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Matthew Marks is pleased to announce Nayland Blake’s Opening, the next exhibition in his gallery at 1062 North Orange Grove. The artist’s first one-person exhibition in Los Angeles in almost twenty years, it features sculptures that examine the human body as a site where sexual pleasure, aging, and identity intersect. For more than three decades Nayland Blake (b. 1960) has articulated the experiences of someone living on the border of gender and racial identities. “What does it mean to try to leave a record of ambiguity?”, they ask. “Can we celebrate the fact that our bodies are porous and …