November 13, 2025
A Dose of Fruit and Fiber
New York artist Kathleen Ryan’s famous monumental-sized, bejeweled sculptures of rotting fruit in precious malachite, lapis lazuli, quartz, coral and other precious stones are both glitzy and grotesque, something L.A. knows a bit about.
Her latest show “Souvenir,” at Karma in West Hollywood through Dec. 20, features the juicy new work above titled “Dreamhouse,” that’s roughly the size of a minivan. Other pieces mark an evolution in materials, including cast-concrete peaches with car engines for pits, and supersized children’s plastic toy rings made from soda cans and bowling balls, playing with the many facets of jewelry’s value.
Meanwhile, at Lisson Gallery on Sycamore Avenue, trailblazing nonagenarian fiber artist Olga de Amaral is having her first solo exhibition in L.A. in nearly a decade, following her inclusion in “Woven Histories” at LACMA and recent retrospectives at ICA Miami and Fondation Cartier in Paris.
Spanning from the early 1970s through 2018, the exhibition open Nov. 14 to Jan. 17, explores how her work blurred the lines between weaving, painting and sculpture, to create a language all her own and elevate fiber art to fine art. In linen, wool, horsehair, Japanese paper, acrylic and precious metals, the landmark works demonstrate how her textiles are not just decorative backdrops but monuments themselves.
