Honor Fraser Gallery

Wishing peace and some magic for 2024!

Throughout the gallery, DiGiacomo’s illustrations take center stage, covering canvases, sculptures, exhibition furniture, and a range of customized merchandise — iPhone cases, Apple laptops and Airpods. His expressive and improvisational style is more than mere ornament, however. DiGiacomo fills his canvases with roaming voices and disembodied utterances, calling out to be heard amongst the cacophony of modern life. Forged in the concrete crucible of skate parks, boardwalks, and graffiti-lined thoroughfare, DiGiacomo’s artworks are mischievous emblems that hang ten on the milieu of California dreaming — leaving viewers to question if we’re glowing in their delightful warmth or burnt by their sardonic charm.

Matt DiGiacomo (b. Los Angeles) also known by his moniker Matty Boy, is a LA-based artist and has served as the Creative Director of Chrome Hearts, since 2018.

Honor Fraser is pleased to present Loading ... the premier solo exhibition of Los Angeles native Matt DiGiacomo. The playful exhibition of paintings, sculptures, and limited-edition S*x Records merchandise taunts the roles and conventions of the commercial art market, while meditating on the compounding semiotics of Los Angeles — beauty, rebellion, and capital.

An opening reception will be held on Saturday, September 9 from 6pm to 9pm.

Please join us August 12th 2-5pm for a Block Party and performance showcase featuring artists from the gallery’s summer exhibitions and the greater LA area.

Featuring live music, performances, and poetry readings by Edgar Fabián Frías, Vaughan Larsen, Marcel Monroy, Priestusssy, Cielo Saucedo, and Sammie Veeler.

“We Are They” unfolds across multiple rooms and is designed to continuously reconfigure audiences’ scenes of scale, visual perception, and physical orientation. The exhibition’s title borrows language from Donna Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto” and weaves her now infamous theories of human/machine entanglement within a cosmology of Indigenous, q***r/trans, Black feminist, and more-than-human knowledge practices.

Together the 22 artists in the sprawling group exhibition uproot preconceived notions of ecology and rematerialize the glitch for an era of worsening environmental and political crises.

Honor Fraser is pleased to present “Catalyst," a group exhibition in collaboration with EPOCH Gallery. Known for their genre bending exhibitions that take place online and in virtual reality (VR), EPOCH is partnering with Honor Fraser to mount their first hybrid physical/virtual installation. The exhibition features seven internationally celebrated artists who have developed artworks to be placed within a speculative 3D model of LACMA’s forthcoming Zumthor building.

An opening reception will be held on Friday, June 16 from 6pm to 8pm.

Exhibiting Artists: Tanya Aguiñiga, Carla Gannis, Trulee Hall, Auriea Harvey, Bahareh Khoshooee, Caroline Sinders, Sammie Veeler

Honor Fraser is pleased to present "We Are They: Glitch Ecology and the Thickness of Now," a group exhibition that charts the blurry boundaries between human networks, ecological systems, and the technologies that shape our “man-made” geological epoch..

An opening reception will be held on Friday, June 16 from 6pm to 8pm.

Exhibiting Artists: Alice Bucknell, Ánima Correa, Mark Dorf, Don Edler, Andro Eradze, Star Feliz, Molly Greene, Donna J. Haraway, Marianne Hoffmeister Castro, Alex Jackson, Aaron Elvis Jupin, Jordan Loeppky- Kolesnik, Raul De Lara, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, Mimi Ọnụọha, Esteban Ramón Pérez, Tabita Rezaire, Cielo Saucedo, Blair Simmons, Skawennati, Cole Sternberg, Chris Velez

Curated by Jamison Edgar

The gallery will be open today by appointment only

Please contact 310-433-8474

The phrase “Drag/Tech” is offered as a curatorial key to underscore the significance and cultural influence of these entangled tech relationships while advocating for a recontextualization of Drag as a form of technology itself—applied q***r knowledge accumulated, preserved, and reperformed across multiple generations and cultural terrains.

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Merging the formal affordances of the white cube with the maximalist aesthetics of q***r nightclubs, virtual chatrooms, and underground performance venues, Make Me Feel Mighty Real transforms Honor Fraser into a living archive of glamor, grit, glitch, and gore.

“Make Me Feel Mighty Real: Drag/Tech and the Q***r Avatar” will be on view through May 27th

Installation View, North Gallery
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“Make Me Feel Mighty Real” tracks the evolution of avatars in q***r creative practices, with special attention given to the tools and techniques that artists use to build community, cruise utopia, and enact unruly hybridity online and IRL. The exhibition’s title borrows lyrics from Sylvester’s legendary disco album, “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real),” a melodic monument to uninhibited q***r desire and it’s capacity to augment the mind, reconfigure the body, and spawn a new reality into existence. In turn, “Make Me Feel Mighty Real” serves as the song’s most recent refrain, celebrating a lineage of artists whose resolve to forge their own mixed realities continues to nurture our technological fantasies today.

Join us Friday from 6 - 8PM for an opening reception, with a live performance by at 7PM

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Image detail: .silver and “Robot Love,” 2008, Video still

Honor Fraser Gallery is pleased to present, “Make Me Feel Mighty Real: Drag/Tech and the Q***r Avatar,” a group exhibition surveying the conceptual and aesthetic proliferation of Avatars in q***r creative practices. The exhibition features more than forty artists and chronicles six decades of experimentation in painting, photography, video, performance, and computer animation to champion the tools, techniques, and technologies that q***r artists have pioneered to build community, cruise utopia, and enact unruly hybridity online and IRL. The exhibition is on view from March 03 through May 27. An opening reception will be held on March 03 from 6pm to 8pm.

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1. Andy Warhol “Ladies and Gentlemen”, 1975
2. Theo Triantafyllidis “Smoke Break”, 2018

RITUALS OF REPRODUCTION: an evening w/ and
Feb 03

Please join us Friday, February 03 for a "double feature" examining reproductive technologies and body autonomy in short film and live performance.

The event will begin with a screening of McRae's short film FUTUREKIN, followed by an evening length "performance in progress" by Lauren Lee McCarthy.

FUTUREKIN follows a group of women who seek autonomy over their own bodies, by creating the ability to bear children outside of the body. McCarthy's performance chronicles a multi-year exploration of surrogacy and reproductive technology.

Rituals of Reproduction is a public program organized in concert with FUTURE SENSITIVE, a solo exhibition by Lucy McRae

The Summit for Future Sensitivity brings together seven leading artists in the field of art and technology to present short lectures on creative research and radical-tech imaginaries.

The Summit for Future Sensitivity is part of the gallery programming for FUTURE SENSITIVE, a solo exhibition by the filmmaker and body-architect, Lucy McRae.

The Summit will be hosted on ZOOM Saturday, November 12 at 12PM PT. Register at the link in our bio.

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In the must see exhibition, FUTURE SENSITIVE, hanging nets, gymnasium-like floor coverings, and other subtle architectural interventions mimic the calculated compositions that uses in her films and installations. Moving throughout the exhibition, visitors are guided towards an increased awareness of their own bodies as they interact with the McRae speculative worlds.

“Heavy Duty Love” 2022

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LED Screens provided by .art

FUTURE SENSITIVE by Lucy McRae spills across the galleries at Honor Fraser with the uncanny patina of a world not quite our own, and yet one hauntingly familiar. McRae’s films are exhibited within an installation of sculptures, machines, and other speculative designs used during filming and production. In this post-human landscape, already existing “low-tech” and industrial materials—vacuum cleaners, roller skate wheels, camping equipment, blow-up fans, construction straps, and plastic tarps—are reconfigured into Sci-Fi objects for future survival.

Visitors to the gallery are invited to explore the installation as protagonists in McRae’s future world, using the artworks as scaffolding for their own embodied contemplation.

📸: — Install shots from our South Gallery featuring Delicate Spells of Mind and Future Survival Raft.

One more week to visit Kenny Scharf’s BESTEST EVER! Come dance with us in Cosmic Cavern #42! The gallery will be open next week Tuesday - Saturday from 10am -5pm

⭐️The gallery will be closed Friday 9/2 and Saturday 9/3 in observation of Labor Day⭐️

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’s sculpture, Torre de Plastico (2022), is made entirely from upcycled plastic objects.

In recognition of and Governer Newsom’s new single-use plastic legislation, we are accepting all plastic donations to be upcycled in future Scharf installations

Kenny Scharf, BESTEST EVER!
Open through September 10th

Scharf’s latest solo exhibition explores the various ways we relate to conflict, chaos, and one another. Scharf’s mastery of play, proportion, and intuitive mark-making is on full display.

BESTEST EVER!
opening Saturday June 18th, 5-7pm

Join us Saturday May 21 for a video screening and conversation between Surabhi Saraf and K Allado-McDowell.

A screening of Alaap will begin at 2pm, followed by a light reception. The artists’ conversation will begin at 2:30pm.

This event is in concert with Saraf’s solo exhibition, Awoke & Awokened: Alaap, open through April 28