WILD SEED
October 23 - November 22, 2025
Organized by Carl Johns
SPEEDBOAT 715 N Cherokee Ave, Los Angeles

Taking its name from the eponymously titled novel by Octavia E. Butler, Wild Seed brings together a dynamic group of art and design objects, which—akin to the main character’s story of survival, resilience, growth, and new alliances—celebrates the hard-earned fruits of creative practice and explores such intertwined themes as gender and the body, fine art and craft, and architecture as a lens that structures experience.

In keeping with its site, a Hollywood home turned architecture studio, the exhibition offers visitors an unconventional art-viewing experience that recreates the intimate environment of a domestic interior—outfitted with fashion designs, furniture, and vintage design objects—that not only allows for a more relaxed, considered engagement of the work on view but also serves to break down silos between creative sectors, and question established exhibition models.

Wild Seed features work by Øystein Aasan, Amanda Browder, Zach Bruder, Ariel Dill, DUSK, Jay Erker, Kathryn Garcia, Harbison Studio, Pamela Jorden, Travis Krupka, Brendan Loper, Christian Sampson, Sarah Szczesny, SPEEDBOAT, Benjamin L. Turner, Brent Wadden, Kemar Keanu Wynter, and Isabel Yellin.