Alden Kisner: Diva Manifestation Ritual

Opening reception: Thursday, September 24, 5–7pm

Exhibition on view: September 25–October 13, 2026

Gallery hours: Mon–Fri, 9am–4:30pm, by appointment

Gayle and Ed Roski Gallery

3001 S. Flower Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007

ARTIST STATEMENT: My whole life I've felt like a performer without an audience. Diva Manifestation Ritual began as a private act, drawing the same nude women over and over, using their unapologetic femininity as a vessel before I knew how to inhabit my own. The more I created, the more this eccentric persona revealed itself. Painting myself became the natural next step – to hold the frame around my own body and decide what it means.

This show is where that ritual goes public. Life-size paintings and spontaneous figure drawings move between desire and being desired, grotesque and glamour – inhabiting a persona and realizing it was always yours.