Emily Ratajkowski's living room featuring paintings by Marisa Takal (exhibition with sculptures too)

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Marisa Takal (b. 1991, Montclair, New Jersey) received her BFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 2013. Takal has shown in numerous solo, duo, and group shows at Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Page Gallery, New York; Del Vaz Projects, Santa Monica; M+B, Los Angeles; Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles; Jeffrey Stark, New York; Loyal Gallery, Stockholm; and Alter Space, San Francisco. In 2016, she was named the recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Award and the Stanley Hollander Award. Takal lives and works in Los Angeles.
Marisa Takal’s practice delves into the ways that we understand and organize the chaos of everyday life. Her latest exhibition in Los Angeles “Euphoric Recall,” on view at Night Gallery through May 1st, takes its title from the psychological term that describes our tendency to remember past experiences in a positive light and relinquish the negative parts. Her vivid paintings feature contrasts of color and shape that coalesce as a sort of visual compartmentalizing. Her works reflect on the rhythms, rituals, and spontaneity that structure our day-to-day lives.
Davida Nemeroff, founder of Night Gallery, first met Takal when the artist was assisting fellow Night Gallery artist Mira Dancy on a mural for an exhibition at the gallery. Nemeroff then saw Takal’s 2015 exhibition at Sade Gallery in Los Angeles (which was located in Night Gallery’s original Lincoln Heights space) and was instantly taken by the artist’s “unique sense of color and unexpected iconography.” The following year, Takal mounted her first solo exhibition at Night Gallery.
The work that I have made this past year is about connectivity through our behavior and patterns,” Takal told Artsy at the end of 2020, “how we relate to one another, how we can feel less alone and disconnected, how we organize ourselves, systems of organization on micro and macro scales, deep investigation into the self, into otherness, into the other, the viewer, people, fear.” Artsy
The Athenaeum is pleased to present Unconscious Research, an exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist Marisa Takal.
Unconscious Research features paintings and sculpture in which Takal explores exterior and interior expressions of the self. Predominantly working with oil on canvas, the paintings represent a shift in her work as she fully embraces the elemental language of abstraction, while her sculptural works showcase a collection of more linear and legible subjects. A Rolodex piece will be included in homage to the Athenaeum’s card catalogs, inviting visitors to peruse lists of personal feelings, collected from Takal’s friends and colleagues over the COVID-19 pandemic. Takal’s interests in the dissonance between our inner and outer consciousnesses and our human attempts to organize ourselves within that space are highlighted in this showcase of collective emotions and the inner workings of her artistic practice.
Takal (b. 1991, Montclair, New Jersey) received a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 2013. She has shown in numerous solo, duo, and group shows at Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York; White Columns, New York; Page Gallery, New York; Del Vaz Projects, Santa Monica; Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles; Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, New York; Nicodim Gallery, New York; Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art, Fall River; Jeffrey Stark, New York; and Loyal Gallery, Stockholm. In 2016, she was named the recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Award and the Stanley Hollander Award. This is the artist’s first exhibition in San Diego. On view through July 13. 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays. Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall Street, La Jolla.
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