Ochi Projects is pleased to present Thank You, our first solo-exhibition of Los Angeles-based artist Ali Liebegott.

The exhibition features nine paintings on canvas, paper and panel featuring self-portraits, personal and institutional interiors, and scenes from daily life that suggest an intimate conversation between the artist and her surroundings. The work feels particularly poignant in this moment, where many are experiencing increased physical isolation, solitude, and attention to the details of mundane life.

Alongside a career as an accomplished poet, novelist, and TV writer, Ali Liebegott also maintains a parallel drawing and painting practice, something she has explored since early adulthood. Liebegott identifies as a self-taught painter, a classification that allows her permission to distinguish painting from the creative medium in which she is formally trained, thereby preserving painting as a means of play and discovery.

The work is honest, humorous, not sad but, as Liebegott puts it, “funny-sad.” Her dual interest in interior spaces and her self telegraphs the minutia of private life—a queer person’s life—into public view. She is welcoming us into her home, her hospital room, her dinner table, and the spaces we rarely look but often see.

Ali Liebegott (b. 1971, Newbury Park, California) is a writer, actor, comedian, and painter based in Los Angeles. She has published four books: The Beautifully Worthless (2006), The IHOP Papers (2007), Cha-Ching! (2013), and The Summer of Dead Birds (2019). Liebegott has read and performed her work throughout the United States and Canada and was co-founder of The RADAR Lab, a free retreat for queer writers. She is the recipient of two Lambda Literary Awards (2006, 2008) and a Ferro-Grumley Award (2008) for her books and a Peabody Award (2015) for her work on the television series Transparent.