Fugue Zones

DeForrest Brown Jr., Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, and Dr. Steve Goodman (Kode9)
June 21, 2025 - July 31, 2025
The Storm is a large-scale sound installation that transforms Canary Test into a resonant instrument, immersing visitors in the deep, infrasonic frequencies of Hurricane Hilary, a once-in-a-century storm that struck Southern California in 2023. Phil Peters’ work centers on an artist-built sound system capable of reproducing frequencies as low as 10Hz. Spanning the full length of the gallery, the installation reinterprets geophonic recordings from Mt. San Gorgonio into a complete sensory experience that captures the force of Hurricane Hilary above and the tremors from the San Andreas Fault below. The piece invites visitors to stand, sit, and lie on massive infra-subs, feeling the storm’s sonic waves through physical vibrations. This shift in scale and perception destabilizes human-centered narratives, amplifying the unsettling realities of our current epoch. Through Peters’ innovative use of sound and space, The Storm critiques institutional norms and explores how art can serve as a conduit for new ways of understanding the interconnectedness of human and environmental systems. Edited to play in varying and unpredictable cycles, the storm recording becomes a contemplation on our fundamental experience of climate change, sublimating into a metaphor for transformation, change, and loss. This work invites us to feel, listen, and reflect on the imperceptible yet powerful forces shaping our world, sparking a reconsideration of our relationship with nature and the systems we inhabit.

The Storm

Phil Peters
02/01/25 - 02/28/25
Image shows two watermelons stacked horizontally on a cement block. The watermelons serve as a base for a floral arrangement that emerges from the center of the top watermelon.

Wilt 2024

Group Exhibition
6/11/24 - 6/25/24
Still from the video titled Offshore by Maura Brewer, 2024. Image of hands holding phone horizontally looking at a photo image of artist Maura Brewer kissing a sea mantis outside in the Caribbean ocean.

Offshore

Maura Brewer
3/30/24 - 4/25/24
Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik, Triple Weir, 2023, stainless steel, carbon steel, hardware. Photo: Canary Test Image of white wooden beam placed vertically in the Canary Test gallery with three metal fins attached at an angle perpendicular to the beam.

Maxwell's Demon

Group Exhibition
02/03/24 - 03/03/24
Supernovel poster on Sunset Boulevard. Image of billboard covered wall with large while poster that reads "A Reality TV Series That Goes Unrecorded"

Supernovel

Esper Postma & Maurits Koster
12/1/23 - 12/30/23
Documentation of installation by Jaime McCuaig of GUNNAR floral. Image shows back room of gallery with industrial metal racks. In the center of the image is a floral installation of wild bush grass.

Wilt

Group Exhibition
09/05/2023 - 09/21/2023
Image of sculpture placed on ground. Sculpture is an assemblage of plastic, wood, fabric, and plant material that forms a futuristic looking trunk.

Porvenir/Portátil

Manuel Alejandro Rodríguez-Delgado
05/20/23 - 07/14/23
Exhibition documentation of artist and choreographer Josh Johnson exhibition, Glass, exhibited at Canary Test gallery in Los Angeles in 2023.

GLASS

Josh Johnson
February 25 - April 25, 2023
Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste Installation. Image shows front room of Canary Test gallery. In the center of the room is a large black subwoofer suspended from a wooden tussle painted black. Under the suspended subwoofer is a square concrete slab with a small pool of water inside it.

Deadass Dreams

Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste
November 4 - December 10, 2022
Performance documentation from artist Victoria Shen & DeForrest Brown, Jr. exhibition, Laggardism, at Canary Test gallery in Los Angeles, 2022. Image shows multi-colored vinyl record that is one third black, one third red, and one third grey. The vinyl is illuminated with an underflow light that bleeds through the semi-transparent vinyl. From the right side of the photo comes a custom needle attached to a bowstring that is placed on the record.

Laggardism

Victoria Shen & DeForrest Brown, Jr.
June 4 - August 4, 2022
Installation photograph of the The Port of Long Beach exhibition. Artist Phil Peters built a room-sized sound installation exhibited at Canary Test gallery in Los Angeles. Image is of front room in Canary Test gallery. Lights are off and image is dark. In the image there is an outline of a large object that is the 10 foot tall subwoofer that artist Phil Peter built. Phil Peters, The Port of Long Beach Recordings was reviewed in HyperAllergic magazine and published as a "must see" exhibition by Artforum magazine.

The Port of Long Beach Recordings

Phil Peters
March 11 - May 11, 2022
Image of Canary Test front room. In the front room the lights are off. In the center of the room a large screen shows a projection of an arial view of a drop of water rippling into an orange volcanic-like liquid.

In The Air Tonight

Andrew Norman Wilson
August 10 - October 31, 2021
Image shows front room of Canary Test gallery. In the center of the room is a wooden backdrop wall for photography. On the wall black photo backdrop papers hangs down. On the base of the backdrop wall sits a wooden stool. In from the backdrop wall is a camera on a tripod. On either side of the tripod are taller tripods with photography lights attached.

Wherever There Is Light

Larry Cook
May 22 - July 31, 2021
it's an image

Integration

Maura Brewer
January 23 - March 27, 2021
The image is a screenshot from the Canary Test cameras. The screenshot shows the front room of the Canary Test gallery. In the front room the artist Lucinda Trask is mopping the floor. Half of the floor is wet from mopping.

The Away Space

Lucinda Trask
September 10 - October 7, 2020
Campbells Tomato Soup can

Covid-19 Archive

Covid-19 Archive
April 20 — June 20, 2020
Exhibition documentation of Psychic Plumbing. Curated by Gan Uyeda featuring work by artist Stevie Cisneros Hanley, Sara Ludy, Alison O'Daniel, and Phil Peters. Exhibited at Canary Test gallery in Los Angeles, 2020. Image shows front room of Canary Test with three heavy colored curtains and a large drawing suspended in the middle of the space. The curtain closest to the camera is brown and partially blocks the left side of the room. Behind the brown curtain is the suspended large drawing. The drawing is mostly orange with the words "plumbing" visible in the center of the drawing. On the right side of the frame a yellow curtains runs along the wall and out into the middle of the space. In the back of the image there is a blue curtain that is partially hidden behind the suspended drawing.

Psychic Plumbing

Stevie Cisneros Hanley, Sara Ludy, Alison O'Daniel, & Phil Peters
January 10 - March 10, 2020