Christina Adora Carlos

Arts Administator

Work Samples

Working alongside multi-media artist Alison Saar, I conceptualized and art directed a cookbook that paired Saar's recipes alongside her body of work inspired by women in the kitchen.

I collaborated with legendary Texas artist, musician, and playwright, Terry Allen on a survey of his drawings. I oversaw the exhibition design, programming, the production of a limited edition cassette tape, a special online feature, and a press campaign yielding national and local coverage.

In celebration of their 45th anniversary, L.A. Louver gallery mounted an exhibition of 45 artists. Together with colleagues, I developed and implemented branding that was utilized cohesively across website features, video content, social media, and exhibition layout.

Exhibition Catalogues

Designed by David Hockney, I worked with the artist and his studio on all aspects of printing production, including maintaining the production schedule, organizing print specs, copy editing, and color proofing.

Produced to correspond with the artists' exhibition at L.A. Louver gallery, I conceived the catalogue's aesthetic directives to embody characteristics from the installation's central artwork, a large-scale assemblage carousel. The typography was borrowed from the artists' hand painted signage, with cover variations reflecting the work's eight biographical features.

Working closely with the artist and a graphic designer, we developed a diminutive clothbound catalogue for the artist's exquisitely meticulous and spiritually motivated works. Meant to evoke the preciousness of a prayer book, the front and back covers feature two of the artist's fundamental motifs articulated in gold foil.

Writing Samples

Venice, CA -- L.A. Louver is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by David Hockney, created in his Los Angeles home studio. The exhibition includes mural-sized photographic drawings, large-scale multi-canvas paintings, and a series of portrait drawings on canvas. Something New in Painting (and Photography) [and even Printing]… Continued is the artist’s twenty-first solo exhibition at L.A. Louver, since his first show with the gallery in 1978. The exhibition will be featured throughout L.A. Louver’s first and second floor galleries. Challenging the strictures of single-point depiction, and the limitations of two-dimensional representation, Something New in Painting (and Photography) [and even Printing]… Continued further advances Hockney’s ongoing investigation into reversing perspective. Utilizing innovative methods of digital production, this body of work exemplifies Hockney’s insatiable curiosity for new technologies, as well as his enduring commitment to traditional modes of painting and drawing, evidenced throughout every stage of his over 60-year career.

Venice, CA -- L.A. Louver is pleased to participate in Frieze Los Angeles 2020 with a solo presentation by L.A. artist Alison Saar, titled Chaos in the Kitchen. In this new body of work, created specifically for the art fair, Saar celebrates the unsung work of women, who “maintain the world while cooking in the kitchen.” Through large- and small-scale sculptures, and paintings on found materials, Saar’s emphatic female figures are domestically interpreted, but far from docile. Rather, Saar reveres the kitchen as a powerful realm, where a woman claims her role as mother, caretaker, provider and priestess, to cook, conjure, create, concoct, captivate, command.

In Kitchen Amazon (2019), a towering female figure stands erect; its subject and title refer to Hercules’ ninth labor to retrieve the girdle from the Amazonian Queen Hippolyta. Carved from wood, clad with found ceiling tile, and girded with a skirt of cast iron skillets, Saar’s Amazon refuses to capitulate so easily. With a skillet gripped overhead, the formidable nude holds her ground, steadfast, confident and unmoved. Cookware becomes warfare. Perhaps more ambiguously postured, Set to Simmer (2019) features a nude female figure, made from the same materials, seductively reclining atop a red dining table. A single chair invites the viewer to pull up a seat, only to be confronted by her apparent willingness, as well as her dominance. She allows you to partake, but she sets both the table and the rules.

Venice, CA -- L.A. Louver is pleased to present an exhibition by visual artist, musician, and playwright Terry Allen. The exhibition asserts the central role of drawing and working on paper, as the continuum through which Allen’s ideas take shape, and features works that span the length of his multifarious career. With nearly 100 drawings dating from the ’60s to the present, the show extends throughout the gallery’s first and second floor spaces, and also includes sculptural objects, video installations and audio from his various albums and radio plays – demonstrating the tremendous breadth of Allen’s life and work as told through stories, pictures and songs.

Eschewing terminologies and aesthetic boundaries, Terry Allen seamlessly wields music, visuals and performance into a singular language of expression. By examining the artist’s drawing practice, we thereby gain entry into his vast imaginative orbit. Early examples include works from Cowboy and the Stranger (1969), where Allen began to explore the parallels of sound and imagery, with drawings and songs made in parity. Probing the space between “looking” and “listening,” this bilateral approach was firmly established with the recording of his seminal album Juarez (1975), and a complement of phantasmagorical works on paper (1969-75) that match the tone, tenor and mystery of their musical counterpart. Collectively, they described the travels and travails of two couples across the Western United States and its southern border whose paths converged in a violent clash. It was from this series that Allen enlightened to the possibilities of narrative-driven works. “I realized what I really wanted to do was tell stories.”

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Gisela Colón, Hyper Ellipsoid (Barium Copper), 2019 (above)

Elliott Hundley, Changeling, 2020 (homepage)