Marshall Gallery is pleased to host a summer exhibition LAND/SPACE anchored by the works of one of LA’s great young artists, Rodrigo Valenzuela, showing recent works from his series New Land. 

After several years of getting to know Valenzuela while following his diverse and prolific practice, the gallery presents ten canvas-based works until closing for the summer break in mid-August. 

Interspersed among the Valenzuela installation is a selection of vintage photographs from the New Topographics era, primarily from the 1970s and 80s, taking a cross-generational look at the potential energies and implications of land and space in the American West. Prints are included by artists Robert Adams, Nicholas Nixon, and Henry Wessel, as well as Mark Ruwedel, Minor White, John Szarkowski, and William Garnett. In the gallery’s project room, a selection of Valenzuela’s photography series American Type is also on display.

With this juxtaposition, the gallery continues to champion artists expanding the creative potential of photo-based art as its primary curatorial focus while placing them within the perspective of the medium’s historical pendulum.

NEW LAND, 2024 | Acrylic and toner on canvas, 36 x 44 in, 91.4 x 111.8 cm, Unique

“The illusory possibility of deep space, full of potential until it clashes with brute reality.” 

– Carmen Winant, from the foreword to Rodrigo Valenzuela: Journeyman

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