Exhibitions

Dealer's Choice: Painting and Sculpture in 1980s

Nov 17 - Dec 29, 2018 “…the years between 1980 and 1990 were also a time of revived symbolic values, with art and its products leading the way. Out of this singular paradoxical context, a market without precedent was born.” – Paul Ardenne, The Art Market in the 1980s Edward Cella Art & Architecture is proud... Read more

Four-Dimensional Universe

Sep 8 - Nov 3, 2018 Edward Cella Art & Architecture is proud to present FOUR-DIMENSIONAL UNIVERSE, a group exhibition including works by Jennifer Bolande, Michelle Grabner, George Legrady, Jeffrey Vallance, and Amir Zaki. FOUR-DIMENSIONAL UNIVERSE explores conceptualism as a means for making art. The title of the exhibition refers to a quote by legendary conceptual... Read more

R. Buckminster Fuller: Inventions and Models

Sep 8 - Nov 10, 2018 Edward Cella Art & Architecture presents R. Buckminster Fuller: Inventions and Models, an exhibition of original prints, models, and objects by 20th-century visionary, architect, engineer, inventor, and artist R. Buckminster Fuller. Organized thirty-five years after his passing in Los Angeles, the exhibition is the first of its kind in the... Read more

Dave Hicks

Field Language Jul 21 - Aug 25, 2018 Edward Cella Art & Architecture presents Field Language, an exhibition of new ceramic sculptures and works on paper by David Hicks. Drawing inspiration from the cultivation of nature through farming, Hicks creates what he calls a “library” of experimental ceramic forms that resemble beautifully decayed produce. These individual ceramic elements... Read more

Stephen Berens: From There to Here

Jul 21 - Aug 25, 2018 “The past is not dead; it is not even past.” -- William Faulkner Edward Cella Art & Architecture presents a new body of panoramic landscape photographs by Stephen Berens in an exhibition entitled From There to Here. Informed by the parallels between the 1860s and 1960s, Berens layers and overlaps... Read more

Vernacular Environments, Part 2

Jun 9 - Jul 14, 2018 Edward Cella Art & Architecture presents Vernacular Environments, Part 2, the second of an annual exhibition that explores a diversity of tensions between environments and asks, what pluralities do we live in? Through varied typologies, the works included in this exhibition give reference to ideas that remain largely beyond the... Read more

Amir Zaki

Getting Lost Apr 7 - May 26, 2018 Edward Cella Art & Architecture presents an exhibition of new works by Amir Zaki. This is the artist’s first solo project with the gallery and features three works from his newest series Getting Lost (2017). Using “hybrid photography,” or a combination of digital and analog technologies, Zaki transforms his images... Read more

Raúl Cordero

The Seer's Suite Apr 7 - Jun 3, 2018 Edward Cella Art & Architecture presents an exhibition of works by Raúl Cordero from his newest series, The Seer's Suite. The artist’s first exhibition in Los Angeles in more than a decade features four new paintings and four carved marble sculptures that investigate a place where memory, reoccurring dreams, and... Read more

Manny Krakowski

Three Trophies, Some Cacti, & A Freezer Jan 17 - Mar 31, 2018 Edward Cella Art & Architecture is proud to present an exhibition of new sculptures by Manny Krakowski. This is the Los Angeles-based artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery and includes new works from his series of glass sculptures and an analog based media installation, all shown for the first... Read more

Patti Oleon

Sideways Jan 17 - Mar 31, 2018 Edward Cella Art & Architecture is proud to present an exhibition of new paintings by Patti Oleon. This is the San Francisco-based artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and includes meticulously rendered oil paintings depicting interiors. Upon receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013, Oleon traveled to Budapest, Prague, Venice,... Read more

Michelle Grabner

Patterns in Metal and Oil Nov 11, 2017 - Jan 6, 2018 Edward Cella Art & Architecture is proud to present Michelle Grabner: Patterns in Metal and Oil, the artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition will feature a new series of bronze sculptures alongside paintings and works on paper. The sculptures are casts of hand-crocheted and knitted blankets, many... Read more

Michael St. John

Portraits of Democracy Nov 1, 2017 - Jan 6, 2018 Edward Cella Art & Architecture is proud to present Michael St. John: Portraits of Democracy, the artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery. Featuring a new series of identically scaled, small-format works that depict aspects of our current culture and society through images of people and objects. Imbued with political... Read more