About Chris Sharp Gallery

Chris Sharp Gallery opened in Los Angeles in January 2021. Founded by writer, curator and co-founder of Lulu, Mexico City, Chris Sharp, the gallery is focused on a mixture of emerging, mid-career and overlooked or historically neglected artists. With a strong core of artists based in LA, the gallery also represents a number of positions on the East Coast, the UK, and Europe. 

The intention of the program is to present fully-integrated practices which think plastically— practices in which politics and ideas are indivisible from materials and form.The personal and the idiosyncratic hold a privileged place in the gallery’s aesthetics, while humor (the weirder, the better) and craft are crucial to its quiddity, all of which tends to be conveyed with a certain spatial elegance which seeks to foreground every work of art as the humble miracle that it is. 

Alternatively, the notion of “wacky mode”, conceived by the writer Donald Barthelme, and transmitted to us by his student Padget Powell could also be said to sum up the gallery’s philosophy: 

“We have wacky mode,” Powell remembers Barthelme saying to his class, a writing workshop Powell was taking. “What must wacky mode do?” The students, clueless, stayed quiet. Barthelme said, “Break their hearts.”

Owner and director 
Chris Sharp 

General inquiry
info@chrissharpgallery.com
213 262 9944

Registrar
Sandy Olagues
sandy@chrissharpgallery.com
909 525 2516 

Press inquiry
Moe Wakai
moe@chrissharpgallery.com
213 262 9944

Open Wednesday to Saturday 11:00 am to 5:00 pm and Tuesday by appointment

Closed December 23 - January 2, 2024

4650 W Washington Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90016


Submissions policy: In theory, Chris Sharp Gallery “does not accept unsolicited submissions.” But in practice, if you send us a link or a portfolio, there’s a pretty good chance we will look at it, simply because we can't resist, but we can't guarantee a response or feedback, mostly because we may not have the time.

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Chris Sharp Gallery is located in Mid-City, on W Washington Blvd, off of S. Palm Grove Ave.