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 current exhibition
February 1 - March 15, 2025
Karen Carson is not averse to gimmicks. (In the best sense of that contested term). Starting with her “Zipper Pieces” from 1972–large, wall-mounted fabric panels in variable configurations controlled by gravity and the adjustment of industrial strength zippers—and at various points since, Carson has found novel ways to add material complexity to the traditional painting genre in an ongoing effort to both critique and enrich it.
February 1 - March 15, 2025
Although Steven Steinman’s new paintings are correctly identified as what they are—paintings—this artist has long been associated with drawing (broadly defined), with various forms of non-representational mark-making extending right up to the edge of asemic writing. And so while Steinman’s resolutely abstract paintings deploy paint material and color across a stretched fabric ground pretty much as expected, their continued loyalty to the most radical tropes of avant-garde drawing—Rorschach blots and automatic writing, among others—are inescapably obvious.