Let’s face it. Artists make the coolest and best gallerists, and when they don their artist’s hats, as in the recent exhibition “10 Part Invention” at Jaus gallery, where gallery collective Tiger Strikes Asteroid flex their art muscles, it’s truly a pleasure to witness. Standouts include Norm Paris’ Bernie, Bernie, a strangely ominous little resin sculpture of a football helmet set on its side. Also of interest is Vincent Como’s mysterious graphite drawing on carbon paper, which reads like a tableaux for the end of the world. In fact, much of the work in this exhibition has a strangely otherworldly quality about it, as though these artists, when not playing gallerists, have somehow tapped into the strained and broken pulse of the world.

Jaus Gallery

11851 La Grange Ave.
Los Angeles, CA, 90025

Show Runs through Nov. 29, 2015