Orders of Emergence brings together new works by Gus Monday and Julian Lombardi, two artists examining the relationship between structure and transformation. Monday’s paintings map the architectural and ideological systems that shape contemporary life, while Lombardi’s works explore fluid states where body, memory, and technology converge. Together, their practices investigate how images carry psychological weight, inviting viewers to reflect on the shifting boundaries between order and chaos, control and emergence.

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Looking for a Friend, Hayman’s debut solo presentation at Make Room, holds two ideas simultaneously. There is anxiety beneath the phrase made literal: a question Hayman returns to at different stages of his life, of whether he might live somewhere else and fail to connect the way he connects with those around him now. And there is the more ordinary version: “I’m looking for a friend” is the thing you say when you walk into a crowded room already looking for someone you know. Los Angeles carries a reputation as a city of surfaces and strategic encounters. Hayman's paintings are an argument against that idea, built from the inside out. He paints his friends, people he spends real time with, rendered in the rooms they actually inhabit, surrounded by the objects that belong to them. The city, for Hayman, is defined by the people you meet and the experiences you have there, and his have been ones of connection.

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In Julie Yeo's first solo exhibition with Make Room, Yeo anchors this embrace of self in a specific location, exploring exorcism as a form of transition: a negotiation between what once protected us and what now prevents us from moving forward. In the work, Smaller Than My Body, a three-tiered dollhouse stands for the body itself. Ghoul's hiding place lies at its base, buried beneath Yeo's repressions, frozen in place for safekeeping. As memory returns and recognition moves through the body, water travels inward through the structure, slowly melting Ghoul awake. Rising, she begins to inhabit her body once more.