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ABOUT — CHRIS SHARP 0 ABOUT Chris Sharp Gallery opened in Los Angeles in January, 2021. Founded by writer, curator and co-founder of Lulu, Mexico City, Chris Sharp, the gallery is focused on a mixture of emerging, mid-career and overlooked or historically neglected artists. With a strong core of artists based in LA, the gallery also represents a number of positions on the East Coast, the UK, and Europe. The intention of the program is to present fully-integrated practices which think plastically— practices in which politics and ideas are indivisible from materials and form. The personal and the idiosyncratic hold a privileged place in the gallery’s aesthetics, while humor (the weirder, the better) and craft are crucial to its quiddity, all of which tends to be conveyed with a certain spatial elegance which seeks to foreground every work of art as the humble miracle that it is. Alternatively, the notion of “wacky mode”, conceived by the writer Donald Barthelme, and transmitted to us by his student Padget Powell could also be said to sum up the gallery’s philosophy: “We have wacky mode,” Powell remembers Barthelme saying to his class, a writing workshop Powell was taking. “What must wacky mode do?” The students, clueless, stayed quiet.…

Joe Brainard. Matchbook Miniatures

Joe Brainard

Los Angeles

Apr 25, 2026 — May 23, 2026

No upcoming exhibitions.

Tracery

Richard Rezac

Los Angeles

Feb 24, 2026 — Apr 18, 2026

Matchbook Miniatures

Joe Brainard

Los Angeles

Apr 25, 2024 — Jun 20, 2024

Independent Art Fair — New York
2025, 2024, 2022
Los AngelesscheduleMonday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Thursday: 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Friday: 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Saturday: 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Sunday: Closed
5538 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90038, United States
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