Roberta Gentry's 'Blood Orange' Opens at Track 16 in East Hollywood

Key facts

• Roberta Gentry's solo exhibition 'Blood Orange' runs through October 24 at Track 16's East Hollywood location.
• Gentry is a Los Angeles-based artist who works with thinned acrylic on canvas.
• The paintings reference the 16th-century 'La Dame à la licorne' tapestries, six fiber works featuring a noblewoman, a unicorn, and a lion.
• Each tapestry corresponds to one of the five senses; the sixth bears the text 'À Mon Seul Désir,' meaning 'to my only desire.'
• Gentry's compositions combine abstract biomorphic forms with tall columns and adhere to an underlying grid.
• The exhibition includes 'The Rose Lattice' (2026), 'Two Tails' (2026), 'Nine Holly Berries' (2026), 'A Golden Collar' (2026), 'Velvet Shoulders' (2026), 'The Organist's Arbor' (2026), 'Ten Oranges' (2026), and 'Unicorn' (2026).
• Gentry often considers how mythologies are constructed to interpret lived experience, a theme reflected in the tension between grid order and organic growth.
• Some scholars interpret the tapestries as speaking to how knowledge and information about the world are gathered, particularly through the sixth piece related to emotion.