DAYLIGHT December 14, 2024 through January 11, 2025 Hope. It is that ever-constant feeling of anticipation and yearning for something specific to occur. Hope is a powerful driver of how we navigate many aspects of our lives: friendships, careers, health, well-being, money, happiness, and love just to name a few. Hope informs the ways [...]
LETICIA MALDONADOUnder A Steady MagnificenceNovember 9 through December 7, 2024If there is one indisputable, yet paradoxical axiom, it is that the only constant in life is change. Like the seasons, change brings into our world beginnings and endings; renewals and transformations; ebbs and flows. Working to make sense of the very laws of nature – [...]
FRANCESCA BIFULCO Ignited States of America October 5 through November 2, 2024 Bermudez Projects is excited to present Francesca Bifulco: Ignited States of America, a dynamic, immersive exhibition born in the wake of the current socio-political upheaval wreaking havoc across the United States. In her new body of work – comprised of paintings, sculpture, [...]
SPACELAND VII Return to Spaceland September 7 through September 28, 2024 Opening Reception: Saturday, September 7, 6-9 pm Los Angeles… vast, light, modern. At times, the city is a vibrant metropolis filled with beauty, unity, and optimism; while at others, it is a tragic kingdom replete with natural disasters, congestion, pollution, and high cost [...]
Francesca Bifulco - Studio Portrait 2020 Drawing on themes based in the complexity of human existence, Italian artist Francesca Bifulco passionately displays her view of the world through a multitude of media including painting, performance and sculpture. Through the use of bold, contrasting colors, sharp lines, and moody imagery, much of [...]
Leticia Maldonado’s connection with neon dates back to her youth. Growing up under the dazzling, fantastical lights of The Las Vegas Strip, the artist has forged an artistic career dedicated to this awe-inspiring medium. In her series, The Storytellers Maldonado plays on themes of memory, [...]
LA WEEKEND GUIDE: JEN ROSENSTEIN @ BERMUDEZ PROJECTS Los Angeles magazine’s contributing photographer Jen Rosenstein’s powerful portraiture celebrates transgender men and women in a signature stark yet stunning style. LOS ANGELES MAGAZINE, JULY 2024
MOAH ACQUIRES JOSH PATTERSON’S “BONES OF THE EARTH” Bermudez Projects, Los Angeles is excited to announce that the Museum of Art and History (MOAH) in Lancaster has acquired Josh Patterson’s large photographic print, Bones of the Earth. READ MORE
MOAH ACQUIRES JOSH PATTERSON’S “BONES OF THE EARTH” Bermudez Projects, Los Angeles is excited to announce that the Museum of Art and History (MOAH) in Lancaster has acquired Josh Patterson’s large photographic print, Bones of the Earth. Originally exhibited in the artist's solo exhibition, Big Quiet, Patterson says Bones of [...]
LETICIA MALDONADO @ PILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL In this highly-anticipated workshop, Maldonado will cover neon fundamentals, leading into freehand bending three dimensional shapes using a combination of references that will be translated into neon! PILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL, AUGUST 2024
ANDREW NORRIS @ MADE IN VA BIENNIAL The artist's striking painting, All I Ever Wanted Was to Kiss the Sun (2023), is among 87 works by 61 selected artists featured in the museum's biennial.
STEPHEN SEEMAYER: DARK SIDE OF PARADISE The collection of 27 paintings and nine studies are an ode to the shadow self and the two inescapable authorities that aim to rule it—civilization and death. ARTILLERY MAGAZINE, MAY 2024
MEET JULIAN BERMUDEZ | GALLERIST I think what sets me apart from others is my drive to push the art of curating. Having my gallery has allowed me to organize museum-caliber exhibits bringing Blue-Chip Art into the space; and, still be daring enough to curate shows for art museums internationally SHOUTOUT LA, MARCH [...]
DAZZLING Queer Journeys through Photography and Film July 13 through August 10, 2024 Opening Reception: Saturday, July 13, 6-9 pm Photography has long been a vehicle utilized by the LGBTQIA+ community to document proof of our existence. This archiving of our history is crucial to both the people who are creating it, and to [...]
June 1 through June 29, 2024Opening Reception: Saturday, June 1, 6-9 pmBermudez Projects is thrilled to present Jay Bell: A Time, the San Diego-based artist’s debut solo exhibit at our gallery located in the Northeast Los Angeles neighborhood of Cypress Park.In over a dozen paintings, Bell explores his personal narrative through intimate paintings of motor [...]
May 18 through May 25, 2024 Opening Reception: Saturday, May 18, 5-8 pm Bermudez Projects is proud to announce the 2024 Senior Student Art Show, in partnership with the Alliance Leichtman-Levine Family Foundation Environmental Science High School. Over 20 artworks by 14 artists will be exhibited throughout the gallery in support of this year’s [...]
April 13 through May11, 2024 Opening Reception: Saturday, April 13, 6-9 pm In 1822, fur trapper Alexis St. Martin got shot in the stomach. A Dr. William Beaumont saved St. Martin’s life … but kept the wound open for a decade so he could study the human digestive system. In a new series of [...]
Through May 25, 2024 Bermudez Projects is excited to present this online exclusive, supplementing the exhibition Eastside Luv, Part 1 now on view in partnership with LAist/Southern California Public Radio. Los Angeles’ Eastside neighborhoods have a rich history dating back to the 1870s when John Strother Griffin (1816–1898), dubbed “the father of East Los [...]
March 9 through April 6, 2024 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 9, 6-9 pm Bermudez Projects presents as its first show of 2024, Of Flames and Shadows Gone Astray, a group show serving as a multifaceted, cathartic confessional of love, loss, and perseverance. In what is perhaps the most personal exhibition of the gallerist’s career, [...]
Bermudez Projects, Los Angeles is excited to announce that The Neon Museum, Las Vegas has acquired Leticia Maldonado’s work, Electric Hustlers (Seated). Roger Thomas, The Neon Museum Collections Committee Chairperson says of this acquisition: “Leticia Maldonado's work, Electric Hustlers, is an important addition to the permanent collection of the [...]
December 2 through December 23, 2023 Opening Reception: Saturday, December 2, 6-9 pm Bermudez Projects is pleased to announce We Now Interrupt Our Scheduled Programming:: Editions, 2015-2023 on view just in time for the Holiday Season! Since its founding in 2011, Bermudez Projects has been unwavering in its dedication to increasing public access to [...]
Jay Bell is a businessman, artist, printmaker, a founder of Campana Studios art non-profit, and a newly appointed Commissioner for Arts and Culture in San Diego County. This man is a whole orchestra of different roles. https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/in-the-art-scene/episodes/S8-E7---San-Diego-artist-and-non-profit-founder-Jay-Bell-on-creating-economic-opportunities-for-artists-e27rm64
With an appreciation for both poetry and spectacle, a fearlessness when it comes to collaborating with formidable found and natural materials, and an emotional patience for close attention to her subjects, Bifulco treats her palm trees as anthropomorphic portrait subjects, stand-ins for her own fraught journey to America, and as [...]
Through January 6, 2024 Bermudez Projects is excited to announce a new partnership with LAist and Southern California Public Radio by producing specially-curated exhibits for its corporate offices, welcoming back its employees. In Afro Futures, this multimedia group show discusses how Black artists have contributed greatly to the larger cultural landscape of the United States. [...]
October 14 through November 11, 2023 Extended through November 25 Opening Reception: Saturday, October 14, 6-9 pm Emmanuel Crespo, who joined the gallery in 2014 has been wickedly fun to watch develop as a man and an artist. In Sacred Spaces, which opens Saturday, October 14th at Bermudez Projects gallery in Cypress Park, the artist [...]
September 9 through October 7, 2023 Opening Reception: Saturday, September 9, 6-9 pm How do you reclaim history? Use the very means that spread the historical lies in the first place! In a new show at Bermudez Projects, South Central LA native Delano Dunn does just that for America’s fraught history of discrimination against Blacks. [...]
July 22 through August 12, 2023 Opening Reception: Saturday, July 22, 6-9 pm In his debut Los Angeles solo show at Bermudez Projects, Richmond, Virginia-based Andrew Norris reflects on the spectacle of celebrity and the vicarious experience of loneliness and queer longing in All I Ever Wanted Was to Kiss the Sun. Norris’ work is [...]
June 24 through July 15, 2023 Opening Reception: Saturday, June 24, 6-9 pm “Memory is like a phantom mirror. It sometimes shows things too distant to be seen, and sometimes it shows them as if they were here.” - Yukio Mishima, Decay of the Angel Reach up onto that top shelf in the closet and [...]
May 27 through June 17, 2023 Opening Reception: Saturday, May 27, 6-9 pm Bermudez Projects is excited to announce La Reina de los Sueños, presenting a new body of work by the formidable Chicana artist, Yolanda González. These dreamlike apparitions are some of González’s most personal works, telling the story of her rebirth through sensual [...]
Emmanuel Crespo Wrestling an Angel, 2020 Acrylic on panel 24 x 18 inches Portraying a more violent transition of power, Wrestling an Angel depicts two bodies occupying the same space, and fighting vehemently to conquer the other. The angelic element, depicted by a black crow, struggles to take flight while its counterpart grasps [...]
April 22 through May 13, 2023 Opening Reception: Saturday, April 22, 6-9 pm Bermudez Projects is very excited to announce No Parking on PalomaresBLVD, the debut solo exhibition by its newest artist, Francisco Palomares, one of today’s most exciting emerging Chicano artists. At the opening, we’ll also be toasting the acquisition of a Palomares artwork [...]
Bermudez Projects is excited to announce that Leticia Maldonado will have her first-ever museum solo exhibit at the Museum of Neon Art (MONA) in Glendale, California! Leticia Maldonado | The Storytellers opens Saturday, October 8, 2022 from 6-8 pm. The opening reception is FREE and open to the public. In this exhibition, life-size sculptural [...]
GALLERY ROUNDS: Leticia Maldonado Bermudez Projects by Leanna Robinson | Aug 17, 2021 Neon is a medium that has been used over time to beckon, and Leticia Maldonado’s work viewed through the large glass windows of Bermudez Projects in Cypress Park does exactly that. Maldonado’s “Autonoetic” is a collection of mixed media that [...]