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Artist Patrick Martinez is set to present his most expansive series of works yet as part of an exhibition named "Ghost Land," in partnership with the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco (ICA SF)."Ghost Land" is set to feature a major public artwork alongside a large-scale sculptural installation. The exhibition is designed to highlight Martinez's "landscape" paintings, which ICA SF describes as "works that evoke the topography of personal, civic, and cultural loss."Through these upcoming works, the artist intends to bring urban histories to life as abstractions of the LA landscape and will do so using familiar materials like distressed stucco, spray paint, window security bars, vinyl signage, ceramic tile and neon -- simultaneously putting on display his diverse practice and range....

Yu Nagaba is well-known for his simple doodle-like sketches that comment on a range of daily observations. Having worked with everyone under the sun, from Artek and Pokémon to UNIQLO and the Musée du Louvre, the Japanese artist typically reserves his creative expression for two dimensional surfaces. But for his latest collaboration with Avant Arte, Nagaba chose to reinterpret the classic bronze nude in his signature playful style.Entitled Toy Car, the limited edition sculpture features a woman melodramatically laying against her back with arms outstretched with Nagaba's minimal touch giving shape to the lifeless form, as an actual toy car lies beside her. As the artist's first figurative sculptural figure, the artwork revisits some of Nagaba's earlier works on paper, along with referencing...

New York-born and LA-based artist WhIsBe, whose moniker stands for "What Is Beautiful," has fixed his unique lens of social commentary on the issues of gun violence in the U.S. Particularly as it relates to the youth and mass school shootings.The artist describes his first LA solo exhibition, "Innocence Lost," as "a show utilizing the juxtaposition of how we used to see things as kids versus the reality of these things as adults. It’s not my responsibility to tell people what to think, more so to challenge what they believe and create a catalyst for their own true narrative."Known for his "Vandal Gummy" sculptures, which picture playful silhouettes that are often accompanied by powerful, provocative, or thought-provoking text -- WhIsBe has found himself in a unique position to keep difficu...