and art critic John Yau for a discussion of Williams' painting 'The George Floyd Triptych' (2020), the centerpiece of Luis De Jesus Los Angeles's booth at UNTITLED, ART Online.

The first-ever VR fair, using the latest technology and hyper precision to create a vivid, realistic, and memorable virtual art fair experience never before possible. The Gallery will present new works by Carla Jay Harris, June Edmonds, Gabriel Sanchez, and Peter Williams. 

Gallery Association of Los Angeles' GalleryPlatform.LA features Luis De Jesus Los Angeles this week. 

de boer gallery
August 1 - September 5, 2020

...When De Jesus was forced to close in March, he transitioned to an online platform and even managed to make a couple of sales. Given that the gallery was able to reopen for private appointments last month, he’s cautiously optimistic. As a whole, however, the industry has taken a hit: In an Art Dealers Association of America survey of nearly 170 art galleries in April and May, galleries across the country forecasted a gross revenue loss of 73 percent in the second quarter of this year...

Luis De Jesus Los Angeles will be participating in virtual art fair, Intersect Aspen. 

Compelling works intertwine art historical references, allegories, current events, and personal life experiences. In this two-part exhibition, which presents more than two dozen paintings, the artist addresses difficult social issues, such as racial discrimination and climate change, through symbolic imagery, grotesque figures, and vibrant compositions.

 Here, the slipperiness of digital images comes up against the slickness of oil paint, which she manipulates into a kind of filter that both obscures and refracts representations of Black femininity. 

With vibrant palettes and expressive drawing presenting scenes and figures from an off-beat Afrofuturist fantasy, Williams’ paintings have the energy of folk and Outsider style and the pure imagination of science fiction. The world they describe is both a possible reality ahead and a revisitation of ancestral tradition from the past — and ultimately a metaphor for the inner work of reframing identity and consciousness. 

Zackary Drucker and Ken Gonzales-Day To Participate in Skywriting Artist Initiative

Originally scheduled to open in March, Luis de Jesus Los Angeles’s second solo show with artist Peter Williams is now opening at last. The show will run concurrent to Williams’s solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and the art space Trinosophes.

In response to the closure of their physical spaces, L.A. art galleries have embraced online exhibitions to an unprecedented degree. This transition has changed the way they present artworks and, unexpectedly, how they relate to one another. 
 

Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit in collaboration with guest curators Larry Ossei-Mensah and Rebecca Mazzei, the exhibition highlights new figurative works from Williams’ Black Exodus series (on view at MOCAD) and Narration and Transition, a survey of abstract paintings (on view at Trinosophes) that are an essential aspect of his dynamic oeuvre. Williams presents an uncensored picture of dominant contemporary culture, one in which our desires, our humor, our complicity and brutality are unsuppressed.

Artist Ken Gonzales-Day has been widely recognized for the “Erased Lynching” series, which include lynching postcard photos that effectively “erased’ the victims of lynching and focused on the white crowds gathered to witness the murders. Gonzales-Day argues that the erasure of the lynching victim “allows the viewer to see, for the first time, the social dynamics of the lynching itself.”

"Like many other galleries, we are looking for ways to stay present and relevant. We recently launched our new website and we’re in the process of adding a new page that will pull together all of our artist’s video and film projects as well as links to other feeds and impromptu and intuitive content. We’re in production mode—a good thing."

Peter Williams: Incarceration
Cressman Center for Visual Arts
Hite Art Institute | University of Louisville, KY
February 7 - March 21, 2020

Presented by the Paris-based nonprofit Aware, the new award recognises a solo presentation of work by a female artist at The Armory Show.

Group Exhibition
Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery
ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA
January 30 - August 30, 2020 

"At University of Louieville’s Cressman Center, Peter Williams’ Work Uses Joyful Colors To Tackle Black Incarceration"