Saturday, January 10, 2026 at 1:00 PM to Saturday, February 14, 2026 at 1:00 PM
OCHI, Los Angeles
OCHI is pleased to present Beachwood, an exhibition of new works on paper by Los Angeles-based artist Rives Granade. Beachwood will be on view at 1024 N Western Ave in Los Angeles, California from January 10 to February 14, 2026. An Opening Reception will be held on Saturday, January 10th from 4:00 – 6:00 PM. The exhibition will be open by appointment for the duration. Please email hello@ochigallery.com to schedule a viewing.Beachwood brings together a body of Rives Granade’s monoprints made through a labor-intensive, improvisational process. Watercolor is painted onto a soapy sheet of plexiglass, allowed to dry, and then reactivated through contact with soaked paper, with pressure applied by the artist’s own weight and a rolling pin. Some sheets are pulled once, others twice, allowing earlier images to linger as ghosts—residual color reawakening unpredictably in subsequent impressions. In several works, the paper itself bears environmental history, having been soaked in recent rains before printing. The resulting images are absorbed into the fibers rather than resting on the surface, producing a worked, tapestry-like materiality in which paper and pigment become inseparable. Chance operates as a necessary collaborator, yielding surprises, errors, and moments of unexpected clarity.Titled Beachwood, the exhibition is rooted in Granade’s home studio in Beachwood Canyon outside of Los Angeles and the six-month span during which these works were made. The imagery—drawn from the surrounding landscape and from intimate encounters with animals, illness, loss, and renewal—moves fluidly between abstraction and figuration, refusing a fixed hierarchy between the two. Birds collide and scatter, insects and animals mutate into hybrid forms, and architectural structures dissolve into biological or celestial visions. References range from x-rays of a beloved dog’s spine to found moments and symbols of revelation, hope, and redemption. Filtered through a deeply personal visual vocabulary shaped by years of looking across disciplines and histories, these layered, hallucinatory images form unstable fields in which meaning remains provisional.