Jeffrey Deitch

Say Can You See is the first solo exhibition in Los Angeles of the work of the influential Jamaican-American artist Nari Ward. The exhibition features historic early works and recent “incarnations” that continue the artist’s investigation of materials and his visual contemplation of makeshift street memorials. The exhibition title is, in the artist’s words, “both a demand and a request to look deeper at what is visible as well as concealed.” Ward describes himself as a “materialist,” allowing his materials to resonate through pattern and rhythm. His recent works explore how trauma is dealt with personally and through the community.