12.5–12.9.2023
Fair
Alex Kerr
NADA Miami 2023
Booth D106
NOON Projects is honored to present series of ceramic lamps by Alex Kerr at New Art Dealers Alliance Fair (NADA) Miami, 2023.
Kerr builds dizzying, technicolor worlds for himself to hide out in, or at least pretend to. His practice explores ways of seeing and being seen through exploring dramaturgic tropes — the curtian, the vanity mirror, the audience applause sign — icons of a stylized version of razzle-dazzle stage production. These images comprise an existential iconography that questions the singular ways Kerr masks, or mascs, through the freedom and farce of daily performance. We are thrilled to be presenting Alex Kerr for the gallery’s Miami art week debut.
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10.27.2023
Exhibition
Johanna Jackson
I Am Vertical
Curated by Libby Werbel
On view through December 9, 2023
NOON Projects is honored to present I Am Vertical, a solo exhibition by Johanna Jackson, curated by Libby Werbel. In I Am Vertical, Werbel has asked Jackson to share a new body of functional sculptures. These works, created specifically to be hung from trees, reference a horticultural tradition of wrapping large river rocks with wire and hanging them from branches to encourage new directions in growth. This practice is similar to the technique of espalier, and is based on the concept of gravitropism, “the coordinated process of differential growth by a plant in response to gravity.” These weights train branches to grow more horizontally, creating space between them to amplify exposure to the sun and ultimately help the tree bear more fruit.
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10.27.2023
Exhibition
Jenna Thornhill
Braided Bestiary: The Challah Show
Curated by Libby Werbel
On view through December 9, 2023
NOON Projects is honored to present Braided Bestiary: The Challah Show, a solo exhibition of works by Jenna Thornhill, curated by Libby Werbel.
For her first solo show in her native Los Angeles, Thornhill offers her own unique version of a bestiary (a compendium of beasts –both real and mythical– elaborately and exhaustively cataloged in a series of illustrated volumes), exhibiting sculptures made entirely of challah bread that have each been formed and baked as an effigy to her life here in Southern California. These sculptures reflect the artist’s research of the flora and fauna of the local landscape, the history of the San Pedro region where she currently resides, and her burgeoning interest in ornithology. Often appearing rough or cartoonish at first glance, each work slowly reveals a skilled hand and a fecund imagination.
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11.18.2023
NOON Studio
GRAND OPENING
NOON Studio
Opening November 18, 2023
6–9pm
NOON Projects is thrilled to introduce NOON Studio, a new space within the gallery dedicated to object d’art and functional pieces. The carefully selected artworks, made to be enjoyed at home, explore the space between art and design and function and abstraction.
Presenting:
Ben Borden
James Cherry
Max Cleary
Vava Dudu
Audrey Leshay
Hertta Kiiski
Maddy Inez Leeser
Johanna Lundberg
Matt Momchilov
Simon Renggli
Laura Rule