Jeffrey Deitch's Art Fall Spectacle: It Smells Like a Girl
At Jeffrey Deitch Gallery’s Fall Spectacle: “It Smells Like a Girl”
9.13.2025, By Ally Gotwald, Artist & Writer, London, for LaArtTV
Step into the buzz: 53 electrifying works that pull you in, each demanding pause and reflection. Perfect for our “salience detection”—the mind’s instinctive spotlight that locks onto every gesture, color, and detail charged with meaning. Barbara Sanchez-Kane’s Parasite or Host, in aluminum and polyurethane foam, had me wondering if my medical insurance could cover this thrill. Jeanette Mundt shared her Odalisque paintings, while Nadia Lee Cohen’s immersive installation drew curious art voyeurs, touching life-size screens as she celebrated chat with body movement in real time.
Around 200 people mingled, sizing each other up—a playground for actors, fashion scouts, or anyone hunting the next Hollywood star. In that moment, the crowd realized: I am not lonely—surrounded by the buzz, the art, and the people, I felt fully alive. Some studied artworks in meticulous detail, jotting notes—signaling they are the potential buyers. Olga, 78, cruised in on her scooter: “I’m on social security, but coming to Deitch openings for four years keeps me socially stable. I paint my two cats only in blue using watercolor—so far, 168 small paintings.”
Go see it—alone or with a friend. Art is still the ultimate conversation starter. Don’t just read about it—be part of the spectacle yourself.
September 6 – November 1, 2025
925 N. Orange Dr., Los Angeles, CA
LaArtTV Question: “As a Painter, Male or Female Nude?”
LaArtTV interviews. “As a Painter, Where Does Your Eye Fall: Male or Female Nude?”
A surprising question rippled through the art crowd—an instant spark of alertness, yet with the calm of a session led by a star psychotherapist. It wasn’t therapy, but a rare invitation to speak openly, each guest offering their own “flavor of the day” conversation piece—words that drew nods, laughter, and knowing smiles from eager friends.
No other encounter could draw a gallery visitor so vividly into dialogue as an interview with a LaArtTV journalist.
The surprise lay not in the question but in the ease of the replies. That is the journalist’s gift—what psychology calls empathetic voyeurism: the subtle ability to make private thoughts feel safe to share. In that space, taboo dissolves, and nudity shifts from silence and shame to memory, story, and preference. Conversation itself becomes an artwork—rapport at its most refined, or more precisely, the result of a “projective empathy,”
The artists participating in It Smells Like Girl are:
Kelly Akashi, Isabelle Albuquerque, Danica Barboza, Tosh Basco, Stefania Batoeva, Meriem Bennani, Jibz Cameron, Nadia Lee Cohen, Liz Craft, Janiva Ellis, K8 Hardy, Eunnam Hong, Juliana Huxtable, Tala Madani, Jeanette Mundt, Naudline Pierre, Roksana Pirouzmand, Jessi Reaves, Bunny Rogers, Gabriela Ruiz, Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, Diane Severin Nguyen, Flannery Silva, Marianna Simnett, Connor Marie Stankard, Frances Stark, Jordan Strafer, Martine Syms, Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, Nora Turato, Michelle Uckotter, Cajsa von Zeipel, Ambera Wellmann, Aleksandra Waliszewska, Women’s History Museum.
October 2025
Annie Lapin: Fragile Familiar at Nazarian/Curcio Gallery
Annie Lapin: “Fragile Familiar” at Nazarian/ Curcio Art Gallery Los Angeles, CA.
Inspired by personal perception and the natural world, Lapin’s palette transforms abstract projections into a visual feast, where color and form ripple like the ocean’s hidden depths. Her voyage of color surprises evokes the cosmos—spiral galaxies, star clusters, and nebulae—recalling wonders such as the Carina Nebula and Cat’s Eye Nebula.
September 13 to October 25, 2025, at: 616 N La Brea Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036
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