Matt Johnson | Desert X, Coachella Valley, CA
March 4 – May 7, 2023
Sleeping Figure might be a cubist rendition of a classical odalisque, except here the cubes are shipping containers belonging to the globalized movement of goods and trade...
On Alma Allen: A Walkthrough with Douglas Fogle
February 18, 2023
On the occasion of the 2023 edition of Frieze Los Angeles, Blum & Poe presents a walkthrough of Alma Allen's recent exhibition at the Los Angeles gallery, led by writer and curator Douglas Fogle...
Alma Allen: Nunca Solo | Anahuacalli Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
February 9 – May 28, 2023
Anahuacalli Museum is pleased to present Nunca Solo (Never Alone), a solo presentation by the sculptor Alma Allen. Rather than a retrospective of existing works, the Tepoztlán, México-based artist has elected to create an entirely new series of large-scale bronze sculptures for the museum and grounds...
Umar Rashid | Sharjah Biennial 15, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
February 7 – June 11, 2023
Umar Rashid's presentation for Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present has roots in the artist’s first solo museum exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, CO in 2012...
Justsmile: Enter History Class with Umar Rashid
December 9, 2022
Umar Rashid aka Frohawk Two Feathers carries his history everywhere he goes. The Los Angeles-based artist seen in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, and MoMA PS1, reinterprets Colonial art to converse with younger generations about the histories of Black American life...
Artnet News: Pia Camil’s Art about Global Commerce Made Her a Star. Now, She’s Turning Her Focus to Another Kind of Exchange—between Humans and Other Species
December 6, 2022
Camil, who recently moved from Mexico City to a farm in Acatitlán, will have her first monograph published next fall...
Collin Sekajugo Joins Blum & Poe
November 28, 2022
Blum & Poe is pleased to announce the representation of Ugandan artist Collin Sekajugo. Sekajugo’s first presentation with the gallery will debut at Art Basel Miami Beach later this week, followed by a forthcoming solo exhibition at the gallery...
Linder: Sex-Pol | Live Film Score
November 19, 2022
On the occasion of Linder's exhibition Sex-Pol at Blum & Poe Los Angeles, join us for a live film score of two films—Linder's A dream between waking and sleeping (2022) and Rabit's Angelica / Safe (2022)—performed by Rabit and Maxwell Sterling...
Lampoon: Linder: The Ultimate Recycler of Pornographic Imagery Can Date 20th Century Magazines by Smell
November 12, 2022
Armed with a surgeon’s scalpel, Linder Sterling cuts away at imagery from Playboy and other magazines to create visual narratives exploring the body and mind of feminism...
Juxtapoz: Anna Park’s Bold New Direction in “Mirror Shy”
November 7, 2022
There was something telling that Anna Park disclosed this week as she opened her solo show, Mirror Shy, at Blum and Poe. "When I moved to NYC, there was just so much going on, and I was taking it all in and painting that feeling. I think my new work is absorbing something different now...
Henry Taylor: B Side | The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA
November 6, 2022 – April 30, 2023
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) presents Henry Taylor: B Side, the first exhibition to survey the remarkable career of this Los Angeles artist in his hometown, and the most extensive museum presentation of Henry Taylor’s work to date...
Crafts: Blemished Beauties
October 27, 2022
Farmer, fisherman and ceramicist Kazunori Hamana has a passion for patina. Kenji Hall drops by his coastal atelier in Japan...
New York Times: The ‘Slow Burn’ That Is Henry Taylor
October 26, 2022
The artist’s survey at MOCA, with its empathetic portraits and quirky sculptures, speaks to the larger struggle of Black artists to achieve a level of recognition that is long overdue...
T Magazine: The Greats: Lynda Benglis
October 15, 2022
One of the most influential sculptors since World War II, Benglis changed the trajectory of various artistic movements without ever quite belonging to any of them. At age 80, she’s only beginning to give us a more complete understanding of her work...
Artforum: Three Landscapes: JB Blunk, Anna and Lawrence Halprin
October 1, 2022
Three Landscapes brought together a trio of artists who lived and worked, both individually and collaboratively, in Marin County, California, during the 1960s and ’70s: dancer and choreographer Anna Halprin (1920–2021); her husband, landscape architect Lawrence Halprin (1916–2009); and sculptor JB Blunk (1926–2002)...
Acaye Kerunen Joins Blum & Poe
September 23, 2022
Blum & Poe is pleased to announce joint global representation of Acaye Kerunen, a pioneering installation artist whose work is included in the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy in Uganda’s first-ever national pavilion...
Umar Rashid: Ancien Regime Change 4, 5, and 6 | MoMA PS1, Queens, NY
September 22, 2022 – March 13, 2023
Blum & Poe is pleased to announce Umar Rashid's exhibition at MoMA PS1: Ancien Regime Change 4, 5, and 6. This is the artist's first solo museum exhibition in New York City...
Lonnie Holley in Conversation with Jane Fonda
July 23, 2022
In celebration of What Have They Done with America?, Lonnie Holley’s first exhibition in Los Angeles, Blum & Poe is pleased to present a conversation with Holley and two-time Academy Award-winning actor, producer, author, and activist Jane Fonda...
Summer Events in Los Angeles
July 7 – 30, 2022
Join Blum & Poe for a series of summer events in celebration of upcoming exhibitions with Lonnie Holley; Dave Muller; and JB Blunk, Anna and Lawrence Halprin...
New York Times: Robert Colescott Throws Down the Gauntlet
July 7, 2022
His paintings refer to race and racism, pride and prejudice, in ways that startled, seduced, elucidated, and horrified. Now they are at the New Museum...
Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott | New Museum, New York, NY
June 30 – October 9, 2022
The New Museum is pleased to present the final iteration of the traveling exhibition Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott, the first comprehensive retrospective of one of America’s most adventurous and subversive artists, Robert Colescott...
Art Sense: Artist Lauren Quin
June 7, 2022
This week, listen to a discussion with artist Lauren Quin, an abstract painter that builds paintings known for their vibrant colors and layer upon layer of mark making. In the conversation, we discuss her multistage process, her pursuit of intense colors, her love of Los Angeles, and the meaning behind the name of her new show at Blum & Poe...
Cultured: With Botanicals and Celestial Bodies, Theodora Allen Examines Our Scientific Journey
May 11, 2022
At the Driehaus Museum in Chicago, Saturnine presents new paintings by Allen that place our relationship with botany at the center of contemporary conversation...
The Guardian: ‘It’s Like One Continuous Song Pours Out of Him’: Meet the Shaman-like Artist-Musician Lonnie Holley
May 1, 2022
The self-taught singer and sculptor from Alabama exists in a state of constant, spontaneous creativity. He talks about his roots and his new project with Artangel, inspired by Orford Ness..
Alvaro Barrington and Angie Martinez in Conversation
April 24, 2022
On the occasion of 91–98 jfk–lax border, Alvaro Barrington's first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Blum & Poe is pleased to present a conversation with Barrington and Angie Martinez...
