‘Slice Of Summer: Spheres Of Influence’ Group Exhibition @ KP Projects [LA]

On August 2nd, the Los Angeles gallery, KP Projects opened a new group exhibition titled Slice Of Summer: Spheres Of Influence. Featuring contributions from such names as Glenn Barr, Todd Schorr, and Alex Gross, the show focuses on the referential, reimagining, absorption, reflection, and distortion of influence and source material.

Whether it be through reverence and homage, rejection and parody, the incorporation of tongue-in-cheek self-referential meta elements, or some amalgamation between, the importance of inspiration and influence cannot be ignored. How these components impact a work, find their way in, and reveal themselves is both part of the process and the final result. Are they burrowed deep inside or front and center? Are they foundational elements or simply used to reflect a deeper statement at play? Furthermore, how do the artists behind the pieces utilize them, while forming, maintaining, or even strengthening their own identities as creators?

The gallery elaborates

“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.”

Spheres Of Influence will remain on view until August 30, 2025.

Check out preview images for the exhibition below the following event details…

WHAT:

SlICE OF SUMMER: SPHERES OF INFLUENCE
Group Exhibition

WHEN:

Saturday, August 2 to
Saturday, August 30, 2025

WHERE:

KP PROJECTS
633 N. La Brea Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
(323) 933-4408

ADDITIONAL INFO:

Show on view until Saturday, May 30th, 2025
Gallery hours: Tues – Sat. noon – 6pm
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1070609765255004/