Korakrit Arunanondchai (feat. boychild), Letters to Chantri #1: The lady at the door/The gift that keeps on giving(Installation View) at The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, 2014. Photo Credit: Josh White/JW Pictures.

The Mistake Room re-opens for its second show with a newly commissioned project by Thai-artist Korakrit Arunanondchai, open through September 13. The renovations, which followed the inaugural Oscar Murillo exhibition , were led by Alfonso Medina, Director of Studio T38, re-designing the raw warehouse space into a formal gallery space.

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Oscar Murillo, Distribution Center (Installation View), via Art Observed

The newly opened Los Angeles Gallery The Mistake Room is inaugurating its downtown space with Oscar Murillo’s Distribution Center, a show of recent works by the artist.  Murillo, who is only 28, is perhaps best known for his large-scale paintings, if not for his young age and recent rise to the upper echelons of the art market. Here, his signature style is quickly noted, with canvases bordering on sculptural assemblage, debris and ephemera from his studio and travels are directly transplanted on to the canvas. Even in their installation, very few works happen to hang directly on the wall. Instead, they litter the floor and table surfaces like large, mis-matched carpet tiles, creating a kind of multi-layered horizontal work across the length of the room.

Oscar Murillo, Untitled (2014), via Art Observed (more…)