About this Event
Join us at Art/Space 114 for the next installment of our Artist Talks series, featuring artists Georgina Reskala and Andre Woodward in conversation with art critic and Art/Space 114’s Writer-in-Residence, Shana Nys Dambrot.
The conversation will begin at 1:00 PM. Guests are encouraged to arrive early to explore the current exhibition and enjoy complimentary coffee and pastries provided by the gallery.
Free and open to the public. Limited entry! RSVP to claim your spot.
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On the artists, through the lens of Shana Nys Dambrot:
"Photographer Georgina Reskala employs unconventional material techniques with her prints—such as folding, reprinting, sewing, and erasing—to destabilize familiar scenes. As she excavates eroded landscapes and the shifting narratives they invoke, these techniques materialize the fragility and fluidity of both place and the memory of it—especially within urban spaces which are so prone to nonstop razing and rebuilding. With pronounced call-backs to the early photographic avant-garde, her work engages in a classical mode of aesthetic rebellion—inserting the disruptively emotional energies of the subconscious mind into an ostensibly documentarian practice. Her photographs hover between oneirism and artifact, as by physically, viscerally intervening in the picture plane, she enacts and embodies the mutable slip between presence and loss—haunted by the knowledge that no history remains fixed.
Andre Woodward casts Southern California tree forms in concrete, forging sculptural hybrids that fuse organic silhouettes with industrial materials. These works speak to the paradox of cityscapes—environments molded by nature yet dominated by human construction—echoing how urban memory holds, distorts, or represses traces of the natural world. These mesmerizing, impossible-seeming objects crystallize the uneasy truce between the organic and the manufactured, performing the fragile persistence of nature as it asserts itself against the pressures of urban encroachment. This work embodies the paradox at the root of contemporary life—the desire to contain and control the natural world even as we cheer on its stubborn seepage back in through the cracks."
— Shana Nys Dambrot, 2025
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
114 4th St, 114 4th Street, Los Angeles, United States
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