Born of a desire to RECLAIM space that so many artists are excluded from.
CONTROL Gallery explores the primal instincts of mark-making, while showcasing the most experimental and expansive artwork being made today. It brings together a community of creators that are doing things their way, while paving roads for a new generation. This very idea drives art beyond any real or imagined boundary, giving control to the artist, not over the artist.
Alongside BEYOND THE STREETS’ large-scale touring exhibitions in cities including London, Shanghai, Los Angeles, and New York, we operate CONTROL Gallery—a permanent gallery and art-and-design retail destination in Los Angeles that brings this vision to life year-round.
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CONTROL GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
EXHIBITION 001: POST GRAFFITI
Group Exhibition
EXHIBITION 002: IN TECHNICOLOR
DABSMYLA
EXHIBITION 003: EXHIBIT
Beastie Boys
EXHIBITION 004: Kosmos
Felipe Pantone
EXHIBITION 005: When the Ship Goes Down
Conor Harrington
EXHIBITION 006: Just My Imagination
Mister CARTOON
EXHIBITION 007: Everywhere You Go, There You Are
Shaniqwa Jarvis
EXHIBITION 008: Mind Flowers
Othelo Gervacio
EXHIBITION 009: Under Pressure
Curated by Mister CARTOON
EXHIBITION 010: Cheap Thrills & Tons of Smoke for Maximum Joy
Guillaume Ollivier
EXHIBITION 011: GRAFFITI ARCHIVE 1972/73
Gordon Matta-Clark
EXHIBITION 012: Don't Stop
Faile
EXHIBITION 013: Just Like Heaven
Marc Jacobs
EXHIBITION 014: Everything That Glitters
Jasmine Monsegue
EXHIBITION 015: Good Morning Los Angeles, How Are You?
PAUL FLORES
OTHER EXHIBITIONS CURATED BY ICNCLST/
Futura Akari, FUTURA
The Noguchi Musuem, New York, 2020
Occupying the Museum’s former Shop, the installation presented a group of Akari light sculptures designed by Isamu Noguchi from 1952–86 and hand painted by FUTURA in 2020. It also included two cosmic paintings in aerosol on canvas, one of which, El Diablo, is a classic work from 1985.
Room Service, Sam Friedman
The Mass, Tokyo, 2022
Taking a formalist approach to painting, Friedman’s canvases are an exercise in abstraction that echo organic elements and textures found in nature. Finding inspiration in the natural landscape of his surroundings in upstate New York, his paintings are an attempt to put the images in his mind to canvas, whilst constantly adapting and changing his approach as the work unfolds. Often working on numerous canvases simultaneously, he creates iterations and sequences of works that share similar ideas, with each work becoming a unique manifestation of a concept that he can return to and examine in perpetuity.
Commercial Break, Joshua Vides
SAI, Tokyo, 2022
The works on display in “Commercial Break” marked a decided shift in Vides’ style, most notably from that of his previous black and white series, “Reality to Idea”. The new body of work explored themes from comics, cartoons, and various media familiar to the artist during his childhood years—as Vides acknowledges these influences in his work today.
Humble Souls, FUTURA and BTS
HYBE INSIGHT, Seoul, 2021
“Humble Souls” features eight “FL-006” sculptures designed by FUTURA which were displayed in the center of his exhibition’s room. This grouping, with each sculpture featuring a unique color selected by each band member of BTS, served as a metaphor for continuous self-reflection, community solidarity, and diversity as strength.
Manipulable, Felipe Pantone
Gallery COMMON, Tokyo, 2022
Drawing inspiration from kinetic artists like Victor Vasarely and Carlos Cruz-Diez, Pantone’s works revolve around themes of dynamism, transformation, and digital revolution. The exhibition took these philosophies and put them directly into practice. All of the artworks in “Manipulable” (a word which has roots in the Latin manus (hand) and refers to “something that can be moved or operated using the hands; something that can be managed, controlled, or molded”) were created to be touched and rearranged by the viewer.
