Josh Berkowitz: Hollywood

Hollywood is a group exhibition curated by visual and performance artist Josh Berkowitz, bringing together cutting-edge artists whose work channels the emotional intensity and visual language of cinema. On view at The Lab on Santa Fe, the exhibition explores how film influences contemporary art practice, formally, conceptually, and atmospherically.

The works assembled in Hollywood evoke a sense of drama, tension, and emotional charge. Many feel like fragments pulled from a larger narrative, moments suspended in time, suggestive of unseen plots unfolding just beyond the frame. The exhibition invites viewers into scenes that are voyeuristic, intimate, staged, or uncannily real. Some pieces directly reference specific films, filmmakers, or recognizable cinematic styles; others draw more subtly on lighting, composition, pacing or character myths.

Rather than illustrating cinema, the exhibition translates its language. Artists manipulate shadow and color like cinematographers, construct psychologically loaded spaces and stage figures that appear caught mid-action. The result is an immersive experience in which viewers piece together storylines, project motivations and inhabit charged emotional landscapes.

Hollywood runs from Friday, February 20 through Saturday, April 4. Regular gallery hours are Fridays from 6–9pm, Saturdays from 12–6pm, and Sundays from 12–5:30pm. An Artist Talk will be held on Sunday, March 22 from 1–3pm. The exhibition also coincides with First Friday Art Walks on March 6 and April 3, offering additional opportunities to engage with the work and the artists behind it.