{"id":352165,"date":"2026-02-23T14:09:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/352165\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T14:09:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:09:19","slug":"an-exhibition-of-peter-schlesingers-ceramics-inaugurates-a-playful-new-art-space-in-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/352165\/","title":{"rendered":"An Exhibition of Peter Schlesinger\u2019s Ceramics Inaugurates a Playful New Art Space in Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1923, when much of Los Angeles was still empty and movies were still silent, the Hollywoodland Realty Co. set up shop in the area now known as Beachwood Canyon, building the first-ever structure in what would come to be known as Hollywood: a romantic, storybook building that looks as though it plopped straight out of Snow White. One hundred and two years later, when partners Alec Smyth and Noah Ruttenberg were taking a walk in the neighborhood, they saw the building, with its quaint wooden sign and bright blue trim, and were summarily enchanted. And now, it hosts their gallery, Mariposa<\/a>, opening at the beginning of LA Art Week. \u201cThere\u2019s a little bit of camp and Disney and fairytale in it,\u201d says Smyth.<\/p>\n

Ruttenberg adds, \u201cIt\u2019s serving the Hollywood fantasy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis building was built before the Hollywood sign, the Hollywood sign was built because of this building, and now the Hollywood concept itself is kind of named after this building,\u201d Smyth continues. \u201cAnd it stands for so much. It’s about dreaming and fantasy and obviously film and the West and all that it stands for. The fact that that\u2019s all contained here is kind of amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Noah Ruttenberg and Alec Smyth of Mariposa.<\/p>\n

Photo: Michael Schmelling<\/p>\n

Smyth, who put in five years at megagallery David Zwirner before attending law school during the pandemic, and Ruttenberg, an interior designer named as one of Architectural Digest\u2019s 2025 \u201cNew American Voices,\u201d previously ran Mariposa as a pop-up, initially launching in a vacant space in Paris\u2019s Marais district. After presenting exhibits in temporary spaces, like New York\u2019s Independent Art Fair and an antique shop in Aspen, they decided to give the gallery a full-time home in LA. \u201cThe space just felt so distinctly Los Angeles that it could have been a part of a movie set,\u201d says Ruttenberg. \u201cAnd there’s a lot of fantasy that comes with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2023, Mariposa debuted in Paris with a photography show by the legendary multi-disciplinary artist Peter Schlesinger. And now they\u2019re opening the new LA establishment with a show of swan-shaped ceramics, also by Schlesinger, who was born in 1948 in Los Angeles. \u201cIt\u2019s a really big moment for us to be able to present this body of work,\u201d says Smyth. \u201cBecause I think of him as one of the most significant ceramic art sculptors living today.\u201d<\/p>\n

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