If you’re in Los Angeles tomorrow night, make sure you stop by OHWOW gallery for the opening night of our friend Daniel Arsham’s latest exhibition. Entitled “the fall, the ball, and the wall,” this is Arsham’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, and features everything from two-dimensional work to sculpture, installation, public art, and performance, in an effort to (re)consider architecture, the natural world, and the manner in which they interact. The show illustrates the artist’s continued interest in manipulating architecture and in challenging expectations of accepted realities.

Arsham (who we profiled in Corduroy Issue #8) presents three bodies of work, like structural interventions that cause walls to appear in a state of flux, as if they are melting or dripping. They speak to the notion of architectural rigidity and of a partition’s standard presentation.

With a new series of work on canvas, meantime, Arsham depicts realistic building constructions, which include elements that spell out words (like “UH HUH,” image seen at left). And his aestheticized sculpture and installations realize hypothetical architectural elements and counterintuitive designs, queuing new possibilities and coercing material to behave in unexpected and atypical ways.

Whether through his solo creations or collaborations with architects, dancers and choreographers (like his good friend Merce Cunningham, whose set pieces from his final performances will be on display), Arsham presents work that undoubtedly possess visual drama and evoke a visceral response. And we encourage everyone to see and experience it for themselves.

Daniel Arsham’s “the fall, the ball, and the wall” runs until February 16th at the OHWOW Gallery, 937 N. La Cienega Blvd. in Los Angeles. The opening reception takes place this Friday from 6-9 pm.