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Sweet Days of Discipline
July 16 - August 20, 2022
2504 W 7th St., Suite C, Los Angeles, CA 90057

Behrang Karimi

Bracha L. Ettinger

Brook Hsu

Caitlin MacQueen

Diane Severin Nguyen

Hervé Guibert

Joseph Yaeger

Maggie Friedman

In our lives at school, each of us, if we had a little vanity, would establish a facade, a kind of double life, affect a way of speaking, walking, looking. When I saw her writing I couldn’t believe it. We almost all had the same kind of handwriting, uncertain, childish, with round, wide ‘o’s. Hers was completely affected. (Twenty years later I saw something similar in a dedication Pierre Jean Jouve had written on a copy of Kyrie.) Of course I pretended not to be surprised, I barely glanced at it. But secretly I practiced. And I still write like Frédérique today, and people tell me I have beautiful, interesting handwriting. *

A reader, in collaboration with des pair books will be printed on the occasion of the exhibition.

* Jaeggy, Fleur. Sweet Days of Discipline, New Directions Books, New York, 2019, p. 3.

Behrang Karimi, Motivvermeidung, 2020. Oil on canvas. 37 1/8 x 35 3/8 inches (94 x 90 cm)

Behrang Karimi, crumbled and covered, 2021. Oil on canvas. 25 5/8 x 23 5/8 inches (65 x 60 cm)

Behrang Karimi, Juliet & Romeo, 2022. Oil on canvas. 15 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches (40 x 30 cm)

Behrang Karimi, Nocturne affection, 2020-2022. Oil on canvas. 35 3/8 x 37 3/8 inches (90 x 95 cm)

Behrang Karimi, Theory of a Woman ́s Back, 2021. Oil on canvas. 25 3/8 x 33 1/8 inches (64.5 x 84 cm)

Behrang Karimi, versunken (stoisch), 2009. Oil on canvas. 27 1/2 x 19 3/4 inches (70 x 50 cm)

Caitlin MacQueen, Danse le Réve (Bowie Night), 2022. Oil and oil stick on canvas. Overall dimensions: 96 x 120 inches (243.8 x 304.8 cm)

Bracha L. Ettinger, Eurydica - Pieta, 2015 - 2017. India Ink, watercolor, carbon toner, photocopic pigment and ashes on paper. Paper dimensions: 9 7/8 x 13 3/8 inches (25 x 34 cm)

Maggie Friedman, Untitled (Novel, pages 37-38), 2022. Oil on canvas. 72 x 50 inches (182.9 x 127 cm)

Diane Severin Nguyen, Confession of a Mask, 2021. LightJet C-print, steel frame with museum glass. 25 x 20 inches (63.5 x 50.8 cm) Edition 2/3 + II AP

Diane Severin Nguyen, As if it’s your last, 2021. LightJet C-print, steel frame with museum glass. 20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm) Edition 3/3 + II AP

Joseph Yaeger, Darkness is not empty, 2022. Watercolor on gessoed canvas. 16.54 x 14.17 (42 x 36 cm)

Hervé Guibert, Tableau et fenêtre, Villa Médicis, 1988-89. Vintage silver-gelatin print. Image: 5.787 × 8.819 inches (14.7 × 22.4 cm) Edition 7/25

Joseph Yaeger, Cupid with a machete, 2022. Watercolor on gessoed linen. 17.32 x 14.17 inches (44 x 36 cm)

Brook Hsu, Girl with Oranges, 2022. Ink on canvas. 70.87 x 78.74 inches (180 x 200 cm)