HIGHLIGHTS FROM SPRING/BREAK ART SHOW LOS ANGELES 2022

This year’s 2022 edition of the SPRING/BREAK Art Show returned with a bang to sunny Los Angeles, this time in the new location of the Skylight Culver City Warehouse. With more than 50 exhibitions, emerging and established artists, non-profits, independent curators, artist collectives, and galleries from around the globe gathered together to showcase their artwork constructed around the theme of “HEARSAY:HERESY”.

While all artists showed up with their game face on, some exhibitions made it hard to look away. Here is a roundup of standout exhibitions from this year’s LA edition of the SPRING/BREAK Art Show.

Exhibitors included: Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Ambre Kelly + Andrew Gori, Ankita Mukherji + Elisabeth Smolarz, Anna Evtiugina, Brigitte Engler + Dale Wittig, Carlton Dewoody, Casey Jex Smith, Chris Bors + Fred Fleisher, Christopher Lynn + Janessa Lewis + Malachi Wilson, Coco Dolle, DC Smith, Erika Hirugami, Evan Snyderman + Gabrielle Shelton, Galerie Wolfsen, Gentle Giants Projects, Heinz Patatzki, Hilde Lynn Helphenstein + Matthew Capasso, The Untitled Space, iv gallery, Jay Gaskill, Jessica Goehring + Max Rippon, Katie Hector + Adam Sabolick, LaiSun Keane, Leila Wahba + Seline Camli Anjel, Maria Petrovskaya + Zak Vreeland, Maripol, Marrow Gallery, Michael Slenske, Mike Chattem, Natalie Kovacs + Arnoud Verhaeghe, New Art Projects, Nora Lucia Boyd, Patrick Geske + Cody Miner, Pietro Alexander, Queenie Wong, Rebecca Bird, Rick Herron, Shane Darwent, Shelter Serra, Shona McAndrews, Tara de la Garza, The ƒ/Ø Project, The New Arts Foundation, Track 16, Transformer, Valery Estabrook + Corey Escoto, Yulia Topchiy, Zahra Sherzad

MEG LIONEL MURPHY’S DREAMS OF DRAGONS PRESENTED BY THE UNTITLED SPACE

Booth Number 6 + Collection Link:
Socials: Curator: Indira Cesarine for The Untitled Space, Artist Meg Lionel Murphy

The Untitled Space artist Meg Lionel Murphy held booth number six, presenting “Dreams of Dragons,” a unique solo project. Murphy’s work has long borrowed phantasmagorical imagery of the era—rainbows, manic flowers, lightning bolts, angels, and unicorns—but safety is the ultimate fantasy of the work. There is no safety in our world, so Meg escapes through the portal of her paintings. Her work’s ongoing mythical subject matter takes place in a dreamworld where suffering transforms femme bodies into a monstrous size so that their pain must be seen, felt, and reckoned with.

ALIA SHAWKAT AND MARIA PAZ’S DESERT ANGELS
CURATED BY AMBRE KELLY AND ANDREW GORI

Booth + Collection Link: 3
Artist Socials: Alia Shawkat, Maria Paz

LASSE THORST’S SINNERS FEAST PRESENTED BY GALERIE WOLFSEN
CURATED BY RASMUS FISCHER

Booth Number + Collection Link: 7
Artist Socials: Lasse Thorst (artist), Rasmus Fischer (curator)

ANNA BERGHUIS, KYRA GREGORY AND SZU-CHIEH YUN’S TRUTH BE TOLD (OR NOT)
CURATED BY LAISUN KEANE AND MARK BROCK

*Art by Anna Berghuis, Photographed by Maddie Street*

*Art by Szu-Chieh Yun, Photographed by Maddie Street*

Booth Number + Collection Link: 46
Artist Socials: Anna Berghuis, Kyra Gregory And Szu-Chieh

STUART LANTRY’S AUTONOMY, AUTOMATA AND I
CURATED BY SHONA MCANDREW

Booth Number + Collection Link: 44
Artist Social: Stuart Lantry

AARON BOBROW, THEODORE BOYER, JIM BUDMAN, SHIVA LYNN BURGOS / THE MARIWAI PROJECT, RYDER RIPPS, LENARD SMITH, SOPHIE WAHLQUIST, AARON YOUNG’S NOODLES + KOVACKISTAN
CURATED BY NATALIE KOVACS AND ARNOUD VERHAEGHE’S