as-is.la is an art gallery and exhibition space focusing on modern and contemporary art with an emphasis on local Los Angeles history and regional culture.
All in past exhibition
October 30, 2021 - December 18, 2021
LA based artist Jackie Castillo’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles.
October 30, 2021 - December 18, 2021
Los Angeles artist Bob Burchman (b. 1946, New York, NY) makes medium size paintings (often 48 x 36,” though sometimes larger) in the style of the 1970’s American photorealists.
September 11, 2021 - October 23, 2021
For his second show at as-is.la, veteran Los Angeles artist Merwin Belin returns to the themes, materials and procedures that have occupied him throughout his career.
July 17, 2021 - August 28, 2021
as-is.la presents new artworks by Kristopher Raos
July 17, 2021 - August 28, 2021
as-is.la presents new and recent works by Ron Griffin
May 15, 2021 - June 12, 2021
Flame from the Dark Tower is a collaborative installation between Leila Weefur and 5/5 Collective *(Troy Chew, Nkiruka Oparah, Tania Balan-Gaubert) at the Los Angeles gallery, as-is.la.
November 1, 2020 - January 30, 2021
New works by Renee Petropoulos: Like a Street Full of Friends: Studies for Speculative Monuments
March 1 - April 18, 2020
Artist’s reception: Sunday March 1, 2020
2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
New works by Kristopher Raos.
March 1 - April 18, 2020
Artist’s reception: Sunday March 1, 2020
2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
With a six-foot pinhole camera lined with photographic paper, Los Angeles artist Julie Shafer traveled to landscapes in various California locations marked by the presence of American pioneers mining for gold, silver, and other minerals in the mid 1800's.
January 5 - February 22, 2020
Artist’s reception: Sunday January 5, 2020
2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Typed Series by veteran Los Angeles artist Paul Tzanetopoulos at the entrance gallery at as-is. This exhibition coincides with the main exhibition of new work by Aram Saroyan, also opening Sunday January 5th.
January 5 - February 22, 2020
Artist’s reception: Sunday January 5, 2020
2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Recent drawings by Aram Saroyan at as-is.la organized by Michael Ned Holte.
November 3 - December 21, 2019
Artist’s reception: Sunday November 3, 2019
2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Doug Henry: Best New Ideas --videos and a publication--will be situated at the entry gallery.
November 3 - December 21, 2019
Artist’s reception: Sunday November 3, 2019
2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Veteran Los Angeles painter Takako Yamaguchi is showing seventeen new paintings at As Is.
September 15 - October 26, 2019
Artist’s reception: Sunday September 15, 2019
2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Starting in 1978, and continuing well after, artist and photographer Darryl Curran developed a project exploring the complex sociology of the art opening—and of related events such as lectures, discussions and parties—as these occurred in the rapidly expanding field of fine-art photography in Los Angeles. First titled L.A. Art Events, Curran’s focus soon narrowed to photography alone and it was renamed A Moment in Photo History.
August 4 - September 7, 2019
Artist’s reception: Sunday August 4, 2019
2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Susan Mogul’s exhibition at As Is, “Less is Never More” 2019, consists of posters, shopping bag prototypes, a grid of seventy images curated from the artist’s life, along with a selection of mid-century furniture and apparel. It is conceived as a memoir disguised as a showroom; a showroom of anecdotes and free associations that bounce back and forth between art and life, the private and the public, the past and the present, and mother and daughter.
Veteran Los Angeles photographer Eileen Cowin presents selections from Mad Love and Kafka's Diary at As Is in conjunction with the group exhibition Drawings and Other Works on Paper.
The exhibition will include the following artists: Jennifer Celio, Ron Griffin, Renee Petropoulos, Kristopher Raos, Philip Rich, Jim Starret, Robert Wilhite and Jody Zellen.
Veteran Los Angeles painter Roy Dowell is showing seventeen new and recent vinyl on linen paintings and one painted cardboard sculpture at As Is.
For her exhibition at As Is titled 1979: Contact Negatives, the artist Tarrah Krajnak will produce new photographic work on site in the gallery.
The historical event known as Conceptual Art released two related if seemingly opposed forces that continue to shape much of what has followed: On the one hand, there is the centripetal, inward-looking self-examination of art’s own conditions of possibility and, on the other hand, there is the centrifugal, outward-looking expansion of art into the adjacent disciplines of music, theater and design that has generated a number of rich and productive back-and-forth movements in the process.