F E A T U R I N G :
GLENN BARR · BJORN CALLEJA · CASH-COOPER · STEVEN DAILY· DANKO · SOFIA ENRIQUEZ · ALEX GROSS · FLÁVIA ITIBERÊ · CAROLYN MACDONALD · WALLACE MAY · LORI NELSON · TODD SCHORR · DAVE SHUTEN · RAFAEL SILVEIRA · VONN SUMNER
KP Projects Gallery SLICE OF SUMMER :: Spheres of Influence
Exhibition Dates : August 2nd – September 27th, 2025
633. N. La Brea Ave.
Los Angeles CA 90036
Opening Reception : Saturday August 2nd, 6pm - 9pm
KP Projects is proud to present our group exhibition, Slice of Summer: Spheres of Influence.
Spheres of Influence brings together a multigenerational group of artists whose practices are in active dialogue with aesthetic, cultural, and conceptual precedents. The exhibition frames influence not as a linear transfer of style or ideology, but as a dynamic field of interaction in which creative identities are formed, challenged, and expanded.
This show foregrounds the ways in which artists position themselves within and against a variety of inherited vocabularies: from canonical art movements and avant-garde manifestos to popular culture, subcultural aesthetics, and ancestral knowledge. The works on view reflect complex relationships with sources of influence—at times reverent, at times revisionist—and reveal how these interactions serve as catalysts for innovation.
Many of the artists here draw inspiration from a polyphony of references, collapsing distinctions between “high” and “low,” tradition and experimentation. Others use influence as a material in itself, appropriating, sampling, and recontextualizing elements from visual culture to make visible the constructed nature of identity, history, and authorship. Across media, their practices interrogate the very notion of originality, proposing instead a model of art-making as an evolving conversation across time and space.
By mapping the myriad ways influence operates—intellectually, intuitively, and emotionally—Spheres of Influence invites viewers to consider the interdependence of creativity. It is in this porous exchange between artists, movements, and moments that the most resonant and transformative work often emerges.
