‘The Tie That Binds’ Exhibition Features Four Influential LA Artists
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Group exhibit Opens at Art/Space 114 featuring Kaye Freeman, Max Presneill, Georgina Reskala and Andre Woodward
The Tie That Binds Exhibition at Art/Space 114 features four unique and influential Los Angeles artists, Kaye Freeman, Max Presneill, Georgina Reskala and Andre Woodward. The group exhibition runs July 10 through September 4, 2025. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, July 10 from 5 to 10 pm during ArtWalk in downtown LA.
DTLA ArtNight is always a fabulous evening where galleries across Downtown LA open their doors to art lovers creating the kind of dynamic cultural experience beautifully unique to Los Angeles. This month we’re excited about an amazing group exhibition at one of the coolest galleries downtown Art/Space 114. Art/Space 114 is an artist-first, nonprofit gallery located in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles’ historic Old Bank District.
Featured Artists of The Tie That Binds
Kaye Freeman works with oil, pencil, graphite, mixed media, film, and performance (as one half of the avant-garde multiplatform duo Hibiscus TV with artist Amy Kaps) all the better to explore transformation and symbiosis as they manifest in the personal self and the collective, psychical environment. Her vibrant abstractions and meditative processes rooted in Eastern calligraphic traditions mirror the city’s energetic flux and deep interdependencies. Freeman’s channeling of the energy of the city into gestural cartographies feels both spontaneous and deeply intentional. Her view sweeps across the rooftops of downtown, westward toward the sea, and this kaleidoscopic web of concrete and celestial canopy is often quite literal, even as her work exists equally on a more ethereal, even cosmic plane. Freeman’s work in the studio, alone and in collaboration, on the interdisciplinary stage and screen, is always animated by transformation and a faith in the capacity of color, line, and motion to articulate the flux of interior and exterior experience. Shana Nys Dambrot, Art/Space 114 Writer in Residence, 2025 Follow Kaye Freeman on Instagram HERE Here is a link to the catalogue paintings and drawings from the Kali Yuga.
“Max Presneill is a Los Angeles-based artist and curator whose large-scale abstract paintings serve as layered, conceptual arenas, part philosophical inquiry, part autobiographical archive. Fusing graffiti-like marks, subcultural iconography, and historical references, his work explores themes of mortality, identity, masculinity, and the politics of meaning-making. Each canvas operates like a curated exhibition, where fragmented gestures and symbols form shifting relationships across the picture plane embracing uncertainty, contradiction, and cognitive complexity.” Follow Max Presneill on Instagram HERE.
“Photographer Georgina Reskala employs unconventional material techniques with her prints such as folding, reprinting, sewing, and erasing, to destabilize familiar scenes. As she excavates eroded landscapes and the shifting narratives they invoke, these techniques materialize the fragility and fluidity of both place and the memory of it, especially within urban spaces which are so prone to nonstop razing and rebuilding. With pronounced call-backs to the early photographic avant-garde, her work engages in a classical mode of aesthetic rebellion, inserting the disruptively emotional energies of the subconscious mind into an ostensibly documentarian practice. Her photographs hover between oneirism and artifact, as by physically, viscerally intervening in the picture plane, she enacts and embodies the mutable slip between presence and loss, haunted by the knowledge that no history remains fixed.” Shana Nys Dambrot Art/Space 114 Writer in Residence Follow Georgina Reskala on Instagram HERE.
Southern California artist Andre Woodward’s sculptures incorporate energy—sound, light, heat, vibrations, electricity, water, and plants in ways that examine our relationship with nature. The work invites relationships with the outside world, it is up for debate whether that destroys the work or completes it. Follow Andre Woodward on Instagram HERE.
Community Driven Events At Art/Space 114
In lieu of taking commission from artists, Art/Space 114 supports their mission through community-driven events. They welcome creatives, organizations, and collaborators to host gatherings, talks, and celebrations in their unique gallery space, surrounded by the work of local Los Angeles artists. *From Art/Space 114 Website. Follow Art/Space on Instagram.
RSVP: thetiethatbindsopening.eventbrite.com
*Special thanks to Kaye Freeman and Art/Space 114
