Ravi

This is a group show curated by Erin Christovale, with archival contributions from Alice and John’s children Michelle and Ravi Coltrane, the Coltrane Estate and many of the members of the ashram community that Alice created in L.A.’s Agoura Hills neighborhood from the 1970s onward.

Michelle Coltrane, now the matriarch of the family, and Ravi Coltrane, his father’s near-twin and torch bearer, inheritor of his skill on the horn, harbor so much reverence for the family legacy it covers them like a penance.

Once in a while, Michelle texts me about a show of her own or one of Ravi’s, or sends me a photo from that first event in 2021.

Ravi bears an eerie resemblance to John on the day of the Super Bowl, when we gather at Michelle’s Topanga home for an ashram service for which Alice’s voice is the master of ceremonies.

Ravi circles the room with a camera the way his father did to capture footage of family road trips from the early 1960s.