From New York to Los Angeles, 8 Must-See Solo Gallery Shows in December
These are the not-to-be-missed shows in December
By Paul Laster
December 4, 2023
Rounding up the most fascinating solo gallery shows in America each month, Galerie journeyed from New York, where White Cube is presenting Tracey Emin’s paintings of contorted bodies in its first solo show presentation since opening on the Upper East Side in October, to Los Angeles, where Gillian Wearing has smartly painted herself into the realms of past artists that she admires at Regen Projects.
1. Arghavan Khosravi at Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York
Blurring the boundary between painting and sculpture, Arghavan Khosravi mines her own life experiences as a young woman growing up in Iran, an immigrant in the United States and an Iranian exile. While her earlier work illustrated stories of oppression and perseverance, her latest creations—recently exhibited in her survey at the Rose Art Museum and included in her “True to Self” exhibition here—were inspired by the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, which has become a rallying cry since the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini in police custody in Tehran. Complex hybrid paintings like The Battleground reveal the influence of Persian miniatures in her tales of patriarchal repression, while such freestanding sculptural paintings as The White Feather show the artist willing to defiantly battle to keep her freedom and peacefully fight to obtain it for others.
