10 Shows to See in Los Angeles This April, 2025 - Matt Stromberg - March 30, 2025

“On a Sunday afternoon in early March, a group of 14 artists gathered at Spy Projects for a two-hour life drawing session with Jonathan, an older model with a lanky frame and long, white beard. They then returned to their studios and had two weeks to complete their artworks, which are now on view at Spy in this group show curated by Leslie Fram. From this basic, shared artistic exercise, the final results diverge spectacularly, reflecting a breadth of media, style, and process, ranging from Ever Velasquez’s photo collage, Vita Kari’s woven tapestry, Chris Johst’s 3D-printed sculpture, and a charcoal drawing by Lita Albuquerque, a rare figurative work from an artist best known for her environmental installations.”

Jaxon Demme and Paz de la Huerta at SPY Projects - Brittany Menjivar - February 28, 2025

“The damsel in distress; the innocent vindicated. These are relatively common motifs when it comes to trauma and recovery, yet Paz de la Huerta’s beautifully bizarre paintings make them feel new… Jaxon Demme’s sculptures of big-headed, beady-eyed little girls are the perfect complement…”

David Lloyd: Dreaming with Androids of Electric Sheep - Gary Brewer - September 25, 2024

“David Lloyd, in his search for new ways of thinking and seeing, is dreaming with androids of electric sheep. He is entering this new world with equal parts humor and wonder at where this new path will lead, creating beautiful worlds to fill this landscape unfolding before us.”

Unrequited at 59 Wooster - Vilda Krog - May 15, 2024

“The door opens and I step inside, probably the very same worn-out bunker that once propelled the likes of Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, and Richard Tuttle to elevate their legacies. I'm greeted by Pietro Alexander, nephew of Brooke Alexander and founder of SPY Projects, claiming this as its temporary New York space, and Sara Apple, curator of its first exhibition. Together they present a show that puts its own noble spin on the heritage of the house by disregarding just that.”

Wet Paint - Annie Armstrong - January 25, 2024

“The Santa Monica-raised Pietro Alexander, who runs SPY Projects in L.A… plans to test the waters in New York this spring, opening a group show at his uncle Brooke Alexander‘s former gallery in SoHo (Alexander’s father is the late Light and Space legend Peter Alexander).”

SPY PROJECTS | IN EXPLORATION OF THE HEART’S ESSENCE - Isaac Dektor

“Jaxon Demme’s latest work places the heart in central focus of her woodland dreamscapes”

Art Review: “Mirror Show” at SPY Projects

Curated by longtime friend of Nuance Mia Scarpa and hosted by Los Angeles art gallery Spy Projects, “Mirror Show” synthesizes the work and vision of 29 artists into one dynamic space that combines the comfort of personal craftsmanship with the artistic precision found in the classic gallery space...

What the World’s Top Collectors Bought in 2022, From Warhol Digital Works to Dazzling Abstractions - Maximilliano Duran - October 6, 2022

“A regular sight at fairs that lean toward emerging artists is prodigious collector Beth Rudin DeWoody, roaming the aisles looking for young talent to support. Among those she took on this year was Tiffany Alfonseca, whose floorwork Enganchando Ropa she recently bought. Other works acquired this year include Jaxon Demme, The Feeding, 2021, and Gerald Jackson, Untitled (Skid Painting), 1980s.“

Disassembly Line - India Mandelkern - January 4, 2022

“Disassembly Line,” presented by Pietro Alexander, Sasha Filimonov and Gabriella Rothbart, investigates these interior, personal ways in which we’ve come to understand our cars. Riffing off the butchering and packaging processes of late 19th-century slaughterhouses that helped give birth to the Fordian assembly line, the curators set seven artists loose on a 1998 Oldsmobile 88––letting them gut it, manipulate it, and remake it from the ground up––in order to poke holes in the supposed intransigence of industrial systems, and obliquely, the role of the traditional gallery.’

Hello World: an Art Show Celebrating the Renewal of the Moment - Oliver Hefron - June 23, 2021

“Like bears crawling from their winter dens, society is going outside again. Hello World, the inaugural gallery show from Pietro Alexander and Sasha Filimonov’s Spy Projects, celebrates this time of renewal and transition with an impressive exhibition of talent, technique, and purpose from a group of exciting young artists.”