Josh Smith: Destiny @ David Zwirner, Los Angeles

David Zwirner is pleased to present Destiny, an exhibition of new paintings by Josh Smith, on view at the gallery’s 606 N Western Avenue location in Los Angeles. This is Smith’s first solo presentation in Los Angeles. For Destiny, Smith has made a series of paintings that continue his long-running dialogue with the grim reaper, a figure that has appeared in his work for years in countless guises. In these past depictions, the blank, empty faces and shapeless cloaks of the reapers serve as genderless, formless ciphers for the viewer.