Opening 3 November, Allison Katz’s ‘Westward Ho!’ will fill Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood with the artist’s first solo exhibition since joining the gallery in 2022. Katz’s deeply personal work addresses the ways in which aesthetic practices link and absorb biography, art history, information systems and commodity culture. The exhibition will feature a selection of new paintings Katz completed during her recent residency in Somerset, alongside site-specific responses to the gallery’s 1930’s Spanish Colonial Revival building. Katz’s paintings are informed – and united – by a relentless curiosity about the ways in which images perform and build meaning. She deftly combines surface materiality, word play and humor with literary and cultural references in works that manifest deliberate and genuine ambiguity. ‘Westward Ho!’ is Katz’s first Los Angeles exhibition and follows her participation in last year’s celebrated ‘The Milk of Dreams’ at the Venice Biennale.