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\n \u201cThis was a sex club called The Zone. So a lot of good vibes in here,\u201d says Lisson Gallery CEO Alex Logsdail, as he gives a tour of Lisson\u2019s newly opened space in Los Angeles\u2019 ever-growing Sycamore District, the globe-spanning art business\u2019 first outpost on the West Coast. <\/p>\n

\n Lisson found the location after The Zone, which catered to gay and bisexual men in L.A., closed in 2020. Its transformation into a high-gloss art gallery fits into the larger conversion of the neighborhood where it\u2019s located, which WWD<\/a><\/em> has called \u201cL.A.\u2019s newest luxury retail destination\u201d and the L.A. Times<\/em> <\/a>has called \u201cL.A.\u2019s coolest new neighborhood.\u201d The area\u2019s one-time warehouses and industrial shops have in the last few years been renovated to become buzzy retail shops, restaurants and art galleries, including Jeffrey Deitch, Gaga & Reena Spaulings and Carpenters Workshop.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cIt\u2019s a great area,\u201d says Logsdail, who stresses that what sealed the deal when it came to choosing the location were the particulars of the two-story building itself. \u201cIt was just a great raw space and it just had a lot of immedia<\/a>te potential I could see. It just naturally had really excellent ceiling height. The ceilings were actually tall enough that we had to lower them.\u201d In their renovation of the space, design-architecture firm Ashe Leandro (who have created homes for the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow and Seth Meyers) not only lowered the ceiling but also installed deep skylights throughout the 4,455-square-foot building, located at 1037 N. Sycamore Avenue. \u201cThe skylights create these really deep light wells, which give us really flat, even natural light into the space. The light in L.A. is so fabulous that making use of that was really important.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Lisson Gallery<\/a>\u2019s inaugural L.A. exhibition, Carmen Herrera, The 1970s: Part 2<\/em>, spotlights a seven-piece series<\/a> of bold two-color paintings. \u201cThis is Carmen\u2019s first show on the West Coast,\u201d says Logsdail of the Cuba-born American artist who worked largely out of the limelight for decades before winning acclaim late in life for her exacting abstract works. She had her first major museum solo exhibition at the Whitney in 2016, the year she turned 101, and was the subject of the 2015 documentary The 100 Years Show<\/em>. Herrera died last year at age 106 in New York City.<\/p>\n

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Carmen Herrera, Blue Monda<\/em>y, 1972, acrylic on canvas, 42 x 70 in<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a9 Carmen Herrera , Courtesy Lisson Gallery<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n Logsdail describes the suite of works \u2014 on view through June 10 \u2014 as \u201cone of a handful of discrete series within her practice.\u201d Each painting is named for a day of the week. \u201cThe whole show is a full week. It starts with Monday, which is blue. [It\u2019s titled] Blue Monday<\/em> and each painting has its own sort of personality,\u201d Logsdail says, noting that Lisson borrowed some of the works from museums and private collections in order to bring together the entire series in one place. \u201cThese have only ever been shown together in museums,\u201d he continues. Also on view is a larger sculptural Estructura<\/em> piece by Herrera, installed in the gallery\u2019s front courtyard.<\/p>\n

\n Lisson\u2019s entrance into the Los Angeles market is part of the latest wave of international and New York galleries opening spaces in the City of Angels, with Sean Kelly, Pace and Marian Goodman among the newer entrants. In February, mega-gallery Hauser & Wirth opened its second L.A. outpost in West Hollywood. Later this year, David Zwirner plans to open its first L.A. gallery, encompassing 10,000 square feet in two adjacent buildings on Western Avenue in the Melrose Hill area, which is being developed as an art hub.<\/p>\n

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Exhibition view of Carmen Herrera: the 1970s, Part 2<\/em> at Lisson Gallery, 1037 N. Sycamore Avenue, Los Angeles, through June 10, 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mark Waldhauser. \u00a9 Carmen Herrera. Courtesy Lisson Gallery<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n Lisson\u2019s Los Angeles outpost is its seventh gallery space around the world; it also has locations in New York, Shanghai, Beijing and London, where Logsdail\u2019s father, Nicholas, opened the original Lisson Gallery in 1967 in the city\u2019s Lisson Grove area. \u201cHaving spaces in different cities allows us to do things that are really tailored to the needs of each artist. It\u2019s nice to be able to do that,\u201d says Logsdail, whose roster of more than 60 artists includes Anish Kapoor, Marina Abramovi\u0107, Ai Weiwei, Lee Ufan, Ryan Gander, Tony Oursler, Jack Pierson, Garrett Bradley, Lucy Raven and Lawrence Weiner.<\/p>\n

\n Logsdail further stresses that continuing to grow the number of gallery spaces around the world is a way of serving its artists: \u201cIt\u2019s similar to when we opened in New York [in 2016] or when we opened in China. We had so many artists who didn\u2019t have galleries in those places and they want to do shows there, and artists want other artists to see their shows.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n For the second show in L.A., Lisson will present works by Mexico City-based artist Pedro Reyes (\u201cHis first show in L.A.,\u201d says Longsdail), followed by exhibits by artists Sean Scully and Hugh Hayden.<\/p>\n

\n He continues, \u201cSomething we\u2019re doing that\u2019s really special in L.A. is that all of the artists we\u2019re showing in the first year have either never shown in L.A. or haven\u2019t shown in L.A. in decades and that\u2019s really fun and it\u2019s nice to be able to bring something new to the city.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n