Free Range
July 4, 2026 - July 31, 2026
Artspace Warehouse is pleased to present Free Range, a group exhibition of artists whose work returns, from very different angles, to the same restless America. Few places have so successfully turned a way of life into an image of itself, generating more feeling than it can ever quite account for — a country whose most persistent mythology is the insistence on individual experience as the truest form of knowledge. The work shares a sustained attentiveness to that idea, each artist arriving at it entirely on their own terms.
Jesse Black's work is the spirit of the open road made visible. A self-taught artist, Black channels lived adventure into layered, tactile paintings that feel like they've weathered something real. Drawing on Americana, tattoo art, and vintage ephemera, his compositions feature cowgirls, outlaws, bold florals, and Western motifs built up through paint, scraping, and reworking until every surface carries its history. The freedom in his work is hard-won and quietly personal, the kind that comes from a life shaped by motion, risk, and a genuine appetite for the untamed.
Kathleen Keifer's work is rooted in a sustained and intimate attention to the California landscape. A second-generation artist and leading voice in New California Realism, Keifer isolates the elements of a place, its light, its structures, its particular quality of air, and renders them in broken brushstrokes that dissolve form into shimmering planes of color. Her lifeguard tower series has become a signature: familiar objects stripped of context until they carry the weight of symbols.
Michael Giliberti finds his subject in the architecture of optimism. A former creative director, Giliberti has devoted his studio practice to the vivid colors and bold geometries of midcentury America, from roadside signs and swimming pools to modern buildings bathed in afternoon sun. His layered works translate photographs into paintings of heightened clarity, giving familiar places the polished glow of a postcard from a golden era. His precision carries pleasure, warmth, and a genuine affection for the visual language of America.
Fabio Coruzzi arrived in America with the attentiveness of an outsider and the wit of a born observer. Born in Foggia, Italy, Coruzzi merges painting, photography, and printmaking into layered urban vignettes full of irony and affection. His works are populated by figures caught in the everyday theater of collective cultural life, vivid, funny, and alive with the absurdities that come into focus through a fresh pair of eyes. He finds in the quirks and contradictions of American culture something endlessly generative, a subject that keeps opening the longer it is observed.
Ilan Leas works from the desert outward. Raised in New York and later shaped by the Coachella Valley, Leas makes paintings that feel inseparable from the high desert terrain, with surfaces that contain sand within the paint itself. His intricate, spontaneous compositions emerge from a subconscious process rooted in flow and improvisation, what he calls “patternmaking without a pattern.” A sun-baked openness moves through his work, treating the desert as a place where experimentation, reinvention, and elemental freedom become forms of lived experience.
Since the opening of Artspace Warehouse in 2010, the gallery continues to be an industry leader in affordable, museum-quality artworks making collecting art accessible and budget-friendly. With one gallery in Zurich and two galleries in Los Angeles, Artspace Warehouse specializes in guilt-free international urban, pop, graffiti, figurative, and abstract art. The expansive 5,000-square-foot space offers a large selection of emerging and established artists from all over the world.
