Gene Beery and Lily van der Stokker Exhibitions at Parker Gallery Explore Playful Nuance Through Text and Color

Parker Gallery in Los Angeles presents concurrent exhibitions of Gene Beery and Lily van der Stokker through October 29. Beery's survey spans from the 1960s to 2021, featuring small white canvases with scrawled black text like 'Fishing Trip' (1960s) and 'Actual Size' (2021). His work has been championed by Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst during his New York years in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Lucy Lippard's new essay suggests Dada might be the movement he belongs to after the fact. Beery has stalked and evaded expressionism, conceptualism, pop, and folk over the years. His painting 'A Nice Triptych to Remind Us All of Our Mortality' (1973) is installed below a window overlooking the front yard. Van der Stokker's work includes the wall painting 'How About This' (1996–2022) with candy-colored linearity and five small colored-pencil designs. Her art challenges cuteness without undercutting it, creating magic with color like John Wesley. Both artists incorporate words and phrases into their compositions with recognizable hands as transmitters of thinking. The exhibitions are installed on different floors in a house in Los Feliz at the base of Griffith Park.