In Bay Of Smokes, an exhibition showing at Various Small Fires in Los Angeles, artist Amy Yao’s visual landscape of semiotics and symbols plays with concepts of environmental contamination. To demonstrate these concepts, she plucks materials and objects from their normal settings, and arranges them in the gallery proper. Every piece in the show is self-contained, occupying a controlled space. The show is at times too dry to pique interest, but some of the humor therein makes this worth checking out.
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