Michael Kohn Gallery

About the Gallery
Since its establishment in 1985 by Michael Kohn, Michael Kohn Gallery has presented historically significant exhibitions in Los Angeles alongside exciting contemporary artists, creating meaningful contexts to establish links to a greater art historical continuum. Michael Kohn Gallery represents important West Coast artists with long careers and rich histories such as Joe Goode, Lita Albuquerque, and Sharon Ellis, as well as the Estates of Bruce Conner, Wallace Berman, John Altoon and Martha Alf. Michael Kohn Gallery boasts an expanding roster of emerging and mid-career artists including William Brickel, Alicia Adamerovich, Chiffon Thomas, Heidi Hahn, Jinbin Chen, Nir Hod, Siji Krishnan, Li Hei Di, Sophia Narrett, Shiwen Wang, Kate Barbee, Rosa Loy, and Mark Innerst.

About the Presentation
Michael Kohn Gallery will debut at Independent with a solo presentation featuring work by Alicia Adamerovich.

Evoking Artemisia Gentileschi by way of David Cronenberg, Queens-based artist Alicia Adamerovich’s (b.1989) paintings, drawings, and sculptural practice invite her audience to visualize their own psychological state. The tenebrous landscapes – seemingly barren with their darkened color palettes and organic surfaces of pumice, gels, wax, and sand – come gracefully alive with radiant orbs and spiraling, structured appendages. These strange biomorphic forms are anthropomorphic and seductive in nature with soft curvatures alternately drawn from the realms of the arboreal, anatomical, and fantastical. Across the staged compositions, Adamerovich invokes a sense of familiarity amidst the discomfort of human emotion.