albertz benda is pleased to present Fever Dream, a unique exhibition of paintings in which the house is both gallery setting and painting subject. Los Angeles based artist and architect, Erin Wright’s first solo exhibition with the gallery takes place at albertz benda’s domestic location, set in a midcentury house in the West Hollywood hills. Fever Dream, turns albertz benda’s LA gallery into a playground of painting, architecture, and design. Wright uses her trademark style of highly rendered painting to replicate elements of the house’s infrastructure, from doorknobs to windows to fireplaces, creating a visual experience in which the paintings echo the building itself.
Wright aptly names these elements architectural stickers, as a fireplace is transcribed over onto an adjacent wall, and a full floor length window is added to the room with a painting where there was none before. Wright pushes the duplication further by including design objects shown by Friedman Benda. Her paintings incorporate objects by renowned designers such as Wendell Castle and Faye Toogood, which are then situated inside the gallery along with the objects themselves.
Behind the rigorous exactness of these architectural stickers is a playfulness that is heightened by the displacement of the works around the space, and by the eventual movement of works out of the gallery to be displayed in other homes and venues. In Wright’s own words, the gallery is a space for architecture to take itself less seriously, and perhaps for a gallery in a domestic setting even more so.
| Hours | By appointment |
| Venue | albertz benda |
| Type | Exhibition |
| Duration | By appointment |
| City | Los Angeles |
About
albertz benda
Founded in 2015, albertz benda is a contemporary art gallery with an international program exploring material and textility as well as cultural and social dialogues. Their New York space is host to rotating exhibitions with an emphasis on solo presentations of emerging artists, new research into historic figures, and thematic group exhibitions. In 2021, the gallery expanded to a second location in Los Angeles. Featuring an evolving identity separate from our New York program, the LA space is realized within the context of a domestic setting, advancing new connections between visual arts, craft, and design.
