LOS ANGELES, CA.- Blum & Poe announces the gallery’s first-time solo exhibition with artist A.L. Steiner. Between the interlude of state-sanctioned exploitation and violence, the Amerikkkin project of mass incarceration and slavery, the uncertain future of California's viability, and planetary implosion, A.L. Steiner presents an overview of her photo archive from 1995-2015 at Blum & Poe. Come & Go features a relaxing space for the lost art of print viewing, complete with a revolving cast of subversives and interlocutors. The gallery serves as an all-access pass to integrate the acts of looking, seeing, understanding, and listening while the time-space continuum is placed on hold / pause / play / fast-forward / rewind.

A.L. Steiner (b. 1967 in Miami, Florida) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Community Action Center (with A.K. Burns), Tate Modern, London, UK (2011), which traveled to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2012), and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA (2013); and Bodies, Identities, and Alternative Economies, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, OR (2012). Her work is featured in public and private collections internationally including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; and Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

The exhibition features a collaboration with Jibade-Khalil Huffman on August 15, and YACHT on August 22; and an archivist to guide viewers daily, 10am – 1pm and 2 – 6pm.

Blum & Poe also announces the gallery’s first-time solo exhibition with artist Anthony Burdin. Burdin’s exhibition Fragments from Expeditions: Destitution, Deterioration, and Devastation is comprised of paintings and video documentation of live performances. His new satirical, text-based paintings, written in a pseudo-calligraphic style, bleed words together to create visual tongue twisters. Utilizing journalistic talking points or trendy phrases, the works grapple with ever dwindling free speech. Other paintings continue the artist’s exploration of a trademark graffiti technique he refers to as “Kookscrawl.” Two videos of Burdin’s automatic performances, shallosscrave (2014) and Vape Lounge (2014), record the journey of a fictional character named Desert Mix as he traverses his claimed domains scattered with sight gags. Also included will be abstract paintings based on fictional landscapes where the performances could have taken place.

Anthony Burdin (b. 1971 in Encino, CA) lives and works in the USA. His work is featured in public and private collections internationally including the Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany; and Tim Nye Foundation, New York. Group exhibitions include The Sound of Things: Unmonumental Audio, New Museum, New York, NY (2008); Number One: Destroy, She Said, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany (2007); and Whitney Biennial: Day for Night, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2006).