Caitlin Cherry Centers Black Femininity as Her Muse in Womanizer @ The Hole in Los Angeles

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Caitlin Cherry, Lilphantoms (A Hot Summer Night at Crypto.com Arena), 2023. Image courtesy of The Hole.

Caitlin Cherry’sWomanizer is the artist’s second solo exhibition with The Hole. Through painting, sculpture and installation, Cherry creates a personal archive of Black popular culture on the internet by centering femme entertainers as her muses. Composed of celebrities from online image banks like Getty Images as well as sex workers, drag queens and social media influencers, these eight paintings depict popular radical aesthetics within the global Black diaspora. Through a simulated moiré pattern system, Cherry is able to recreate the phenomena of the viewing Black women through a computer screen in order to express how contemporary Black femininity is co-produced by technology.

Womanizer is on view through December 30 @ The Hole, 844 N La Brea Ave Los Angeles CA 90038

Caitlin Cherry, Mardi Gracias, 2023. Image courtesy of The Hole.

Caitlin Cherry, CRAZIHAIRBUNDLES (Celebrity Hairstylists You Should Be Following on IG), 2023. Image courtesy of The Hole.

Caitlin Cherry, Meghan Markle Thee Stallion, 2023. Image courtesy of The Hole.

Luis de Jesus Los Angeles Presents Group Show "I've got a good mind to give up living and go shopping instead"

Zackary Drucker & Rhys Ernst
Relationship #35 (Pygmalion), 2008-13
Relationship, Edition of 10
Digital C-print
16 x 24 in (40.6 x 61 cm)
Image courtesy of the artists and Luis De Jesus Los Angeles.

Dennis Koch
Untitled (Versor Parallel, Wine Dark Sea), 2019
Color pencil on paper
35.75 x 35.75 in (90.8 x 90.8 cm)
Image courtesy of the artist and Luis De Jesus Los Angeles

Jim Adams
Nubian Express #3, 2000
Nubian Express Paintings
Acrylic on canvas
8 x 10 in (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Image courtesy of the artist and Luis De Jesus Los Angeles.

Zackary Drucker & Rhys Ernst
Relationship #44, 2008-13
Relationship, Edition of 10
Digital C-print
20 x 30 in (50.8 x 76.2 cm)
Image courtesy of the artists and Luis De Jesus Los Angeles.

Erik Olson
Jack of Hearts, 2018
Oil and oil stick on canvas
60 x 48 in (152.4 x 121.9 cm)
Image courtesy of the artist and Luis De Jesus Los Angeles.

Installation view of I've got a good mind to give up living and go shopping instead. Image courtesy of Luis De Jesus Los Angeles. Photo by Michael Underwood.

Jim Adams
Nubian Express #1, 1999
Nubian Express Paintings
Acrylic on board 5 x 7 in (12.7 x 17.8 cm)
Image courtesy of the artist and Luis De Jesus Los Angeles.

Installation view of I've got a good mind to give up living and go shopping instead. Image courtesy of Luis De Jesus Los Angeles. Photo by Michael Underwood.

Erik Olson
The Hobo, 2018
Oil and oil stick on wood
39 x 16 x 8 in (99.1 x 40.6 x 20.3 cm)
Image courtesy of the artist and Luis De Jesus Los Angeles.

Alexandria Smith
go awn and tell it, 2019
Pencil, pen, and marker on paper
11 x 14 in (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Image courtesy of the artist and Luis De Jesus Los Angeles.

Edie Beaucage
Louis, 2019
Oil on canvas
24 x 20 in (61 x 50.8 cm)
Image courtesy of the artist and Luis De Jesus Los Angeles.

Installation view of I've got a good mind to give up living and go shopping instead. Image courtesy of Luis De Jesus Los Angeles. Photo by Michael Underwood.

“I've got a good mind to give up living and go shopping instead,” is a group exhibition featuring works by Jim Adams, Edie Beaucage, Kate Bonner, Liz Collins, Caitlin Cherry, Hugo Crosthwaite, Zackary Drucker & Rhys Ernst, Dennis Koch, Margie Livingston, Erik Olson, Josh Reames, Alexandria Smith, and Peter Williams. The show takes its name from the 1968 blues song by B.B. King, which deals with the heartbreak that comes from a broken relationship. The artists in this exhibition explore ideas about relationships that aren't necessarily what they appear to be. Break-ups can be a constantly negotiated battle between parties. Sometimes things can be read one way and understood in a completely different manner, or perhaps the fluidity of a thing—gender, for example—makes expansive truths and multiple realities possible. The varied nature of interpretations that seem to embody opposing or contradictory positions often inspire a level of empathy, communication, and creativity that may transform a situation, making it ultimately more relatable and moving.

“I’ve got a good mind to give up living and go shopping instead” is on view through August 17 at Luis de Jesus Los Angeles 2685 S La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, CA. photographs courtesy of the artists and Luis De Jesus Los Angeles