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As is

Name: As is
Address: 1133 Venice Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90015, US
Telephone: +12136104110
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as-is.la is an art gallery and exhibition space focusing on modern and contemporary art with an emph

Haphazard is a contemplative space for contemporary art and design. It seeks to pioneer a novel and desultory vision to decant fragments of creative inspirations. Taking in the chaotic and accidental, the baffling and outrageous, along with the inconsistent and unprocessed beauties littered in our raw realities, our mission is to celebrate juxtapositions and coax the interconnectedness of various artistic and cultural communities without preconception. The developmental strategies and curatorial activities are led by Mok Wai Wan, Oleg Korchinski and Harrison Timothy Higgins.

1543 Sawtelle Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90025

213.610.4110

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10/09/2026

Jennifer Celio
Species In Danger: Mountain yellow-legged frog: Paved with Good Intentions, 2025, graphite pencil and graphite powder on wood panel
16 x 12 inches

Jennifer Celio

10/06/2026

Julie Shafer
Untitled #1, 2026
Silver gelatin Photograph mounted on aluminum
9.5 inches x 7.5 inches
Edition 1/3

“The Parting of the Ways” is on view through October 17.

Julie Shafer

09/29/2026

Jennifer Celio
Species In Danger: San Diego Fairy Shrimp: History is for the White(washing), 2025, graphite pencil and graphite powder on wood panel
16 x 12 inches

Jennifer Celio

09/28/2026

Julie Shafer
Untitled #39, 2026
Silver gelatin Photographs Mounted on Aluminum
Triptych
19.25 inches x 73.5 inches
Edition 2/3

Julie Shafer

First two photos by Yubo - ofstudio photography

09/23/2026

Jennifer Celio
Species In Danger: Peninsular Desert bighorn sheep: Environmental Racism, 2024, graphite pencil, graphite powder, and water-soluble graphite on wood panel
16 x 12 inches

Jennifer Celio

09/21/2026

Lincoln Tobier’s “What Is a Picture of Los Angeles?”, 1996 is currently on view in In These Times: Recent Acquisitions at MOCA, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, through January 3, 2027.

A black and white photomontage composed from aerial photographs ordered from the U.S. Geological Survey, Tobier’s tabletop map offers a view of Los Angeles from the proverbial ten-thousand feet. One can see everything, but nothing is truly visible.

Made in 1996, at the beginning of the internet mapping boom, “What Is a Picture of Los Angeles?” recalls the earlier tradition of room-scale urban panoramas while anticipating the increasingly mediated ways we navigate and understand cities. Today, when we carry maps of entire cities in our pockets, Tobier’s work feels at once nostalgic and strangely prescient.

In These Times: Recent Acquisitions at MOCA is organized by Bennett Simpson, Senior Curator, with Ariana Rizo, Curatorial Assistant.

The Museum of Contemporary Art

09/19/2026

Julie Shafer
Untitled #26, 2026
Silver gelatin Photograph mounted on aluminum
14 inches x 18.25 inches
Edition 2/3

Julie Shafer

09/17/2026

“Jennifer Celio: Species In Danger” is on view through October 17.

Jennifer Celio: Species In Danger presents graphite drawings from an ongoing, multi-year project begun in 2023, centered on the 54 animal species in Southern California listed as federally endangered. Each meticulously rendered work pairs an endangered species with the human-made conditions contributing to its decline, alongside a cultural element Celio imagines as equally deserving of extinction. Drawing on pop-cultural imagery, decorative borders, clip art, emojis, and Southern California’s ubiquitous palm trees, Celio creates fantastical compositions in which the natural and artificial collide. Her intricate, intimate drawings examine humanity’s impact on ecosystems and the consequences of attempting to control and reshape the natural world, while suggesting the attentiveness and care necessary to repair our relationship with it.

Jennifer Celio

Photos by Yubo - ofstudio photography

09/16/2026

“Julie Shafer: The Parting of the Ways” on view through October 17.

Made in Wyoming, Shafer’s “The Parting of the Ways” offers a poetic and incisive examination of the layered histories embedded in the landscapes of the American Plains, and of the myths and realities of Western expansion.

Along the Oregon Trail, Shafer photographs rock faces marked by inscriptions by white settlers alongside, and at times directly over, pre-existing petroglyphs made by the Shoshone, Arapaho, and other Indigenous peoples. These surfaces function as palimpsests, accumulating marks across generations and registering encounters between different peoples and divergent understandings of the land. In Shafer’s photographs, acts of inscription become records of occupation, memory, erasure, and competing claims to place.

The works hold a tension between what remains visible and what has been obscured. Settlers’ names and dates are often immediately legible, while Indigenous markings may be weathered, partially covered, or difficult to discern. Shafer attends to these uneven traces without attempting to resolve them, allowing the landscape to become a site where histories coexist, overlap, and resist a singular narrative. The Parting of the Ways considers how the American West continues to be shaped by the stories inscribed upon its landscapes, asking what is preserved, what is overwritten, and whose histories remain legible.

Julie Shafer

Photos by Yubo - ofstudio photography

09/08/2026

We are pleased to announce “Jennifer Celio: Species In Danger,” a modestly scaled yet highly focused selection of this Los Angeles-based artist’s new and recent work. Our presentation of Celio’s imaginatively conceived, intricately arranged, and exactingly realized imagery coincides with “Julie Shafer: The Parting of the Ways.” Both exhibitions open on Saturday, September 12, with an artists’ reception between 2- 5 pm and continue through October 17 at as-is.

Celio says of her artworks that they “manipulate perception to create fantastical iterations in which the artificial and the natural fuse to become newly impossible realities.” Often referencing the crisis-level event of environmental degradation that is our current condition, “the artworks,” she continues, “conjure seemingly mundane situations that have been artificially altered or supercharged.” In the varied array of artistic expressions that follow, Celio weaves together “disparate components and techniques while always alluding to humanity’s impact upon natural ecosystems.”

Species In Danger is a multi-year project begun in 2023, comprising graphite drawings centered on animals in Southern California listed as federally endangered. Each work pairs an endangered species with the human-made causes of its decline and a sociocultural element that Celio proposes more rightly deserves to go “extinct.” Her goal is to ultimately create a work for each of the 54 species on the list, tracing the intertwined fates of human beings and other animal species.

Celio draws on pop-cultural references, decorative borders, clip art, emojis, and the distinctive palm trees of Southern California to address the circumstances threatening these animals. Through these visual and symbolic elements, the works consider humanity’s disconnect from nature and the consequences of attempting to control and disrupt interconnected ecosystems. The intimate scale and meticulous detail of the drawings serve as a metaphor for the attentiveness and care Celio believes are necessary to repair our relationship with the natural world.

Jennifer Celio

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1133 Venice Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA
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Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	11am - 6pm
Friday	11am - 6pm
Saturday	11am - 6pm

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http://www.as-is.la/

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