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September 9 - October 10, 2025
Righting
In 2009, amid the wake of the financial crisis, Lucy Puls began photographing interiors of bank-owned homes. Rather than producing comprehensive views of architectural space, Puls focused on fragments. A corner, a wall, a threshold, a damaged surface, or a partial view of a room take up the entire frame. In 2011, Puls began developing the Geometria Concretus series from these photographs — an ongoing engagement that runs alongside a broader body of work drawing on the same images, both before and since. The Geometria Concretus series is predicated on a central consideration: whether an image could be “corrected” by masking or altering sections of a formerly arbitrary composition.
May 26 - August 22, 2026
“we’re a mystery which will never happen again, a miracle which has never happened before”
- E. E. Cummings
Kala Gallery is excited to present We’re a Mystery Which Will Never Happen Again, an exhibition exploring everyday myth, mystery, and the potential for discovery within the present moment. Featuring works by Woody De Othello, Jane Hambleton, David Huffman, Lucy Puls, Meghan Shimek,and Maryam Yousif, the exhibition invites viewers to reimagine daily life through curiosity, attention, and inquiry.
The exhibition also draws on the concept of ichigo ichie (一期一会), a philosophy rooted in the Japanese tea tradition and associated with tea master Sen no Rikyū. Meaning “one time, one meeting,” the phrase reminds us that every encounter is singular and unrepeatable. Later articulated in its contemporary form by Naosuke Ii during the late Edo period, the idea reflects a deep awareness of impermanence - an ethos of fully living shaped in times of political and social transition.
In a time marked by uncertainty and constant change, the works in this exhibition invite audiences to turn toward the immediacy of lived experience - where the ordinary becomes charged with emotion, memory, and possibility. Across sculpture, painting, drawing, textiles, photography, and print, familiar materials and forms are transformed into sites of wonder, prompting us to slow down and encounter the world anew.
February 7,-March 20, 2025
In FOYER-LA’s current project, No Respite, the artists Lucy Puls, Nick Taggart, and Connie Walsh embrace the fragility of transitions- the shifting tensions within a relentless state. Amy Sillman describes this condition in her book, Faux Pas. Selected Writings and Drawings as, “looking for this fragile thing that is awkwardness.” An improvisational guitar performance by Dakota Higgins, opens an opportunity to lose one’s bearings amidst pieces of disparate material assembled over great distances of time and space. No Respite asks the viewer to feel some pressure, then release, while the work collectively seeks a momentary stillness- a refuge- within unrelenting force.
Thu, Feb 20, 2025 to Sat, Mar 22, 2025
FOYER-LA , Los Angeles, CA
A group project with the artists who have been a part of FOYER-LA, plus one friend-fellow artist they have selected to participate.
January 17–March 1, 2025
Looking Back / The 15th White Columns Annual – Selected by Elisabeth Kley, White Columns, New York, NY
Participating Artists: Eileen Agar, Manuel Herreros de Lemos and Mateo Manaure Arilla, Andrés Bedoya, Heidi Bucher, Brian Buczak, William S. Burroughs, Cameron, Mary Helena Clark, Gregory Corso, Beau Dick, Mestre Didi, John Duff, Darrel Ellis, Jerry the Marble Faun, Charles Henri Ford, Terry Fox, Tina Girouard, Leon Golub, Nancy Grossman, Zina Hall, Josephine Halvorson, Sylvie Hayes-Wallace, Candace Hill-Montgomery, G. Peter Jemison, Steffani Jemison, Jess, Běla Kolářová, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato, Robert Mapplethorpe, Kazuko Miyamoto, Lady Shalimar Montague, Ulrike Müller, Kayode Ojo, Genesis P-Orridge, Otto Piene, Norbert Prangenberg, Lucy Puls, Ronny Quevedo, Elizabeth Radcliffe, Christina Ramberg, Kay Rosen, Cameron Rowland, Simona Runcan, Resia Schor, Leon Polk Smith, Wadada Leo Smith, Maybelle Stamper, Simon Starling, Wacław Szpakowski, TARWUK, Lenore G. Tawney, Vincent Tiley, Kiyoshi Tsuchiya, Fredrik Værslev, Stan VanDerBeek, Melvin Way, Susan Weil, Jack Whitten, Steve Wolfe, Martin Wong, Jimmy Wright, He Xiangyu, Carey Young, Marian Zazeela and Bibi Zogbé.
August 14, 2024–July 6, 2025
To Exalt the Ephemeral: The (Im)permanent Collection draws from BAMPFA’s art and film collections to explore how museums collect, care for, and amplify the work of artists who celebrate ideas of impermanence and cycles of decay and regeneration. The exhibition is inspired by the rich history of experimentation, performance, and non-object-based artistic practices in BAMPFA’s exhibition program, as well as the many conceptual projects, scores, ephemera, and works with alternative art making materials and techniques in the museum’s collections. The exhibition explores how institutions can embrace the work of artists who not only acknowledge, but also exalt the inevitability of impermanence, creating artworks with organic and non-archival materials and without the intention for them to last forever. To Exalt the Ephemeral provides an opportunity to showcase key histories and works in the collection by artists across generations and disciplines.
https://bampfa.org/program/exalt-ephemeral-impermanent-collection
June 8, 2024 until May 31, 2025
Rising Tides is the inaugural exhibition of the Hall Art and Technology Foundation Floating Art Museum, located at 2517 Blanding Ave, in Alameda, CA. The exhibition includes more than twenty artists in a sampling of paintings and sculpture with a curatorial interest in contemporary culture. The artwork responds to concerns about the environment, living through a pandemic, political upheaval, ongoing war, and more.
Artists Featured: Chie Aoki, Carol Benioff, Whitney Bradshaw, Rolando Castellon, Enrique Chagoya, Carl Cheng, Julia Couzens, Dewey Crumpler, Jeremy Dean, Kathryn Dunlevie, Ana Teresa Fernandez, Pete Foley, Marta Hall, Mondo Jud Hart, Valerie Hegarty, Archana Horsting, Mildred Howard, Kazuo Kadonaga, Carol Law, Carrie Lederer, Hung Liu, Linda MacDonald, Kara Maria, Tony May, Blessing Ngobeni, Pat Perry, Maria Porges, Michele Pred, Lucy Puls, Gregory Rick, M. Louise Stanley, Masami Teraoka, Kim Thoman, Watchery
catalog: https://heyzine.com/flip-book/93eb62a384.html#page/7
June 22 - August 3, 2024
The exhibition E C H O explores the dynamic interplay between past and present, as well as public and private realms. It investigates how memory, place, and history continuously shift and reshape over time. This body of work reflects on the enduring residues of the past, revealing how they influence and inform our present relationships with places, objects, and environments.
April 11 to May 18, 2024
Nicelle Beauchene Gallery is pleased to present Here Everywhere, a solo exhibition with Bay Area artist Lucy Puls, her second at the gallery. Showcasing selected works from 1989 to 2003, Here Everywhere
highlights Puls’ unique and overlooked approach to materials and form, surveying her early experiments in making sculptures with found objects, wax, and resin.
December 3, 2023 - January 21, 2024
Opening Reception: Sunday Dec 3, 2-5pm. Beverages & music generously provided by Village
Featuring works by: Rebeca Bollinger Conrad Guevara, Kendall Henderson, Bessie Kunath Megan Mueller Amy Nathan, Gay Outlaw Helia Pouyanfar, and Lucy Puls.
Personal Space is pleased to present its third exhibition, Apostrophe. Drawing inspiration from the title’s connotations of fragmenting and condensing language, as well as its suggestion of possession, the nine artists presented here collect traces of memory. Their poetic, and often mysterious, tendencies capture fragments to suggest a whole, rendering and recording aspects of human vulnerability, identity, and intimacy through a mix of photography, sculpture, painting, and collage. In doing so, these works act as open-ended observations that prioritize the absence of a subject, inviting the viewer to complete the story.
The exhibition includes two commissioned works as part of Personal Space’s ongoing New Works series: a poem by Mihee Kim and the gallery’s rotating exterior sign space by Amy Nathan.