Winfred Rembert, who died in 2021, worked with leather, which he tooled and painted into scenes of the Jim Crow South. He was born in Georgia in 1945, and was nearly lynched in 1965, an event that was followed by a prison term of seven years. Rembert learned leatherwork in jail; upon release he began documenting his life in the medium. This exhibition, Rembert’s first in Los Angeles, presents paintings from two of his most recognizable bodies of work—the Cotton Field and Chain Gang collections. Reverberating jailhouse stripes. The seeming snowfall of cotton fields. Rembert’s arresting spacial patterns burst with energy, achieving a state of harrowing abstraction and power. —Laura Jacobs