Perception, Seeing, and the Constructed Image

In Case Studies, Peter Wegner takes the foundational tools of visual order—color wheels, maps, photographs—and quietly destabilizes them, resulting in a recalibration of how we see. Wegner’s images refuse to stay within their grids; instead, they fold, flip, and multiply until structure reveals its fragility. Working at the fringes of lens-based media, Wegner underscores how images do not merely depict reality but produce it. The works invite viewers to dwell in that delicate zone where form and perception meet, at the edge of seeing, where meaning begins to flicker and reorganize.

Mar 28 - May 26

Michael Kohn Gallery presents inkblot and felt-tip drawings by Bruce Conner made from the early 1960s to the 2000s, highlighting a lesser-known core of his practice. Using folding, mirroring, and repetitive mark-making, Conner explores symmetry, automatism, and chance. These works reveal drawing as a sustained site of inquiry, where authorship loosens and meaning stays fluid, in dialogue with his films and assemblages.

Feb 18 - Apr 25

Trial of the Finger presents new and recent works by Tacita Dean, including the 35mm film installations Paradise and Geography Biography, and a new 16mm film, Sidney Felsen decorates an Envelope. The exhibition also features chalk and slate drawings, Polaroid works, and works on glass. The title references Dr. Samuel Johnson’s critique of the Metaphysical poets and reflects Dean’s sustained engagement with analog processes and embodied systems of measure.

Feb 21 - Apr 25

Doubting Thomas brings together works by Aaron Elvis Jupin, Mike Kelley, and Tony Matelli in a conceptual dialogue examining doubt not as negation but as a mode of attention. The title invokes the biblical figure who required proof through contact, a cautionary tale and quiet endorsement of verification alike. The works operate in the interval between recognition and certainty, where perception is tested and belief is deferred.

Apr 11 - May 16

Kohei Nawa's first solo show in Los Angeles brings together 20 new works from two of his iconic sculptural series—PixCell and Prism—creating a cohesive environment in which his sculptures engage directly with the architecture of the gallery’s main exhibition space. Working across sculpture, painting, and installation, Nawa explores nuanced relationships between physical and virtual spaces, synthetic and natural forces, and the individual and the collective. Technologies spanning eras and cultures run through his practice, prompting viewers to reconsider how the digital shapes their experience of the physical world.

Apr 11 - Jun 6

In Lost in Space, Alicia Piller constructs a material cosmology where history, identity, and erasure orbit one another in constant motion. Long invested in cellular biology as a metaphor for trauma, repair, and continuity, Piller turns outward toward the universe—using the cosmic as both mirror and measure of the human condition. The exhibition considers what it means to be “lost,” not only within the infinite expanse of space, but within the fractured landscapes of American memory, cultural visibility, and historical accountability.

Mar 20 - May 9