Nature Morte, 1982–1988 is the first survey exhibition dedicated to the influential East Village gallery Nature Morte. The exhibition, at Ehrlich Steinberg in Los Angeles, features early works, both originally shown at Nature Morte or created during its six-year run. The exhibition is accompanied with a new essay by Blake Oetting.

Nature Morte, 1982–1988 includes represented and exhibited artists, including Gretchen Bender, Joel Otterson, Not Vital, and Louise Lawler, among others. The generation of artists within the larger community of Nature Morte shared commitments to rigorous and self-reflexive investigations of contemporary art’s relationship with the structures, politics, signifiers and sites of media and image-making, distribution, and appropriation. 

The exhibition runs until April 18.