Nayland Blake / Portraits of the artist and images from the installation of their show No Wrong Holes: Thirty Years of Nayland Blake at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Nayland Blake and curator Jamillah James join together in conversation and a gallery walkthrough. No Wrong Holes marked the most comprehensive survey of Blake’s work to date.

Photography by Mark Holley


Artist Nayland Blake speaks at their 30 year retrospective exhibition, No Wrong Holes: Thirty Years of Nayland Blake, at the Institute of Contemporary Art, ICA LA, 2019.

Gnomen 2017. Mixed media.

Nayland Blake in discussion with Jamillah James, curator, ICA LA, during a public gallery walkthrough and talk for Blake's 30 year retrospective exhibition, No Wrong Holes: Thirty Years of Nayland Blake, 2019.

ICA gallery view of Work Station #5, 1989. Steel, glass, aluminum, leather, plastic, rubber, and cleavers.

Top Bunny, 1994. Plush toy, steel and leather.

Ciconne Youth, The Whitey Album from Nayland Blake's personal collection and part of the piece Ruins of Sensibility (1972–2002), DJ equipment, records, plywood, cardboard boxes, painting.

Nayland Blake in discussion with Jamillah James, curator, ICA LA, during a public gallery walkthrough and talk for Blake's 30 year retrospective exhibition, No Wrong Holes: Thirty Years of Nayland Blake, 2019.

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