In collaboration with Heidi Hahn @heidihahn123 and Tim Wilson @tim_wilson, Michael Kohn Gallery is thrilled to present “Painting All Together.” The group exhibition extends the ongoing dialogue of “Painting as Is”- a conversation grounded in the belief that painting remains a vital, self-reflexive medium for negotiating material, image, and subjectivity. This fourth installment, centered on artists living and working in Los Angeles, unfolds across five conceptual threads: inscription, object-hood, recollection, event, and projection. These frameworks are neither fixed nor exhaustive; they offer one lens among many for understanding how painting absorbs history while generating new forms and processes. The artists gathered here might belong to multiple modes at once, just as other possible frameworks—painting as language, painting as model, and, of course, painting as is, remain latent within the work. Emerging from a city shaped by climate volatility and pandemic aftermath, the exhibition casts painting as a shared language of persistence: a way of marking time, holding memory, and imagining community. Rather than a prescriptive program, this show asks what it means to paint in proximity; to material, to history, and to each other. Here, painting remains contingent—an ongoing negotiation between presence, perception, and the tactile demands of a world in flux.
Exhibiting artists are Heather Brown, Maddie Butler, Fritz Chesnut, Tomory Dodge, Victoria Fu, Morteza Khakshoor, Tahnee Lonsdale, Caitlin MacQueen, Allison Miller, Aryana Minai, Amir Nikravan, Matt Rich, Ry Rocklen, Allison Schulnik, Evan Whale, Andy Woll, Erin Wright, Sung Jik Yang and Liat Yossifor.
Fritz Chesnut, Unitled, 2025, Acrylic on canvas, 82 x 60 inches