CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/24/2026

Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents the LA launch of 'Inploration: Art Exploring Space to Understand Earth'

Saturday, October 24, from 3–5 PM, Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Lawrence Azerrad and Richelle Ellis, authors of Inploration: Art Exploring Space to Understand Earth, in conversation with artist Lita Albuquerque and moderator Jori Finkel.

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Through artwork, essays, interviews and archival imagery, this book invites readers into a journey of awe, curiosity and reflection. Rather than the more outward-facing “exploration,” “inploration” can be construed as a venture inward through the cosmos to better understand ourselves and our planet. Inploration unites nearly 100 international artists and thinkers across disciplines—established voices including James Turrell, Lita Albuquerque and Cai Guo-Qiang alongside visionary emerging talents such as Cannupa Hanska Luger, Lia Halloran and Tavares Strachan. Featuring additional contributions from astronauts, ecologists, Indigenous knowledge-holders, space technologists and designers, Inploration is both a cultural time capsule and a call to action. It reveals that the stories we tell about space are, ultimately, stories about our earth—about belonging, stewardship and imagination. At a time when the future feels uncertain, Inploration offers a renewed vision of care, creativity and planetary connection.

Artists include: Lita Albuquerque, Russell Crotty, Cai Guo-Qiang, Lia Halloran, Loie Hollowell, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Lucy McRae, Rebeca Méndez, Wangechi Mutu, Stephen Nowlin, Katie Paterson, Tom Sachs, Tomás Saraceno, Tavares Strachan, James Turrell.

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SPEAKER BIOS

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Lawrence Azerrad (left) is a two-time Grammy Award-winning creative director, author, curator and founder of the creative consultancy Macroscopic. His work explores the evolving relationship between design, music, culture, and the future. He has created album artwork for artists including Esperanza Spalding, Wilco, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Miles Davis, and served as creative director and producer of The Voyager Golden Record 40th Anniversary Edition. He is the author of Supersonic and co-author of Mirror Sound, and has spoken at institutions including the V&A, Smithsonian, and Cooper Hewitt. He is Co-Founder and Co-Author of Inploration.

Richelle Ellis (right) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans deep space, the deep ocean and extreme terrestrial environments, exploring the intersections of humanity, technology and the natural world. She has completed 13 artworks sent beyond Earth and is the first woman with art landed on the Moon. Her work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, MASS MoCA and Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Ellis is an Artist Associate at the SETI Institute, Founding Director of Supercollider, and Co-Founder and Co-Author of Inploration: Art Exploring Space to Understand Earth.

Jori Finkel is a Los Angeles–based cultural journalist and recipient of the 2023 Rabkin Prize for excellence in arts journalism. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times and West Coast contributing editor of The Art Newspaper, writing about artists and the art world with particular attention to gender, identity and representation. Previously, she was a senior editor at Art+Auction. Finkel co-produced the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary Artist and Mother and is the author of It Speaks to Me: Art that Inspires Artists. She also teaches popular art writing and speaks publicly about making contemporary art more accessible.

Lita Albuquerque is an internationally renowned multidisciplinary artist and writer. Her work explores humanity’s place within the vast scales of time, space, and the cosmos. Emerging from California’s Light and Space movement, she is acclaimed for large-scale ephemeral and public works in the landscape, including Stellar Axis in Antarctica. Albuquerque has exhibited internationally at the Venice Biennale, Desert X, Copenhagen Contemporary, and the Nasher Sculpture Center. Her work is held in collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, LACMA, and MOCA. She has received major honors from the NEA, NSF and MOCA.

Lita Albuquerque, “Spine of the Earth,” 1980.

Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore
Lawrence Azerrad, Richelle Ellis, Lita Albuquerque and Jori Finkel
'Inploration: Art Exploring Space to Understand Earth'
Saturday, October 24, 3–5 PM PST
917 E. 3rd Street
Los Angeles CA 90013
213-988-7413
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