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The Pit
The Pit is a Contemporary Art Gallery in Los Angeles.
Open: Tuesday-Saturday 10am-5pm
On view: Tamara Gonzales & Jennifer King through Apr 30
The Pit is pleased to present Maryam Yousif: Above Earth, Under The Rays of the Sun, a solo exhibition of new ceramic sculptures opening May 9, 2026!
There will be opening events on Saturday May 9 with an artist walkthrough at 2pm and a reception from 3-5 pm.
After the opening head to Night Gallery for CARLA's annual fundraiser!
For more information email us at info@the-pit.la
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Press release excerpt:
Habibti figures in yellow, green, and tangerine are each swathed in hand-formed ceramic rosettes, their faces composed and directly above the accumulated blooms. Various objects – a teal Dallah with a cascading drip glaze, a stone-like bird vessel paired with a small pomegranate bottle, small harps, Pazuzu figures, and pomegranates in various glazes – populate the room like an inventory of talismans.
“Above Earth, Under The Rays of the Sun” is an exhibition about the objects that travel with us and the ones we leave behind. The royal tombs at Nimrud, discovered by Iraqi archaeologists in 1988, yielded extraordinary jewelry, resplendent vessels, and a clay tablet inscribed with a curse threatening those who would disturb the queens’ rest. For Yousif, this curse text resonates beyond its archaeological context, touching on the superstitions of her Iraqi childhood and, the protective power of the evil eye that recurs throughout her work, and the deeply human impulse to surround the dead with beautiful things. To recreate these funerary objects in clay, she writes, is “to forge a new sense of life.” Personal memory and deep history fold into one another throughout.. The exhibition extends Yousif’s singular territory in contemporary American ceramics – a practice where Bay Area Funk’s irreverence and material freedom meet the visual legacy of ancient Mesopotamia, held together by the lived experience of being in diaspora.
Artwork:
#MaryamYousif
Habibti in Green Rosette Dress, 2026
Glazed ceramic
14 x 11 x 10 in
📸: Photography by Chris Hanke @false_artifacts
The Pit is pleased to present Maryam Yousif: Above Earth, Under The Rays of the Sun, a solo exhibition of new ceramic sculptures opening May 9, 2026!
There will be opening events on Saturday May 9 with an artist walkthrough at 2pm and a reception from 3-5 pm.
After the opening head to Night Gallery for CARLA's annual fundraiser!
For more information email us at info@the-pit.la
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Press release excerpt:
Habibti figures in yellow, green, and tangerine are each swathed in hand-formed ceramic rosettes, their faces composed and directly above the accumulated blooms. Various objects – a teal Dallah with a cascading drip glaze, a stone-like bird vessel paired with a small pomegranate bottle, small harps, Pazuzu figures, and pomegranates in various glazes – populate the room like an inventory of talismans.
“Above Earth, Under The Rays of the Sun” is an exhibition about the objects that travel with us and the ones we leave behind. The royal tombs at Nimrud, discovered by Iraqi archaeologists in 1988, yielded extraordinary jewelry, resplendent vessels, and a clay tablet inscribed with a curse threatening those who would disturb the queens’ rest. For Yousif, this curse text resonates beyond its archaeological context, touching on the superstitions of her Iraqi childhood and, the protective power of the evil eye that recurs throughout her work, and the deeply human impulse to surround the dead with beautiful things. To recreate these funerary objects in clay, she writes, is “to forge a new sense of life.” Personal memory and deep history fold into one another throughout.. The exhibition extends Yousif’s singular territory in contemporary American ceramics – a practice where Bay Area Funk’s irreverence and material freedom meet the visual legacy of ancient Mesopotamia, held together by the lived experience of being in diaspora.
Artwork:
#MaryamYousif
Habibti in Green Rosette Dress, 2026
Glazed ceramic
14 x 11 x 10 in
📸: Photography by Chris Hanke @false_artifacts
The Pit is thrilled to present Tuning the Void, the first solo exhibition by Chicago-based artist Anna Kunz at The Pit, opening May 9, 2026!
Join us for the opening reception on Saturday May 9 from 3-5pm before heading over to CARLA's annual fundraiser at Night Gallery!
For more information email us at info@the-pit.la
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Press release excerpt:
Kunz approaches the painting process performatively. Over a career spanning more than twenty-five years, Kunz has collaborated with architects, dancers, and musicians, most notably creating décor for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. The artist is known for a body of work that spans canvas painting and large-scale installation, unified by an unwavering focus on color as the primary vehicle of meaning and sensation. Her canvases are built slowly through layered washes of acrylic and dye on porous, unprimed surfaces, so that canvas and pigment become inseparable. The resulting surfaces are not reflective but internally luminous, as though the light originates from within the work itself. She works with an expansive palette drawn from threshold moments, such as the light of dusk and dawn, inflected by the charged saturation of 1960s psychedelic posters. Her signature formal vocabulary of arcs, wedges, and interlocking color planes arranges forms that lean into and support one another with open, dissolved edges, creating a sense of harmony rather than conflict.
In Between Moon and Ocean, 2026 a vertical dark band divides the canvas into two distinct registers: on the left, a field of amber, pinks, and greens is anchored by a luminous cobalt circle and a half-moon of warm yellow; on the right, a body of intense red-orange swells in two great arcs against a dark background. The composition holds its two sides in careful suspension distinct in temperature and mood, yet structurally bound, evoking the charged space between celestial bodies as they exert quiet pull on one another.
Artwork:
Anna Kunz
BETWEEN MOON AND OCEAN, 2026
Acrylic and dye on canvas
66 x 60 in
📸: Chris Hanke @false_artifacts
#annakunz #thepitla #contemporaryart #lagallery
The Pit is thrilled to present Tuning the Void, the first solo exhibition by Chicago-based artist Anna Kunz at The Pit, opening May 9, 2026!
Join us for the opening reception on Saturday May 9 from 3-5pm before heading over to CARLA's annual fundraiser at Night Gallery!
For more information email us at info@the-pit.la
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Press release excerpt:
Kunz approaches the painting process performatively. Over a career spanning more than twenty-five years, Kunz has collaborated with architects, dancers, and musicians, most notably creating décor for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. The artist is known for a body of work that spans canvas painting and large-scale installation, unified by an unwavering focus on color as the primary vehicle of meaning and sensation. Her canvases are built slowly through layered washes of acrylic and dye on porous, unprimed surfaces, so that canvas and pigment become inseparable. The resulting surfaces are not reflective but internally luminous, as though the light originates from within the work itself. She works with an expansive palette drawn from threshold moments, such as the light of dusk and dawn, inflected by the charged saturation of 1960s psychedelic posters. Her signature formal vocabulary of arcs, wedges, and interlocking color planes arranges forms that lean into and support one another with open, dissolved edges, creating a sense of harmony rather than conflict.
In Between Moon and Ocean, 2026 a vertical dark band divides the canvas into two distinct registers: on the left, a field of amber, pinks, and greens is anchored by a luminous cobalt circle and a half-moon of warm yellow; on the right, a body of intense red-orange swells in two great arcs against a dark background. The composition holds its two sides in careful suspension distinct in temperature and mood, yet structurally bound, evoking the charged space between celestial bodies as they exert quiet pull on one another.
Artwork:
Anna Kunz
BETWEEN MOON AND OCEAN, 2026
Acrylic and dye on canvas
66 x 60 in
📸: Chris Hanke @false_artifacts
#annakunz #thepitla #contemporaryart #lagallery
The Pit is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Ryan Schneider's sculpture Deep Dive, 2025 by LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)! The sculpture from Ryan Schneider's Los Angeles 2025 exhibition "Earth Canal" will be part of the museum's diverse permanent collection. LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States, with collections comprising 155,000 objects that illuminate 6,000 years of artistic expression from across the globe, spanning ancient times to the present.
The Pit would like to thank Rita Gonzalez, Terri and Michael Smooke Curator and Department Head, Contemporary Art, for her continued support!
Artwork details:
Ryan Schneider
Deep Dive, 2025
Onyx on Redwood pedestal
11 x 10 x 9 in.
Photography by Jeff Mclane.
For information on available works email us at info@the-pit.la
#ryanschneider #lacma #lacmaacquisition #contemporaryart #lagallery
The Pit is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Ryan Schneider's sculpture Deep Dive, 2025 by LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)! The sculpture from Ryan Schneider's Los Angeles 2025 exhibition "Earth Canal" will be part of the museum's diverse permanent collection. LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States, with collections comprising 155,000 objects that illuminate 6,000 years of artistic expression from across the globe, spanning ancient times to the present.
The Pit would like to thank Rita Gonzalez, Terri and Michael Smooke Curator and Department Head, Contemporary Art, for her continued support!
Artwork details:
Ryan Schneider
Deep Dive, 2025
Onyx on Redwood pedestal
11 x 10 x 9 in.
Photography by Jeff Mclane.
For information on available works email us at info@the-pit.la
#ryanschneider #lacma #lacmaacquisition #contemporaryart #lagallery
The Pit is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Ryan Schneider's sculpture Deep Dive, 2025 by LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)! The sculpture from Ryan Schneider's Los Angeles 2025 exhibition "Earth Canal" will be part of the museum's diverse permanent collection. LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States, with collections comprising 155,000 objects that illuminate 6,000 years of artistic expression from across the globe, spanning ancient times to the present.
The Pit would like to thank Rita Gonzalez, Terri and Michael Smooke Curator and Department Head, Contemporary Art, for her continued support!
Artwork details:
Ryan Schneider
Deep Dive, 2025
Onyx on Redwood pedestal
11 x 10 x 9 in.
Photography by Jeff Mclane.
For information on available works email us at info@the-pit.la
#ryanschneider #lacma #lacmaacquisition #contemporaryart #lagallery
The Pit is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Ryan Schneider's sculpture Deep Dive, 2025 by LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)! The sculpture from Ryan Schneider's Los Angeles 2025 exhibition "Earth Canal" will be part of the museum's diverse permanent collection. LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States, with collections comprising 155,000 objects that illuminate 6,000 years of artistic expression from across the globe, spanning ancient times to the present.
The Pit would like to thank Rita Gonzalez, Terri and Michael Smooke Curator and Department Head, Contemporary Art, for her continued support!
Artwork details:
Ryan Schneider
Deep Dive, 2025
Onyx on Redwood pedestal
11 x 10 x 9 in.
Photography by Jeff Mclane.
For information on available works email us at info@the-pit.la
#ryanschneider #lacma #lacmaacquisition #contemporaryart #lagallery
The Pit is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Ryan Schneider's sculpture Deep Dive, 2025 by LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)! The sculpture from Ryan Schneider's Los Angeles 2025 exhibition "Earth Canal" will be part of the museum's diverse permanent collection. LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States, with collections comprising 155,000 objects that illuminate 6,000 years of artistic expression from across the globe, spanning ancient times to the present.
The Pit would like to thank Rita Gonzalez, Terri and Michael Smooke Curator and Department Head, Contemporary Art, for her continued support!
Artwork details:
Ryan Schneider
Deep Dive, 2025
Onyx on Redwood pedestal
11 x 10 x 9 in.
Photography by Jeff Mclane.
For information on available works email us at info@the-pit.la
#ryanschneider #lacma #lacmaacquisition #contemporaryart #lagallery
Kirk's porcelain Ziggurat in the Archie Bray he Foundation Archive made here at the Bray in 1980 when we were residents here. Porcelain , wheel thrown and salt glazed. @kirkmangus @archie_bray @solwaygallery @thepitla @risdalumni@risd_ceramics@rmhardesty
Kirk's porcelain Ziggurat in the Archie Bray he Foundation Archive made here at the Bray in 1980 when we were residents here. Porcelain , wheel thrown and salt glazed. @kirkmangus @archie_bray @solwaygallery @thepitla @risdalumni@risd_ceramics@rmhardesty
Kirk's porcelain Ziggurat in the Archie Bray he Foundation Archive made here at the Bray in 1980 when we were residents here. Porcelain , wheel thrown and salt glazed. @kirkmangus @archie_bray @solwaygallery @thepitla @risdalumni@risd_ceramics@rmhardesty
Kirk's porcelain Ziggurat in the Archie Bray he Foundation Archive made here at the Bray in 1980 when we were residents here. Porcelain , wheel thrown and salt glazed. @kirkmangus @archie_bray @solwaygallery @thepitla @risdalumni@risd_ceramics@rmhardesty
Kirk's porcelain Ziggurat in the Archie Bray he Foundation Archive made here at the Bray in 1980 when we were residents here. Porcelain , wheel thrown and salt glazed. @kirkmangus @archie_bray @solwaygallery @thepitla @risdalumni@risd_ceramics@rmhardesty
Tuning the Void, the first solo exhibition by Chicago-based artist Anna Kunz at The Pit, opens Saturday May 9, 2026! The exhibition brings together a body of work rooted in Kunz’s ongoing investigation into the dynamic, relational choreography of color.
There will be opening events on Saturday May 9 with an artist walkthrough at 2pm and a reception from 3-5 pm.
After the opening head to Night Gallery for CARLA's annual fundraiser!
For more information email us at info@the-pit.la
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Press release excerpt:
Kunz approaches the painting process performatively. Over a career spanning more than twenty-five years, Kunz has collaborated with architects, dancers, and musicians, most notably creating décor for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. The artist is known for a body of work that spans canvas painting and large-scale installation, unified by an unwavering focus on color as the primary vehicle of meaning and sensation. Her canvases are built slowly through layered washes of acrylic and dye on porous, unprimed surfaces, so that canvas and pigment become inseparable. The resulting surfaces are not reflective but internally luminous, as though the light originates from within the work itself. She works with an expansive palette drawn from threshold moments, such as the light of dusk and dawn, inflected by the charged saturation of 1960s psychedelic posters. Her signature formal vocabulary of arcs, wedges, and interlocking color planes arranges forms that lean into and support one another with open, dissolved edges, creating a sense of harmony rather than conflict.
Artwork:
Anna Kunz
WORLD OF SLEEP, 2026
Acrylic and dye on canvas
53 x 48 in
📸: Chris Hanke @false_artifacts
#annakunz #thepitla #contemporaryart #lagallery
Tuning the Void, the first solo exhibition by Chicago-based artist Anna Kunz at The Pit, opens Saturday May 9, 2026! The exhibition brings together a body of work rooted in Kunz’s ongoing investigation into the dynamic, relational choreography of color.
There will be opening events on Saturday May 9 with an artist walkthrough at 2pm and a reception from 3-5 pm.
After the opening head to Night Gallery for CARLA's annual fundraiser!
For more information email us at info@the-pit.la
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Press release excerpt:
Kunz approaches the painting process performatively. Over a career spanning more than twenty-five years, Kunz has collaborated with architects, dancers, and musicians, most notably creating décor for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. The artist is known for a body of work that spans canvas painting and large-scale installation, unified by an unwavering focus on color as the primary vehicle of meaning and sensation. Her canvases are built slowly through layered washes of acrylic and dye on porous, unprimed surfaces, so that canvas and pigment become inseparable. The resulting surfaces are not reflective but internally luminous, as though the light originates from within the work itself. She works with an expansive palette drawn from threshold moments, such as the light of dusk and dawn, inflected by the charged saturation of 1960s psychedelic posters. Her signature formal vocabulary of arcs, wedges, and interlocking color planes arranges forms that lean into and support one another with open, dissolved edges, creating a sense of harmony rather than conflict.
Artwork:
Anna Kunz
WORLD OF SLEEP, 2026
Acrylic and dye on canvas
53 x 48 in
📸: Chris Hanke @false_artifacts
#annakunz #thepitla #contemporaryart #lagallery
🥂 We're happy to share that Chase Biado, Heather Rasmussen, and Nora Shields will be a participating artist in Carla’s annual Soirée and Art Auction, taking place on Saturday, May 9th at Night Gallery (@nightgallery)! 🥂
Stop by The Pit from 3-5pm for the opening receptions of Anna Kunz and Maryam Yousif and then head over to Night Gallery to support CARLA's fundraser!
🎟️ Tickets and info are available now at link in bio @contemporaryartreview.la
⭐️ About the soirée & art auction: ⭐️
🖼️ Carla remains committed to building entry points into the arts for the greater L.A. community, and this year’s soirée will coincide with the release of the 44th issue of our quarterly print magazine. The event will also feature an art auction of accessibly-priced works on paper by an impressive roster of L.A.-based artists. This year, the auction will include a featured artist section, which will include a selection of larger artworks from five L.A. artists that Carla has featured, including Patrick Martinez, Alfonso Gonzalez Jr., Kelly Wall, Amia Yokoyama, and Elmer Guevara.
🍸Event Highlights 🍸
–Dinner by Pine & Crane (VIP ticket holders)
–Exhibition walkthrough with artist Michelle Blade (VIP ticket holders)
–Art auction including 76 L.A.-based artists
–Vocal performance by Sharon Chohi Kim
–Spirits tasting by Madre Mezcal
–DJ, wine by El Prado and more, dancing!
🥂 We're happy to share that Chase Biado, Heather Rasmussen, and Nora Shields will be a participating artist in Carla’s annual Soirée and Art Auction, taking place on Saturday, May 9th at Night Gallery (@nightgallery)! 🥂
Stop by The Pit from 3-5pm for the opening receptions of Anna Kunz and Maryam Yousif and then head over to Night Gallery to support CARLA's fundraser!
🎟️ Tickets and info are available now at link in bio @contemporaryartreview.la
⭐️ About the soirée & art auction: ⭐️
🖼️ Carla remains committed to building entry points into the arts for the greater L.A. community, and this year’s soirée will coincide with the release of the 44th issue of our quarterly print magazine. The event will also feature an art auction of accessibly-priced works on paper by an impressive roster of L.A.-based artists. This year, the auction will include a featured artist section, which will include a selection of larger artworks from five L.A. artists that Carla has featured, including Patrick Martinez, Alfonso Gonzalez Jr., Kelly Wall, Amia Yokoyama, and Elmer Guevara.
🍸Event Highlights 🍸
–Dinner by Pine & Crane (VIP ticket holders)
–Exhibition walkthrough with artist Michelle Blade (VIP ticket holders)
–Art auction including 76 L.A.-based artists
–Vocal performance by Sharon Chohi Kim
–Spirits tasting by Madre Mezcal
–DJ, wine by El Prado and more, dancing!
🥂 We're happy to share that Chase Biado, Heather Rasmussen, and Nora Shields will be a participating artist in Carla’s annual Soirée and Art Auction, taking place on Saturday, May 9th at Night Gallery (@nightgallery)! 🥂
Stop by The Pit from 3-5pm for the opening receptions of Anna Kunz and Maryam Yousif and then head over to Night Gallery to support CARLA's fundraser!
🎟️ Tickets and info are available now at link in bio @contemporaryartreview.la
⭐️ About the soirée & art auction: ⭐️
🖼️ Carla remains committed to building entry points into the arts for the greater L.A. community, and this year’s soirée will coincide with the release of the 44th issue of our quarterly print magazine. The event will also feature an art auction of accessibly-priced works on paper by an impressive roster of L.A.-based artists. This year, the auction will include a featured artist section, which will include a selection of larger artworks from five L.A. artists that Carla has featured, including Patrick Martinez, Alfonso Gonzalez Jr., Kelly Wall, Amia Yokoyama, and Elmer Guevara.
🍸Event Highlights 🍸
–Dinner by Pine & Crane (VIP ticket holders)
–Exhibition walkthrough with artist Michelle Blade (VIP ticket holders)
–Art auction including 76 L.A.-based artists
–Vocal performance by Sharon Chohi Kim
–Spirits tasting by Madre Mezcal
–DJ, wine by El Prado and more, dancing!
🥂 We're happy to share that Chase Biado, Heather Rasmussen, and Nora Shields will be a participating artist in Carla’s annual Soirée and Art Auction, taking place on Saturday, May 9th at Night Gallery (@nightgallery)! 🥂
Stop by The Pit from 3-5pm for the opening receptions of Anna Kunz and Maryam Yousif and then head over to Night Gallery to support CARLA's fundraser!
🎟️ Tickets and info are available now at link in bio @contemporaryartreview.la
⭐️ About the soirée & art auction: ⭐️
🖼️ Carla remains committed to building entry points into the arts for the greater L.A. community, and this year’s soirée will coincide with the release of the 44th issue of our quarterly print magazine. The event will also feature an art auction of accessibly-priced works on paper by an impressive roster of L.A.-based artists. This year, the auction will include a featured artist section, which will include a selection of larger artworks from five L.A. artists that Carla has featured, including Patrick Martinez, Alfonso Gonzalez Jr., Kelly Wall, Amia Yokoyama, and Elmer Guevara.
🍸Event Highlights 🍸
–Dinner by Pine & Crane (VIP ticket holders)
–Exhibition walkthrough with artist Michelle Blade (VIP ticket holders)
–Art auction including 76 L.A.-based artists
–Vocal performance by Sharon Chohi Kim
–Spirits tasting by Madre Mezcal
–DJ, wine by El Prado and more, dancing!
🥂 We're happy to share that Chase Biado, Heather Rasmussen, and Nora Shields will be a participating artist in Carla’s annual Soirée and Art Auction, taking place on Saturday, May 9th at Night Gallery (@nightgallery)! 🥂
Stop by The Pit from 3-5pm for the opening receptions of Anna Kunz and Maryam Yousif and then head over to Night Gallery to support CARLA's fundraser!
🎟️ Tickets and info are available now at link in bio @contemporaryartreview.la
⭐️ About the soirée & art auction: ⭐️
🖼️ Carla remains committed to building entry points into the arts for the greater L.A. community, and this year’s soirée will coincide with the release of the 44th issue of our quarterly print magazine. The event will also feature an art auction of accessibly-priced works on paper by an impressive roster of L.A.-based artists. This year, the auction will include a featured artist section, which will include a selection of larger artworks from five L.A. artists that Carla has featured, including Patrick Martinez, Alfonso Gonzalez Jr., Kelly Wall, Amia Yokoyama, and Elmer Guevara.
🍸Event Highlights 🍸
–Dinner by Pine & Crane (VIP ticket holders)
–Exhibition walkthrough with artist Michelle Blade (VIP ticket holders)
–Art auction including 76 L.A.-based artists
–Vocal performance by Sharon Chohi Kim
–Spirits tasting by Madre Mezcal
–DJ, wine by El Prado and more, dancing!
What: Opening party!
When: Saturday May 9
Time: 2-5pm
Where: The Pit LA
There's a LOT going on on Saturday May 9! We hope you'll join us for an EARLY opening party from 2-5pm in celebration of our solo exhibitions by Anna Kunz and Maryam Yousif, before heading to Night Gallery to support the @contemporaryartreview.la annual fundraiser!
The artists will do a public walkthrough of their exhibitions at 2pm, followed by drinks and tacos and music from 3-5pm!
We hope to see you there!!
#maryamyousif #annakunz #thepitla #laartgallery
New interview with Keith Boadwee by Anton Isiukov out in Collectors Agenda! Link to the full piece in our bio.
For more information about Keith Boadwee email us at info@the-pit.la
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From @collectors_agenda!
In the Studio with @KeithBoadwee 🌟
American conceptual artist Keith Boadwee emerged in the early 1990s through abstract action painting and photography that pushed the boundaries of decency. Over time, he expanded his practice into multiple, overlapping bodies of work—ranging from quick, expressive, and often scatological figurative paintings to more recent works featuring frogs, poodles, and domestic objects. Humour remains a vital element, even though Boadwee resists having his art dismissed as simply fun. From the very beginning, his work has been a fearless exploration of radical queerness, sexual liberty and social critique.
»I live in a safe little world that I have created for myself.«
Read the full article on our website!
Text: @AntonIsiukov
Photos: Graham Holoch
#KeithBoadwee #InTheStudio #LoveArt
New interview with Keith Boadwee by Anton Isiukov out in Collectors Agenda! Link to the full piece in our bio.
For more information about Keith Boadwee email us at info@the-pit.la
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From @collectors_agenda!
In the Studio with @KeithBoadwee 🌟
American conceptual artist Keith Boadwee emerged in the early 1990s through abstract action painting and photography that pushed the boundaries of decency. Over time, he expanded his practice into multiple, overlapping bodies of work—ranging from quick, expressive, and often scatological figurative paintings to more recent works featuring frogs, poodles, and domestic objects. Humour remains a vital element, even though Boadwee resists having his art dismissed as simply fun. From the very beginning, his work has been a fearless exploration of radical queerness, sexual liberty and social critique.
»I live in a safe little world that I have created for myself.«
Read the full article on our website!
Text: @AntonIsiukov
Photos: Graham Holoch
#KeithBoadwee #InTheStudio #LoveArt
New interview with Keith Boadwee by Anton Isiukov out in Collectors Agenda! Link to the full piece in our bio.
For more information about Keith Boadwee email us at info@the-pit.la
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From @collectors_agenda!
In the Studio with @KeithBoadwee 🌟
American conceptual artist Keith Boadwee emerged in the early 1990s through abstract action painting and photography that pushed the boundaries of decency. Over time, he expanded his practice into multiple, overlapping bodies of work—ranging from quick, expressive, and often scatological figurative paintings to more recent works featuring frogs, poodles, and domestic objects. Humour remains a vital element, even though Boadwee resists having his art dismissed as simply fun. From the very beginning, his work has been a fearless exploration of radical queerness, sexual liberty and social critique.
»I live in a safe little world that I have created for myself.«
Read the full article on our website!
Text: @AntonIsiukov
Photos: Graham Holoch
#KeithBoadwee #InTheStudio #LoveArt
New interview with Keith Boadwee by Anton Isiukov out in Collectors Agenda! Link to the full piece in our bio.
For more information about Keith Boadwee email us at info@the-pit.la
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From @collectors_agenda!
In the Studio with @KeithBoadwee 🌟
American conceptual artist Keith Boadwee emerged in the early 1990s through abstract action painting and photography that pushed the boundaries of decency. Over time, he expanded his practice into multiple, overlapping bodies of work—ranging from quick, expressive, and often scatological figurative paintings to more recent works featuring frogs, poodles, and domestic objects. Humour remains a vital element, even though Boadwee resists having his art dismissed as simply fun. From the very beginning, his work has been a fearless exploration of radical queerness, sexual liberty and social critique.
»I live in a safe little world that I have created for myself.«
Read the full article on our website!
Text: @AntonIsiukov
Photos: Graham Holoch
#KeithBoadwee #InTheStudio #LoveArt
New interview with Keith Boadwee by Anton Isiukov out in Collectors Agenda! Link to the full piece in our bio.
For more information about Keith Boadwee email us at info@the-pit.la
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From @collectors_agenda!
In the Studio with @KeithBoadwee 🌟
American conceptual artist Keith Boadwee emerged in the early 1990s through abstract action painting and photography that pushed the boundaries of decency. Over time, he expanded his practice into multiple, overlapping bodies of work—ranging from quick, expressive, and often scatological figurative paintings to more recent works featuring frogs, poodles, and domestic objects. Humour remains a vital element, even though Boadwee resists having his art dismissed as simply fun. From the very beginning, his work has been a fearless exploration of radical queerness, sexual liberty and social critique.
»I live in a safe little world that I have created for myself.«
Read the full article on our website!
Text: @AntonIsiukov
Photos: Graham Holoch
#KeithBoadwee #InTheStudio #LoveArt
New interview with Keith Boadwee by Anton Isiukov out in Collectors Agenda! Link to the full piece in our bio.
For more information about Keith Boadwee email us at info@the-pit.la
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From @collectors_agenda!
In the Studio with @KeithBoadwee 🌟
American conceptual artist Keith Boadwee emerged in the early 1990s through abstract action painting and photography that pushed the boundaries of decency. Over time, he expanded his practice into multiple, overlapping bodies of work—ranging from quick, expressive, and often scatological figurative paintings to more recent works featuring frogs, poodles, and domestic objects. Humour remains a vital element, even though Boadwee resists having his art dismissed as simply fun. From the very beginning, his work has been a fearless exploration of radical queerness, sexual liberty and social critique.
»I live in a safe little world that I have created for myself.«
Read the full article on our website!
Text: @AntonIsiukov
Photos: Graham Holoch
#KeithBoadwee #InTheStudio #LoveArt
The Pit is pleased to present Maryam Yousif: Above Earth, Under The Rays of the Sun, a solo exhibition of new ceramic sculptures opening May 9, 2026!
There will be opening events on Saturday May 9 with an artist walkthrough at 2pm and a reception from 3-5 pm. The exhibition is on view through June 17, 2026.
For more information email us at info@the-pit.la
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Press release excerpt:
Yousif’s third exhibition with the gallery takes its title from the inscription on a curse tablet found in the royal tombs of the Assyrian queens at Nimrud, where the phrase describes the mortal realm: the place of people who live above the earth, beneath the sun. Working from this ancient text as a point of departure, the exhibition brings together large-scale and intimate works that move between funerary artifact and living ornament, between what is carried out of a place and what endures. Maryam Yousif was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1985, where she grew up surrounded by her mother’s paintings and handmade objects, emigrating to Canada at the age of 10.Yousif works primarily in clay, producing figurative sculptures that occupy a space between ancient devotional objects and contemporary folk art. Her signature “habibti” figures (Arabic for “sweetheart” or “my love”) are modeled on Sumerian votive statues, the small stone stand-ins placed inside temples by worshippers who could not enter themselves. Her lustrous, layered glazes fuse the exuberance of Bay Area Funk ceramics with the ancient visual traditions of her homeland. Running through the work is a persistent question: what it means to leave a place, potentially forever, and what do we carry with us when we do so?
Artwork:
#MaryamYousif
Head of Female Figure with Deportation Earrings, 2026
Glazed ceramic
23 x 25.5 x 15 in
📸: Photography by Chris Hanke @false_artifacts
It's the last day to see Tamara Gonzales's solo exhibition “The center does not hold, it blooms” at The Pit! The exhibition closes Thursday April 30, 2026. Don't miss it!
For more information email us at info@the-pit.la
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Press release excerpt:
Gonzales's practice moves between abstraction and figuration, guided by color as a living force, and pattern as a carrier of memory. For Gonzales, painting functions as a devotional and intuitive act—a way of listening to what surfaces when ancestral knowledge, personal experience, and spiritual practice converge.
The works in this exhibition were developed during Gonzales's recent residency in Limassol, Cyprus, where the artist created watercolors deeply influenced by the Mediterranean light reflecting on water at different times of day and the layered history of the land. A brief visit to Athens further informed the imagery: dolphins, fish motifs, waves, Greek architecture, and an overarching sense of antiquity permeate the compositions. The glass tile mosaics presented in the exhibition match closely to the original watercolors Gonzales made during her residency.
Artwork:
#TamaraGonzales
Butterfly With Lotus, 2206
Glass mosaic tile mounted on aluminum honeycomb board with maple frame
40 x 30 in
📸: Photography by Chris Hanke @false_artifacts
“Disco Snake” 2026! You’ll be able to see her at my solo show OVUM @thepitla opening in September.
Ceramic, glaze, luster
23 x 20 x 16 inches
Thanks for the title @nicolecherubinistudio & @artwiseinc! 🪩🐍 (I had back to back to back studio visits with these amazing ladies who both called this sculpture ‘disco snake’ so, I’m using it!)
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📸 by JSP Art Photography
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#discosnake #ovum #cobra #ceramicart #dangernoodle #sculpture #ceramicsculpture #splitheadflayed #gold #contemporaryceramics #thepit #thepitgallery #roxannejackson
“Disco Snake” 2026! You’ll be able to see her at my solo show OVUM @thepitla opening in September.
Ceramic, glaze, luster
23 x 20 x 16 inches
Thanks for the title @nicolecherubinistudio & @artwiseinc! 🪩🐍 (I had back to back to back studio visits with these amazing ladies who both called this sculpture ‘disco snake’ so, I’m using it!)
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📸 by JSP Art Photography
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#discosnake #ovum #cobra #ceramicart #dangernoodle #sculpture #ceramicsculpture #splitheadflayed #gold #contemporaryceramics #thepit #thepitgallery #roxannejackson
“Disco Snake” 2026! You’ll be able to see her at my solo show OVUM @thepitla opening in September.
Ceramic, glaze, luster
23 x 20 x 16 inches
Thanks for the title @nicolecherubinistudio & @artwiseinc! 🪩🐍 (I had back to back to back studio visits with these amazing ladies who both called this sculpture ‘disco snake’ so, I’m using it!)
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📸 by JSP Art Photography
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#discosnake #ovum #cobra #ceramicart #dangernoodle #sculpture #ceramicsculpture #splitheadflayed #gold #contemporaryceramics #thepit #thepitgallery #roxannejackson
“Disco Snake” 2026! You’ll be able to see her at my solo show OVUM @thepitla opening in September.
Ceramic, glaze, luster
23 x 20 x 16 inches
Thanks for the title @nicolecherubinistudio & @artwiseinc! 🪩🐍 (I had back to back to back studio visits with these amazing ladies who both called this sculpture ‘disco snake’ so, I’m using it!)
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📸 by JSP Art Photography
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#discosnake #ovum #cobra #ceramicart #dangernoodle #sculpture #ceramicsculpture #splitheadflayed #gold #contemporaryceramics #thepit #thepitgallery #roxannejackson
“Disco Snake” 2026! You’ll be able to see her at my solo show OVUM @thepitla opening in September.
Ceramic, glaze, luster
23 x 20 x 16 inches
Thanks for the title @nicolecherubinistudio & @artwiseinc! 🪩🐍 (I had back to back to back studio visits with these amazing ladies who both called this sculpture ‘disco snake’ so, I’m using it!)
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📸 by JSP Art Photography
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#discosnake #ovum #cobra #ceramicart #dangernoodle #sculpture #ceramicsculpture #splitheadflayed #gold #contemporaryceramics #thepit #thepitgallery #roxannejackson
“Disco Snake” 2026! You’ll be able to see her at my solo show OVUM @thepitla opening in September.
Ceramic, glaze, luster
23 x 20 x 16 inches
Thanks for the title @nicolecherubinistudio & @artwiseinc! 🪩🐍 (I had back to back to back studio visits with these amazing ladies who both called this sculpture ‘disco snake’ so, I’m using it!)
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📸 by JSP Art Photography
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#discosnake #ovum #cobra #ceramicart #dangernoodle #sculpture #ceramicsculpture #splitheadflayed #gold #contemporaryceramics #thepit #thepitgallery #roxannejackson
“Disco Snake” 2026! You’ll be able to see her at my solo show OVUM @thepitla opening in September.
Ceramic, glaze, luster
23 x 20 x 16 inches
Thanks for the title @nicolecherubinistudio & @artwiseinc! 🪩🐍 (I had back to back to back studio visits with these amazing ladies who both called this sculpture ‘disco snake’ so, I’m using it!)
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📸 by JSP Art Photography
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#discosnake #ovum #cobra #ceramicart #dangernoodle #sculpture #ceramicsculpture #splitheadflayed #gold #contemporaryceramics #thepit #thepitgallery #roxannejackson
Look at these cuties! Tamara Gonzales' and Chris Martin's works are included in “Couples,” at @ericfirestonegallery, an exhibition featuring the work of 26 artist-partners (through May 2). Check it out if you're in NY!
This is also the last week to see Tamara Gonzales' solo exhibition at The Pit in LA! The show closes on April 30. Don't miss it!
For more information on Tamara Gonzales, email us at info@the-pit.la
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From @cultured_mag:
Art history’s most famous love stories are cautionary tales.
Think: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar. A new exhibition in New York offers a considerably less tumultuous vision of artistic romance. “Couples,” at @ericfirestonegallery, features the work of 26 artist-partners (through May 2) who explore material, color, and form in a complementary fashion. CULTURED brought together five duos featured in the show to answer questions about what it’s like to mix the professional with the personal. Each artist was instructed to answer without peeking at their partner’s responses, revealing just how compatible they really are.
Look at these cuties! Tamara Gonzales' and Chris Martin's works are included in “Couples,” at @ericfirestonegallery, an exhibition featuring the work of 26 artist-partners (through May 2). Check it out if you're in NY!
This is also the last week to see Tamara Gonzales' solo exhibition at The Pit in LA! The show closes on April 30. Don't miss it!
For more information on Tamara Gonzales, email us at info@the-pit.la
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From @cultured_mag:
Art history’s most famous love stories are cautionary tales.
Think: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar. A new exhibition in New York offers a considerably less tumultuous vision of artistic romance. “Couples,” at @ericfirestonegallery, features the work of 26 artist-partners (through May 2) who explore material, color, and form in a complementary fashion. CULTURED brought together five duos featured in the show to answer questions about what it’s like to mix the professional with the personal. Each artist was instructed to answer without peeking at their partner’s responses, revealing just how compatible they really are.
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