The Evening is the Muse in Sidecar Gallery's 'There is Feeling' Exhibition
Artists channel the emotive power of nightfall in diverse works.
Sidecar Gallery presents There is Feeling, a captivating group exhibition featuring the works of Sydney Acosta, Adrian Culverson, Catherine Fairbanks, Christopher Paul Jordan, Hea-Mi Kim, Kristy Luck, Roni Shneior, and Tran Truong. This showcase, organized with Eve Fowler and Artist Curated Projects (ACP), delves into the emotive power of the evening.
The exhibition’s title is borrowed from a piece by Fowler herself, which reads: in the evening there is feeling. This phrase once adorned the original Night Gallery in LA’s Lincoln Heights, a place known for its nocturnal hours from 10 PM to 2 AM between 2010 and 2013. It evokes the mingling of emotions and sensations at dusk, a time when the world feels both familiar and strangely new.
Fowler’s words draw from Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons, a 1914 collection of modernist prose poems. Stein’s experimental language made the mundane seem uncanny. In her poem, Stein contrasts morning meaning with evening feeling, hinting at different ways of understanding the world. The artworks in this exhibition lean towards the latter: the emotional, twilight logic that comes alive at the end of the day.
The landscape itself becomes a character in this collection. Roni Shneior’s paintings mix figures with landscapes in a surreal, humorous way. Vertical slabs—whether clouds, buttes, or buildings—emerge from a purple haze, each with a sculptural nose jutting from the canvas. Adrian Culverson’s sewn sculptures feature bulbous forms that warp a nature scene, turning a graphic textile pattern into a three-dimensional spectacle.
Moreover, Catherine Fairbanks’s paintings feature indistinct figures reclining against the horizon, creating ghostly landscapes that blur the lines between body and earth. Kristy Luck and Hea-Mi Kim push this abstraction further, crafting landscapes from overlapping, organic shapes and layered colors and shadows.
Sidecar Gallery
2050 Imperial St.
Los Angeles, CA 90021
