I’ve always enjoyed the playful and uninhibited spirit of summer group shows, unbridled by the circuits and agendas of the art market. Chirs Sharp’s exhibition, “A Minor Constellation”, perfectly exemplifies this kind of delightful candidness. The show features a survey of small-scale paintings installed in a neat line that trails around the gallery like ants marching in search of something sweet. As the exhibition title suggests, the cosmic expanse of this “minor constellation” of paintings glimmers and shines, as each work gently leads the viewer into their own private world. Both the processional installation and the scale of the work requires one’s intimate attention. Though minor in scale, the surface of each work is monumental, pulling one in with individual gravitational pulls. Upon closer inspection, each work seems to reveal an element of surprise – enchanted by the rough texture of Jennifer Lee’s pointillist painting of a roller coaster, the mysterious dimensionality of Fergus Feehily’s painting on cardboard, the pillowy gesture in Sophie Barber’s ode to Niki de Saint Phalle, the deliciously ​​pulposus quality of Paulo Monteiro’s surface. Like a galaxy, each detail is revelatory in the act of intimate observation. This is one constellation in a whole universe that reveals itself if we allow ourselves to give in and delight in the intimate allure.

Artists: Tom Allen, Sophie Barber, Michael Berryhill, Dike Blair, Varda Caivano, Luz Carabaño, Lois Dodd, Fergus Feehily, Anna Glantz, Federico Herrero, Ulala Imai, Lauren Spencer King, Jennifer J. Lee, Daniel Graham Loxton, Paulo Monteiro, Alexandra Noel, Daniel Rios Rodriguez, Paul P., Santiago de Paoli, Dana Powell, Kristopher Raos, Eleanor Ray, Louise Sartor, Anna Schachinger, Shana Sharp, Hiroshi Sugito, Sean Sullivan, Altoon Sultan, Hayley Tompkins, Tinus Vermeersch, Tyler Vlahovich, Owen Westberg, Yui Yaegeshi, Zhiliang Zhao.

Chris Sharp 
4650 W Washington Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90016
On view through September 3, 2022