Serendipity is often associated with something positive, something of a happy accident. and if you have never heard or used the word zemblanity you can be forsaken. Wendy Park’s newest solo show at Various Small Fires, Of Our Own, comes at a time when it is most needed, I think, a painter whose paintings speak to the mundane and quietly profound parts of a city that don’t often get documented. In Los Angeles, though, this is the DNA, the fabric of the place and space, markets, strip malls, scatteredness and expanse. The part of LA that is so hard to describe in words is the act of driving for miles and miles, past new mini cities, new languages on the…
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