David Hertzberg
Rebecca Levinson
Emma McMillan
MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION
SPECIAL FEATURES
November 4 - December 16, 2023
Opening Reception | November 4, 7-10pm
David Hertzberg
HVAC
HVAC is an iterative and ongoing series of recorded musical works with found and devised video by composer David Hertzberg. This is his first presentation with the gallery.
Conceived during the pandemic at a time when live musical events had come to a standstill, HVAC assumes a sui generis form that seeks to translate - through the immediacy of handheld recording and image-capture - something of the risk, fragility, and danger of live performance.
The first of its kind by the composer, this selection of works represents a window into a vast realm of sonic and pictorial mythopoeia, in which early moving images mingle with observed phenomena, and elusive musical thoughts act as a form of immersive mark-making in sound.
David Hertzberg is a composer from Los Angeles, known for his instrumental and site-specific operatic work. A Guggenheim Fellow, he studied at The Juilliard School and Curtis Institute.
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Rebecca Levinson
Rebecca Levinson’s work begins with personal encounters that are then unpacked through the processes of painting and image-making. Seeking out places that bring her into contact with the past – homes, archives, and the American landscape are all recent subjects – she explores sites and objects as containers of personal, cultural, and secondhand narratives. Depicting only what physically remains from previous eras alludes equally to what is unseen about them: their continued existence as memory, and the potential for distortion in those memories as their point of origin recedes further into the distance.
Rebecca Levinson (b. 1990, Los Angeles) lives and works in Los Angeles. She holds a BA in history from Brown University and studied painting at the New York Studio School. Twin fascinations with the human need for narrative and the illusory nature of memory have guided her work over the past ten years. This is her first exhibition with Moskowitz Bayse.
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Emma McMillan
Emma McMillan finds paths to abstraction through everyday experiences with the forgotten. Sampling psychology, architecture, and the natural world. Her large-scale gemhued oil paintings and drawings are complex reflections on the mutation of meaning across time and space. Opposing impulses of fast gestures and slow-burning image quality govern her practice. Recent canvasses examine a local Spotted Lanternfly infestation as a commentary on the state of human and animal affairs.
Emma McMillan (b. 1989, Atlanta, GA) has had institutional exhibitions at Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta Georgia, “Project X” (2019) and “Susanna” at Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation, New York. She has had solo exhibitions at Edouard Monatassut, Paris, France (2019), Lomex, New York (2018), and Bad Reputation Fine Arts, Los Angeles (2017), as well as select group and two-person exhibitions at Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles (2023), Triest, Brooklyn, New York (2021), Peter Freeman, New York, (2019), Kunstverien Braunschweig, Wolfe Island, Canada (2019). She is preparing for solo exhibitions at Sebastian Gladstone, Los Angeles and Gallerie Philip Zollinger, Zürich, Switzerland in 2024. She lives and works in New York.