Los Angeles Art Association is proud to present 4 solo exhibitions on September 24 by Richard Hutman, Justin Prough, Deborah McAfee and Kat Flyn. All shows run through October 28, 2022.

Each of us experienced 2020 in a different way. Words like pandemic, climate change, wildfires, disappearing glaciers, flooding and drought suggest a new normal. Giant sequoias, redwoods, seasons, species, habitat, entire towns, rain, water, rivers, even future generations suddenly seem less assured, more precarious. With Richard Hutman’s new body of work The Search for Lost Cities, paper offers surprisingly similar characteristics: temporary, vulnerable, and susceptible to change. For Hutman’s work, the year 2020 was transformative. Many of the works in folded paper are decorated with pattern, bold color, original drawings, and watercolors. Global and historical combinations of art and architecture abound: from the Parthenon, Persepolis, Palenque, Khajuraho, and Bayon to the entry of Gothic cathedrals. Later, Renaissance artists introduced buildings and perspective into painting: Giotto, Veronese’s Feast in the House of Levi, Tintoretto’s Stealing of the Body of St.Mark. Hutman created a library of one thousand original pencil drawings and watercolors. Works are printed on sheets of matte paper - then scored, cut, folded, assembled, linked horizontally, and stacked vertically. This exhibit focuses on featured works done post-2020, Lost Cities of the imagination – as well as several small predecessors.
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We humans are engaged in an unprecedented global chemistry experiment. This  experiment is heating our planet’s atmosphere and acidifying its oceans so quickly that entire marine ecosystems are on the edge of collapse. Lamenting this slow-moving calamity in his new sculpture exhibit Articles of Defiance, artist Justin Prough seeks permission to imagine, and latitude to create a future built from the bones and burnt-out husks of the current world which we so carelessly discard in the name of convenience, greed, and ignorance. The artist reflects on a world that fought and defiantly survived the relentless onslaught of humanity.  
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Deborah McAfee uses textiles and stitching to recreate the textures, colors, and occasional moments of stillness in the Southern California environment. With her new exhibit Desert Sanctuary, McAfee starts by taking photographs of nature. She selects certain photographs, cuts them into structural fragments, and re-presents those fragments with pieces of fabric. McAfee then adorns the images with embroidery and stitches them into a quilt-like whole, recreating the California landscape from its geometric components.
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The works in Kat Flyn's new exhibit Underdog, Historical Racism in Sports are visual essays that touch upon the theme of racial segregation in sports. Sports, especially baseball, serve as a convenient metaphor for our society as a whole. Progress towards achieving racial integration in our nation has been mirrored and often initiated in the field of sports – from the drama of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in baseball, to Colin Kaepernick taking a knee during the national anthem to Toni Stone, the first woman to regularly play major league baseball.
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When: September 24 – October 28, 2022
Reception: September 24  10am - 5pm
Where: Gallery 825, 825 N. La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90069
Admission: By appointment only.