Founded in 2014, The Mistake Room occupies a renovated industrial warehouse at the edge of the Downtown Arts District in Los Angeles where it presents ambitious new work by an array of international artists, many of whom have never-before shown in LA. It operates under a multi-year, thematic curatorial framework that allows for rigorous investigation and in-depth artistic interrogation. Starting in 2019, it will undertake a 2-year program cycle of gallery exhibitions, public events and publications organized around the themes of memory and cultural identity, entitled Histories of a Vanishing Present.
The Mistake Room
Felipe Baeza, Avistamiento Fantasmagórico 1, 2018, Ink, watercolor, collage, cut paper, and egg tempera on panel, 10 x 8 inches. Collection of the artist. Image courtesy of the artist and Maureen Paley, London.
Felipe Baeza, Por caminos ignorados, por hendiduras secretas, por las misteriosas vetas de troncos recién cortados, 2020, Ink, flashe, acrylic, varnish, twine, cut paper, and egg tempera on paper, 89.5 x 110.5 inches. Image courtesy of the artist and Maureen Paley, London.
Felipe Baeza, Naj tunich (Azul 1), 2018, Ink, twine, collage, and glitter on paper, 87.5 x 60 inches. Private Collection. Image courtesy of the artist and Maureen Paley, London.
1986
Warhol painted more than 100 works related to Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper, which some have read as complex reckoning of his homosexuality, Catholicism, and mortality in response to witnessing AIDS devastate the gay community.