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2622 South La Cienega Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90034
310 837 0191
Honor Fraser is a contemporary art gallery in Los Angeles, fostering alternative perspectives on traditional mediums and emerging technologies.
Artists Represented:
Josef Albers
Jeremy Blake
Rosson Crow
Helen Frankenthaler
Glenn Kaino
Tillman Kaiser
William Leavitt
Sol LeWitt
Guthrie Lonergan
Morris Louis
Meleko Mokgosi
Robert Motherwell
Kenneth Noland
Claes Oldenburg
Kaz Oshiro
Erik Parke
Ry Rocklen
James Rosenquist
Miriam Shapiro
Kenny Scharf
Joe Sola
Andy Warhol
Tom Wesselmann
Brenna Youngblood

 

 
Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles.


 
Current Exhibition

Kenny Scharf

GO WILD!



June 27, 2024 - August 24, 2024
Honor Fraser is pleased to present GO WILD!, a solo exhibition by Kenny Scharf. Scharf’s 10th exhibition with the gallery celebrates the artist’s decades-long-engagement with the city of Los Angeles and charts the multifaceted ways that his signature style has imprinted onto the urban landscape of Southern California. The exhibition transforms Honor Fraser into an urban oasis where Scharf’s iconic characters and playful imagery dance amidst a backdrop of concrete, palm trees, asphalt, repair shops, carwashes, and other city infrastructure. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, June 22nd. At the heart of GO WILD! visitors will find an immersive, sunlit installation that blurs the boundaries between Scharf’s studio, our built environment, and the natural world. Reminiscent of the artist’s legendary “Cosmic Caverns,” the garden-like installation spills out from the gallery’s central exhibition hall—overflowing with an abundance of site-specific murals, monumental concrete planters, assemblages of upcycled plastic, and colossal foliage from the artist’s home and studio. Against the backdrop of Scharf’s immersive installation, the artist presents a new series of tondo paintings. Scharf’s circular canvases of bombastic figures, expressive faces, and jungle-like landscapes have garnered internal acclaim, and are routinely referenced in the art historical records of pop art and street art alike. At Honor Fraser, Scharf’s latest series of circular paintings revel in the artist’s mastery of expressive mark-making, and at once read as familiar friends and fantastical fixtures of Los Angeles’s man-made scenography. Beyond the galleries of paintings and plants, GO WILD! features an intimate reading room where visitors can view a collection of art proposals and preparatory drawings that Scharf made for public interventions throughout Los Angeles. These quasi-artworks are presented beside a wall of archival videos, documenting Scharf as he spray paints the vehicles in his “KARBOMBZ!” series. Now a regular staple of the visual landscape of Southern California’s freeways and roads, Scharf’s “KARBOMBZ!” began as an experiment to move his painting beyond the studio into the city. The resulting cars are testaments of Scharf’s creative mobility and unique buck with tradition. GO WILD! documents these many facets of Scharf’s practice and invites audiences to explore a vibrant fusion of art, and nature, all found in the bustling urban landscape of Los Angeles.

 
Past Exhibitions

Nancy Baker Caahill, Jakob Dwight, Claudia Hart, Tim Kent, Gretta Louw, LoVid, Sara Ludy, Daniel Temkin, and Saya Woolfalk

Digital Combines



January 22, 2022 - March 5, 2022

Joe Sola

I drove to san francisco and back



January 11, 2020 - February 26, 2020

Kenny Scharf

Optimistically Melting!



September 7, 2019 - November 16, 2019

Victoria Fu

Télévoix



June 1, 2019 - July 27, 2019

Summer



June 1, 2019 - July 27, 2019

Ry Rocklen



March 16, 2019 - May 11, 2019

Sarah Cain

The Sun Will Not Wait



January 12, 2019 - March 9, 2019

Meleko Mokgosi



October 13, 2018 - December 1, 2018

Ed Ruscha

Prints & Ephemera



June 2, 2018 - September 29, 2018

Sol LeWitt



February 17, 2018 - May 26, 2018

Conceptual Feedback: Curated by Emily Gonzalez-Jarrett



February 17, 2018 - May 26, 2018