PICTURES OF YOU: ARTS CALENDAR

By Shana Nys Dambrot

Ilana Savdie: Entrañadas at Kohn Gallery. With hot-colored, electrifying paintings, Savdie’s large-scale works actualize tension as a state of being. Humanoid forms are suspended beyond normative order to narrate the displacement of power through invasion, control, and defiance. The exaggeration, perversion, and contortion of the body understand ridicule as a form of resistance, and ultimately, what it means for an inconvenient body to reorganize itself. As a queer artist raised in Baranquilla, Colombia, Savdie’s work remains inspired by the ethos of her hometown’s annual Carnival, a time and place that embodies the queering of becoming in resistance to social norms. 1227 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood; Opening reception: Saturday, November 6, 6-8pm; on view through January 29