April 11–May 31, 2025
Opening Reception | Friday, April 11 | 6–8pm
Ortuzar is pleased to present
Takako Yamaguchi: Innocent Bystander, the gallery’s second solo exhibition with the Los Angeles-based artist. The exhibition presents six examples from Yamaguchi’s
Innocent Bystander series, a suite of paintings executed between 1987 and 1989 featuring allegorical female figures appropriated from Lucas Cranach the Elder and inserted into fantasy landscapes, synthesizing styles ranging from Art Nouveau to Japanese decorative arts. Attempting, in the artist’s words, to “revive the ghost of a lost style in the form of something vain and pretty,” the paintings double down on their own anachronisms, haunted by a sensibility long since displaced by twentieth-century Modernisms. This exhibition follows Yamaguchi’s inclusion in
Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing and precedes her forthcoming solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, opening June 29.
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