Two couples on an oceanside getaway grow suspicious that the host of their seemingly perfect rental house may be spying on them. Before long, what should have been a celebratory weekend trip turns into something far more sinister, as well-kept secrets are exposed and the four old friends come to see each other in a whole new light. Debut thriller from Dave Franco.
Released July 24th, 2020, on VOD
TweetUsing interviews and rare archival footage, John Lewis: Good Trouble chronicles Lewis’ 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and immigration. Using present-day interviews with Lewis, now 80 years old, Porter explores his childhood experiences, his inspiring family and his fateful meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957. In addition to her interviews with Lewis and his family, Porter’s primarily cinéma verité film also includes interviews with political leaders, Congressional colleagues, and other people who figure prominently in his life.
Released July 3rd, 2020, on VOD
TweetFor teenage Nola (Sabrina Carpenter), home is the open road. Her self-reliant father (Steven Ogg) is her anchor in a life of transience. The pair crisscross the United States in a lovingly refurbished RV, relishing their independence and making ends meet by doing odd jobs. A shocking rupture, though, casts Nola out on her own. She makes her way to Albuquerque, New Mexico, in search of a mother she never knew. When her motorhome unexpectedly breaks down, she forges a bond with an auto body shop owner (Danny Trejo), and senses the possibility of mooring her ship in this storm.
Released June 30th, 2020, on VOD
TweetThe more you explore Jongsuk Yoon’s paintings, the more you realize that her pictures have grown larger and bolder over the years, while continuing to evade comprehension. Their dry, floating colors and their linear and painterly all-over structure transforms them into diaphanous phenomena that seem briefly to condense, only to dissolve in the next moment into individual markings, lines, fields, and subtle moods of color and form.
The strange, resonating inability to place these pictures can be partially explained by the artist’s biography. Jongsuk Yoon was born in Korea in 1965. Her father ran a gallery for traditional Asian ink painting. She left her home country in 1995, when she was almost 30 years old, to study in Germany, among other places at the Academy of Art in Düsseldorf under Fritz Schwegler. For a long time, she has been at home in two worlds, never feeling entirely at home in either. After exploring conceptual ideas in complex knitted pictures at the beginning of her career, she began to focus entirely on drawing and painting. Since that time, her work has been located within a structural inbetween space in which not only line and plane, colors and black and white, as well as abstraction and narrative elements, but more importantly also the traditions of Asian and European landscape painting encounter each other and mingle.
Opposite – Spring, 2020
Exhibition runs through to July 18th, 2020
Steve Turner
6830 Santa Monica Blvd.
CA 90038
Los Angeles
Bossa Bossa brings a series of recent works to our exhibition space, along with works created in situ, constituting an immersive installation that embodies the work of an artist who defines himself as an explorer. The phrase used in the title means “victory, victory” and refers to a cry of celebration and encouragement shouted by African migrants when they succeed in crossing the fences that separate them from Europe, a cry that is answered and repeated by those who remain on the other side of the barriers.
A self-taught artist, Jean Appolinaire Tayou abandoned law studies to dedicate himself to art and adopted his parents’ first names, giving them a feminine form by adding a final “e” in order to distance himself ironically from the importance given to authorship and the assigning of masculine and feminine roles, a shift that can also be applied to any reductive attempt to interpret specific geographical or cultural origins.
Opposite – Installation view
Exhibition runs through to July 31st, 2020
Galería Javier López & Fer Francés
Guecho, 12 B
28023 Madrid
Spain
With Myself, a collaboration between NY-based artist Amber Vittoria and Unbox Industries, is an expression of her uplifting, body-positive artwork. Created while she was becoming reacquainted with her transforming body as she dealt with severe allergies and a diagnosis that restricted her physical activity, the piece explores the ongoing, dynamic relationship people have with their bodies. It’s also a reminder, that all shapes and sizes are beautiful.
With Myself is the rare art toy that is unflinchingly focused on celebrating differences and broaching potentially uncomfortable discussions. The piece continues the conversation of how we see ourselves and one another and equally importantly, what our toys say about the world we live in and the world we’d like to be a part of.
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