Jennifer Guidi California Dreaming David Kordansky Gallery
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[邮箱已省略] [网址已省略] Los Angeles: 323.935.3030 New Y ork: 212.390.0079 November 7 – December 13, 2025 David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles Jennifer Guidi California Dreaming
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Jennifer Guidi California Dreaming November 7 – December 13, 2025 David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles “This visual, conceptual, and emotional California is, as the show’s title suggests, inseparable from dreaming— especially given the state’s gravitational pull on generations who have gone there to pursue their dreams, for better and for worse.” David Kordansky Gallery is pleased to present California Dreaming, an exhibition of new paintings by Jennifer Guidi. An opening reception will be held on Friday, November 7 from 6 until 8 PM. The paintings in California Dreaming find Guidi foregrounding images and ideas of landscape in newly expansive ways. Filled with immersive layers of detail, and keyed to emotional as well as visual categories of experience, they are defined by the palpable material presence that has defined the artist’s project over the last fifteen years, as well as a searching, dreamlike quality that constitutes a powerful new addition to her vocabulary. Underscoring this development, all works on view are horizontal in format. Their sizes vary and include large-scale canvases, medium-format pictures, and a single, highly condensed small-scale work. California Dreaming represents a full-circle journey for Guidi, who began as a figurative painter before gradually removing references to the observed world in favor of increasingly non-objective, abstract imag- ery. The exhibition suggests that these seemingly divergent tendencies were never fully separate. Following inspirations as diverse as the color theories and scientific humanism of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to the worldly transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the artist has created pictures of what can be seen as well as what it feels like to see. Though the paintings cannot be linked to specific places, they func - tion as a series of kaleidoscopic essays on what it might mean to see in a Californian way. Guidi turns her meditative and process-oriented attention to luminous images of mountains, sky, and sea. Guidi’s depic- tions of these landscapes are characterized by their grand[金额已省略] beauty, and all-over treatment of their surfaces. She assembles interlocking
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[detail] I am the mirror, you are the light, reflective and active enegies unite, with balance and harmony we reign over day and night, spreading our love with cosmic delight, 2025 Jennifer Guidi (b. 1972, Redondo Beach, CA) has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA (2023); Château La Coste, Aix-en-Provence, France (2023); Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China (2022); Museo Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy (2017); and LAXART, Los Angeles, CA (2014). Recent group exhibitions include House in Motion / New Perspectives, de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL (2023); One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and T ermite Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (2018); Generations: Female Artists in Dialogue, Part I, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany (2018); NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. (2016) and Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL (2015); and The Afghan Carpet Project, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2015). Her work is in the permanent collections of institutions including Dallas Museum of Art, TX; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France; Guggenheim Museum, New Y ork, NY; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Rubell Museum, Miami, FL; Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany; and SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA. 11:11, a publication documenting the artist’s 2019 solo presentation at FIAC (Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain), was published in 2020 by David Kordansky Gallery. Guidi lives and works in Los Angeles.
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Jennifer Guidi The Earth and I are in a harmonious hum, drawn to the sea by her calling drum, along the magical red ridge we run, bound for the waves—with a dive we become one, 2025 oil and sand on linen 34 x 50 inches (86.4 x 127 cm) [金额已省略]
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Jennifer Guidi Face skyward—arms and heart open wide—I want to embrace you as you embrace me, with thanks for your eternal warmth, love, enthusiasm and encouragement, 2025 oil and sand on linen 34 x 50 inches (86.4 x 127 cm) [金额已省略]
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Jennifer Guidi I am the mirror, you are the light, reflective and active energies unite, with balance and harmony we reign over day and night, spreading our love with cosmic delight, 2025 oil and sand on linen 62 x 96 inches (157.5 x 243.8 cm) [金额已省略]
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Jennifer Guidi We play together on your hills and peaks—one energy united, traversing the biome of your soul, deep into the center where we find only love, 2025 oil and sand on linen 34 x 50 inches (86.4 x 127 cm) [金额已省略]
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Jennifer Guidi Dear moon, guardian of the night, you fill my heart with hope and delight, this lunar exchange where energies meet, at the eightfold horizon, on the path which I Seek, 2025 oil and sand on linen 48 x 70 inches (121.9 x 177.8 cm) [金额已省略]
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Jennifer Guidi As I stood on the shoreline of my soul, the sun spoke to me in color and the water sang my name, 2025 oil and sand on linen 62 x 96 inches (157.5 x 243.8 cm) SOLD
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Jennifer Guidi In the stillness I heard the breath between moons, 2025 oil and sand on linen 72 x 108 inches (182.9 x 274.3 cm) SOLD
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Jennifer Guidi I awoke to a Picasso blue sky, saw Monet painting in Malibu and walked with Emerson for hours through hills talking, speaking softly of nature’s sweet embrace, 2025 oil and sand on linen 6 x 10 1/2 inches (15.2 x 26.7 cm) SOLD
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Upcoming Exhibitions and Fairs New Y ork Jared Buckhiester Continent of Misbelief October 30 – December 13, 2025 Fairs Art Basel Miami Beach December 5 – 7, 2025 Los Angeles Jennifer Guidi California Dreaming November 7 – December 13, 2025 Michael Williams PILINGS November 7 – December 13, 2025 Ron Gorchov Ron Gorchov: Intervals November 7 – December 13, 2025 [邮箱已省略] [网址已省略] Los Angeles: 323.935.3030 New Y ork: 212.390.0079