New Orleans Wedding. 2023. Installation: Mixed Media. Dimensions Variable.

Daniela Soberman

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Recent Exhibition:

March 2 - April 6, 2024.

Other Days

Claudia Rega, Frantz Jean-baptiste, Grant Falardeau, Xiao He, Daniela Soberman, Rudik Ovsepyan, Sinclair Vicisitud.

Group Exhibition.

Documentation:

+ Checklist

Release:

+ File; Curate LA

Press:

+ This Week’s Must-See Art (Curate LA: February 29-March 6, 2024)

+ LA Art Openings & Spotlight (ArtRabbit: February 28, 2024).

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Bio

Daniela Soberman is a first-generation Serbian American self-taught artist living and working in Los Angeles. Soberman has been the subject of solo exhibitions at both museums and galleries internationally and throughout Southern California since 2021, including: Changing Room Gallery (Berlin: 2023), Gallery SADE (Los Angeles: 2022/3), the J. Paul Getty Museum/Long Beach Museum of Art (2022), and the Torrance Art Museum (2022). Her work has also been featured in several group and dual exhibitions.

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Initially, Soberman’s sculptural practice pulls from her blended childhood memories of working-class urban life in Los Angeles and Serbia: shared brutalist architectures folded into her odd childhood antics (like making mazes and inviting the neighbors to enter-(if-they-dare)). “New Orleans Wedding” extends this work with childhood, and the construction-meets-confection materiality of her anti-gravitational sculptures, with a more present practice reflecting on the kinds of memory produced by other-worldly experiences. (Basically, something weird happened while she was attending friends’ wedding in New Orleans… (she spared us the details…).) Met as a staggering scene between horror and wonder, monument and child, these ethereally pink figures take the private scale of memory and installs an intimate moment for public display.

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Exhibitions with the Gallery:

- September 30 - October 4. Benefit Salon.

Benefit 2023 | Chords2Cure

Emma Gray, Daniela Soberman, Ari Salka, Erica Everage, Kento Saisho, Keywan Tafteh, Sinclair Vicisitud, Suwichada Busamrong-Press, Saun Santipreecha, Rudik Ovsepyan, objet A.D, Chris Reisig & Leeza Taylor.

Documentation:

+ Checklist

Recordings

+ Exhibition Videos

Press:

+ This Week’s Must-See Art (Curate LA: September 28-August 4, 2023).

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- May 20 - June 17, 2023. Dual Exhibition.

No Plateaus

Daniela Soberman, Keywan Tafteh

Documentation:

+ Checklist

+ Catalogue

The 2023 dual exhibition No Plateaus positions her sculptural works—as well as a pair of small drawings—alongside mixed-technique paintings by Keywan Tafteh.

The new and recent works presented during the exhibition follow the terrifyingly playful path extending throughout her feverish body of work. Simultaneously showing various scales of Soberman’s work together, the exhibition builds an immersive and speculative encounter across all levels and dimensions of the artwork.

Looking at her (pictured) wall-mounted, cliff-hanging, work The Smell of Wet Concrete, any point of view is immediately disoriented and called into question: Am I above or below? Am I within or without? Am I falling down or rising up? The scratched plaster and rubbly rims remember a topographic view of a decaying metropolis as much as the oozing, cloud-like figure of the foamly floating structure finds the emergence of some celestial city. Bandaged but sturdy, moving in opposite directions at the same time—toward creation and toward destruction—the work is ecstatic: beside itself and in awe of its yawning against the wall.

Pulling from her blended childhood memories of working-class urban life in Los Angeles and Serbia, Soberman’s lost urban dreamscapes populate a void with brutalist imprints that recall confection and construction.

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Inquire for Information, Image Details, or Status of Exhibited Works:

gallery@reisigandtaylorcontemporary.com

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