NEWS
New Paragraph
EXHIBITION REVIEW
SANDOW BIRK
LOS ANGELES AND HER SURROUNDINGS
and other works
by Shana Nys Dambrot
READ AT LAWEEKLY.COM
Spring/Break 2022
Written by Lorraine Heitzman
"Taylor’s installation, The Forest, greeted you as you enter Spring/Break and made an impact with a formidable disembodied head seated on a pedestal, a sort of an omnipotent gatekeeper."

ELYSE PIGNOLET ~ MOAH ACQUISITION & EXHIBITION
We are pleased to announce that the Museum of Art and History (MOAH) in Lancaster, CA has acquired Adjust to Injustice, which was part of Pignolet's most recent exhibition at Track 16 in late 2021. Pignolet has also been invited to mount an exhibition at MOAH in Fall 2023.
LA WEEKLY ~ December 7, 2021
"her objects question and derail the original intentions for the figures, layering a one-of-a-kind artistic intervention onto mass-produced, unmonumental decor"
by Shana Nys Dambrot
Read at laweekly.com
LA WEEKLY
Elyse Pignolet Smashes the Patriarchy, Not the Porcelain
October 28, 2021
Review by Shana Nys Dambrot
Read at laweekly.com
FRIEZE MAGAZINE
Elyse Pignolet’s Aesthetic Strategies for Intersectional Feminism
October 18, 2021
Review by Amber Power
At Track 16, Los Angeles, the artist presents a collection of orientalist-inspired works that poignantly address current issues of race and misogyny in the US.
Read at Frieze.com
May 6, 2021
Artist Talk
Richard Nielsen & John Collins
MARCH 17, 2021
ART AND CAKE
GALIA LINN: HEARTBREAKER, BEAUTY QUEEN, HIGH MAINTENANCE
REVIEW BY GENIE DAVIS
SIMONE GAD (1947-2021)
NEWS ~
February 17, 2021
SCI-Arc Channel
Noa Yekutieli at home with “The Chaos of Order”
LIZ YOUNG (1958 - 2020)
RIOT MATERIAL
November 19, 2020

REVIEW BY GENIE DAVIS
KCRW ~ August 18, 2020

Lindsay Preston Zappas, the Editor-in-chief of Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles [Carla], looks at the exhibition for KCRW.
August 17, 2020
RAKEEM CUNNINGHAM & CLIFFORD PRINCE KING'S EXHIBITION
SPOTLIGHTED IN THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
The L.A. Times culture writer Carolina Miranda looks at the exhibition
in her Essential Arts newsletter.
May 25, 2020
CREATIVE GROWTH MAGAZINE
Besides teaching at Creative Growth, Track 16 Gallery artist Kathleen Henderson also it the editor of their annual magazine. The issue #4 Henderson invited artist Dinah Shapiro to be the guest editor. The issue features spreads dedicated to the climate, animals, the future of the planet, and a deep dive into Oakland’s own Lake Merritt. It includes 184 full-color pages with a double-sided fold-out map by William Scott.
April 23, 2020
ARTNET NEWS
Galleries, including Track 16, are getting creative about ways to give back.
April 3, 2020
ARTILLERY MAGAZINE
QUARANTINE Q&A: TRACK 16's DIRECTOR SEAN MEREDITH
"How are you overcoming the challenges we are now facing?"
"We haven’t overcome any of them yet! I’m prioritizing talking with our artists about ideas on how to share their art with people trapped in their homes."
March 26, 2020
Genie Davis reviews If Everything is an Outrage
for Art and Cake
"Eleven artists from the collective present work in this terrific exhibition, which is filled with a wide range of mediums, styles, and subjects. By creating their own “binder” they are handling a different disparity – in artistic representation. Each work is strong." – Genie Davis
March 3, 2020
Kathleen Henderson's "Outtake" Drawings
During Henderson's exhibition, she installed over a hundred "outtake" oil stick on paper drawings. What Henderson calls "outtake" is an 8x10 inch cutout of a larger drawing that she may have discarded completely if not for this special portion. Priced at $250, half the proceeds were given to the Navajo Nation Democrats of Arizona for voter registration. By the end of the exhibition we were able to donate over $3,000 to the effort.
The fundraising continues throughout 2020 – again with half the proceeds going to Navajo Nation Democrats.
February 12, 2020
ROBBIE CONAL in the exhibition
SIDEWALK ACTIVISM
OCEANSIDE MUSEUM OF ART
Opening Reception ~ Saturday, February 15 ~ 6:00–8:00pm
January 14, 2020
LA TIMES REVIEW
KATHLEEN HENDERSON: WATCH ME MAKE YOU DISAPPEAR
"pride and vanity play out in oil stick on paper — raw impulses matched by raw, urgent line."
by Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times
December 28, 2019
NEW KATHLEEN HENDERSON ARTIST BOOK NOW AVAILABLE
Our newest publication is out! Kathleen Henderson's artist book in conjunction with her upcoming exhibition at Track 16 is part of our Pinspot series. Pinspot #22 "out-takes" is available at the gallery or on our web shop. Henderson’s artist book "out-takes” is a selection of 8x10 inch pieces literally cut out of larger works. In her work Henderson takes on what may be the biggest issue of our crisis-laden times; human folly in the face of extinction. Henderson’s emotive drawings show man bumbling through the world, tripping and fumbling, as the litany of crises mount.
November 25, 2019
GALIA LINN at CRAFT CONTEMPORARY
Galia Linn has been invited to exhibit in the second clay biennial at Craft Contemporary (formerly known as The Craft & Folk Art Museum). The exhibition titled "The Body, The Object, The Other" will run from January 25 to May 10, 2020. Linn will be creating a site specific work for the museum's courtyard.
Craft Contemporary’s second clay biennial examines contemporary ceramic practices that use the human figure as the starting point for material and conceptual experimentation. The exhibition presents works from both emerging and established artists that actively challenge traditional notions of representation. Works in the exhibition include sculptural objects, site-specific installations, and performative works.
November 10, 2019
ARTILLERY REVIEW
The November/December issue of Artillery Magazine features a review of
Elyse Pignolet's exhibition "You Should Calm Down."
"a commentary and a battle cry, and truly embodies what it is to be
a woman throughout time and, unfortunately, well into 2019."
~ Leanna Robinson, Artillery Magazine ~ read article
November 1, 2019
LA TIMES REVIEW
"The work is incisive and full of rightful despair, while making of whimsy a wonderfully barbed weapon."
by Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times ~ read article
October 24, 2019
ART AND CAKE REVIEW
"Pignolet deploys words and phrases that point to a pointed feminist critique flush with both social anger and wry humor."
by Shana Nys Dambrot, Art & Cake ~ read article
August 26, 2019
On Friday, September 20, young people are leading a climate strike for action on the climate crisis. It's being organized by a numbers of groups: Zero Hour, Earth Uprising, Fridays For Future USA, Sunrise, US Youth Climate Strike, and Extinction Rebellion Youth.
Track 16 will be closed. At noon we will be striking at Pershing Square. Makes signs and join us!
Find a strike location near you: https://globalclimatestrike.net
#FridaysForFuture
June 27, 2019
June 20, 2019
GALIA LINN CLAY WORKSHOP
with Shana Nys Dambrot
June 30th from 12:30 to 3:00pm
Join us for a hands on workshop.
Galia Linn will be joined by writer Shana Nys Dambrot
for an afternoon of sculpting and conversation.
Workshop is free. Space is limited.
May 7, 2019
Mondongo's 11 foot tall Polyptych of Buenos Aires, which was part of the the Pacific Standard Time LA-LA exhibition Home
at LACMA in 2017, has been acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and is currently being exhibited in their show Between Play and Grief.
Exhibition will be on view thru September 8, 2019.
Mondongo, Polyptych of Buenos Aires, 2014/2016
Plasticine, wax, tar, steel, cotton threads on wood
approx. 134 x 169 inches
April 18, 2019
April 8, 2019
Genie Davis reviews Stuck Together for Riot Material · [link]
January 7, 2019
Mondongo's exhibition picked for Artillery Magazine's TOP 10 PICK OF THE WEEK OF 2018 by Annabel Osberg · [link]
November 19, 2018
The New Yorker: Robbie Conal’s Oozy Trumpworld Portraits [link]
Review - November 3, 2018
October 13, 2018
October 11, 2018
September 21, 2018
Alexander Iskin - Interview and Review at What the Butler Saw
September 14, 2018
Alexander Iskin - Internuts (Performance) at Track 16
August 15, 2018
Best of L.A. x 2 = Bendix Building
August 1, 2018
Birk and Pignolet in the Topanga Journal
Rick Paulas writes about Birk, Pignolet, and Trump in the forthcoming issue of the Topanga Journal.
July 20, 2018
James Scarborough covers Sandow Birk and Elyse Pignolet's exhibition in his blog What the Butler Saw
"Each band of ideological misfits stumble toward what once upon a time was called the vaunted middle ground. The democratic agora, where sensible people would hash out their differences of opinion. Where compromise was not a sign of weakness. Where high-minded oration mirrored high-minded ideals and values." [Read the review]
A Conversation with Elyse Pignolet and Sandow Birk on the Occasion of their Exhibition, "American Procession", at Track 16 Gallery, by James Scarborough [read here]
Posted June 25, 2018
JAZZ NIGHT - JULY 6
8pm: Present Quartet
9pm: Joshua Gerowitz and The Solano Canyon Ensemble
Posted June 15, 2018
Artist Talk with Sandow Birk and Elyse Pignolet
Thursday, June 28 at 7:30pm
Please join us for this special evening with Sandow Birk and Elyse Pignolet, who have collaborated together on numerous on large scale projects. Many of the projects have been public murals in ceramic tile. This current undertaking is a series large scale woodblock prints (over 17 feet long each). They were inspired by the “Procession of Princes," an enormous mural on the exterior wall of the Dresden Castle in Germany. They will be discussing this project, their process, and the individual works they each have on exhibit. These new works are political and hard hitting.
May 15, 2018
Laura Heit's beautiful new silkscreen
Available for order through our bookstore.
May 10, 2018
Janie Geiser and Laura Heit films at the Bendix Building.
For the duration of their exhibitions at Track 16, a selection of Janie Geiser and Laura Heit's films will be screened in 10th floor window of our home in the Bendix Building. The 1930 gothic revival building at 12th and Maple is adorned with an iconic 3 story high neon sign and seemed like a beautiful spot to present their films to the arbitrary public and to the ether. The films are exhibited from dusk till dawn nightly.
March 27, 2018
Excerpts from Mondongo's performances at Track 16
March 22, 2018
KCET's Artbound has published a profile on Mondongo. Writer Anna Bitong examines their 20 year history.
January 7, 2018
MONDONGO – PERFORMANCE at AUTOMATA
PERFORMANCE at AUTOMATA
Saturday, January 20th from 7-10pm
Sunday, January 21st from 6-8pm
AUTOMATA
504 Chung King Court
Los Angeles, CA 90012
The Argentine art collective Mondongo, just coming off participation in exhibitions in the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time LA-LA series, are back in Los Angeles in 2018 with a performance-installation at Automata in collaboration with Track 16. The performances are on January 20th and 21st will be ongoing throughout the evening. They are free and open to the public.
Mondongo's most recent installations included a weekly performance during their Fall exhibition at Barro in Buenos Aries and daily performances at Arco last February in Madrid where they built a forced perspective version of the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles with their own embellishments that set the local of the performances.
Juliana Laffitte and Manuel Mendanha are the duo that make up Mondongo, which blends ephemeral performances with intricate, sculptural paintings. The Buenos Aires-based collective formed in 1999.
November 10, 2018
HOME—So Different, So Appealing heads to Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Mondongo's epic altar piece "Polyptych of Buenos Aires” now heads from LACMA to MFAH as part of HOME—So Different, So Appealing.
Whereas the Ghent Altarpiece depicts the city of God above, and the world of men below, Polyptych of Buenos Aires features a stock-market chart dotting the sky above Villa 31, a vast shantytown that surrounds the main train station in Buenos Aires. Villa 31 is located close to the city’s financial district and “just 10 blocks from the opera,” Mondongo member Manuel Mendanha notes.
Juliana Laffitte, another member of the collective, grew up near the shantytown. Both artists say it is important to them to show how people live in their home country, because nearly a third of Argentina’s population falls under the poverty line.
The exhibition features U.S. Latino and Latin American artists from the late 1950s to the present who use the universal concept of “home” as a lens through which to view socioeconomic and political changes in the Americas over the past seven decades. More than 100 works by 39 artists explore the differences and similarities within art related to immigration and political repression; dislocation and diaspora; and personal memory and utopian ideals.
The exhibition brings together U.S. artists of Cuban, Mexican, and Puerto Rican origin in a dialogue with artists from Argentina, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Uruguay, and Venezuela, among other countries. Despite the political, cultural, and religious affinities they share, these two broad and highly diverse groups have been, until now, treated separately from one another.
Across a variety of media—including painting, sculpture, installation, performance, photography, film, and video—these artists examine and interpret one of the most basic social concepts by which individuals, families, nations, and regions understand themselves in relation to others. In the process, these works of art also offer an alternative narrative of postwar and contemporary art.
Mondongo
Polyptych of Buenos Aires, 2014/2016
Plasticine and mixed media on wood.
144 x 91 inches (variable width)
September 29, 2017
DTLA
Track 16 Gallery is pleased to announce our move to downtown Los Angeles. A week from today we will be opening the exhibition DTLA in our new home in the Bendix Building in the heart of the Garment District just off Santee Alley. Please join us for a reception on Friday, October 6th from 7-9pm.
The Pacific Standard Time LA-LA series has engulfed the Southern California art world this Fall. The Getty organized exhibitions challenge us to expand our view of the world by narrowing our focus on Latin American and Chicano art. For Track 16’s inaugural DTLA exhibit we are focusing on the Latin American artists who changed how we see the world.
September 9, 2017
Mondongo & Pedro Alvarez in the upcoming exhibition How to Read El Pato Pascual: Disney’s Latin America and Latin America’s Disney
Curated by Ruben Ortiz Torres and Jesse Lerner
How to Read El Pato Pascual: Disney’s Latin America and Latin America’s Disney
is an attempt to engage with the idea that there are no clean boundaries in art, culture, and geography, and to deconstruct how such notions are formed and disputed. For over seventy-five years, the Walt Disney Company has continuously looked to Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America for content, narratives, and characters, beginning with Donald Duck’s first role in the Mexican-themed Don Donald (1937). The 1971 text by Chilean scholars Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart—Para leer al Pato Donald—considered Disney comic books as a form of cultural imperialism, and the curators have used its arguments as a starting point to show that Disney cannot be seen as something simply exported to the rest of the Americas, and passively received. Like any other cultural force or mythology in Latin America, Disney imagery has always been quickly reinterpreted, assimilated, adapted, cannibalized, syncretized, and subverted in popular culture and the fine arts.
Spanning painting, photography, graphic work, drawing, sculpture, and video, as well as folk art and vernacular objects, joint exhibitions at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House and the Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State LA explore this history and the ways Latin American artists have responded to, played with, re-appropriated, and misappropriated Disney iconography.
Exhibition Dates: September 09 - January 14, 2017
Pedro Álvarez
Cinderella's Maid (w/blue birds), 1998
Oil on canvas
45 x 57 in.
