MONA KUHN/Moonstruck | KAREN BALLARD/Where the Light Stays through Nov 2nd

Thu, 18 Sep, 2025 at 06:00 pm to Sun, 02 Nov, 2025 at 08:00 pm UTC-07:00

Leica Gallery Los Angeles | West Hollywood

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MONA KUHN\/Moonstruck  | KAREN BALLARD\/Where the Light Stays through Nov 2nd
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If you missed the opening, you still have time to see this beautiful show by Mona Kuhn & Karen Ballard open through Nov. 2
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Vernissage: Wednesday, September 03, 2025, 6PM-8PM - Limited Valet Parking - Ride Share Encouraged.

Duration: September 3, 2025 - November 2, 2025

Contact: [email protected]


MONA KUHN

MOONSTRUCK

Madly in love and partially insane, I fell for a glimmer, a gesture, a vanishing trace. I had been struck by the moon.


For over 25 years, Mona Kuhn has used photography to re-examine the human form and its place in visual culture. Acclaimed for her contemporary and intimate depictions of the nude, Kuhn takes on a new direction into abstraction in her latest works Moonstruck, a series of painterly impressions inspired by musical improvisations. Mona Kuhn’s increase use of techniques appears to merge the figure, abstractions and landscape into one.


ABOUT MONA KUHN

Mona Kuhn (American, born in Brazil ,1969) is a fine art photographer whose work have been widely exhibited in galleries and institutions in the United States, Europe and Asia. She was born in São Paulo, and has lived and worked in Los Angeles since 2005.

In this collaboration with Leica, Mona Kuhn utilizes the Leica SL3 for this new body of work.


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KAREN BALLARD

WHERE THE LIGHT STAYS

The light in Venice, CA ebbs and flows like the ocean itself. At times searing, radiant, all familiar to the iconography of southern California. A dreamscape where one comes to get lost, or simply have a look around at the layered strangeness that makes this legendary playground so memorable. Some stay for a few minutes, a few days, a few years or a lifetime. Venice exists in a state of perpetual transition —between beauty and grit, youth and transformation, memory and motion. What remains however, is the light, in a place uniquely American, unbent by shifting tides or the shadows that come and go.


ABOUT KAREN BALLARD

Karen Ballard (b. 1969, Louisville, Ky) is an award winning photojournalist, documentary, and movie/television still photographer based in Venice, CA. She has worked in over 50 countries around the world and has work in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Museum and LACMA. At age 16, she made her first trip to Venice Beach, 25 years later she made Venice her home and embarked on this personal project.


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Leica Gallery Los Angeles, 8783 Beverly Blvd., West Hollywood, United States

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